I’ve tried Pulsar already – it didn’t support these tags at all, and couldn’t handle some of my files at all. It’s essentially a new front-end for Google’s own built-in player, which has exactly the same problems […]

Late last year I acquired a Integra 256GB micoSD card for under £30 and stuck in my Android phone. I’ve now got over 600 lossless albums in my pocket, and some of those are very large classical sets.

Luckily […]

Oddly enough, she actually was a synth pioneer. The original 1939 recording of We’ll Meet Again featured accompaniment by Arthur Young on the Hammond Novachord. The Novachord was effectively a polyphonic synth, […]

9) The Section
10) James Jamerson, Carol Kaye, Leland Sklaar

This was their Duke Ellington set.

Buyer beware! It’s yet another out-of-copyright set, sold cheap as there’s no royalties to pay on the performances. Recordings could be sourced from anywhere.

I acquired another set from this label a few years […]

There’s hundreds (if not thousands) of versions of Summertime. Here’s two very different ones:

Gimme Shelter, a 1971 compilation put out by Decca comprising of previously released studio tracks and live recordings from the US album Got Live If You Want It.

Since the mid-1980s at least – could anyone decipher the lyrics to Passengers?

And didn’t the HJHs invent the ‘club style’ with the final section of You Know My Name (Look Up The Number)?

Bobby Bland did something like 300 shows per year for many years – which means a lot of performances of I Pity The Fool.

On installation Windows 10 doesn’t have all drivers installed, just enough to get the system to boot up. However if you leave it switched on and on-line it will eventually download and install any drivers it can […]

As I understand it, the shows that Dave C acquired were several reels of film transfers which were discovered in a cupboard at the former Rediffusion building in Kingsway several years after Rediffusion’s […]

Looks Unfamiliar – Tim Worthington and a guest discuss forgotten things from the past – TV shows, music, toys, books, foodstuff and so on.

Ornette Coleman – The Shape Of Jazz To Come

I was once given a book of album artwork that looked like it had been compiled from the author’s own collection, with a few added pre-1965 jazz titles that were so odd they must have all been picked up at the same […]

That Rashaan Roland Kirk album is dreadful – it’s mostly MOR standards, with two versions of each on the album, interspersed with spoken nonsense and other sillyness.

It looks like the Kraftwerk albums have been pulled, as they’re no longer listed.

I installed the Facebook Messenger app on my phone once. When I logged in to the site from a PC the next time, suggested follows included the pages of a couple of really obscure bands whose music happened to have […]

That album was a one-off special deal, as it was considered a TV soundtrack and outside the terms of his Warner Brothers contract at the time. Anchor gained the rights for outside North America due to Cooper being […]

As I understand it, Anchor was the UK subsidiary of ABC Records, and its releases were mostly UK acts. The label appeared around 1973, when the ABC imprint also finally appeared over here – prior to that ABC […]