Rolling crate digging triumph thread

Backjob

Well-known member
Woot! Today, in a singaporean secondhand shop I got the following for 5 singapore dollars each (about 1.50 UKP):

Incredible Bongo Band - "Bongo rock"
Sun Palace - "Winning/Rude Movements"
Sandy Nelson - "Compelling percussion"
Harry Thumann - "Underwater"
Army of Lovers - "Massive Luxury Overdose"
Stephen Duffy - "Un kiss that kiss"
Earl Scruggs live at Kansas State
Eddie Harris - "That is why you're overweight"
Sebastiao Tapajo - "Beinvenido Tapajos"

Plus some recordings of malaysian jungle animals, a whole heap of 60s malay rock, some hawaiian and Indian stuff, some french poetry and also MC Miker "G" and Deejay Sven - "Holiday Rap"

Not super-rare by any means, but lovely to find regardless. And all in decent condition!

What have you found recently?
 

LRJP!

(Between Blank & Boring)
not as exciting really, but i found a pretty good Baby Ford double 12" pack in my local second hand book n' vinyl shop the other week...
 
In LA I found a copy of the Zodiac album Disco Alliance for a dollar ("Pacific" from that album is on the recent Unclassics mix).

I'm still trying to figure out how rare this actually is though.
 

noel emits

a wonderful wooden reason
death comet crew (featuring rammellzee) - at the marble bar 12" (white label on beggars banquet) for £2 the other day.

is this rare? not seen it around before anyway. on first couple of listens the track that popped up on the Anti NY comp is the best thing on here, pretty good. looks like their stuff is in the process of being reissued at the moment. should i sell it quick?
 

polystyle

Well-known member
DCC "At The Marble Bar"

hey , that's one of my group's original record Beggars Banquet release white label you got .
The current DCC rerelease "This Is Riphop" on Troubleman includes all the 1984 "At The Marble Bar" tracks .
The "Anti NY" was a great one , thanks to Gomma
Glad you enjoyed , hope you hang on to it , we only have a couple copies of that 12" ourselves
Cheers
 

Jim Daze

Well-known member
I found that too, except it's the picture sleeve version. It's great, picked it up for a fiver, seen it on gemm for $60 or therabouts.
 

Jim Daze

Well-known member
one of my best finds was 'Lets Go Swimming' by Arthur Russell e.p on Rough Trade with the full Walter Gibbons mix, near mint for four pounds in some otherwise rubbish record shop in Colchester (crap provincial town, - U.S. readers) It just appeared in front of my eyes like a gift from above,
 

Chef Napalm

Lost in the Supermarket
My greatest find was an Aphex Twin "Analogue Bubblebath" on Mighty Force. Found it at a yard sale in amongst mildewed copies of Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson.

It's still one of my favourites, but $279US? You've lost your mind!
 

Backjob

Well-known member
Back in '94 I swapped Aphex "red label" and "blue label" for 4 e's and a wrap of crystal.

Absolutely moronic thing to do, I dread to think how much those are worth now...
 

dominic

Beast of Burden
last week at vinylmania i picked up a copy of the North compilation on Deconstruction. Came out in 88. Lots of stuff by T-Coy.

of course what seems "rare" in the States is common in England, and vice versa . . . .

among my recent jungle finds in NYC stores are Sharon Forrester "Love Inside" (FFRR) and the Austin EP on Suburban Base . . . . probably wouldn't be considered rare in England!

have also picked up a few Konk records recently, but given the Konk compilation on Soul Jazz these probably don't count as major finds

and "Love Tempo" on Factory

and "Funky Diatribe" by New York United on the Jungle Sounds label -- probably the best New York dance label of its era (1992)
 

Backjob

Well-known member
Actually anything with breakbeats and made between '91 and '94 is going for mad cash on eBay right now, doesn't seem to matter which country. I reckon that stuff is rare anywhere....
 

cortempond

Active member
Commodity or Enjoyment?

Picked up Curtis Mayfield's Back to the Future and Sweet Exorcist LP's in mint for a $0.25 apiece at a Garage sale.

Also Found:
First ESG 12'' on 99 Records produced by Martin Hannett for $1 wrapped at a record store. Saw it for $100.00 at a local store.
Piero Piccioni's score to the 10th Victim on LP for a $1 at a thrift store -- worth $60.00+

If you look on E-bay you see people paying extravagant sums of money for records. I've seen people drop $150 to $200 for a single Morricone soundtrack.

