Good luck! Personally, it's the variation aspect of discogs that appeals to me as usually I'm looking for a specific remix or pressing (even down to specific groove etchings in one case) but I can see why an impulse purchase oriented store front might work. Will have a look once it's available internationally.
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Good luck! Personally, it's the variation aspect of discogs that appeals to me as usually I'm looking for a specific remix or pressing (even down to specific groove etchings in one case) but I can see why an impulse purchase oriented store front might work. Will have a look once it's available internationally.
Cosmic Bus
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Talk Talk - It's My Mix 12"
Janet - Control
A.R. Kane - Up Home! + When You're Sad 12"s
Arthur Russell - Another Thought reissue
Pan American - Quiet City
Hunx & His Punx - Hairdresser Blues
Wanted to pick up Variete - In Style, but it was $50 and that was a bit much to drop even though I could flip it on discogs for a good chunk more than that.
Cosmic Bus
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PetriP-TNT
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Spoiler about Lewis
I am Lewis
aww I hope Lewis isn't a hoax. that'd be such a bummer.
how's brinkley doing
LyleLanley
Banned
I also hope Lewis isn't just some hoax but some of that is starting to make it sound like one.
Cosmic Bus
pristine morning snow
Super depressing that anyone would think Lewis is a fake.
Johnlenham
Member
There is a record company that puts out disco tunes found like this, let me go dig it up
Stephen Encinas ‎– Disco Illusion
Song link
LyleLanley
Banned
I've come to the conclusion that I don't care if Lewis is some kind of hoax, this album is great either way. That also makes record 560 for my collection.
Turns out the US Copyright Office lists both Lewis albums. I assume you can't pick a random date in the past when applying for a copyright (semi-serious question)?
http://cocatalog.loc.gov
L'Amour (1983)
Registration Number: SR0000046835
Romantic Times (1985)
Registration Number: SR0000061873
http://cocatalog.loc.gov
L'Amour (1983)
Registration Number: SR0000046835
Romantic Times (1985)
Registration Number: SR0000061873
sixteen-bit
Member
M83 is reissuing their first 3 albums. Out August 25th.
PetriP-TNT
Member
The good ones!
sixteen-bit
Member
If I were to get just one, which would you recommend?
I would say Dead Cities, Red Seas, and Lost Ghosts, but that's just me.
Seconded. I once played a song from that record while DJing and a girl came up to the booth and said, "This song sounds like two stars falling in love."
The Interrobanger
Member
No offense, but Discogs is pretty much perfect these days and you're gonna have a hell of a time convincing anyone to use your site over them, especially when it's so no frills.
Cosmic Bus
pristine morning snow
Two brief snippets from the second Lewis album, courtesy of Recordland, where both LPs were initially discovered.
Shit's unreal. Second clip seriously sounds like Lew covering "Strangers In the Night."
Shit's unreal. Second clip seriously sounds like Lew covering "Strangers In the Night."
It is insane. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LH4F7I6vb_Y
Lewis
Romantic Times
http://lightintheattic.net/releases/1396-romantic-times
"Earlier this year, we released the mysterious, bewitching L’Amour, a 1983 private press record thought to be the only release by one of music’s true lost talents: Lewis.
So lost, in fact, was Lewis, he eluded every effort to track him down. Scant details were known: just a series of possibly apocryphal stories about a sports car-driving Canadian with a model on his arm and a habit of skipping town when there were bills to be paid.
Deciding that Lewis’ spider web-delicate songs demanded to be heard, we put the album out anyway, offering to present the due royalties to anyone who could prove they were Lewis.
One sure thing was this: Lewis was a man of many names: Randall A. Wulff among them. Now we have either found another alias – or perhaps even his real name – on the sleeve of a completely unknown album.
Sourced soon after the re-release of L’Amour, Romantic Times is the 1985 follow-up to L’Amour – and it’s released as Lewis Baloue. The name may be slightly different, but this is absolutely our man: a familiar blond posing on the sleeve, a familiar, tortured voice pouring his heart out over languid synths and synthetic waltz beats.
Remastered from a sealed, vinyl copy of the ultra-rare album, the album was discovered in the vaults of DJ and collector Kevin “Sipreano” Howes in Vancouver, BC. It’s so rare that what is, at present, the only other known copy – found in the same Calgary store where Aaron Levin discovered a batch of sealed copies of L’Amour – is presently soaring into quadruple digits on eBay.
