Sutty

I have a pro-ject cleaning machine and it does the opposite of making a record dull, it can turn a dirty old record with years of caked in dust to a shiny surface. Use 90% distilled water and 10% isopropyl alcohol. Turns crackly records into perfect players way beyond anything I’ve ever managed by hand. I’ve thought of upgrading a record and then cleaned it and realised there’s nothing wrong with it, just needed to get years of gunk out that you can’t even see. It does sound like yours have been skimmed. I knew a guy that used to T-Cut records and sell them, looked great but sounded terrible, bought off him once and got my money back pronto.

It’s from an aerobics LP, had it for years and played it out once or twice. There are several versions, some have aerobics instructions, some have vocals, some have instrumentals as well I believe. There are 3 otherwise unreleased Leon Ware tracks on the vocal one. The 12 is an edit of the original version by Jo Ann Harris. I have this version which is all the vocals https://www.discogs.com/release/6796844-Shiva-Aerobicise-The-California-Exercise-Craze the link you posted has aerobics instructions and no vocals so don’t buy it! the original extended version of the track only came out on laserdisc evidently! cheers Sutty

Bud Harper b-side is just getting big evidently. I haven’t been to a 100 club all-nighter for over 20 years and it was big then 🤷🏼‍♂️😇😁 (just kidding, John is a top guy)

Or an earlier one before it got issued

The label would usually get a double sided test pressing(s) for approval. If there was a problem with the b-side they could have made a new metal stamper just for that side and pressed for approval, then dumped the original metal stamper for that side. The etchings would be the same as they are etched in at the cutting stage, which is what the metal stampers are made from. The metal stamper has its own stamp which is the stamp of the pressing plant. Both the etching and the stamper end up on the run out, so you can identify the cut and the plant.

Lest we forget the great poster in reception one time for the following weeks live act, “Phoney M” 😂

First went mid-90’s, Doris Troy one I think, maybe the one before. I insisted we would be fine for food as they’d have all the facilities we’d need for the weekend. Friday afternoon the “shop” was a converted garden shed and had a couple of bunches of bananas, an artic roll and a Sarah Lee frozen gateau for the entire weekends attendees. We bought the bananas and artic roll and spent the weekend eating in the on-site chippy. For the next year we’d wised up and decided to take a load of pizzas to cook in the chalet oven. Only problem was, we were in a different chalet and all we had was a tiny microwave, so we had to cook the pizzas one slice at a time, which took forever. We looked forward to spending the weekend eating in the on-site chippy until Bub and Jerry (funniest men alive along with Stuart) found the number of a pizza delivery place on Saturday morning and it felt like fine dining in their chalet washing them down with half pints of whisky for breakfast. Hammered by 11am and I can’t remember much of the rest of the weekend as it stayed that way. I used to like it when what is the big modern room was full of the usual punters there for the bingo, and the toilets were shared. The looks on their faces was hilarious seeing all these reprobates from the northern room ranting like mad while they were doing their business, and complaining the cubicles were always occupied (with a bunch of blokes going in together). The small modern room upstairs was great. Oh and the one where few of us got spiked with Ketamine on the Saturday night and spend the nighter wandering round the campsite thinking there were aliens out to get us. That was fun (not). When Willie Tee came on and started playing a funk track for warm up and half the crowd left the room muttering “this isn’t soul!”, he then then played a storming set, never forget their version of “one more chance” 💥 Sunday nights were the best.

Rance Allen “I know a man who”

I just checked and I def don’t get charged VAT at all as a seller within the UK, or Rest of the world outside the EU. The buyer does on the sale and post if they are in the EU, it goes straight to discogs so I never see it. The joys of the oven ready Brexshit.

No VAT within the UK unless you’re a business account. VAT to EU goes straight out from Discogs. The big change really is they’re now going to charge fees on the postage costs, presumably to stop people pricing lowly and setting high post, at present they only charge fees on the cost of the sale, not postage. This is worse than their claim of 8 to 9% as they’ve moved the goalposts. Helpfully (not) sending out mails advising sellers to put their prices up to cover their greed is a wind-up.

Currently it’s 8% of the sale items. (80p on £10 sale) Now it’s going to be 9% of the sale items plus postage (1.35 on £10 plus £5 post) that’s a 68% increase in fees not 1%

A producer I knew years ago informed me he pitched all his recordings up a quarter tone to tighten up the bass

Just been repressed on white vinyl, from the same stampers so just ordered more of the same from the pressing plant on a different colour vinyl, which is pretty standard practice

#34 is Copeland Davis - Morning Spring cheers Sutty

On your other note, the Mayking LP is a reissue as they were only pressing in the 80’s and Maggot Brain came out in 71

All now sold

Hi, All 5 of the set of LP’s pressed for the Japanese market containing amazing deep/southern soul cuts. I got them from a guy who was over in the UK from Japan maybe 25 years ago and they’ve been sat on a shelf ever since, all are M/M- in the original sleeves. £20 each I’ll sort out signed for postage at cost depending how many you want and where you are, one copy of each. Free post in the UK if you buy the lot. cheers Sutty https://www.discogs.com/user/soulcitizen

This was a popular rare groove track from the same LP that came out on a 7 with Pasado as the a-side, prob the 2 best tracks on the album

O-o-h Child sold 200,000 copies in the UK in 1970

I was in A1, gone drastically downhill now unless you want a VG Phil Collins LP for $15 …

I thought Manhattan was a dead loss when we were there in Sept, Brooklyn however was awash with records, spent hours in Human Head in Williamsburg which is easily accessible on the subway, 5 mins walk from Montrose Avenue stn which is 10 mins on the subway from 14th/Union Square stn on Manhattan. The guy that runs it is really friendly and the prices are good, $2-5 for records that sell for £15-20 over here for example. Many of the Manhattan ones are closed down since lockdown, I spent ages looking for a jazz one I wanted to go to only to find it was a building site, so make sure they’re open before you venture anywhere, Human Head def is, 7 days a week, cheers Sutty

Heavenly Body Heavenly Body was a massive 2-step track

Missed a sales trick on the Jap Marvin LP. It’s not just quad, it’s completely remixed, and apart from the different production with the vocals more upfront, it’s smoother, the giveaway is God Is Love carries on to fade rather than cutting straight into Mercy Mercy Me as on every other press. A unique, and for me the best, version never reissued in any format, cheers Sutty

Bub passed away through ill health. The world became a lesser place when he left, particularly the NS scene IMHO, a joy to be around, cheers Sutty

I had a package sent UK to Netherlands a couple of years back that went via Singapore. Was sent one a little earlier from Spain I think it was that went via Barbados 🤷🏼‍♂️