Thunderball!

I found this one a few months back and was very excited to find it, as the same L.P. has slipped through my fingers just as often as Les Baxter's "Jewels of the Sea"!*  This one is in shrink and in very nice shape as well, so that's a bonus, especially since most of the official James Bond soundtrack L.P.s are in very rough shape indeed.

The arrangement to the title track here is a bit of an "everything, including the kitchen sink!" arrangement, but it is nonetheless very fun and full-feature without being over-done.

Thanks (and kudos) to uploader "Chalyman77" for providing this clear transfer for the Tube-surfers.
* Only once for each of these L.P.s, but darned if it didn't sting when I realized what I had later!

Azuma "Treasure Chest"

The lead track from Mr. Azuma's self-titled "Azuma" L.P.; released in the U.S. in 1987 on Private Records.

I found this LP years and years ago now, and it is still amongst the cleanest pieces of vinyl that I've ever found in the wild!  And while I'm not a very big fan of New Age music, this track exemplifies the sound of the tight, digital editing and glossy production of the late 1980s era. 

Early Les Baxter: "Radar Blues"

From the release: "Music Out Of The Moon*"






Subsequently re-released.

Dusty Bin Finds

Here's a few I found in a dirty old, cave-like place filled with tens of thousands (200K?) of 12" DJ mixes, 7" throwaways, signed sleeves, shelves over-burdened by Gary Numan and surf rock, Sixties, vocal groups, soundtracks, and yeah . . . booze crates just overflowing with un-priced promo 12 inches.

Phirpo y sus Caribes - "Parilla Caliente"

A little dirty disco-dance funk from the Southern Hemisphere.  Also, bikinis.


P.S. $499.00 for the original press at Discogs, now, that *IS* dirty!

Inaugural Post!

It's that time of the year, but I'm won't go in for politics here on Dirty Vinyl Collecting.  It's bad enough that my friends' Spacebook wall posts ("newsfeed", whatever) are bogged-down by entreaties to endorse one or the other side and join, and I just don't wanna do it.  Burnt out, in fact.

But this old local ditty reminds me that it's time, once again, to queue up, and while this other one ain't local, it's old-ish and espouses a similar take, tho' with a different tone (and much less of the dance-funk vibe):

Sorry that this first post is so amateurish and "meh...", but I'm just testing the water over here! 

I'll get better at this with time : )

-DVC