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#VintageComputing YouTube delivers yet again: Boards Of Canada’s ‘Olson’ on a DEC PDP-1: youtu.be/wubkrBd3-gg?...

#Vinyl This week’s fresh oddness from Brighton: The New Eves - The New Eve Is Rising. A hard one to categorise, kind of shambolic freak-folk meets The Slits via Amon Düül (I more than II). Certainly its own thing. As ever I can’t resist a signed copy on pre-order.

#Vinyl Another one of those sad days. RIP Ozzy. Pleased I got to see the original line-up (1978, Liverpool Empire, I was still a school kid). An astonishing genre-defining band.

#Vinyl New Wet Leg album Moisturiser landed, albeit a day late despite the comedically huge £6.15 postage charge. It is growing on me after a couple of plays. The “3d lenticular” cover of this edition is quite amusing; Rhian’s somewhat creepy expression changes depending on the viewing angle.

#Lego Keith Haring bathroom installation now complete.

#Lego #Art Keith Haring set! They’ll be mounted on the wall in the bathroom when done. Lego can knock it out of the park on occasion, these are great!

#Vinyl New Utopia Strong album Collapse landed. I set an alarm for this one as this series always sell-out real fast (I’ve got the set). No idea how long they stuck around, but they were gone within the hour. Wonderfully trippy Krautrock/drone electronica and signed by a famous snooker player!

#Vinyl New Yeule album ‘Evangelic Girl Is A Gun’ landed a day early - I get it ahead of Tidal etc! Great loud punchy cut and exactly as odd as I was hoping. No idea how one categorises this stuff, but if you like their previous albums you’ll like it.

#Vinyl New Stereolab album landed and very good it is too. A surprising return to form after such a huge (15 year!) break. I like this one and it gets better as the album progresses too. Nice cut too, the vinyl sounds really good (clear vinyl here).

#Vinyl #PinkFloyd I guess there will be about 400 pictures of this one here today, so here’s another. Did anyone not buy it?! Rude not to really. Very nicely done and a distinct upgrade on the crackly old bootleg I had back as a teenager. IIRC I only had half of it too!

#Vinyl I had the privilege of seeing Pere Ubu way back in 1981 with Gang Of Four and Delta 5. A truly great and memorable gig. What a band and legacy. David Thomas RIP.

#RSD2025 Weapons-grade LOLprice, but thankfully it is very good!

#RSD2025 Didn’t have to queue up for hours this year as I already have a copy:

Clem Burke RIP. A great drummer in a great band.

What perfect albums came out when you were 16?* *just albums you owned - and that were perfect to the 16-year-old you.

#Vinyl My Dinked order from Norman Records arrived today; Knats self-titled, funky new jazz stuff, and Mandrake Handshake, which I was in two minds about ordering, but it’s great! Kind of hippie-prog meets Stereolab, bonkers 45 rpm glitter vinyl! Actual glitter, and it doesn’t sound like sandpaper.

#vinyl New BDRM album Microtonic just landed and is sounding very decent. Rather more electronica/ambient than the last one, but still in that general shoegaze/post-rock area. It is very blue.

#vinyl #jazz Yazz Ahmed’s new album, A Paradise In The Hold, arrived today. A different trajectory for her with vocals etc, it works. The limited edition signed ‘pearl’ white vinyl is still on her site. A beautiful package/artwork, as is all her stuff. This one is a nice quiet flat pressing too.

#Vinyl #Beatles I heard the sad news that Rutherford Chang, the artist behind the ‘We Buy White Albums’ exhibition died last month at the age of just 45. I visited the exhibition (Liverpool) and have the record, which is 100 White Albums layered. Quite Steve Reich as it shifts in phase etc! RIP.

#vinyl I’ve little if any knowledge about Superb Owls, but anyway, this:

#retrocomputing Spend much of Christmas fixing my increasingly temperamental BBC Micro. Traced it to a PSU cap on its way out (C9) which had already been done in a full recap only a few years ago! All seems rock solid again now; solid 5V etc, boots fine, seems happy…

#jazz #vinyl …may as well stay on the bus for the whole journey with John Coltrane’s Om!

#jazz #vinyl Just reminding myself what an amazing album Alice Coltrane’s Journey Into Satchidananda is! Just wonderful stuff.

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#Jazz #Vinyl Jeff Parker’s ETA IVTet - The Way Out Of Easy just landed and wonderful it is too. Superb sound too being a live to Nagra open reel recording. Recommended! The International Anthem label own this year to be honest, so many amazing releases.

