We have already covered some great album cover recreations with Lego and perlplättor, now we turn to the magic of MS Paint. Since 2007 members of the foreverdoomed.com forum and stonerrock.com forum have showed of their MS Paint skills with some great results. Here are some of our favorites:
Scratch, a Doug Pray directed documentary about turntablism featuring among others DJ Shadow and DJ Premier is now airing in its entirety over at Pitchfork for one week only. A must see for all turntable fans and aspiring DJs.
In November Art Vinyl with the help from Creative Review’s Mark Sinclair, Rough Trade’s Spencer Hicks and John Doran from The Quietus shortlisted 50 record sleeves and invited everyone to cast their vote. The results are in and the winner of the best vinyl album cover of 2009 is:
Limited Edition, Special Edition, Anniversary Edition, Collectors Edition, Deluxe Edition…, all much used words when talking about music releases in 2009. As both new releases and old classics were often released in various edition and levels of bonus material and deluxe packaging. Some were obvious cash-ins for the industry, others were prepared with much more love and care.
Below, we have collected some of the best and most beautiful Special Editions and almost-over-the-top box sets of 2009. Enjoy the list and feel free to tell us who we forgot in the comments!
Figuring out the exact number is tough since quite a bit of vinyl is sold through independent stores and directly from artists/labels, but judging from recent numbers from Nielsen SoundScan, which is measuring sales from the major retailers, vinyl is doing even better than last year with an increase from 1.9 million to 2.8 million records sold this year. That should be very close to a sweet 50% increase.
pic via nightmaresanddaydreams
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..)
This company, which we think make glue for a living, made one.
via DOIS PONTO OITO
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.
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
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.
