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It's Ryuichi Sakamoto day ✨ The prolific Japanese composer turns 68 today.
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The @BoJackHorseman soundtrack released on limited edition picture disc:
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The genius of @Madlib and MF Doom combined with shattering effect! Madvillain's Madvillainy was released on this day in 2004.
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Visionary electronic composer Delia Derbyshire was born 80 years ago today. Here she is from inside the BBC Radiophonic Workshop.
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Jazz legend Thelonious Monk was born 100 years ago today. ❤️
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In 1950s Russia, one of the only ways to hear blues, jazz and rock’n’roll from America was to get hold of one of these – a bootleg record pressed up on a discarded X-ray plate.
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David Bowie, who was born on this day in 1947, had an uncanny Mick Jagger impression
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Japanese author and jazz aficionado Haruki Murakami sitting amongst his collection.
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Record digging with J Dilla and Madlib.
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Released today in 1979.
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Visionary electronic composer Delia Derbyshire from inside the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. #AdaLovelaceDay
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50 Years of David Bowie.
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Kraftwerk's seminal The Man Machine, released 40 years ago today.
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Happy Birthday MF DOOM! What's your favourite record by the super villain?
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"Please advise." 😂
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"My richness is life"... Happy Birthday Bob Marley.
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Speaking facts ❤️ From the VF archive, the late great Andrew Weatherall on record collecting.
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Happy 82nd birthday to dub pioneer Lee Scratch Perry.
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Remembering John Coltrane - today marks 50 years since his passing.
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Remembering Andy Warhol on his 88th birthday.
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Released 50 years ago today
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Born today in 1945, watch electronic pioneer @LaurieSpiegel playing the “Concerto Generator”.
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Paying tribute to David Bowie through a collection of extra-ordinary 7″ record sleeves.
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Press a splatter record with us 🍊
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Happy birthday to Aphex Twin, seen here with Jeff Mills
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The great Sonny Rollins turns 90 today. Here he is onstage at the Kongsberg Jazz Festival back in 1974 🎷🎶
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Erykah Badu's game-changing debut album Baduizm was released on this day in 1997
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Vinyl album sales outstripped digital downloads for the first time last week:
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The pioneering women of electronic music – an interactive timeline
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Remembering Fela Kuti - the explosive Afrobeat originator and political activist died today in 1997.
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Explosive afrobeat originator and political activist Fela Kuti was born today in 1938. 🎷
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Patti Smith 🤝 John Coltrane
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The pioneering women of electronic music – an interactive timeline #InternationalWomensDay
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Soulwax's monochromatic record collection in their musical HQ in Ghent. 📸 Marleen Sleeuwits
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Maradona 💙💙💙
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Inside Mats Gustafsson's two-and-a-half-tonne vinyl cave
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MF Doom inside the studio 🖤
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Happy birthday to the legendary Kate Bush ✨
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💜 Happy 60th birthday @prince 💜
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Sudanese jazz musician Sharhabil Ahmed celebrated in Habibi Funk LP
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A year to the day since we lost The Purple One. #RIPPrince
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Solange curates weekend-long program at Los Angeles’ Getty Center Museum | @GettyMuseum
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Burial's Untrue was released 10 years ago today. 🔥
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Saxon Sound rocking Notting Hill Carnival in 1994
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Take a trip down memory lane with this 1983 Sony Walkman Commercial.
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The timeless nostalgia of Brazilian legend Milton Nascimento
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The shape-shifting world of maestro @ryuichisakamoto in 10 records
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John Peel, who died on this day 17 years ago, wasn't a man to mince his words — especially when it came to the excesses of prog rock...
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Gil Scott-Heron would have been 68 today - we review his influence as a revolutionary poet:
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Remembering Arthur Russell, born on this day in 1951
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Laurie Spiegel playing the “Concerto Generator” in 1977.
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Harry Styles’ Harry’s House is the best-selling vinyl release of the year so far.
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Alejandra Fierro Eleta – aka Gladys Palmera – in front of her collection of over 100,000 Latin music LPs
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New Order's debut studio album 'Movement' was released 35 years ago today.
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Björk's incredible Debut was released 30 years ago today. What's your favourite track?
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John Coltrane - born today in 1926. 🍰
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Don't look down... Bar Marco's vertical vinyl set-up in Bangkok.
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Inside EMI's quality control room in 1965. Spot the original UK copies of The Beatles' Rubber Soul 👀
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Meet James ‘Jimmy’ Rugami, who’s been selling records at Stall 570 in Nairobi’s Kenyatta Market since 1989:
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Grace Jones performs live on Chilean TV during 1980
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Angelo Badalamenti explaining how he wrote "Laura Palmer's Theme" with David Lynch... 💯
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Rare footage of John Cage & Sun Ra performing together. Happy birthday John 🎹.
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Time to sit in the quiet coach... Madlib sampling on the go.
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Kraftwerk's Florian Schneider has died
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Inside Peruvian label @INFOPESA ’s mastering and cutting room from the '70s. 📸 Infopesa
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Listen to a new @bbcmusic documentary exploring the sound of Aphex Twin @AphexTwin
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The soundtrack to cult '70s gang adventure The Warriors gets long-awaited vinyl release:
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Saturday Soul Train: Teddy Pendergrass laying it down in '77.
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Visionary electronic composer Delia Derbyshire from inside the BBC Radiophonic Workshop.
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Released today in 1988 💜
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Remembering Sun Ra - born on this day in 1914
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A return to the electro-pop of 1989 whilst maintaining the intimacy of her recent folk-leaning outings, Midnights is one of Swift’s most cohesive and fully realised outings. Read more on why @taylorswift13 made it into our top albums of 2022 -
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Nothing screams 2018 like Fleetwood Mac's Rumours... The highest selling vinyl record so far this year:
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A tribute to David Bowie, on what would have been his 71st birthday @DavidBowieReal #davidbowie
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Current feels...
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Inside Berlin record shop Platten Pedro
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"I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring." RIP David Bowie, 1947-2016 @Helengreeen
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Sade performing 'The Sweetest Taboo' – live on the Tonight Show in 1985
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Jóhann Jóhannsson’s final score released on vinyl @lakeshorerecs @invadauk
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A glimpse into @dvs1hush 's 30,000-strong vinyl collection.
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Nine Inch Nails announce "definitive" vinyl reissues series:
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R.I.P John Lennon - he would have been 75 today. http://t.co/scGBQTUSHF
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Watch Stevie Wonder reciting the stunning lyrics from Visions. The Innervisions LP was released today in 1973. ❤️
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Sonny Rollins onstage at the Kongsberg Jazz Festival, 1974 🎷
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Brian Eno changed my life: 15 artists pick their favourite Brian Eno record →
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How long are you spending here? Amoeba Records, Hollywood. 📸 Amoeba
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People bought a *lot* of vinyl during lockdown
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Stevie Wonder giving a vocoder master class. 🔥
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George Clinton and Bootsy Collins explain the incredible story behind the "Mothership Connection".
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Happy birthday @Madlib ! 💙 💙 💙
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Jamaica’s last vinyl factory to start pressing records again.
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Wendy Carlos’ pioneering work with the Moog synth explored in new biography
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Stunning pocket record player from the 1920s, as discovered by @GallicaBnF - Check out more pics here:
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RIP Sir George Martin, the 'fifth Beatle' and producer of over 700 records
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