July 2006

I’m obsessed with buying vinyl. I’m not talking new vinyl here; this is strictly dollar-bin material. I spend literally hours on weekends sifting through dusty old crates on floors in anonymous Brooklyn record shops and thrift shops, looking for that ruby in the rough. Bargain-bin shopping is motivated partly by finances, of course–I’d go broke [...]

I’ve gotten some requests for the English-language version of my Ryuichi Sakamoto article in the current issue of Groove, so here it is: YELLOW MAGIC ORCHESTRA by GEETA DAYAL “You listen and you listen, and YMO’s affiliation to anything within the fuzzy terrain that Techno now delimits becomes less and less apparent. What was a [...]

Somewhere in Oregon.