Wax Treasure (Vinyl)

„This album is named after the Iggy Pop track from his Bowie collaboration The Idiot. Jones’ skill as a facilitator as well as pop cultural icon is exposed in the way the original song is converted from Krautrock-damaged, Suicide-aping sleaze fest into sophisticated, lightly-dub inflected, disco reggae. The conceptual joke of the song is clear: Grace doesn’t hang around in the same horrible dives as Mr James Osterberg, but you can be sure that the experience is just as existential and soul-draining.“ BBC Review

Backing band is Sly and Robbie from Black Uhuru. They also played a lot of dub with Augustus Pablo, King Tubby and Mad Professor.

GraemeE

https://open.spotify.com/album/3Qa2CdymyGvXkqoqIZykmT?si=09FjDqK2Tdif8cfMeMscrg&utm_source=copy-link

68degreesorless

That is fun

GraemeE

@SKT on this song you can hear the seeds of influence for Spiders on Ghost is Born

Also influences drawn for Spiders from the Neu! Lp @endo posted a week or so ago
https://forum.ironheart.co.uk//post/975127

Mizmazzle

@68degreesorless I’m a little late on the Jazz- Funk recs…but check out Dexter Wansel. Layer in a bit of disco and psychedelia and I find it to be pure bliss. Not to mention the mixing and pressing quality of the OG is incredible.

Life on Mars

https://open.spotify.com/album/2AWYJNKdCCLaOPsAA96IC8?si=hD2QN6nEQr6RHtkR6qsr_A&utm_source=copy-linkhttps://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQRn4y3vF9OSur8waA6n6QWMx--VnIMEHEcvWJDz5nvOg&s=10

Mizmazzle

Sometimes the truly incredible stuff is right in front of you and oft ignored. Recently fell hard into a Steely Dan awakening!

Aja and Gaucho are widely heralded as studio and audiophile masterpieces. The first Japanese pressings take that work to the highest degree. Knew I had to have them.

NM/NM complete sets 1st Japan pressings.

GraemeE

Considerably lower quality pressing than marks Dan pickups up but love this album

https://open.spotify.com/album/12N6IsuqIJzbTXdIrJnc9b?si=8N565mn5St-IKDlgNCEemQ&utm_source=copy-link

Mizmazzle

@GraemeE there’s a really interesting story behind the sound quality issues SD had when recording that album. Apparently there was a huge fire where thousands of original analogue tapes were stored, including this one. When the tech came out that could fix the issue 30 years later, sadly the tapes were lost. Analogue Productions put out audiophile pressings of about 6-7 of the core SD albums. Unfortunate Katy Lied couldn’t get the same treatment.