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[9 Feb 2009 | One Comment | 3,186 views]
The 100 Most Wanted UK Old Skool Hardcore / Breakbeat Records [Pt. 1]

Listed below are the 100 most wanted UK hardcore / breakbeat 12″ releases (1991 to 1993) on discogs.com. When I created this data set I thought it didn’t really convey rareity … which I thought it would. As you’ll see. even though something is wanted by a lot of people, it doesn’t make it rare as it may just be a popular tune (like Prodigys ‘Out Of Space’ at #58). So in the next few days I’ll put up a list of wanted tunes that are ‘rare’ based on more …

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[6 Feb 2009 | No Comment | 818 views]
The 100 Most Owned UK Old Skool Hardcore / Breakbeat Records

Listed below are the 100 most owned UK hardcore / breakbeat 12″ releases (1991 to 1993) on discogs.com. I created this list from the full data export and a smattering of php to query the site pages. For those who are interested on how I parsed all the data, I’ll write more about how I achieved it sometime soon. Loads more lists to come. Stay tuned!
This list was created on the 4th of Feb, 2009. As discogs collection & wantlist data is constantly changing you’ll already see some changes in …

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[18 Jul 2006 | No Comment | 336 views]
How Vinyl Records Are Made

I’ve got several thousand of them, but up until now, I didn’t have a clue how they were made. I saw some great photos on the JTS Studio site a while ago ..

and then whilst looking for something completely unrelated on youtube, I found this:
How Vinyl Records Are Made Part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUGRRUecBik
How Vinyl Records Are Made Part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IReDh9ec_rk

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[13 Jul 2006 | One Comment | 1,320 views]
Why You Won’t Find Old Skool In A Charity Shop

Some Background
Starting anything new is always a challenge, and this is no exception. I installed this blog weeks ago, fiddled with it, installed various templates and plug-ins, but failed to come up with a good starting point … how hard can it be … just offer some opinion about whatever is going on in the world and someone will pass on by, maybe read it and possibly leave a comment. Repeat, over and over, and you’ve gone and got yourself a bonafide ‘established’ blog that someone, somewhere … maybe, possibly … might …