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Name: Phil Smith
Home Page: http://landlordrecords.tumblr.com/
Member Since: Feb 06, 2006
Rank: 6,498
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Rated 5722 releases, average: 3.90
Location: Blackpool
Profile: I have been collecting an extremely wide variety of music, especially from the outer edges, since 1989 (when I was 12). I now have c. 7,900 records, CDs, pre-recorded tapes, etc, collectable & otherwise, just over 1,000 of which I've added here as new entries :-). I'm not too bothered about format & will happily just have most things on MP3 if they're hard to get, but I found like many people that my sound files got in a tangle & I ended up not listening to new ones consistently, so I've largely gone back to just collecting physical items! I will also confess to a love affair with vinyl though, particularly 7"s & 10"s (3" CDs are pretty smart too!).
I am mainly here because of my discogs wants list, which is the very tip of the iceberg in terms of records I'm interested in, but which is basically the stuff I am hunting with vigour & which I have generally been after for quite some time now or have recently found on here & never previously knew about. Having said that, despite what people will tell you, most things crop up at a sensible price if you look for them long enough, so I don't believe in paying obscene amounts (I don't think I've still ever paid more than £20 for any one item). Hence, feel free to offer me things from my wants list, but keep the prices sensible if you are going to do that. Also, my collection is deliberately kept private most of the time (unless I've opened it for someone to look at basically), so unless I've listed it for sale, I'm not selling it. Hence, you're welcome to ask questions but you're not going to twist my arm (well, if you're offering three figures on an item, maybe we can talk, y'know, but otherwise...).
It's now Mar 2012 & after three years of heavily using this site, I've now tagged & where necessary added to the database the vast majority of my collection. The main exceptions are some of the albums I haven't yet listened to (I'm up to date on singles at last - yippee!) & a sizeable minority of infuriatingly complex-to-add items (multiple artist compilations where the artist names are really generic, recording details all in foreign script etc). The largest section in the above is about 350 Tip Sheet promo compilations (part of the total given above). Hopefully I'll get to most of those eventually if someone else doesn't.
Rating system, as nicked & adapted from ProgeriaYouth...
1 - Pretty terrible. The sort of thing I wouldn't touch with a barge-pole (ie really limp boy bands / girl bands etc).
2 - Very unoriginal or fails to do what it by rights should (ie bandwagon-jumping generic stuff, very poor releases by bands I usually like etc).
3 - Nice enough & I'll support anyone getting a 3, but not spectacular (ie standard releases in genres I like).
4 - Great music (all styles).
5 - Amongst my (long list of) favourites (all styles). Plenty of stuff gets a 5, but usually because its very exciting, very beautiful or very original.
I've pretty much decided that...
God Is My Co-Pilot & The Ceramic Hobs are my favourite bands,
Aphex Twin my favourite solo artist,
The Only Ones' "Another Girl Another Planet" is my all-time favourite song,
De La Soul's "3 Feet High & Rising" is my favourite album,
and early-mid nineties R&S and the first run from Shut Up & Dance are possibly my favourite labels...
but these aren't necessarily representative of my taste...
Genres of particular interest to me include
dancehall reggae/ragga jungle/bashment (see my lists on here);
gabba/hardcore techno/hard acid/speedcore/etc;
noise/experimental/noise rock/avantgarde;
UK Garage (all styles from 4x4 to wonky);
Washington DC go go;
music hall novelties &
music from the Blackpool area & from the English fens (see my lists on here)...
...but then I've also got more indie, hip hop, drum n bass etc etc etc than you can shake a stick at...
I'm also interested in strange vinyl pressing ideas that affect the audio (as opposed to cosmetics like picture discs or concentric grooves, all of which are nice but which I'm not looking to obtain any more of), ie; locked grooves, multiple centre holes, playable etchings & new records pressed into old records...
As of Mar 2012, the items listed below are the ones NOT on Discogs that I'm also very much after & would be very keen to pay/trade for...I have to say at this point that whilst Discogs was always very helpful to me for many years even before I became a member, I am now VERY impressed with how encyclopedic it has become, at the point at which there are only 30 recordings in the whole world that I'm this keen to get hold of & aren't listed on here, over half of them being releases by a guy who sings (sang?) at an obscure flea market in the US & probably largely just sold his records there! Well done everyone...I hope it never disappears into the ether...
Canopy & Matrix – Rough Business 12" (feat. “Arkine's Lost”, Space Records SPAC 9 [Space Records, 175 Warstones Road, Wolverhampton WV4 4LG, 01902 653535 - Don't ring this number, it is out-of-date], 1994) - ambient drum & bass.
