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Writer/Editor/Curator/Most Interesting DJ In World. b. New York, New York. raised Detroit, Detroit. #Books #Music #Magazines #Vinyl #Records #Rum #DJLife
New York the Sister Nancy #BamBam doc is screening in Marcus Garvey Park on July 31st #reggaesky #NYC #Harlem
I have new favorite NYC shop it's called Caribbean Cuts but its not what you think
I just want you all to know that these people are out there, they don't listen to rap and will try to correct you on some "its not mewg, it's mogue"
Update: it was actually 2 records and I fvckin well found them...right where some nefarious person shoved them randomly into the jazz shelf please clap for me
I guess if #Vinylcon is any indication, these are the records I'm more likely to drop $40-$90 on It's partly because having the music in the format it was originally released is always better for reference/writing but also so my vinyl sets reflect my digital collection/written work
There's a special satisfaction in coming up on a hard to find record I've written about as a journalist Eddie Palmieri #Justicia is one of those...I wrote it up for @pitchfork.com's Top 200 LPs of the 1960s back in 2017, happened up on it at Vinylcon the other week pitchfork.com/features/lis...
oh nuttin just walking around with the gravitas of a man who owns a copy of 'Catch A Fire' in the original zippo lighter die-cut sleeve
as it happened, the same evening I read Robert Farris Thompson's essay on Basquiat, makes a great companion piece "A talented graffitero, Fred Braithwaite, approached me, said he had a friend, an artist, he wanted to meet me."
Brunson, overcome with emotion "I have no words all I can think is...."
ok continuing to not hold you but did i mention there's an appendix of key recordings organized by *engineer* (??) Michael E. Veal's #Dub ( #reggaesky ( you are here ) #booksky )
...and the granularity of dub techniques indexed, its like this man is approaching it as a sound practice, he's gonna mess up the curve