#vinyl funk

[tabileaks]

Rediscovering the Timeless Charm of Vinyl Records

[timmurleyart]

Dressed in technology. 🤖🤖🟦🟥⬛️🟩🟨🎵

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

Red Hot Chilli Peppers - Suck My Kiss

[myvinylplaylist]

Red Hot Chili Peppers: Blood Sugar Sex Magik (1991)

2024 Best Buy Exclusive Limited Edition on Transparent Red Vinyl.

Includes 4 page folded insert with lyrics. Despite no Parental Advisory logo, it is the explicit version.

Warner Records

[singles-bar]

[popcouples]

Spock enjoying my new mug.

[atomic-chronoscaph]

Around The World In A Day - Prince And The Revolution - Album cover art by Doug Henders (1985)

[disease]

PRIMUS & THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY WITH THE FUNGI ENSEMBLE | 12” LTD, 2022

*INCLUDES “GOLDEN TICKET” D/L CODE*

[unrestrained-balderdash-art-blog]

JACK DAW FUNK

[funksoul]

Lijadu Sisters - Life’s Gone Down Low - funky joint coming to you outta Nigeria

[lucidowl]

Looking to see if I want to collect any other physical media of TDH music and the only cassettes they have are of Antimai. Sigh.

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

Red Hot Chilli Peppers - I Could Have Lied

[myvinylplaylist]

Snoop Dogg: Doggystyle (1993)

30th anniversary edition featuring the original track listing for the first time since 1993.

Gatefold cover.

Clear vinyl

Originally released November 23, 1993.

Death Row Records

[fruitiermetrostation]

Incognito - Surreal (2012)

[wildandmoody]

GROUP: Stevie Wonder

Innervisions (1973)

Characters (1987)

Innervisions illustration by Efram Wolf.

GROUP: Phil Collins

Face Value (1981)

No Jacket Required (1985)

GROUP: 100% Electronica Label

Negative Gemini - Body Work (2014 Amethyst record release)

S U R F I N G - Incubo (2018)

[mywifeleftme]

357: Hailu Mergia & Dahlak Band // Wede Harer Guzo

Wede Harer Guzo Hailu Mergia & Dahlak Band 1970s, Ms Recording (Bandcamp)

I can’t 100% recall, but I’m pretty sure this was the first African record I ever bought (it was this or Nass El Ghiwane), and I wasn’t the only one—I’ve got a few friends with exactly one African record in their collection, and it’s this. When his music was rediscovered in 2016 after Awesome Tapes From Africa pressed this record (using Mergia’s own cassette copy as a source), Wede Harer Guzo became for western music nerds a part of that small company of gateway albums to the music of an entire continent. Let’s play a game of Remember Some Guys.

Remember Some Guys: That One African Record Edition

Expensive Shit Who is William Onyeabor? Wede Harer Guzo Nigeria 70 (The Definitive Story of 1970’s Funky Lagos) A dollar bin Miriam Makeba LP uh TEN$ION Remain in Light (honorary)

God I’m tired. Anyway, I’ve always had kind of an uncertain relationship with this record. Mergia’s organ can sound like a cool balm on my aching brain or… elevator music. Dahlak Band can sound like a perfect fusion of the floaty “intellectual highlife” of Celestine Ukwu and the grooves of Booker T. and the MG’s… or, what were we talking about? An entire side just past me by unnoticed, yet again. I think this has more to do with me than it does with the record… though at a cassette-length hour-plus run time, some ideas do get repeated.

(Three ellipses in one paragraph… I think that’s more than I’ve used in this whole series so far. I’m so tired of writing these things man. I’m not even really divorced, I can’t wait to leave.)

Anyway, again, at its best, the record is transcendently beautiful. The way Mergia’s organ expands and contracts like the shimmer of light on dark water on “Anchin Kfu Ayinkash,” guitarist Dawit Kassa answering his pauses with little soulful licks… there the ellipses go again. Sometimes the record feels like it’s insinuating I should go to the lobby for more popcorn. Maybe I’ll buy Raisinettes?

It’s very good I’m saying, obviously. See you tomorrow.

357/365