>Shit Man! You're serious about your vinyl...respect!
Thanks ... you might say I'm a bit of vinyl junkie ... everyone wants to
sample my collection .... I'm NOT obsessive about cataloguing it like Lazlo
Nibble, though so I'm frequently trying to remember if I bought that single
already ....
>What was your first drum & bass/jungle purchase?
depends on what you call d&b and jungle. The first jungle purchase (where
I went in looking for jungle) was probably "Money In Yer Pocket" by Crown
Royale and MC Dett .... It may have been "Phyzical" by Roni Size. First
d&b was probably "Drums 95" or an early Omni Trio single .... the first one
I can remember picking up and thinking "this is d&b" was Artcore 2. One of
the first commercial CD's I got was the Speed Limit 140 BPM series up to 4
(it was the newest at the time) and the first two in particular were real
faves. Also "History Of Hardcore 1" (Moonshine retrospective of Suburban
Base and Moving Shadow) had a big role in my current tastes ..... Basically
I go in and buy singles blind -- the most open minded guy you'll ever meet
in terms of dance music. I think I got on DB and Shooter's (at Breakbeat
Science in NYC where I normally shop) good sides by walking in and saying
"what's the weirdest thing in the shop?" and dropping $200 every two weeks
for six months ..... I think I've only passed up maybe 10% of their
suggestions and I would have never heard any of the Squarepusher offshoots
like Alroy Road Tracks if it weren't for my doing that ..... and since then
I've discovered that most everything they've been selling me are
ultra-limited runs and stuff that'll command a few hundred in a few years
because I'm really obsessive about getting them with no fingerprints,
unwarped, keeping bags on them and what not .... they know I'm not a DJ but
they also know why I'm named Datboy (I'm available to tape your parties to
DAT if you're on the east coast USA, aj'ers -- got to get a plug in there!)
We were talking about favorite records and I mentioned "Forbidden Planet"
(Jem 77) and you could have knocked either one of them over with a feather
.....
c'ya
db (no not that guy who makes all those cool breakbeat records)