Speed and Sound: RPMs and Record Playback.
Sometimes More is More Music as a medium is a dense format. From composition to orchestration, many things come together to create music. Music playback is rarely the focus of the process, but vinyl...
Author: Jose Diaz
Monthly Mixtape: November
Happy Birthday, Jose. November is my birth month, but it is perhaps my least favorite month of the year. Working in retail for a decade will sow resentment in your heart. Having to serve...
Monthly Mixtape: October
Mad Scientists, Mummies, Zombies, Vampires, Oh My! It’s October, the time for ghouls and ghosts. This months mixtape is all songs that have monsters or similarly themed titles. I avoided the obvious ones, so...
Record Store Day Drops, August 2020
Record Store Day, Part Deux. A reminder of what was supposed to be. A pandemic cannot stop the music. Originally Record Store Day 2020 set its sights for April 18th, 2020, but it turns...
Analog Adventures: Discipline
About the Artist King Crimson died in 1974. Long live King Crimson. After 1974’s psychedelic jazz infused progressive rock Red made a statement, Robert Fripp disbanded King Crimson. The band saw its fair share...
King’s Quest: Holy Grail Records
For Glory The term “holy grail†used to be reserved for items that are so scarce that their existence is almost mythical. The term first appears in Arthurian mythos and legends first written in...
Monthly Mixtape: September
Wider than a Mile Imagine human history without the moon – no oceanic tides, no eclipses, no mythos. To say that our species admires our celestial satellite is an understatement, we are inexorably tied...
VinylPost – A Subscription That Delivers
Pick a Card Monthly subscription services saturate the market with everything from snacks to clothes. I gave Vnyl a try in the spring and was left unsatisfied. Music tastes are hard to quantify, despite...
Analog Adventures: Endless
Frank Ocean Endless (2016) To Infinity and Beyond I have written extensively on music that was never meant to have a physical release. The internets obsession with vaporwave manifested the gaseous into solid (link...
Analog Oddities: X-ray and Postcard Records
More Than Meets the Eye The image of a vinyl record is iconic; A black circle with a white label in the middle. There are variations to the format, as I have previously written...
