I took this photo on a visit we had with the maestro Mtume in 2019. RIP to a wise and kind human who also happened to be an incredible musician and catalyst.
It’s the 22nd LP in the Now-Again Reserve subscription series. Denny Zeitlin’s wonderfully weird fusion of funk, electronic music, rock, jazz and avant-classical - “The Name Of This Terrain."
I don’t have the patience to do it here, but i’m going to tell the story of one of record collecting’s ultimate finds in my IG feed. Same as here - @nowagain
Lots of the mid-90s East Coast rap I used to love just didn’t age as well as I thought it would. But BIG’s verse on “Think Big” is still as mind-blowingly wonderful as when I first copped it on a bootleg 12."
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Tickets For Doomsday: Heavy Psychedelic Funk, Soul Ballads and Dirges, 1970-1975. Official 2021 Black Friday Record Store Day release. In stock @rappcats -
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West coast business
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Legendary hardcore producer and engineer Spot (Misfits, Black Flag, Hüsker Dü, Minutemen etc.) is a master photographer. Sinecure Books is bafflingly proud to be the first to introduce the world to Spot’s photographic narrative.
Today, i was rescued from a travel nightmare by an @delta agent at JFK. Marlene Vaz is her name. Why do I remember this? Because she was friends with Jamaican music legend Boris Gardiner in the 70s, and I’m gonna give her a great shout next time I talk to the OG.