Tips and techniques to bring structure into your vinyl collection — Ah, organizing your record collection. Whether you’re a digital DJ trying to sort thousands of mp3s in a folder structure that still makes sense to you next week, or a vinyl collector wanting to find the best system to easily browse through your most prized records, everyone who’s ever planned…

Atreus is not only a king in Greek mythology, but also the name of a short-lived New York house label that was active in the early 90s and put out three 12“ singles. Moodswings — Works Of Atreus The most sought-after release certainly is Moodswings’ Works Of Atreus from 1991. It features four tracks, starting…

5 Recent favourites from the KollektivX platform, all forgotten sounds deserving to be preserved. In this weekly round-up series, I’m going to pick five of my favourite recent projects currently being funded on KollektivX to shine a light on some of the amazing records being discovered and preserved by the…

Part 1: It’s a dance—and an even better style of music! — Boogie. A word most used to refer to a dance, be it with your friends at a party or from the comfort of your own home. But aside from being a doing word, it is a huge area of forgotten records and untapped gems. A brief history of boogie music The often overlooked cousin of disco…

In our previous articles, we covered the history of music recording and reproduction. We looked at how vinyl records have been made throughout time, and dove into the different technologies used for music reproduction, from the very first milestones up to the gear we can enjoy right now. Today, we…

Why having a digital copy of your records is never a bad thing — In one of our previous articles, we talked about the importance of digitizing vinyl records and our role in the preservation of our musical heritage. Continuing where we left off the last time, we will today introduce you to the ins and outs of digitizing records and the main reasons…

The past two decades have been a major turning point for the music industry worldwide. With the rise of digital media, music has gone from being consumed through physical means such as cassette tapes, vinyl records, or CDs to being compressed into a virtual audio file called an MP3. …

Hello diggers! Today I’m excited to bring you a particularly interesting album: “Soleil: Rythme Et Danse”, produced by Jeanine Claës, Aziz N’Diaye & Philippe Lincy, and released on the French label JC 5947–1 Records in 1980. This LP is all about quality African-inspired rhythms, with a selection of songs featuring…

The race for technological innovation, which began in the mid-1980s, was the engine for major transformations that reconfigured the behaviour and consumption of society worldwide. …