#nowspinning #vinyl #jazz Another day, another jazz great leaves us. Roy Haynes RIP. One of the key jazz drummers. He leaves an amazing discography.

#Vinyl #Jazz Lou Donaldson night continues. RIP to one of the real greats.

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#20GreatestDebuts #Vinyl #Jazz 20/20 Shabaka & The Ancestors Wisdom Of Elders. Some 21st century UK jazz to finish, and no mention of that can be made without Shabaka Hutchings. He’s everywhere, on everything, but I think this is the first release under his own name, so here it is.

#20GreatestDebuts #Vinyl 19/20 Leftfield Leftism. Not often a debut album arrives as a triple-LP, but this one manages it without even a hint of filler. The sound of 1995 and still fresh. A genre defining album.

#20GreatestDebuts #Vinyl 18/20 #Liverpool 1980-81. No, I’m not picking a favourite. Sue me! More details in the alt text to save running out of space (way more text space in there!).

#20GreatestDebuts #Vinyl 17/20 The B-52’s debut. 1979. Such a bizarre record when it appeared. It seemed to come from nowhere, yet so good. Another debut album with perfect cover design too!

#20GreatestDebuts #Vinyl 17/20 Gang Of Four Entertainment. I’d previously posted the Au Pairs debut, which certainly deserves to be here too. Two of the best, sharpest, and most politically astute debuts IMO. Both aligned with Rock Against Racism, the Au Pairs bringing a strong feminist angle.

#20GreatestDebuts #Vinyl 16/20 Young Marble Giants Colossal Youth. Incredibly minimalist 1980 DIY album that inspired so many. Such an amazing and influential debut. Engineered by Amon Düül II’s Dave Anderson!

#20GreatestDebuts #Vinyl 15/20 The Specials. 1979, the start of Two-Tone, and a truly great debut album for both band and label.

#20GreatestDebuts #Vinyl 14/20 Joy Division Unknown Pleasures. A perfect album IMO; content, design, production. The sound of monochrome ‘70s-80s Manchester. Owned since new. To my shame I was a late adopter of poly-outer sleeves! Vinyl is NM (I always bought poly-inners!). It sounds amazing.

#20GreatestDebuts #Vinyl 13/20 Some earlier debuts as a much needed interlude. All fully deserve inclusion and most have hit other folks lists. I pick the Neu! as my choice as it remains so relevant today; its influence is everywhere. PS VU & Nico should be here too, but I’ve only got the CD box!

#Vinyl Liking this ‘see your Discogs collection’ tool here: discovers.antisound.net Here’s mine sorted for just the vinyl to keep things vaguely visible (no CDs etc):

#20GreatestDebuts #Vinyl 12/20 Tom Robinson Band Power In The Darkness. 1978, a great album, and that big Rock Against Racism advert on the rear of the sleeve helped steer young me towards a political outlook that has stuck lifelong. So many amazing bands aligned with that scene.

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#20GreatestDebuts #Vinyl #punk 11/20 UK punk any% speedrun. All these deserve a mention, all meet my criteria, but I can only pick one... I’d say The Slits was the most influential today, but Buzcocks debut probably gets the most plays here, so I’ll pick that as #11.

#20GreatestDebuts #Vinyl 10/20 Talking Heads: 77. Yet another from the New York CBGB club scene and yet another flawless debut album. PS I’ll be lucky to get any further than 1980 at this rate! 1975-80 produced so many perfectly formed debut albums. I’ve a pile of them left!

#20GreatestDebuts #Vinyl 9/20 Television Marquee Moon. The green vinyl 12” of Prove It was my route in; I’d never seen a 12” single or colour vinyl before, so I had to have it. I’d have been 14 at the time. In hindsight one of the great debuts and no surprise it is making so many people’s lists.

#Vinyl A few albums from The Passage to start the day with:

#20GreatestDebuts #Vinyl 8/20 Deaf School 2nd Honeymoon. Uncategorizable art-rock oddity that could only have occurred in the transition period of 1976. Full of hooks and wry humour. Ground-zero for the future Liverpool music scene. A remarkably influential album even though few now remember it.

#20GreatestDebuts #Vinyl 7/20 Dr. Feelgood Down By The Jetty. 1976. Raw blues-rock distilled, given a real edge, brought back into the pubs & clubs and here on vinyl in mono! A real transition point. Wilko Johnson’s speed-fuelled guitar kicking the door open for what came next.