Wednesday, 1 April 2009

Beat Mining with The Vinyl Hoover

is the name of the radio documentary I made with Producer Tamsin Hughes,

"Brilliant piece done by the BBC on digging for records….MUST LISTEN FOR ANYBODY WHO APPRECIATES BEAT DIGGING CULTURE"

it's available to download here:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00h3x73/Archive_on_4_Beat_Mining_with_the_Vinyl_Hoover/

Mp3 available here:

http://ooft.blogspot.com/2009/04/beat-mining.html

Some online props:

anyone with an interest in hiphop, sampling, and crate digging in general should listen to this show on r4.

I caught the tail-end of this brilliant documentary on radio 4 yesterday. Not sure if it's been on before but here it is on iplayer. Some great stories about vinyl archives rescuing collections from obsessive collectors, one guy had so much vinyl he could only reach his bed through a tunnel (in the vinyl) and had buried his turntable under his collection years earlier, so couldn't even play it anymore, they said they also found some rare pieces (an early signed Rolling Stones single) in a spot where his dog had been peeing for the last ten years

3 comments:

Unknown said...

loved the docco mr, had to stop my working day to grab the joy of the whole hour, great work.

Who was that harold fella in east sussex? is his barn open to the public?

Toby said...

Thank you for the props your lordship, I hope the disappearances have stopped on Summerisle.

The gentleman's name is Harold Moores, it's a private residence but the shop that bears his name is still open for business in Soho.

Cheers,

T

Unknown said...

ahhh found it online ta mr.

Thanks for inquiring about the "issues" on the island, funnily enough the change in climate has affected the crops and has sparked a new missing child, i would invite you to come and investigate but your virtue is under investigation....