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Found a very interesting way to use wood glue to clean the dust, debris, and other sorts of crud out of your old LPs. The picture above is from the Audio Karma website and shows a before and after shot from one audio-gear enthusiast while testing the wood glue cleaning method. The results speak for themselves. Here is a link to the forum posting on Audio Karma. Upon further googling there is actually this video showing the wood glue method.
Copyright Criminals - Trailer from IndiePix on Vimeo.
As if DJs didn’t have it bad enough with people confusing us with Juke Boxes. Activision, the people who brought you Guitar Hero, are now planning to release, DJ Hero. Yep, our art is now being reduced to a push button kid game. It’s rumored to be out this fall. Other than that I have no idea how it’s supposed to work or what the heck those three buttons on the vinyl are for. Anyway, here are the renderings for the controller. Right now Joystiq is trying to confirm that these are legit.
Tom Brock - I Love You More and More
Today is more about a lesson than an album review. The dusty crate digging funk and soul lesson of today is you can almost judge a good album by its cover. To illustrate my point we’ll take this cover Tom Brock’s “I Love You More and More.” Now let’s take a minute and conjure up an image.
Let’s say that you were the smoothest cat at the bar and you actually picked up a beautiful young lady. (We all know that has never happened to you, but just make pretend for a moment that it has.) You are really attracted to this girl and you want to impress the panties off of her. Now you bring her back to your place, and you decide to get a little more comfortable and put on your pimp ass smoking jacket, and open up a fresh bottle of Columbia Crest Two Vines Merlot. You pour the lady and yourself a glass and sit down and begin to tell her how you save kitties stuck in trees, cried at The Notebook, and how much you enjoy John Mayer’s music. Now you aren’t jumping the gun to get in her drawers because you are smooth like that and want to get her so wound up that one touch from you will send her into ecstasy. Got that image in your head? Okay good. What does it look like? Chances are it looks like this cover here. And chances are this is the closest that you and I will ever get to that situation.
Anyway, this is Tom Brock’s finest and only album. It’s filled with beautiful strings, driving bass lines and rhythmic beats, with funky up-tempo rhythms. Tom Brock’s vocals on this album are top notch. Then again, what would you expect from a protégé of the walrus of love himself, Barry White. Oh that was never mentioned? That’s right Tom Brock was mentored by White himself. In fact, Barry produced this album. I am actually very surprised that this album never went anywhere. With it being produced by Barry, and just the great soul that is on this album, I’m just truly surprised that this wasn’t an instant classic.
Now for the juicy details of this album. We all know Jay-Z, well “Girls, Girls, Girls” came from this album here. Also, nearly every track on this album has sample qualities. In fact, I’m producing music for a few artists and already four tracks of there album were sampled from this. If you are a crate digger you must find this album.
Tom Brock – I Love You More And More
Track listing:
1. Have A Nice Week End Baby
2. The Love We Share Is The Greatest Of Them All
3. there’s nothing in this world that can stop me from loving you
4. I love You more & more
5. Naked as the day I was born
6. That’s the Reason Why
7. Shake Me, Wake Me
8. If We Don’t Make it, Nobody Can
A good friend to the Spaced Invaders, DJ Birdflu has dropped an ill, slow-grooving mixtape that is making its way around the Charleston area. I was able to snag a copy of it from him and I asked him if I could make it available to the Stone Groove listeners. The artwork for the cover was done by Birdflu with scissors and tape, the old school way, and you can check the track listing below and see that the attention to details he used in the cover is also used in the collage of music he constructs. Speaking of old school, this DJ uses nothing but vinyl. No not Serato, time coded or anything like that. Strictly original vinyl. You’ll hear the warm analog sounds, and the crackles and pops of gently worn vinyl pressings. The transitions are on point and if you play both this mixtape with DJ Scrunchyface Flatbroke’s Valentine’s Day podcast your beddy-bye time will be set with that special someone.
Tracklisting:
DJ Birdflu – What I Put On When I’m Puttin it On Your Mom
Mos Def - The Panties
Notorious BIG - Big Poppa
D’Angelo - Brown Sugar Remix
Common - All Night Long
The Roots - Silent Treatment (Kelo Mix)
Erykah Badu - Sometimes
Slum Village - Fall-N-Love
Lauryn Hill - Can’t Take My Eyes Off Of You
A Tribe Called Quest - Bonita Applebum
Bird Flu - Honey For the Two Of Us
Lovage - Pit Stop
Portishead - Lots More Sour Times
RjD2 - Rain
 On Feb 21st, 52.5 Records will be twelve years old.
As part of our celebration, we will be hosting a food drive to benefit The Lowcountry Food Bank. The goal will be to collect 630 cans of food. (12 x 52.5 = 630. Clever, huh?) Non-perishable food items may be dropped off during regular business hours, February 20th-22nd.
For the do’s and don’ts of donating, and a list of most-needed items, visit this website:
What donating gives you ( In addition to feeling good about yourself for helping someone in need ) :
Win tickets :
We’ll be giving away a pair of tickets to see Ryan Adams & The Cardinals in concert on March 11th. Donate, and register to win.
Save money:
Get 52.5% off any used CD, LP, or DVD for each item donated, and/or 12% off any new CD, LP, DVD or book.
and …
As a special “thanks” to the those who donate the most,
the first 52 people that give twelve items or more will be our guest
for a special in-store event:
On Feb. 22nd @ 8:00
Performing live:
Birdsmell
and
Autumn Gold
Only 52 people will be admitted, so donate early and donate big!
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