Tony L

@pinkfishmedia.net

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Music, audio & vintage computer geek/tofu-eating wokerati. I run pinkfishmedia.net

Joy Division Closer, original UK Factory vinyl from back in the day. It is obviously usually in a protective outer and audiophile archival inner, hence still looking nice and white, I just removed all that for the pic!
Signed red vinyl of Cardinals Masquerade, clear of Kelela’s New Avatar. The usual boring picture of a record playing, I just post the same thing over and over really! Not great at driving engagement!
Jah Massagan Mass Studio Dubs cassette playing on an old early-80s Nakamichi LX-3. Tape is new, just released on Death Is Not The End and available from Boom Kat.
Bluesky license! Get yours at: https://kojira.github.io/bluesky-license/
Boards Of Canada - Inferno. Red vinyl “limited” edition (I get the impression they have pressed loads across multiple plants) with tri-fold sleeve, booklet and surprise hexagonal flexi-disk. Cut is very good, it sounds superb, though looks to have been pressed at GZ with all the QC issues that implies. Minor edge-warp on LP1, and a rather alarming one inch scuff on LP2 that thankfully doesn’t sound at all (it is a very quiet pressing). As such I’ll keep it, but it always annoys me paying full price for vinyl with issues that obviously impact collector value (I’m a record dealer amongst other things). Enjoying it musically. Very much a follow-on from Campfire Headphase and Tomorrows Harvest.
Three Sonny Rollins albums; East Broadway Rundown, Way Out West, The Bridge. An amazing life and legacy. RIP Sonny.
Jeff Parker ETA IVTet - Happy Today, blue vinyl edition from Bandcamp, which comes with a high-res download too. Playing, as ever, on a 1960s TD-124/2. My feed is full of essentially the same picture, just with different records!
Kneecap Fenian Bandcamp splatter vinyl edition with fanzine. Squarepusher Kammer Konzert, 2xLP. Both highly recommended in their own way. Both great cuts, these are very good sounding records.
Deary Birding clear vinyl (playing), inner, and signed postcard. The odd crackle and pop after a wet clean, but not bad. Quite a nice cut, it does sound good.
Steely Dan Aja vinyl, a Japanese 1st pressing.
The rather wonderful Corvid One ‘Two’ cassette playing on an early-80s Nakamichi LX-3 that took me over a year and some swearing to breathe life back into: https://pinkfishmedia.net/forum/threads/nakamichi-lx-3.297760/
Art School Girlfriend album playing on the TD-124. Signed insert and inner.
A rather tarnished and corroded original 1979 issue of PIL’s Metal Box.
Henry Cow albums; self-titled debut & Unrest, UK Virgin original pressings. Same boring hi-fi shot as every other post I make!
Dinked Edition of Mandy Indiana’s Urgh with signed insert and coloured glasses (not 3d as both “lenses” same colour). A rather noisy pressing with persistent noise hard-right, which suggests GZ vinyl got the pressing temperature wrong. Again. That said it is such a noisy industrial racket it doesn’t get in the way, but given the price of vinyl these days a bit more QC would be welcome!
Whitelands Sunlight Echoes, signed, green vinyl, with insert and card pack. Yay! Shoegaze!
Craven Faults - Sidings 2xLP, gatefold sleeve, obi, substantial photobook & card on orange vinyl.
Some Sly & Robbie albums; King Tubby’s Dancehall Dub, Grace Jones Warm Leatherette, Nightclubbing, and Living My Life. All vinyl.
Heaven 17 - [We Don’t Need This] Fascist Groove Thang posted on a day masked Trump Gestapo thugs murder another US citizen in broad daylight. I try not to get too political here on Bluesky but fuck Trump and the pack of Klan Nazis he rode in on. They all need to meet their Nuremberg. Every last one. My thoughts are with everyone in communities across America standing-up against this state terrorism. You are the best of us.
PVA No More Like This ‘Obsidian Edition’ from their website, which is kind of a translucent shit brown in reality. Has a booklet and printed inner.
