I love mystery. You took pictures of a pair of boxes marked as “dub” and with the Olympic circles. What’s inside? Relics of an unknown past, LPs of real dub music, 7 inches you kept from your youth…? I just changed my address and I only took very, very few records with me. I sold…
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Benjamin Finger – “Most of the albums you see in the basement had a rough life, some of them have even lost their normal shape. But I have bought new copies of most of them, those that I could still find”
I see quite a lot of albums I like, including the soundtrack of Jim Jarmusch “Dead Man”, for me one of the best album of Neil Young. I’ve listened to your collaboration with Mia Zabelka and James Plotkin, with great dark reverberating atmospheres, slow guitar tunes on the first side… I see a sort of…
Cassette Hoarders United – “Everyone needs a friend who uses cassette tapes. I’m happy to be that friend for you”
It happens sometimes to find, by chance, a group of enthusiast people that, when they discover Concrete Shelves, they just fall in love with the idea of sharing some photo of the records they own. It just happened with the Cassette Hoarders United, a Facebook group devoted to this hissing media. Here are some of…
Christoph Hess – “During the 80’s I was listening to a lot of noise music but the records were hard to find and too expensive for me. So I tried to cut out the grooves of a bad pop album by replacing the stylus with a sewing needle”
Is it a laboratory? A workshop? Or a house? Or both? The shape of the stuff your records are surrounded reminds me the instruments you build to play your music, piles of turntables and other weird devices! Well it is just my personal room at our rented apartment where I live with my family. It…
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