Dust & Grooves - Adventures in Record Collecting

Musical Youth’s Roots Run Deep

Interview

Jonny Go Figure

August 24, 2018

One Man Under a Groove

Interview

Binky Griptite

March 15, 2018

Digging Is His Sanctuary

Interview

Lexis

December 23, 2017

Barcelona's Boogaloo: Mixes and Mashups

Interview

Carlos Vera

November 10, 2017

A Weiss Touch: Words and Wax from the World's Best Record Collector

Interview

Geoffrey Weiss

May 30, 2017

The Gospel of Greg

Interview

Greg Belson

April 8, 2017

Cover Art as Performance Art

Interview

LOGAN MELISSA

March 11, 2017

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Back to the Roots

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AHMIR QUESTLOVE THOMPSON

November 08, 2014

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SAM SWIG & ERIC BOSIC

September 28, 2016

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DOM SERVINI

September 09, 2016

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STEPHEN MARSHALL

September 14, 2015

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The Man Who Sold His Soul (and Funk and r&b Records)

KEB DARGE

April 16, 2015

Classic Album Sundays

Interview

COLLEEN MURPHY

January 2, 2015

The Herbaliser / Sounsci

Interview

OLLIE TEEBA

December 05, 2014

Culture's Keeper

Interview

MICKEY MCGOWAN

August 23, 2014

Tails of a Trailblazer

Interview

GILLES PETERSON

May 20, 2014

“I kept the best records in the bathroom ’cause it was like, ‘Where do I keep the gems at? Oh yeah, I’ll keep ’em in the bathroom!’ … There’s also a turntable in there.”

Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson

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ADVENTURES IN RECORD COLLECTING

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INTERVIEWS ARCHIVE

Jonny Go Figure

24 Aug 2018

I'm sorry I didn’t pretty this up for you guys,” Jonny Go Figure says, walking into the center of his Flatbush, Brooklyn living room which is littered with records. “I know it looks like a clusterfuck in here, but this is just how it is. And I know where everything is.” Jonny closes his eyes and thinks of a record he hasn’t played in a while before digging into a stack and pulling out reggae breakbeat LP by Paul Nice and DJ Wisdom called Beef Patty Breaks. He explains the history of the album cover, which features an iconic image of model Sintra Arunte-Bronte in a wet, red Jamaica t-shirt.

Binky Griptite

15 Mar 2018

For more than a decade, Binky Griptite was the voice of the Dap-Kings, the hard-hitting funk and soul eight piece behind the incomparable Sharon Jones. As the band’s guitarist and emcee, Binky would introduce the group as it warmed up, then in the style of James Brown cape man Danny Ray, announce the arrival of “100 pounds of soul dynamite” as Jones danced her way to center stage.

Lexis

23 Dec 2017

Montreal-based collector Alexis Charpentier is nothing if not eclectic. He’s equally comfortable digging for fusion jazz records in Serbia as he is vibing to Quebec hip-hop. With a voracious appetite for musical knowledge, DJ Lexis’ collection spans genre and medium to create the best collection in the world—for him, anyway.