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.

Monday 7 March 2011

Various: Kero One Presents PlugLabel (PlugLabel double LP)

I can't resist a bargain hip-hop album and this baby was £2.99 and features such unknowns (to me, anyways) as Kero One, Aloe Blacc, Yosaku and Green Tea in a nice melange of laidback grooves and nary a gun toting bitch slapping muthafucka to be found. I mean i love all that bad boy niggatriggabigga shit as much as the next vicarious pinkie but love to hang back and enjoy some smokey grooves like these 16 chilled wonders. Admittedly, the quality control is a bit upsy-downsy but the tracks featuring Kero One (and that's 9 tracks here - either solo or collaborations) are of the highest smokiest jazziest quality that a lower middle class wine drinking whiteboy could ever desire.
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