Why does Japan still love CDS so much?: Japan is a symbol of the future. Their cities look like scenes from Blade Runner, they pretty much invented reality TV and their populus get the new version of every gadget and gizmo months before poor sods in this country do. Even their pop music sounds so batshit it makes Grimes sound like Ellie Goulding moonlighting as a Butlins red coat. But, for all their looks toward the future, it’s strange that the country continues to be enamored with the humble Compact Disc, a format so outdated that teenagers nowadays are likely to look at it with the same bewilderment as they do an abacus or Mini-Disc.
Portraits of Vinyl Record Collectors Around the World: Israeli photographer Eilon Paz, based in Brooklyn, is behind the project titled Dust and Grooves. He imagined making a series about vinyl records collectors of all around the World. He shoots their portraits. Everyone has a preference in music. That is chat he wanted to show in his project. You can find all pictures in a book. A beautiful series that let a great part to this timeless object.
Vintage vinyl is back on Broadway: Vintage vinyl is back on Rochester’s Broadway. It all started when Hussein “Huss” Esmailzadeh began selling old records in his Man Cave Consignment store in the 21th Century Building at 2130 S. Broadway. It didn’t take long until the growing popularity of vintage vinyl overshadowed everything else in his store. “I decided to split off and open Rochester Records. I’m phasing the Man Cave out of the physical store and moving it online,” said Esmailzadeh. He’s re-organizing the building, which he owns, to open up about 2,000 square feet for the record store.
Hyundai Card adds to Itaewon with complex: Hyundai Card is adding new artistic sensibility to Itaewon, central Seoul, once again with its “Vinyl & Plastic” and “Storage” complex. The space, which opened on June 10, is open to the public but offers some discounts for Hyundai Card customers. Vinyl & Plastic, which takes up the two aboveground floors, offers visitors the chance to listen and buy vinyl records and CDs. More than just an ordinary shop, it’s a unique space that boasts a retro atmosphere and the opportunity to experience various kinds of music.
Trusted vinyl buyer and seller in Sussex: As well as a website shop, they exhibit and sell at record fairs around the world – including London Olympia – and the biggest record fair in the world at Utrecht in the Netherlands. Based in East Sussex and run by Chris they are out and about every week, viewing and buying record collections, concert programmes, posters and, in fact, anything music related. For the company, it’s mostly about trust. As Chris says: “There are hundreds of people now advertising for records but very few that will actually be honest about valuing a record collection…”
Vinyl records are popular again, and here’s how they’re made: I fell in love with music at a very young age. I can remember sitting in my parents’ living room, listening to the crackle and pop that accompanied each new song, only to be replaced with a thumping drum intro or a sick guitar lick that seemed to leap from our Klipsch corner horns. This experience stuck with me through the introduction of cassette tapes, CDs and finally the current digital-music age. The convenience and quality of digital music is unparalleled, but with the recent resurgence of records — and as any vinyl enthusiasts (and certain audiophiles) will tell you — vinyl has a special sound that digital music just can’t capture or replicate.
Houston’s Artificial Head Records Delivers the Total Package: I first discovered Houston record label Artificial Head Records back when I purchased their Knights In Satan’s Service record, which features 12 mostly Houston-area bands doing KISS covers; the album was made available in four different vinyl colors, representing the members of KISS: red (Gene), blue (Ace), green (Peter), and purple (Paul). I got a red copy, not because Gene Simmons is my favorite KISS member but because I thought the red vinyl looked the coolest.
