Change the record (sleeves!) Mr DJ!

At home I’m lucky enough to be able to listen to my vinyl collection on my Dad’s beautiful old Thorens record deck, which he gave me a decade or so ago, and a pretty rare Bang & Olufsen Beomaster 800 stereo receiver from the early 70s, which I found when I worked at a household recycling centre (the dump!) for 3 days after getting home from 18 months travelling in 2002, and remarkably still seemed to work perfectly and sound amazing. It didn’t cost a penny for amazing, beautiful, vintage hi-fi sound, and super cool looks too, and my wife and I love playing music and introducing records at home to our young children. This is a pic from last Christmas, hence the advent tree!

Anyway, above the hi-fi we have a small shelf on which to display some of the beautiful artwork from the record sleeves. I mean to change these regularly but rarely get round to it. But the changing season prompted me to change the #records on our shelf and I thought I’d share these with you along with a couple of stories behind them! So, with a long hot summer behind us, it’s time to put these three belters saw us through summer away…

@quanticmusic’s #apricotmorning on @tru_thoughts (both my vinyl copies of this LP are pretty battered as it never left my bag during the 00s.), legendary #nuggets – unsurprisingly a repress as the original is mega rare, and #nigeriasoulfever, a fairly recent compilation of brilliant Nigerian #Disco on @souljazzrecords with sleevenotes by one of my DJ heroes @bill_brewster. All highly recommended!

And to replace them for the cold winter months ahead, we have these three beauties:

So a bit of a chillier to the artwork! More belters though – #coldwatermusic by @aim_atic on #grandcentral is as good a record as anything in UK hip-hop I reckon, great tunes, lovely laid back vibe and top notch drum programming. #thelas one and only record is a true classic, fits on one side of a C90 and impeccable songwriting, still love this as much as ever and I’m delighted that my 4 year old’s current favourite song is #thereshegoes and my 1 year old seems to have #LeeMavers hair. Lastly #ChillOut by #theklf – a different kind of classic but the soundtrack to many a wiggy night out/in and always reminds me of the strange experience of trying to buy Jimmy Cauty’s PA and haggling by offering to pay cash to a man who burned a million quid. He ended up keeping the speakers as they apparently made nice bedside tables.

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