Friday, January 29, 2010

300 Records added to the site today.




We've added a nice bunch of records to our site today - some killer hip hop like Puppets of Chaos, Finsta Bundy. Fine soul albums like Frankie Gearing "Just frankie", Ruby Andrews "Black Ruby" etc. A couple rare jazz albums like Clifford Brown 5047, Art Farmer "Farmer's market" (clean Prestige first press original). We also added a bunch of records by electronic cult figure Ralph Lundsten. Check out the interview with this fascinating man by Vice Magazine!

Ralph Lundsten - Aurally Fixated

Friday, January 22, 2010

Record Mania Mix 4 – Live At Casa Midnight

Record Mania's Lady Midnight with 75 mins of disco, soul and a couple of showtunes inbetween! Enjoy.



lady midnight

About 350 vinyl records added to the site today.

MASCARA SEE YOU IN L.A.
Nice mix of records added today with a few highlights in Mascara - "See you in L.A"., Miles Davis "Bitches Brew" (original), Funkadelic "Free Your Mind" (original), Lou Donaldson "Walking with Lou" (original), Larry Saunders awesome album "The Prophet of Soul", Ralph Lundsten's indemand LP "Discophrenia", Jules Broussard LP, Nancy Holloway "Hello Dolly", Roots "Do You Want More (US original), Nine Cloud 9 plus several good disco 12's for example Syreeta "Can't shake your love" and Steven Abdul Kahn "Gotta have your loving".

Friday, January 15, 2010

Sandra Wright & Teddy Pendergrass are gone.

Record dealing today is not the same as it was before. It used to be more music oriented back when vinyl was the dominating medium. Today I think it's easy to forget many of those wonderful artists who had great success and sold large quantities of their records. One of the best soul singers ever for me is Teddy Pendergrass who died a couple of days ago. He did so many killer tunes as "Close the door", "Believe in love", "Turn off the lights" and countless more. The album pictured here is my favorite and a must-have. It's also cheap and easy to get hold of wherever you live thanks to the internet.

TEDDY PENDERGRASS

Sandra Wright is an artist that didn't get the attention she deserved while she was alive. This LP pictured here is her only one and it was planned to get a release by Stax. Unfortunaly for her and all soul fans worldwide this LP didn't get a proper release then as Stax went bankrupt. Sandra Wright got so disappointed that nothing happened except for a couple of 45's on Stax sub label Truth, that she lost faith in the music business and in her singing. In 1989 it got a release in England via the producer of the LP but it took until around maybe 2001-2002 until soul fans started to notice this. I bought my own copy at the Nitty Gritty record store and was more or less shocked by how incredibly good several tracks were. "Midnight affair" and "I come running back" are absolute masterpieces that I never get tired of. I'm happy that this album and the original 45 of "Midnight affair" are indemand worldwide now so she can get some of the attention she rightfully deserves. It also shows that record dealing/collecting at the good side really does a cultural deed to hunt up those lost artists.

SANDRA WRIGHT WOUNDED WOMAN

Friday, January 8, 2010

Just added to the site

GARFIELD FLEMING DON'T SEND ME AWAY
About 350 records were added to the site today. Focusing on original reggae 45's, soul 45's and disco 12's. Among the highlights is Starvue "Body fusion", Garfield Flemming "Don't send me a way", Horace Silver Blue Note ten incher etc.