Wax Treasure (Vinyl)

[68degreesorless]

[endo]

Fueled by @68degreesorless 's awesome finds in Peru and in preparation for a trip to Colombia (hopefully) taking place next year, I went looking for something cool from there and found this:

[Brian]

About 50m away from home the local rsl community hall had a big record sale on

Place was packed and nothing in any real order and some of the prices were mind blowing

[68degreesorless]

@endo damn that’s good. Added to my want list.

[endo]

The story behind it is quite interesting, too. The festival was apparently a defining moment for the Colombian music scene. Unfortunately, the live recording of the gig didn't work out, so it had to be re-recorded in the studio later, with live crowd noise layered over it. Sadly, this meant the sound quality suffered.

[68degreesorless]

The YT sounded fine to my ears. Excited to hear the vinyl. Like most of the great Peruvian records I found, very few original pressings (discogs median >$300usd). Glad it’s been reissued. And surprised it’s not available on streaming platforms.

[GraemeE]

@Mizmazzle now that your student loans are payed off....
https://pitchfork.com/news/you-can-now-buy-records-from-tom-verlaines-personal-collection/

[endo]

found a nice 1970 issue of this

[GraemeE]

@endo that is an excellent score

[endo]

I have to say, that thread played a part in it, too; it trains the ear. I don't know if listening to this record a few years ago would have been as enjoyable for me as it is now. Almost certainly not.

[GraemeE]

Ive learned plenty about great German albums from the late 60s and 70s from this thread - especially since I already considered myself a kraut-rock aficionado (typical cocky American i know....)

[Mizmazzle]

@GraemeE whoa!!! That’s freaking amazing! I’m still patiently waiting for my MFSL release of MM. a Verlaine personal copy would be rather badass as well.

[Mizmazzle]

Cooking tacos and listening to LC. This is probably my favorite record of his. Such an oddball album for him.

[GraemeE]

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6Jw4AENrM6aPivD6f5rSVm?si=V1Bt2-lDSgWi7PP7S7UC8w

[68degreesorless]

Ai generated?

[GraemeE]

@68degreesorless well technically yes....

I used my phone photo editor to try and blur out a certain word in one of the song titles that I didn't feel comfortable posting

And I did a pretty shitty job of it at that but at least its not legible

[68degreesorless]

Ahh I see.

[GraemeE]

@68degreesorless essentially I tried to make it subtle so no one would be the wiser...then failed at subtlety by not realizing my phone would betray me in the bottom left corner

[68degreesorless]