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Music Collage

Interview

Morgan Jesse Lappin

December 19, 2020

All Styles All Smiles of Javybz

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Anya Karmanova & Julia Rodionova

August 23, 2020

A Universal Love Injection

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Barbie Bertisch & Paul Raffaele

January 12, 2019

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SPINNA

December 12, 2018

Musical Youth’s Roots Run Deep

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Jonny Go Figure

August 24, 2018

One Man Under a Groove

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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

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Geoffrey Weiss

May 30, 2017

The Gospel of Greg

Interview

Greg Belson

April 8, 2017

Cover Art as Performance Art

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LOGAN MELISSA

March 11, 2017

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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

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COLLEEN MURPHY

January 2, 2015

The Herbaliser / Sounsci

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OLLIE TEEBA

December 05, 2014

Culture's Keeper

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MICKEY MCGOWAN

August 23, 2014

Tails of a Trailblazer

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GILLES PETERSON

May 20, 2014

“I’m not a universal truth kind of guy. To each their own. But if you are interested in the ever-rarer experience of analog sound and music that you can hold in your hand, cool. Enjoy. I know I do. If not, give me your records.”

Ben “DJ Scribe” Goldfarb

THE DUST & GROOVES BOOK

ADVENTURES IN RECORD COLLECTING

Eilon Paz’s 436-page coffee-table book illuminates over 130 vinyl collectors and their collections in the most intimate of environments—their record rooms. With a foreword by the RZA, compelling photographic essays are paired with in-depth interviews to illustrate what motivates record collectors to keep digging for more records.

Readers get an up close and personal look at a variety of well-known vinyl champions as well as a glimpse into the collections of known and unknown DJs, producers, record dealers, and everyday enthusiasts. The book is divided into two main parts: the first features 250 full-page photos framed by captions and select quotes, while the second consists of 12 full-length interviews that delve deeper into collectors’ personal histories and vinyl troves.

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INTERVIEWS ARCHIVE

Morgan Jesse Lappin

19 Dec 2020

It somehow seemed perfectly normal that Sol, the ghost of an elderly Jewish New Yorker trapped inside a muppet, would join our interview with Morgan Jesse Lappin. Morgan is a multi-hyphenate collage artist, musician and occasional puppeteer, based in the Bushwick neighborhood of Brooklyn, who brims over with the same gleeful energy as a Jim Henson Studios creation. He has a magpie’s drive towards serendipitous collecting: rescuing records, books, comics and paper ephemera, often plucked right off the streets.

Anya Karmanova & Julia Rodionova

23 Aug 2020

Try and imagine how many records there are in this world. Think of all the places they exist. Record Shops, swap meets, thrift stores, yard sales. Listening rooms, living rooms. Boxes gathering dust in attics and water damage in basements, buried in the backs of closets and storage units. LPs in tote bags and 45s in hard cases, mailers traveling by air. Decades of pressed wax, resting and turning over, recorded, released and collected everywhere. Most of us will only ever see a small sliver of it all, hardly more than what our little corner of the world contains. We frequent our record shops and thrift stores, we know who’s who of the local collectors, and we stay up on what we know to look for online. Maybe we even get to travel now and then and hit up shops in other cities, or drive through other small towns. But in terms of what’s really out there, the sheer volume of what the world holds, we are left imagining.

Barbie Bertisch & Paul Raffaele

10 Jan 2019

Barbie and Paul are highly ambitious and successful people but extremely humble to the point of self-deprecating, despite being the preeminent documentarians and torch-bearers of the scene. Their current projects include producing the well-curated and beautifully designed (by Paul) zine on a roughly monthly basis for the past four years; hosting monthly sessions of the NYC arm of Classic Album Sundays, an international series of hi-fi vinyl listening events; holding down a weekly radio show at The Lot every Saturday morning from 10-12 (Friday night gig or no)...