Editors Note | March 2023

Hello dear record collectors and Dust & Grooves fans. It has been quite some time since we last spoke, well over 2,707 days in fact!

Welcome to the first stages of the book – Dust & Grooves Volume Two. 

This is a recording! Now hear this y’all, we are just starting to lay the new foundation down.

My name is Noah Zark and I’ll be the cruise director throughout this trans-continental, genre-bending trip!

After the publication of Dust & Grooves: Adventures in Record Collecting, we needed to clean our hands from granules of muck from the filthy grooves of records, so we decided to spend the next 3 years getting grimy with the guts of stompboxes.

Since then, the vinyl world has continued to grow at such a steady pace that we had to respond to the beckoning from the legion of dust mites.

Now after filling your mind with that pleasant image, we’re aiming at the summer of 2024 as a proposed published date, which just so happens to be the 10th anniversary of the first book that so many of you were lovingly involved with!

Our team has been branching out into related but new territories with old friends like Anton Spice, founding editor of The Vinyl Factory, who has joined us as Editor-at-Large, and journalist/author Jessica Lipsky both of them developing stories and ironing out details. 

We recently took a trip to the UK that resulted in a lot of wonderful content you will see in the coming months. With Colleen ‘Cosmo’ Murphy, we filmed a piece about David Mancuso’s heritage, Strictly Kev (aka Kevin Foakes) guided us through the delightful cover art from the Command label, with designs by Joseph Albers. Jonny Trunk led an expedition to the wickedness of erotica records. Other notable champions of circular sound discs that we mingled with were the fantastic Andy Votel of Finders Keepers, DJ Mr.Thing, and The Orb’s Alex Paterson. 

Alongside some of these collectors that have helped write sound folklore, we were rewarded with encounters from the next-in-line group of representatives. Musician, broadcaster and writer; Nabihah Iqbal, My Analog Journal founder Zag Erlat and Bristol selector from Noods Radio Millie McKee all flexed their might in audio research.

Eilon also found himself on a 10-day trip to Suriname and Guyana following the Discodelic crew (Ruffy and Miles) as they were seeking out records in one of the last frontiers of vinyl digging in the wild.

Mr. Paz excitedly explained that “…going door to door, making appointments, working really hard was all a great experience for me to go out again, outside of confined spaces, meeting people and getting to learn about faraway places and cultures, I can not wait to share these stories and images.”

This and much more will all be gracing the pages of our new and improved website that’s on its way! It will be the home base for news, stories, interviews, and especially outstanding photographs, all waiting for your visits. 

Do you have a record collector tip? Know of someone that should be featured in volume 2? Be sure to call our hotline (or just email us) as operators are standing by, or just drop in and say hello, wake the town and tell the people ‘Bout the goodies coming your way!

We say our goodbyes to fellow music friends; Trugoy The Dove, Alain Goraguer, Barrett Strong, Tom Verlaine, Gordy Harmon of The Whispers, Alan Rankine, & Gangsta Boo.

-Noah Zark