Digging for VinylNew Order - Bizarre Love Triangle - 45 RPM

    Do you ever feel the music before you have even heard it? have you ever picked up a record, looked at it and sensed the melody? That happens to me on a regular basis, this week it was a record by Gil Scott-Heron and Brian Jackson called From South Africa to South Carolina, without hearing a single note I just knew that it would be dripping in soul & funk wrapped round Gil Scott-Heron's deep voice…I've been thinking about this record all week, I'll be adding it to my collection tomorrow. As I was digging through some juicy new vinyl Mike had just brought into Alleycats I was again taken aback at the quality of Soul, Funk and Jazz that I was standing before, there's Nina, Sly, Miles he has it all right now…if you are into it then check out Alleycats Music & Art in Orillia ASAP. It's not all used vinyl and CDs, they also carry a good selection of new vinyl, and this week I came across the latest album from Ron Sexsmith his thirteenth studio album called Forever Endeavour.

     So my find of the week was a total fluke, I found a box of 45's (I'm still not comfortable with calling them a 7", it's an age thing) and as I am flipping through them I find a few little treasures nothing super amazing but then my eyes target in on a FAC #, and if you know anything about music from across the pond you will know I'm talking about NewOrder and the 45 I found was "Bizarre Love Triangle". I just had to have it, it was 1986 and my experimentation with new music continued and NewOrder along with Echo and The Bunnymen and a list of other influential English groups were on my turntable at any given time of the day so bringing this 45 home and spinning it was again a trip back to a time where everything was new…it's always a good feeling.

See you next Wednesday in the Vinyl Bins

Joe Cornelisse-SMM

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Coachella 2013 Lineup Announced

    The lineup for this year's Coachella Music and Arts Festival has been announced, some of the bands playing over the two weekends are: The Stone Roses, Blur, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Wu-Tang Clan, New Order, Japandroids, Spiritualized, Dinosaur Jr, Grimes plus many many more. I'm afraid that the rumors about offers from the organizers to make the festival all-vegetarian to entice the Smiths to reunite was just a rumor, the closet you will get is seeing Johnny Marr live.

   The festival takes place over two weekends, April 12th-14th and 19th-21st, at Empire Polo Grounds in Indio, California.

You can purchase your passes here.

Joe Cornelisse-SMM

What's On My Turntable? New Order's "Low-Life"

         So What’s On My Turntable Today? Today it’s Low-Life by New Order. You have probably started to see a trend growing, quite a lot of the vinyl that I play is from the older part of my collection, it’s music from when I was a teenager…I have no clue why, it’s just what I tend to navigate towards….and really it’s not a bad thing.

         Low-Life was released in 1985 and among the New Order community it is considered to be their strongest record. Out of the 8 songs on the record there is not one weak track, they all have their strengths in different areas. In listening to Low-Life you can really hear that attention to detail that they prided themselves on, you don’t hear records like this anymore.

       With the release of Low-Life we found the members of New Order finally moving out from the shadow of Joy Division and finding their own identity.

        Most people would pick “The Perfect Kiss” as their favorite track on Low-Life, but I would have to go with “Sub-culture” …it’s just got that dance element to it without going beyond the range…and Peter’s Bass , well you just can’t even touch that.






Joe Cornelisse-SSGS