Tuesday
Oct062009
The Vinyl Shuffle
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A fearless selection of songs for one nation under a groove. That tagline graces the header of one of our favorite new blogs and fun game to play when people stop by our apartment. The blog and the game are known as The Vinyl Shuffle and it was brought to my attention on Twitter by Stephen Tisdale, its creator. Here's a bit about it:
This blog is a tribute to the years that I lived in a loft in downtown LA. I spent all my time alone, on the turntables, and was kept company by my record collection.
Living there was a bit like a musical Seinfeld. I was always home, and people would drop by (sometimes through the door, sometimes through the fire escape). My records were always unorganized, but I seemed to know where to find them. Others didn’t, though, but that didn’t stop them from finding something to throw on the turntables — out of that, grew a little game we dubbed “vinyl shuffle”. The rules were simple. Two or more could play.
- Step One: The FIRST DJ up would start by closing his/her eyes, and picking a record from the shelf and hand it to the SECOND DJ.
- Step Two: The SECOND DJ would then put that record down on one of the two turntables (whichever was available) and begin playing any song from that album of his/her choosing.
- Step Three: As soon as the song began playing, that DJ would go back to the shelf, and blindly pick another record and hand it to the FIRST DJ.
- Step Four: The FIRST DJ would take the record, and then place that on the other available turntable, pick a track and mix in that next song in whatever way they wanted. No rules. As soon as the new track began playing, he/she would go over to the record shelf and…
Back to step one!
On the blog, random mixes of music from Stephen's record collection are compiled and can be streamed and downloaded. His latest random mix from October 4th goes from Tom Waits to David Alexrod to Lou Rawls to Freddie Hubbard. We love it.
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