Crispycat Recordings: Eclectic is my middle name...

Wednesday, July 11, 2012

Eclectic is my middle name...

Playlist
Cloudland Blue Quartet - Patience
Cloudland Blue Quartet - Luxury
Cut/Copy - Zonoscope
Holly Miranda - The Magician's Prrivate Library
Robyn - Body Talk Pt 1
Robyn - Body Talk Pt 2

A dull, wet day...

No further work again but, again, listening to ensure the music side of things is actually finalised...

With the music ok, on to the packaging fine tuning re booklet content for the extras...

So far the mock up's looking like this...

To HMV at lunchtime...

Partook of four items in the "swapshop" 2nd hand section at two quid each - Aussies Cut/Copy (80's style electropop - the last track, the 15 minute "Sun God" is worth the £2 on its own), kooky girl Holly Miranda (very much recommended interesting music) and two from Scandinavian dance diva, Robyn...

Eclectic is my middle name (or "cheapskate" perhaps?)...

The young man at the counter tried to encourage me to bring in some of my CDs or DVDs, for which he promised HMV would give me a gift card and add 50p for each item they accept...

With that buy/sell model, maybe there's hope for HMV yet...

Puts the value of my collection into perspective though...

50p a disc - and not even hard cash, just a credit to buy more CDs..

And if I do, for, say, £10, it's actually only worth 50p and not even hard cash etc etc...

So, basically, I pay £9.50 to "hire" a CD from them...

Oof...

In the evening, tasty pizzas baked on an inherited pizza stone, followed by Tivo'd "Line of Duty" (excellent) and "Twenty Twelve" (also excellent)...

Then updating yesterday's entry to add a few pics and remind myself of the forgotten about this morning tooth-fix...

Memory not what it once was...

Also found my excel spreadsheet of CDs I own is now over 100 discs behind the times...

My list making is never ending...

Highlight of the Day : New music, good tivo'd telly, tasty pizza...

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Crispycat Latest Release

Between 1980 and 1995, Sombre Reptiles released 35 LPs. At present, all of these albums are deleted. "Songs of the Sombre Reptiles 1980-1995" is an 81 Track Virtual 6CD/10LP Box Set covering this pre-Cloudland Blue Quartet period. The versions of the songs included in the Box Set are taken from eight sources, recorded between 1993 and 1996: The three long deleted volumes of "Songs of the Sombre Reptiles", originally released on cassette in 1993 and 1994 via Edinburgh Record Shop, Reptile Records - all but 3 of the 57 tracks from these three records are included; Further album tracks from the final four Sombre Reptiles records, "Galleryshard (1993), "Kernelcrux" (1994), "Bitter Sweet Covers" (1995) and "Starcrossfix" (1995); Previously unreleased re-recordings from 1996, just before Sombre Reptiles became Cloudland Blue Quartet.

Cloudland Blue Eclectic Selection

In a one-man crusade to encourage the world to broaden its musical horizons, David has been broadcasting a weekly Eclectic Selection of music from across his vast record collection since 2014. On the programme each week, you'll hear 25 Tracks, kicking off with David's LP of the Week, followed by his six other LPs of the day, three or so CBQ, or CBQ related, tracks, a single of the week (if there is one), a couple more singles (if there are any) and a further eclectic mix of other things new into the collection... It's eclectic!