The brutal realisation that I wouldn’t play most of my record collection again before I die prompted me to start doing All My Records. As the name suggests this is is me playing all my records by order that they’ve ended up in my shelves: left to right, top to bottom, how they’re currently sitting. Single deck show, one off and one on, ladened with unnecessary reminiscing about when and why I bought them and talking crap. It’s remarkably therapeutic, I recommend you try it.
Listening to Kamikaze’s latest offering got me off my ass on this. This show was recorded around December last year and has sat one the Zoom recorder since. Originally it was shelved as Avid has killed the Pro Tools community by not offering support for Catalina. At that stage I assumed a month wait would be sufficient, but many months on and I’ve given up on any hope of even being able to boot it up again. After nearly two decades I’ve decided to sever that relationship and am becoming friendly with Audacity.
We went from bushfires, to floods, to Covid, to me personally getting laid off and luckily starting a new job, to the Black Lives Matter movement. To be blunt, there’s been some more important pieces that have demanded our attention. So much has changed since this was originally recorded. But that shouldn’t stop us, so here we are with the next instalment of All My Records.
Slowly but surely the records are moving away from house and techno in to more experimental pieces, and a lot of what we’re playing this show would straddle both. Lee Gamble, Burial, Mark Fell, Karen Gwyer and Beatrice Dillon among those featured and once again, bizarrely I feel, we end on an Actress record. I fell in love once more with the Harmonious Thelonious record that we drop and have been playing his tracks frequently since.
Can’t guarantee when we’ll be back but keen to make it sooner rather than later. A heap more good records to get through.
