"A historical property has morals and ethics of the society that created it and can be revived. What I mean is that we can discover new possibilities from the process of dismantling, transforming, and recreating."
-Ai Weiwei

"Thus, because jazz finds its very life in an endless improvisation upon traditional materials, the jazzman must lose his identity even as he finds it..."
-Ralph Ellison

“Midway along the journey of our life / I woke to find myself in a dark wood, / for I had wandered off from the straight path."
-Dante

"Sampling is a new way of doing something that’s been with us for a long time […] The mix breaks free from the old associations. New contexts form from old. The script gets flipped. The languages evolve and learn to speak in new forms, new thoughts. The sound of thought becomes legible again at the edge of the new meanings."
-DJ Spooky

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Closer shot of the vinyl for the reissue of #troutmaskreplica. #vinyloftheday #vinyllove #art #captainbeefheart

"I thought it was the worst thing I’d ever heard. I said to myself, they’re not even trying! It was just a sloppy cacophony. Then I listened to it a couple more times, because I couldn’t believe Frank Zappa could do this to me — and because a double album cost a lot of money. About the third time, I realised they were doing it on purpose; they meant it to sound exactly this way. About the sixth or seventh time, it clicked in, and I thought it was the greatest album I’d ever heard." — Matt Groening Phoenix (aka DJ Trout Mask) is embracing his inner strange. Third Man Records did an excellent job reissuing Trout Mask Replica. It took me a little while to dig this record, but I can see why it’s such a massive influence on Tom Waits and David Lynch. The included replica trout mask looks pretty good! #djphoenixplaysarecord #troutmaskreplica #captainbeefheart #captainbeefheartandhismagicband #thirdmanrecords

Playing Mondo’s vinyl pressing for the 25th anniversary of the iconic film score for Jurassic Park while hanging with my little Dinos. #djphoenixplaysarecord #johnwilliams #jurassicpark #mondotees #1993 #stevenspielberg @mondonews

Picked up a number of records this week while in Ottawa, but I was particularly stoked to find a copy of #Today! by #MississippiJohnHurt. There is the raw power of blues in Hurt’s music, but his music resists easy compartmentalization, as there is a complex gentleness to his songs here. The guitar work is also phenomenal. Highly recommended. #vinyl

I enjoyed checking out record shops in Ottawa, and particularly liked The Record Centre. @therecordcentre #vinyl #records

Run D.M.C.: true pioneers of #hiphop. #vinyloftheday #rundmc #kingofrock #itslikethat #downwiththeking

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Ph.D. Professor. Writer. Musician. A space for riffings on film, literature, and music.