My top want not currently listed on Discogs. Played by Peel several times, including again as part of his end of century Peelenium. Never sent for it, even though I had the address from the beginning - darn my student pockets...See my piece about this record on my blog...I would also like SPAC 7 & SPAC 8, as yet unidentified items...
Demon Rocker – Iron Lady/Stick Together 12” (Unity UN 001, c.1985?),
Demon Rocka – Bad Boy No Ramp 12” (Unity FEA 020, c.1988?) – dancehall.
Early rare-as records by one of the sainted Ragga Twins, before they formed the partnership.
Flinty Badman - Pretty Gal/Home T - If The Rhythm Don't Move You 12" (Unity Sounds),
Kenny Knots – Mr Chattabox/Flinty Badman & Richie Davis - My Lover Gone 12” (Unity FEA 017, c.1988?) – dancehall.
The other Ragga Twin.
God Is My Co-Pilot – Refused Medical Attention 7"EP (Making of Americans, 1991: "Refusal"/"Replicant"/"Rent Rant"),
Ykt Flot! 7” (c.1993: "Iko Iceland"/"Jolalag")
- queercore.
One very early & one very very obscure (non-existent?!) single from the best singles band ever. Update: Looking through an old Fire Inc. catalogue, I think Ykt Flot! must have been on that label, cat. no. f-4, 500 copies
Buddy Max - Rainbow & Pot Of Gold (Pic. Disc, 2002), Many Styles & Sounds (1980), America's Singing Hillbilly Flea Market Cowboy (1991), The Story of Freda & Bud (1985) and The Great Nashville Star Is a Flea Market Cowboy (1984) LPs & Poor White Trash (1980), Challenger (1986), Christmas Song (1989) & Easter Day (1986) 7"s on Cowboy Junction,
Together - Our Masterpiece and Little Circle B LPs,
The Life To Fame & Fortune LP/CD (1992),
Gold Record Award Winning and Orange Blossom Special (1990) CDs,
Tribute to Challengers Crew of Seven & Apollo Moon Capsule's Crew of 3 and Cowboy Junction Stars tapes - country.
C'mon, someone just upload the stuff from America's woefully obscure "Flea Market Cowboy" to the web...I STILL only have a coupla MP3s plus one great CD that came via Theme Park Records in the mid-nineties. UPDATE: I have sadly finally sussed out that Buddy is no longer with us: http://www.chronicleonline.com/content/settlement-spells-end-cowboy-junction-opry-house
Po! - Live In Leicester (RUTT11, 1992) & Fragile Debris (Outtakes) (RUTT22) tapes (Rutland)
- twee.
Most of their obscure output is gradually getting listed on here, but these ones must be pretty rare...originally listed I think on their own website before it packed up...
Oh Rossall or Ah Rossall double LP. Local obscurity from one of the private schools.
Sounds From Silence LP/CD on Bella Roma (contains “Hurrian Hymn (the Song from Ugarit)” from c.1400 BC)
Stormed - Hummingbird tape (1989), New Revolution (tape?) - indie ska.
An old favourite band from Cambridge...onto the bits & bats now I've got one single & a dub of the other.
And A Coupla Books/Mags I’m Also After…
Martin Barker - Action-The Story of A Violent Comic (Titan, 1990, hbk)
Gus Elen - Down the Dials - written by Harry Wincott (R. Maynard 1893, music hall sheet music)
June Alison Gibbons – Pepsi-Cola Addict (New Horizon, 1982). Vanity publication by one of the notorious Silent Twins. I believe you can actually get it on inter-library loan (!), but I'd love one for myself....a lifetime of fruitless charity shop browsing still lies ahead...
Albert Goldman – Disco (Hawthorn, 1978)
Shut Up, Little Man! comic
I have a reggae/Caribbean/dubstep/etc show on http://cowbellradio.co.uk/ 8-10pm BST on Wednesdays. If anyone wants to send me stuff to play, message me :-)
For articles on one or two curious records either from my collection or ones I'm after, etc, see http://landlordrecords.tumblr.com/
cheers & hope to meet you here sometime soon :-)
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Well-known reggae classic. It's worth mentioning that the King Tubby dub is breathtaking as well.
Key slack ragga record: "I spy - What do you spy? PUSSY with the tight needle eye".
Speaker-testing conscious ragga highlight from the journeyman. The version throws in a nice female vocal halfway through. Great record.