Sorting my 7inch record database by date to find the 70s records reveals quite a collection (Click to look closer). Seeing what I have is easy enough, finding the actual records is much trickier!
Currently scattered around the house there are some 3020 7inch records that have been added to the database and more still to list..
In anticipation of the Oriel Myrddin Taste Night next week I have started sorting through 45s for my 70s selection box…
Quite a few to look through yet…
I recently started to alphabetise my 7inch collection, though so far I’ve just done the ones in picture sleeves, eventually my database will become much more useful! Below is the first page of entries arranged by date starting 1970…
I will be mostly playing the 70s selections on this Technics SL-Q2 (kindly donated by Toby Downing I think). According to vinylengine.com it dates from 1979-1981 so rather appropriate I’d say!
Given the quantity of disco music that’s likely to feature, I think it’s only right that I try out my latest mirror ball finds, look at them shine!
Looking forward to exploring my collection of 70s records for this event in Oriel Myrddin Gallery on the 29th November.
I made this Aphex Twin inspired extra graphic for it from a 70s toy record player box…
I selected this to play as part of a performance at the Glynn Vivian gallery in Swansea for the ‘End of Empire‘ exhibition preview.
The record includes the famous wartime songs (mentioned in this previous post) ‘Pack up your troubles in your old kit-bag’ written by Welshmen George Asaf (aka George Henry Powell) and his brother Felix Powell, and ‘Take Me Back To Dear Old Blighty’ written by Swansea born Fred Godfrey (aka Llewelyn Williams).
1930s 8 inch Eclipse gramophone record playing on a Numark PT01.
At first manufactured by the Crystalate company (later taken over by Decca) for the Woolworth store chain, Eclipse was launched as a replacement for the Victory label. It was the first to be packaged in a brown paper sleeve, and featured dynamic promotional designs. Even so, the product was still pegged at a low price, even through the ‘slump’ or depression-era years of the early 1930s, finally disappearing in 1935.
Text from http://www.tedstaunton.com
Photo by Kathryn Campbell Dodd
Despite a few technical hitches I really enjoyed playing with records at the Glynn Vivian for the End of Empire preview. My audio recorder failed unfortunately so I decided to continue working with the selection of records in the studio and post some recordings of them as I go. This first mix from the studio uses 3 Swansea based Welsh Teledisc records and ‘Freedom Fanfare’ by the Band of the Nigeria Police, recorded to celebrate Nigerian independence.
Time wasn’t on my side and I didn’t get to play a number of things that I’d hoped, one was this Vistasound postcard record with a view of Snowdon from Llyn Llydaw.
On the balcony above where I was situated in the atrium is a series of landscape paintings by Sir Kyffin Williams, including views of Snowdon. I had planned to play this on a portable record player with them, here it is playing in the studio instead..
Theres a nice write up on the Soul Safari blog here https://soulsafari.wordpress.com/2010/01/21/freedom-fanfare-the-band-of-the-nigerian-police/
I found my copy in Cardigan market while in the process of moving into town back in 2010. I used it in the first mix in the new studio and the recording became the soundtrack to the second short film documenting the move.
The found of music 