Category: NEWS
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Vinyl keeps fighting that digital current 🙂
Vinyl Sales Increase 17.7% Since 2011 http://mashable.com/2013/09/15/vinyl-sales-music/
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New York Library Sells Vinyl Collection
Vinyl fans are flocking to New York’s Public Library for the Performing Arts in search of hidden gems and great bargains. The library is clearing much-needed shelf space by selling 22,000 of its records – all of them duplicates – for $1 (64p) each. Proceeds from the sale will help preserve the rest of the…
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Correct Alignment is PARAMOUNT
When one stops to ponder the relationship of stylus to groove, the numbers boggle the mind. Groove width on a vinyl LP ranges from .001″ – .0014″ (.025mm – .035mm). Contrast that with a human hair which measures .006″ – .007″ (.17mm – .181mm) and it’s amazing that vinyl reproduction works at all, much…
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David Bowie would be proud
You can now have your ashes pressed into a vinyl record Who needs an urn over the mantle when you can now store your ashes in a vinyl record?Vinyly found Jason Leach will combine your remains with 24 minute of audio of your choice. From Bloomberg Businessweek: The process itself is fairly simple: Ashes are…
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Another addition to the Diggin’ Family
FIVE SIX SEVEN 567 King Street, Newtown (02) 9517 3324 | 567king2gmail.com www.567king.com Five Six Seven stocks a neat selection of new underground Hip Hop on vinyl, both local and international. Also stockists of the finest graffiti art supplies, graffiti and Hip Hop books, mags, CDs and wears.
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Our latest addition – Listen Up Darlinghurst
Huge apologies to Listen up for missing them on the first run of the guide. LISTEN UP RECORDS 391 Liverpool St, Darlinghurst listenup@bigpond.net.au | 0425342541 facebook.com/pages/Listen-Up-Records Saturday: 11am – 5pm or via appointment. Established in 1994, Listen Up Records trades out of the little blue building just off Darlinghurst Road. We stock heaps of second-hand wax. Rock,…
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One suspects a Boomer wrote this
You just gotta love the in depth treatment from NY Times. “And the buyers, Mr. Bizar said, are by no means boomer nostalgists … … we get kids calling us up and telling us why they listen to vinyl, and when we ask them why they don’t listen to CDs, they say, ‘CDs? My dad…
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Digital is not, we repeat, not killing vinyl. However … 🙂
‘Vinyl Purist’ Identified As Primary Suspect In Slaying Of 22-year-old Traktor DJ BERLIN – Police have identified 36-year-old Johannes Van der Burgh as the primary suspect in Friday night’s gruesome nightclub slaying of 22-year-old Polish DJ Mark Borowski. Van der Burgh — who was apprehended after police received several key leads from eyewitness testimony…
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This is dedication
What does a £2,500 record sound like? Audiophile Pete Hutchison has gone to extraordinary lengths to reissue golden era classical recordings in their purest form. He talks to Killian Fox about the price of perfection, the ‘digital con’, and the sound of a truly analogue recording Four years ago, Pete Hutchison realised that his record-collecting…
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Welcome to Sydney’s inaugural Indie Record Store guide
The Diggin’ Sydney maps (and website) have landed, with over 20 shops representing the heart and soul of Sydney’s vinyl culture. Now you’ll never be short of a place to dig for wax or shoot the breeze with similarly obsessed music nerds. Designed as a record lovers walking tour, take the chance to discover Sydney’s…