Dust & Grooves in Esquire Magazine

The magazine of men features the men of records! Nate Hopper from Esquire Magazine shares some eclectic photos and stories from Eilon Paz’s debut photography book, Dust & Grooves.

Below is a preview from the article, and you can see the full excerpt here:

Joe Bussard, sitting in his basement in Frederick, Maryland, with some of the rarest 78s in the world, all uniformly discolored after six decades of searching and sorting

Afrika Bambaataa’s collection of 43,000-plus records, alphabetized for Cornell University Library’s Hip Hop Collection, New York City

A dubplate of Hydraulic Funk’s “Wild Style,” from Bambaataa’s collection