“Vinyl. But why?”
“The discovery. When I was a teenager and didn’t have a clue about how much music was actually out there, just sly smoking cigarettes with my countryside friends, hanging out with my football friends, being that ”weird classical music dude” playing the first violin in the local symphony Orchestra, listening to and playing Nirvana at home—all of a sudden my grandmother showed up one day with one of those ancient things called an LP.
Fortunately my parents had a record player (which they occasionally used for their sparing CD collection.) But there also was a turntable, and that became my new third best friend—next to my acoustic guitar and my brother’s shitty electric bass—apparently and unfortunately not my violin. This day I don’t remember which record it was, but she’d later give me her whole Beatles collection. That was pretty cool.
Cheap, old, and weird music. In the beginning it was cheaper than CDs. In the countryside where I lived there was a whole lot of charity shops and some of them sold vinyl. They were really cheap, so that was perfect for me, only having a spare job besides school. The problem was, that I didn’t know many of the artists, so I had to start digging into older music. That was how I got to know ”new old” music.
Sometimes I just bought a record because the cover was beautiful. So, sometimes I was really disappointed when I put on the record, but still, I had that feeling every time, either if it was good or bad music. A feeling of REALLY putting on a REAL record. Not the same feeling as putting on a CD.
The feeling. And that’s the feeling I still have today. Every time I’m really excited about listening to a specific album, I buy it on vinyl, and I get the same feeling that I’m REALLY listening to REAL music on a REAL record and that’s the most important matter about listening to music.
Of course I agree on the stereotype and classical arguments on why you MUST listen to vinyl—it looks better, both on the inside and the outside when you open it, anxious to check out the cover and the beautiful vinyl. It also looks a whole lot better in the living room on the shelf than those sad, plastic CD covers. It sounds better. It’s older than CDs. Everything that’s old and cool is a lot cooler than new and cool. I could just keep going, but I’m sure that there’s a lot of people out there who have already said it.
So, music is about feeling and it gives us the right FEELING to put on a vinyl record when we listen to music. That’s why we love vinyl.”
—Símun Mohr, Boho Dancer
Boho Dancer’s debut EP, “Furry Skin” was released in February via Danish label Slow Shark Records and a full length album, Gemini is out September 2.