These create a situation -- do you view the record as an investment or commodity or something to enjoy as you would any other record you have. Do you look at it differently now that you know there is a significant price tag attached?
 

iueke

Active member
found this week:

Acezantez ensemble - 1st LP
SME - peace for you to share
Grachan Moncur III - aco dei de.... orig found on the web for $9
jacob "killer" miller (top ranking)

i've not been hunting vey much lately - hmmm maybe tomorrow..
 

Jay Vee

Member
Steppin' Out (excellent disco compilation c. 1978 on Polygram, compiled by Vince Aletti, in mint condition) at a Jersey City 2nd-hand store a week ago. $3!!
 

Backjob

Well-known member
God, the US is like the promised land for disco 12"s. They're bloody hard to find in Britain - most have ended up in the hands of collector types years ago, just because the total pool of them in the country was always pretty small. Gotta go back there soon...

Does anybody here travel specifically to buy records?
 

DigitalDjigit

Honky Tonk Woman
Austin EP and tings

If I am not mistaken the Austin EP is actually really rare in Britain. Wasn't it deleted or something and then Sm:)e released it in US?

My biggest triumph was finding 69 - 4 Jazz Funk Classics for $3.50 in a local record store. It was repressed shortly afterwards.

Recently found
First Choice - Hold Your Horses $1
Fun Fun - Happy Station $1
Patrick Cowley - Do Ya Wanna Funk $2.5

I found a bunch of Brazilian records at a Goodwill about two hours away but had to leave before I decided whether it was worth buying them. I can't remember what I saw there but there was some Veloso, some Gil, Jobim and a few other guys whose names seemed familiar but I couldn't find them on that Brazilian music site later. I looked at all the Gil discographies I could find and none had the cover of the album as I remembered it (It was white with some pink and a bad drawing of his head). Dont' know if it is worth it to go back to grab them. It looked like it was mostly late 70's - mid 80's stuff. What do you think?

Also, I would really rely on gemm. The prices are ridiculous.
 

Jay Vee

Member
OK. Folks in the vicinity of Williamsburg: corner of N 9th and Driggs, downstairs. Eso es todo.
Here's what I bought yesterday, all vinyl, all under $3.00, all in great condition. I nearly passed out with excitement. Loads of original Prelude/Salsoul/etc. but you need to dig. :

Propaganda "Wishful Thinking" and "Duel/Jewel" 12"
Lime album w/ "You're My Magician" and other solidness
Phreek album
Musique "Keep On Jumpin'" album
House Hallucinates 2xLP
Taana Gardner "Work that Body" 12"
Scritti "Wood Beez/Absolute" 12" (Godhead.)
Den Harrow "Catch The Fox" 12"
212 "NYC People" 12"
Inner City "Good Life" 12" w/ May + Atkins rmxs

Can't wait to sit and play these first thing in the a.m. tomorrow.
 

ollee

New member
Just this afternoon I got David Holland and Derek Bailey's "Improvisation for Cello and Guitar" (1971 on ECM) for $10 new zealand dollars and Gong's "Shamal" for $NZ8. The (few) second hand record stores here in Christchurch (where I am temporarily, visiting from Melbourne) seem to be overrun with c86 style pop, presumably left behind from the remnants of Flying Nun and that scene when it was based here...
 

Woebot

Well-known member
Weirdly excellent library records haul

Found these two in Camden yesterday:

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This is a library record by Anne Dudley of The Art of Noise. I've seen copies of this go for $75, I paid $4 for this one. It's simultaneously queasily 80s sounding (in yer face parping synths) and sort of wonderful. Like a focussed YMO. I'll be using this on the soundtrack of my next animation.

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This really surprised me. Bruton doesn't have the cache of KPM or Chappell in the library recordings stakes, it's a very 1980s label and i was really surprised to see it was a Basil Kirchin record. I knew he'd done some library, but not in this era as far as i was aware. Didnt he just step down as Professor of Music at the Royal College of Art? Anyway this is great, plays as a long suite, kind of like Eno's "Another Green World" meets Ellington's "Black Brown and Beige" if you'll scuse the lazy comparison.
 

john eden

male pale and stale
A random assortment of reggae 7" for 50p a pop including some nice Studio One represses and Nitty Gritty's "Run Down The World" on Jammys. :cool:

Dunno how you can survive Camden at the weekend, Matt! It's mental up there... the Anne Dudley seems cool though. I used to love Art of Noise (and Propaganda! Good to see people picking that up).

I quite liked the album she did with Jaz Coleman of worldy type stuff. No doubt this marks me out as a hopeless chancer in the non-euro/US music states. ;)
 
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