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