Thank you for including me in your “first pressing…” What a great legacy your dad left for you to communicate and carry on. Love the story and photos. Life is Good.
I am excited to see where you take this substack! I just started a music blog of my own on here and wanted to see who else was in the same boat as me.
To answer your prompt, I have an interesting alternative answer:
I have a very small collection of vinyls (around 15 record, or so), but I mainly like to collect CDs as of last year. I just have this affinity towards the CD medium as that's what I grew up on being born in the late 90s. However, the vinyls I do have are a mix of modern & 70s/80s artists that I enjoy.
Some of my favorite artists that my dad had shown me, some of which I have vinyls of, include: Joan Jett, Pink Floyd, Duran Duran, Tears for Fears, Hall & Oates, Fleetwood Mac, Styx, Yes, etc.
Hi Kaden! thanks so much for reading and your thoughtful answer. so what i'm reading basically is that CDs are coming back - so i think you're ahead of the curve! i really do wish now that i had kept my personal CD collection but i ended up donating most of them. although, my mom still has hers and my dad's collection, which we exclusively play on that speaker system i mentioned up in the post. and it still sounds great. i think however you prefer to listen is the best way - as long as you're listening :) your favorite artists too - top notch. i've been diving deep into Duran Duran lately, and Hall & Oates is still one of my favorite live acts ever. thanks again for the support - next article drops Sunday!
I also feel like CDs are making a comeback, though not as much as I feel as vinyls are! I think your blog is being made just in time to capitalize on vinyl records, so I think you’ll have a neat, niche audience.
My parents had no interest in music, but an older friend of mine started showing me a lot of electronic music when I was around 16.
He took me to concerts and showed me how to produce electronic music. I got deeply involved with the hip-hop culture, turntablism, and finding old records that I could somehow repurpose.
That led me to Jazz, and all the sad heroes of that time, like Charlie Parker and Chet Baker, whom I’m obsessed with.
Having moved around quite a lot, unfortunately, my record collection is spread over Portugal and Germany. Now I don’t even own a record player, but I’m happy that we have a bunch of record players at work.
Hi David! Thank you so much for sharing your collection's origin story! Electronic music and hip-hop culture is such an awesome entry point into this world because of how it takes old music to make something wholly new that draws on the past and looks towards the future. I keep discovering a lot of new music because of sampling like this 60s psych band called Rotary Connection, whose sitar sample was feautured in the Fugees' "Killing Me Softly" at 0:37. I hope that you are able to own a record player again and start expanding your collections in both countries. That could be a really interesting exercise too - to see how your collections would differ geographically.
i appreciate your comment and you reading this post. keep in touch and happy spinning :)
Hi Kadrian,
Thank you for including me in your “first pressing…” What a great legacy your dad left for you to communicate and carry on. Love the story and photos. Life is Good.
my mom left a legacy for me too! thanks for liking and reading, appreciate the support!
Hey Kadrian,
I am excited to see where you take this substack! I just started a music blog of my own on here and wanted to see who else was in the same boat as me.
To answer your prompt, I have an interesting alternative answer:
I have a very small collection of vinyls (around 15 record, or so), but I mainly like to collect CDs as of last year. I just have this affinity towards the CD medium as that's what I grew up on being born in the late 90s. However, the vinyls I do have are a mix of modern & 70s/80s artists that I enjoy.
Some of my favorite artists that my dad had shown me, some of which I have vinyls of, include: Joan Jett, Pink Floyd, Duran Duran, Tears for Fears, Hall & Oates, Fleetwood Mac, Styx, Yes, etc.
Look forward to seeing your next article!
Hi Kaden! thanks so much for reading and your thoughtful answer. so what i'm reading basically is that CDs are coming back - so i think you're ahead of the curve! i really do wish now that i had kept my personal CD collection but i ended up donating most of them. although, my mom still has hers and my dad's collection, which we exclusively play on that speaker system i mentioned up in the post. and it still sounds great. i think however you prefer to listen is the best way - as long as you're listening :) your favorite artists too - top notch. i've been diving deep into Duran Duran lately, and Hall & Oates is still one of my favorite live acts ever. thanks again for the support - next article drops Sunday!
I also feel like CDs are making a comeback, though not as much as I feel as vinyls are! I think your blog is being made just in time to capitalize on vinyl records, so I think you’ll have a neat, niche audience.
haha that's def true, but once my friends started asking me for CD player recos, i was like oh man. and thanks! i hope so too :)
My parents had no interest in music, but an older friend of mine started showing me a lot of electronic music when I was around 16.
He took me to concerts and showed me how to produce electronic music. I got deeply involved with the hip-hop culture, turntablism, and finding old records that I could somehow repurpose.
That led me to Jazz, and all the sad heroes of that time, like Charlie Parker and Chet Baker, whom I’m obsessed with.
Having moved around quite a lot, unfortunately, my record collection is spread over Portugal and Germany. Now I don’t even own a record player, but I’m happy that we have a bunch of record players at work.
Hi David! Thank you so much for sharing your collection's origin story! Electronic music and hip-hop culture is such an awesome entry point into this world because of how it takes old music to make something wholly new that draws on the past and looks towards the future. I keep discovering a lot of new music because of sampling like this 60s psych band called Rotary Connection, whose sitar sample was feautured in the Fugees' "Killing Me Softly" at 0:37. I hope that you are able to own a record player again and start expanding your collections in both countries. That could be a really interesting exercise too - to see how your collections would differ geographically.
i appreciate your comment and you reading this post. keep in touch and happy spinning :)