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Giorgio Moroder’s “From Here to Eternity” (1977)

Posted on April 6, 2021March 31, 2021by Kyle Bell

Giorgio Moroder is most famous these days for being “that guy from the Daft Punk song”, referring to his cameo on Random Access Memories. Prior to 2012 or so, he was known as the producer of Donna Summer’s “I Feel Love”. He had mostly faded into obscurity unless you were into ‘80s movie soundtracks (Scarface, […]

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“Matrix” engravings next to the label on vinyl records

Posted on March 23, 2021March 18, 2021by Kyle Bell

When I first started buying records, I noticed that they often had hand-etched letters and numbers in the blank space between the last song and the label. At the time, not knowing anything about how records are made, I figured they were etched by hand onto each record by the company and denoted a numbered […]

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Finding weird and wonderful album covers

Posted on February 28, 2021February 28, 2021by Kyle Bell

Since I just repaired our turntable I’ve been going to record stores to expand our collection. So far Princeton Record Exchange (PRX) in Princeton, NJ and Generation Records here in New York have been my favorites. PRX is well worth the trip if you’re starting a collection because they have so many classics for under […]

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