Uniques_Records

I have been a music lover since the tender age of six where I distinctly remember being a huge Beatles fan and listening to them quite often. I grew up in a music loving household.My Father loved all types of music and my Mother worked as an accountant at The Fillmore.

I starting collecting music in my early preteen and teenage years. While I don't really remember my fist music purchase, most of my collection consisted of New Wave, Metal, Punk and Hip Hop. Though I enjoy many genres.

During those years I was friends with many music lovers and musicians. Which expanded even more once I moved to Richmond. I knew many people in the local music scene. Close friends were in well known bands at the time, such as Bad Guy Reaction, Ultracindy and Action Patrol. I was a roadie/tour support for The Jolly Mortals during their Southern Tour in '93. I also drove/roadie for Bad Guy Reaction on their Northern Tour and for Ultracindy for their Northern/midwest tour in the mid 90's.

I put out a couple of demo tapes for Sister Sound & The Venusians during a failed attempt at starting a label. I took the cover photo for Drunk's first album.

Around 2000 I went to a local workshop on how to set up your own radio station by a traveling group whose names escape me. I did meet local individuals who were doing their own pirate radio station. I joined up and did a somewhat regular weekly show. A friend of their's named, Christopher Maxwell, was leading the way to actually start a legal station under the LPFM designation. This turned into WRIR 97.3FM, which first aired on January 1st, 2005. At the time, and for a few years, we were the largest LPFM radio station in the country. I held various titles as needed during the first few years. From fundraiser to a member of the Board of Directors.

I started out with the radio station doing a somewhat freeform noise/experimental show. Since we had another show with similar focus at the time I decided to move into the electronica genre. Especially since I was the Music Director for that genre at the time. When I was asked to take over as Hip Hop music director I began to incorporate more Hip Hop into my show. Eventually settling on a Hip Hop focus of artists and music which you rarely heard on the airwaves. After almost 10 years of focusing on radio I retired my show.

What follows is the obligatory keeping track of all the information:
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⌂ - Capitol Records Pressing Plant, Scranton ("lathe or anvil symbol)

Greg Calbi > STERLING GC or STERLING ⚾ or Ⓗ or ☆STERLING

Vinyl:
-Decca Records Pressing Plany, Gloversville: ✤ (45's) ◉ (LP's) at the end of the B side label matrix and a stick "1" stamped/etched into the runout.
-Abbey Record Manufacturing Co.: Vinyl pressed by this plant can usually be identified by a 2.75" pressing ring
and the letters "AB" or (A) etched in runouts, often accompanied by a date. ⧈-G-⧈
R- RCA Rockaway pressing
RR-Richmond Record Pressing
Block shaped "S"- MGM Record Manufacturing

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⁀⁀ ⁀⁀ ⁀⁀ - Brian Gardner (Mastering or Lacquer Cut)
DK-Dennis King (Mastering and Lacquer-Cutting Engineer)


PXT = mastered at Pitman, pressed at Terre Haute
SXT = mastered at Santa Maria, pressed at Terre Haute
PXS = mastered at Pitman, pressed at Santa Maria

CD:
"CI", IFPI 2U**- Cinram, Olyphant, PA
'CI/CA', IFPI 2V**- Cinram, Commerce, CA
IFPI 2V**, 'wea mfg. Commerce', 'wea mfg. CA' or 'wea CA'- WEA Mfg. Commerce

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