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Oooh, did someone say vinyl? Here's my living room-

and here's another 15 or so boxes stored upstairs-


I've also got another 500 or so not pictured (my drum n bass collection, test records, stuff I get for my girlfriend (lots of Zappa), my 'Theme from Shaft' collection, etc.)

I have a couple vinyl mixes here (though there's probably only 1 folks here would be interested in, SS Mix #1)- http://secretstationrecords.com/SS-Mix-Series.php

extremely jelly of your aphex and ae re-phaelam-ed
which analords are those?

I've recently gotten really paranoid about keeping sleeves really clean and all the records verticle in case of warping.

How do people clean their vinyl? I am currently considering buying a Knosti Disco Anti Stat, hearing very good things. Need advice Twoismers!

I'm only young (so i don't have many), but I've always wanted to start a vinyl collection, cause my parents have loads of them. In the past year or so this is what I've got so far:

12"
The Beatles - Red Album
The Beatles - Blue Album
West Side Story soundtrack (i'm a big fan of west side story)
Madonna - Drowned World/Substitute For Love
Madonna - Power Of Goodbye
Madonna - Ray Of Light
Madonna - Hollywood
Radiohead - In Rainbows
Boards Of Canada - In A Beautiful Play Out In The Country
Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires Of The City

7"
Pink Floyd - Another Brick In The Wall (Part 2)
Muse - Uprising
Coldplay - Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall
Coldplay - Violet Hill


And I'm saving up to buy these:

Radiohead- The King Of Limbs (special newspaper edition, includes 2 x 10" vinyls)
Radiohead - Amnesiac
Radiohead - Paranoid Android single
Boards Of Canada - The Campfire Headphase

I've only been collecting since last September but so far
Aphex Twin - Richard D. James Album
Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92
Atoms For Peace - Amok
Boards of Canada - Tomorrow's Harvest
Boards of Canada - The Campfire Headphase
Boards of Canada - Geogaddi
Boards of Canada - Music Has The Right To Children
Brian Eno/ David Byrne - My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
Brian Eno - Another Green World
Brian Eno/Nicolas Jaar/ Grizzly Bear
The Jesus And Mary Chain - Psychocandy
Joy Division - Closer
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
The Libertines - The Libertines
Lou Reed - Transformer
My Bloody Valentine - mbv
The National - Ultra Violet
Neu! - Neu!
Nico - Chelsea Girl
Nicolas Jaar - Space Is Only Noise
Pink Floyd - The Dark Side Of The Moon
Pink Foyd - Meddle
Pink Floyd - Atom Heart Mother
Pink Floyd - Ummagumma
Radiohead - In Rainbows
The Smiths - Meat Is Murder
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
Speedy Ortiz - Major Arcana
The Velvet Underground - VU
The Velvet Underground - Loaded
The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground
The Velvet Underground - White Light/White Heat
The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico

fujee wrote:How do people clean their vinyl? I am currently considering buying a Knosti Disco Anti Stat, hearing very good things. Need advice Twoismers!

I just use a microfiber cloth, really. and I cut a square off of a Magic Eraser and use that to gently pull dust off the needle. I know they're not the best, but I'm not sure what the best is so hopefully someone can help us both out!

Noby, I want your Twin Peaks vinyl. They're repressing it to red vinyl! I've been patiently waiting.

Headphase, hi-five for another Madonna fan! Sonically, I think 1990-2003 (Immaculate Collection-American Life) were her best records (sonically, and from content), so I'm sure all of those Ray of Light singles sound fantastic! I think I'm in the minority, as I prefer her 90's & very early 00's stuff to her 80's work. And of course, while her latest records are fun, it all goes downhill once Hard Candy is released, unfortunately).

Enforcedno, how the hell does Skrillex sound on vinyl? I tend to stay away from records that are dynamically squashed and too electronically clean because they don't normally translate to wax that well. Sometimes clean digital music just sounds better, well, digitally.

2020k wrote:

fujee wrote:How do people clean their vinyl? I am currently considering buying a Knosti Disco Anti Stat, hearing very good things. Need advice Twoismers!

I just use a microfiber cloth, really. and I cut a square off of a Magic Eraser and use that to gently pull dust off the needle. I know they're not the best, but I'm not sure what the best is so hopefully someone can help us both out!

Ah yeah, I was using a cloth for a while, but I bought the Anti Stat set and it's absolutely brilliant for the money. Really great results, especially considering the machine itself looks cheap.

For cleaning my stylus I use this, and its brilliant: http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B007JJT3US/r ... TOYG6DVRZ8

Love love love this thread. Morris's pics are amazing, as are lunertestinglab's.

I'm currently stuck 1000s of miles away from my records, which are spread between my parents' house in England and my in-law's in Spain. For that reason I've kind of put collecting on hiatus for a couple of years; the only thing I've bought recently are the BoC reissues.

Anyway, this is the only picture I can find, which is pretty shit, but hey. I guess in total I've got about 8 feet's worth of 12"s; LPs and a load of house, techno & breaks, plus a smattering of 7s.

I miss them!