“I still, to this day, remember my first physical meeting with vinyl.”
“I was probably around 6 or 7 years old and managed to find my dad’s coveted record collection. I would pick up each individual record and gaze at their incredible covers like I’d been starved of visual stimuli for a short lifetime. Going through them, I saw pictures, stories, moustaches that would blow my tiny mind.
Then there it was, an image so brutal and mesmerizing that it caused me nightmares for the next four years of my childhood. The vision of Angus Young being stabbed through the chest by his signature Gibson SG on the cover of ACDC’s If You Want Blood You Got It live record still gives me shivers.
Collectively, our record collection is pretty vast and varied and grows by the week. Mike has a weighty funk, soul, and jazz collection, whereas Gregor leans heavier into the ’70s prog and ’80s rock genres, eventually crossing over on both owning the entire back catalogue of The Police.
There’s this great record fair that hits Edinburgh every few months which is set up by Darren who runs this tiny independent record shop called Vox Box. It’s basically this bunch of old vinyl nerds, hanging out in a church hall selling the most eclectic collection of records you’ll ever see. That and more Status Quo records than should be allowed on the planet.
We try to hit that up at every opportunity and spend a good few hours digging through every crate we can find. There’s a rare satisfaction of walking out of there with a mint copy of Phil Collins No Jacket Required sitting alongside a Japanese import of Charles Mingus, and limited edition shark-skin cover of the new Shabazz Palaces record.
We are incredibly excited release our sophomore record New Cells digitally on November 20th with a limited run of 180 gram yellow vinyl to follow early in 2016.
Whilst writing this Michael Jackson, Off the Wall is spinning on the turntable!”
—Mike Bryant
