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The Turntables of 2009

2009 might not have been the greatest year in music, however it was a pretty good year for turntables. Especially, when it seems that the much talked about rumor of Technics shutting down has been quashed.

Here’s a recap of some of the most exciting turntable news in a year where turntables outsold CD players 5 to 1 (at least in Norway, they did..)

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Want to See a Cool Vinyl Movie?

This company, which we think make glue for a living, made one.

via DOIS PONTO OITO

ATL RMX – Free Remix Album

The guys over at Adult Swim have released a free remix album with Atlanta area hip hop remixed by some of the best electronic artists at the moment. Free download and album work available here.

Top 30 All-Time Greatest Punk Albums

The guys over at Guitar World have put together a list of the thirty best punk albums of all time. Lots to like on this list.  We’re quite pleased to see The Sonics up there.

Here is top five.  Head over to Guitar World to see the full list.  Any thoughts?

THE SONICS—Here are the Ultimate Sonics

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Wonderful, Weird & Rare Vinyl Records On Nylvi

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If you dig around Nylvi a while you’ll soon enough discover some truly rare, often wonderfully weird and most likely valuable vinyl records. Every once in a while we’ll feature some of these gems and collector’s items, first out are records from The Beatles, Fela Kuti, Honey Bs, Hellebore and signed promo from Patsy Cline.

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Vinyl Sales Up – Is Vinyl Going Mainstream?

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Record geeks rarely need a reason to feel smug, but vinyl hoarders worldwide had reassuring news the other week as Nielsen SoundScan released figures predicting that sales of proper, old-fashioned albums will top 2.8m by the end of 2009. This will mean an increase of almost 1m on last year and the highest annual figure for vinyl sales since SoundScan began tracking them in 1991.

Like we reported back in June the vinyl revival just continue growing stronger, Nielsen Soundscan reports that year-to-date vinyl record sales topped two million units last week, breaking the previous record of 1.9 million units last year. At the same point in time last year, SoundScan had tracked 1.5 million sales of vinyl records.

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Styrofoam Turntable

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The guys at Teenage Engineering have designed and engineered a low-cost do-it-yourself Turntable kit made out of high density styrofoam. Yes, styrofoam like you know it from coffee cups and cushioning material in packaging…

More pics and details below:

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Lagos Disco Inferno & A Room Full Of Vinyl

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Somewhere in Africa, there’s a room full of vinyl records… Discovered of course by none other than Voodoo Frank, the legendary DJ and record collector who sold off everything and spent three years in Africa hunting down rare funk records. We talked to Voodoo Frank about his trip a while back, you can read the interview here.

Voodoo Frank has also recently complied 12 blistering slices of Nigerian Disco Heat on Lagos Disco Inferno, which will be released as CD and Double LP through Academy LPs in a few weeks. Below is a video with more great vinyl footage set to a killer tune called Boogie Trip by Doris Ebong.

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Wes Anderson – Scenes & Songs

Spinner has cool a piece on writer-director Wes Anderson’s convincing ability to match songs with scenes to make them both more enjoyable and memorable. We’ve picked two we like below. If you enjoy it, head over to Spinner to see the rest.

The Stooges, Search and Destroy in The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou

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