Passenger by Nightbus, limited edition with signed insert and sticker playing on the TD-124.
Dry Cleaning Secret Love, “apricot” vinyl, signed insert.
The blue on clear perspex badge of a Synthi AKS that was riveted to the briefcase plus one knob!
The New Eves The New Eve Is Rising on pink vinyl with signed front cover.
Black Sabbath debut album, UK Vertigo pressing.
Wet Leg Moisturiser, limited ‘deluxe edition’ preorder from the band’s store with signed insert etc.
Pop Rivets ‘Greatest Hits’ with hand sprayed cover, hand stamped label and two rather faded photocopied inserts.
Lego Keith Haring Dancing Figures (set of five) mounted above the sink in a dingy Lancashire bathroom.
Build process of the five Lego Keith Haring Dancing Figures set, two and a half of the five done.
The Utopia Strong album Collapse limited private pressing of 250 with screen-printed sleeve and autographed back cover.
Yeule album on rather odd looking black and white splatter vinyl, this is the ‘deluxe edition’ with different artwork, poster etc.
Stereolab’s latest album on clear vinyl, even though it looks kind if black in the picture!
Pink Floyd At Pompeii live 2xLP.
Pere Ubu: The Modern Dance, Dub Housing & New Picnic Time. David Thomas: More Places Forever, Monster Walks The Winter Lake & Blame The Messenger. A mix of UK and US original vinyl.
Talking Heads Live ‘78 RSD vinyl 2xLP.
Lou Reed Metal Machine Music (1975 US original).
A fairly substantial pile of Blondie vinyl; all but the final album from the original 70s-80s run plus six 12” singles from X Offender through to Atomic.
Joy Division Unknown Pleasures, Tubeway Army Replicas, OMD’s first, Talking Heads Fear Of Music, all within my 16th year and all enjoyed at the time.
Bowie Ziggy, T. Rex The Slider, Hawkwind In Search Of Space, Roxy Music 1st, all original ‘70s UK vinyl pressings.
Mandrake Handshake ‘Earth Sized Worlds’ and Knats self-titled, both Dinked Edition vinyl.
OMD’s first album, UK 1st press.
BDRM new album Microtonic, blue vinyl with booklet and signed insert. This one bought from recordstore.co.uk who are very good for signed editions. The card inner is pretty brutal, so take care getting the record out!
Yazz Ahmed ‘A Paradise In The Hold album showing artwork and signed booklet.
Kraftwerk Neon Lights luminous 12” vinyl.
Shure V15/III with Jico SAS-B stylus (plus SME 3009 S2 Improved arm, FD-200, Thorens TD-124/II turntable).
Man - Be Good To Yourself, original UA vinyl from 1972 showing fold-out map.
Rutherford Chang’s White Album taken from 100 worn and damaged copies layered. A very strange record, but quite wonderful in its own way. The more the layers shift in time and phase the stranger it gets!
T. Rex Futuristic Dragon LP (UK 1st pressing) plus concert program from 1976 tour.
Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly vinyl 2xLP.
Hawkwind albums: 1st, In Search Of Space (with book!), Doremi (no poster, but other than that the best copy I’ve ever seen!), Space Ritual, Hall, Warrior, Astounding and the Hawklords album.
Lou Reed Transformer, Tangerine Dream Zeit, T.Rex The Slider, Can Ege Bamyasi, Bowie Ziggy, Pharoah Sanders Black Unity, Roxy Music debut, Hawkwind Doremi.
Jetpac on a Spectrum+ and Sinclair Microvision
Hawkwind Silver Machine 12” single from around ‘76-77 IIRC. Bought while I was still at school!
A BBC Microcomputer and Sony Trinitron CRT TV. Also visible a 5 1/4” floppy drive and joystick. Boot screen and prompt visible on TV.
T. Rex - The Slider UK 1st press.
John Coltrane Om, ‘70s Japanese pressing.
Alice Coltrane - Journey Into Satchidananda, Acoustic Sounds/Impulse reissue, Thorens TD-124 turntable.
Jeff Parker - The Way Out Of Easy vinyl 2xLP, gatefold, a kind of translucent brown vinyl.
An appropriately rusty/tarnished 1st issue PIL Metal Box
Roy Haynes Out Of The Afternoon. This is a fairly recent Acoustic Sounds/Impulse reissue and highly recommended. An amazing record.