The Listening Glass sessions - Tweedle D64

This is an hour section from the first Listening Glass at Telfords Warehouse, Chester last night. It's not a technical exercise (i.e. a mix)… more a compilation of some of the interesting vinyl I've been buying (Cob in Bangor / Grey 'n' Pink in Chester / Diverse in Newport) and nicking off my dad over the last 6 months.

I didn't stick much to my own brief of "a night of vinyl crackle and ochre tones: music from the mellow underground 1960 - 1976" but it's as accurate as any description could be: there's definitely plenty of crackle, some of the tones are ochre, much of it is 'mellow', but one track - at least - crept North of the chronological parameters!

So, I hope this helps pass an hour with some diverting sounds.

I'll post a playlist up next week. It's best to listen and not know what's coming next, isn't it?

If you like what you hear, come to the next night. I don't have a date, yet - but I'd definitely like to do another (and I'd love to come and DJ for / with you wherever, really). Finally, and hopefully without sounding too sanctimonious, please support your local 2nd hand record shop (*you* probably do and have been doing so for all those years I was ignoring them and hoarding CD's and .mp3's -- my apologies). There's so much great music on these shelves. I know I must sound like a Johnny Come Lately vinyl evangelist, but the likes of Alan, Owen, Mike, Paul, Ben (Hayes) et al have blown some amazing music through my life over the last few months. This is a hamfisted celebration of it. Demonstrating the kind of turntable wizardry that would give beatmatching aesthetes nightmares in puce. But it's all about the music, innit?

So, here is some.

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