Help required please. Lend me your ears....
If anybody has a spare 8 minutes I'd love to hear what you think the best sounding of these two are.
The first is a straight recording direct off the turnable with no tweaking at all.
https://revivalrecords.co.uk/music/PanamaMASTER.wav
The second has a 12.4KHz Low Pass filter applied.
https://revivalrecords.co.uk/music/PanamaNR.wav
Thanks!
Recording: The New Orleans Rhythm Kings - Panama Foxtrot 1934 Brunswick 78rpm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varnish
There are a number of types of varnish!
Shellac originated from shell-lac, an emulsion from a type of insect!
"Shellac is a very widely used single-component resin varnish that is alcohol-soluble. It is not used for outdoor surfaces or where it will come into repeated contact with water, such as around a sink or bathtub. The source of shellac resin is a brittle or flaky secretion of the female lac insect, Kerria lacca, found in the forests of Assam and Thailand and harvested from the bark of the trees where she deposits it to provide a sticky hold on the trunk."
Shellac is the primary binder in india inks. (This name being a misnomer, a silk road era sourcing nomenclature of a product which originated from china. Known in other places as 'chinese ink.')
Non toxic india inks are colloquially considered safe to use for tattooing! Is it true? How many tattoos contain bugs resin?
Can you eat shellac?
You can eat most things if you try!
...but generally, it is not great to eat varnishes.
#Music #Records #Shellac #78RPM #1940s #Columbia #ColumbiaRecords #Vintage #vinyl #record
A long shot I know, and the way my luck’s been running recently I’m definitely not building my hopes up!
I wondered if any fellow Mastodonians might possibly have a couple of 78rpm record sleeves like this stored away and they’re willing to part with them? It’s the sleeves I’m after really, not the records. If you have any, could you possibly let me know as I’m more than willing to buy them. Thank you!
ShellacHead – TAARAB: Songs of the Swahili Coast
#78rpm #World #reissue #shellac #worldmusic #Oakland
CC BY (#CreativeCommons Attribution) #ccmusic
https://shellachead.bandcamp.com/album/taarab-songs-of-the-swahili-coast
SHELLAC
1000 Hurts
2000 UK + U.S. Box pressing
Long live Steve Albini.
First time in a LONG time that I’ve spun this huge, nasty, pummeling classic from front to back.
Essential.
Vendredi / Shellac / To All Trains. #shellac #toalltrains #stevealbini #toddtrainer #bobweston #vinyl #transatrecord #confortmoderne #poitiers
Vegan warning: I just bought a big, expensive bag of Tierra Farm organic chocolate covered almonds and I neglected to check the ingredients. Tierra Farm coats their confections with shellac made from the secretions of the female lac beetle in a process that crushes the beetles. All just to make their food needlessly shiny. #vegan #confectionersglaze #lac #crystalac #shellac
Steve Albini Gets Chicago Street Named in His Honor
https://pitchfork.com/news/steve-albini-gets-chicago-street-named-in-his-honor
Shellac's final album, "To All Trains", is fantastic. This album was released 9 days after the sudden death of #SteveAlbini, the band's singer and guitarist.
https://shellac.bandcamp.com/album/to-all-trains #TuneTuesday #Shellac
The Wire, June 2024
#periodicals #music #TheWire #Shellac
#RIP #SteveAlbini! Zeven bloggers halen herinneringen op aan de man, aan de hand van zijn werk voor #BigBlack #Gore #Shellac #TheAuteurs #JonSpencerBluesExlosion #Low en #JoannaNewsom. Lees en luister gauw:
https://ondergewaardeerdeliedjes.nl/2024/05/10/in-memoriam-steve-albini/
“At times, this could make it difficult to write about Shellac, as Pothast discovered when she almost persuaded bassist Bob Weston to play her some of To All Trains down the Zoom call, ahead of its imminent release. In the end, Weston couldn't be persuaded. "It just sounds like another Shellac record, he offered. "It's the same three guys in the same studio."”
https://shellac.bandcamp.com/album/to-all-trains
The Wire - Shellac Feature
https://www.thewire.co.uk/issues/484
via
https://thequietus.com/articles/34131-steve-albini-obituary
Steve Albini. Fond memories of the many times #Shellac was in town. When there was time in the tour schedule, they would invite everyone back for pancakes on Sunday, and a morning show. It’s nice to see the letters, kranky takes, and tales of Bob Weston saving the day by salvaging a power supply to continue recording as scheduled. Guy was punk, and like many aging punks, needs more rest than they know. Fuck heart attacks. #SteveAlbini
Rest in power, Steve Albini, recording engineer of some of my favorite albums.
Steve Albini, #Nirvana producer & #AltRock royalty, dies at 61
#SteveAlbini, a #Chicago-based #rock #producer allied w/ Nirvana & against the #corporatized #MusicIndustry, has died of a heart attack, per Taylor Hales, the manager at Albini’s studio Electrical Audio Recording.
Albini got the best from many notable #AlternativeRock acts of the 1980s & ’90s, including the #Pixies & the #Breeders. He also played in the bands #Shellac & #BigBlack.
#music
https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/music/2024/05/08/steve-albini-death-nirvana/
Finished watching “Bodies” on Netflix. Liked it. Lots there for those who enjoy #scifi #timeTravel #philosophy #vinyl #shellac and character driven thrillers. Some depth on the topic of free will. Recommended.
