Apparently, I buy too many records

My wife Helen, like every other woman i've ever lived with, believes that I buy too many records.

Which, as every record-buying man knows, is a ridiculous belief.

I will concede, however, that I do indeed buy a lot of records and that I don't afford them the same amount of listens and attention that I did 20 or 30 years ago.

To this end, I have decided to blog about the records that I buy, in order to help my appreciation of them - and perhaps to show Helen that I don't buy that many records after all.

Because i'm crap with deadlines the blog posts will be sporadic and probably be about a month or 2 behind but that's just the way i am! The posts will not necessarily be actual reviews (most likely comments, at best) and will generally be pretty damn short due to the reasons outlined above. As a writer in a previous existence i have decided not to worry about writing as art in the pieces but, instead, to attempt to convey feeling over semantic (and often grammatic) perfection.

And 'OCRB'? It stands for 'Obsessive Compulsive Record Buying' - a little known mental health affliction that is potentially damaging to the bank account but ultimately life-affirming. It is sad.......but a nice form of sad.

Friday 11 February 2011

Harald Grosskopf: Synthesist (RVNG Intl)

Now Harald Grosskopf sounds like another pseudonym but, i promise you, this one really exists. Ex Krautrock drummer with the brilliant Ash Ra Temple & Cosmic Jokers, this album originally came out in 1980 and is as close to what Steve Moore has been trying to conjure up as humanly possible - not that there's a single human to be heard on this one, save the sound of buttons being pushed. Very European sounding and has as much in common with early Kraftwerk as it does with the obvious Vangelis/Giorgio Moroder/Conny Plank associations. It also shows remarkable foresight into future techno as tracks like '1847-Earth' have an amazing coming up vibe amongst the spiral repetitions and would not have sounded out of place amongst some of the choicest Acid House tunes. Yep, you could dance to a lot of the stuff on here, which is not something i could say for a lot of my purchases. I'd have a go at gyrating to it if only my hip wasn't playing up.... Oh, and there's also a free CD with it, containing 'reinterpretations' by Oneohtrix Point Never and lots of people I've never heard of. But i haven't listened to it yet and it probably aint as good as the original album, so i can't comment at present.
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