Even engineer Dan Lowe, credited for working on the album at Calgary’s Thunder Road Studios, remembered little about the session other than that Lewis seemed to be “under the influence”. Yet the music is utterly captivating.
The album further fleshes out the Lewis myth – we see him pictured in that white suit with his famous white Mercedes and a private jet too; we hear him focussing more intently on matters of the heart, and appearing to unravel in the process. “I felt like I was witnessing a full-blown exorcism of a phantom clad in the finest linen,” writes filmmaker and historian Jack D. Fleischer in his brand new liner notes. “This record went further [than L’Amour ]. It was a personal plea, of sorts. Something had gone wrong. Nerves were clearly exposed.”
It paints Lewis, then, as being more like a David Lynch character than even his debut did, exposing the darkness beneath the sheen. The album is presently being readied for release to the throng of new fans Lewis has found, willingly or not. The man himself remains a total enigma.
First ever LP reissue, first time on CD & Digital
All tracks newly re-mastered
LP housed in deluxe Stoughton “Tip-On” gatefold jacket
Liner notes by Jack D. Fleischer
All CD & LP Pre-orders include immediate MP3 download of the full album
LP includes download card for MP3 of the full album
Color vinyl editions:
200 on “Malibu Blue” wax (LITA Vinyl Subscriber exclusive)
500 on “Pastel Pink” wax (LITA.net pre-orders exclusive, limit 2 per customer)"
Cosmic Bus
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"So Be in Love with Me" is EVERYTHING. Lewis and a sax might be the best combination the universe has brought us.
LyleLanley
Banned
I think it's alright, doesn't really come close to L'Amour though.
It's not recommended at all but if you have nowhere else to put it and your table has legs and the exhaust on the receiver has a good amount of space I imagine you'd be okay.
I think of it as similar to having speakers on the same shelf as your table: not ideal in the slightest, but sometimes you just have to fit stuff a certain way.
TheCowboyPoet
Member
I spend way too much time surfing on Discogs, which in the past few weeks has resulted in the following (my first colour vinyl!):
The White Stripes - Hand Springs and Fell In Love With A Girl
Wilco - Speak Into The Rose
The White Stripes - Hand Springs and Fell In Love With A Girl
Wilco - Speak Into The Rose
(please ignore the 70s wallpaper)
It definitely won't be your last.
sixteen-bit
Member
lol store owner gotta eat too i guess
tbh it's only slightly overpriced though, in the sense that discogs says the median's like 180 for that pressing and if you're grabbing it in Amoeba it's a sure thing and you don't have to pay shipping. So it's not an above average price for that record, but it is ridiculous that Beck's stuff has been pressed so little and there should be more copies of Sea Change than there are.
Fifty dollars for Broadsword and the Beast?
Forgot to post this when it came in:
From this weekend:
David Bowie - Love is Lost (Hello Steve Reich Mix), don't know the B-Side, purely bought for the DFA/James Murphy remix.
Both sides are great soundtracks. I'm gunna hunt down the movies now.
Original 1994 Pressing in Near Mint condition. As soon as I saw it I had to buy it.
the shop that had both the Massive Attack/Jazz Masters record also had an original pressing of Metallica - Ride the Lightning.
I'm totally going back this coming friday (pay day) to pick it up... hopefully it's still there.
From this weekend:
David Bowie - Love is Lost (Hello Steve Reich Mix), don't know the B-Side, purely bought for the DFA/James Murphy remix.
Both sides are great soundtracks. I'm gunna hunt down the movies now.
Original 1994 Pressing in Near Mint condition. As soon as I saw it I had to buy it.
the shop that had both the Massive Attack/Jazz Masters record also had an original pressing of Metallica - Ride the Lightning.
I'm totally going back this coming friday (pay day) to pick it up... hopefully it's still there.
johnFkennedy
Member
We're not looking to compete with Discogs. We're a different kind of site. Discogs is great if you know exactly what you're looking for (especially if what you're looking for is rare). We want to be a site that specializes in browsing for vinyl. Our original idea for the site was that it needs to feel like we're emulating the experience of crate digging.
We're a very small team doing this for sheer love of the hobby rather than a profit. We're nowhere near feature complete, but I think what we've managed to build so far is a solid foundation.
Anyway.
My new setup. Which also is not feature complete.
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