Christmas Break 2014 Spinning!

Accept - Balls to the Wall - 1984 - Canada - Portrait

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Probot - Probot -- 2004 - US - Southern Lord

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King Diamond - Conspiracy - 1989 - Netherlands - Roadrunner

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Herbie Hancock - Head Hunters - 1973 - 2009 Re-Issue - EU - Music On Vinyl

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Record Store Day 2014 Purchases...and spinning some vinyl

As every year, I'm looking forward for interesting releases on the Record Store Day.  This year is not different than the other, I made a few purchases.

Miles Davis - The Prestige 10 inch collection - Vol.1 - 2014

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Metallica - Lords of Summer - 2014 - US - 12 inch - Blackened Recordings

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Now playing - 2014-11-11

Voivod - Outer Limits - Promo 12 - US - MCA

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Now Spinning - 2014-11-03

Death - Spiritual Healing - 1990 - 2010 Re-Issue - US - Back On Black

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Sepultura - Arise - 1991 - 2007 Re-Issue 2LP - Germany

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Now Playing - 2014-11-02

Rush - Vapor Trails - Remixed 2013 - US

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Rush - Moving Pictures - 1981 - Canada - Anthem

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Ennio Morricone - The Good, The Bad and The Ugly - 1967 - Canada - United Artist Records

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Now Spinning - 2014-10-26

Slayer - Divine Intervention - 1996 - 2013 Re-Issue - EU - American Recordings

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Kreator - Extreme Agression - 1989 - Test Pressing - Germany - Noise Records

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Kreator - Terrible Certainty - 1986 - Canada - Cobra

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Kreator - Hordes of Chaos - 2009 - Germany - Steamhammer

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Now Spinning - 2014-10-25

Sword - Metalized - 1986 - LP - Canada - Aquarius

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Sword - Sweet Dream - 1988 - Canada - Aquarius

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Sepultura - Roots - 1996 - Netherlands - Roadrunner

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Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon - 1973 (1974 Re-Press) - Japan - EMI

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Now Spinning - 2014-10-17

The Rolling Stones - Out of Our Heads - 1965 (1969 Stereo Repress) - US- London

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Pearl Jam - VS - 1993 - 2011 Re-Issue - US

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Now Spinning - 2014-10-12 (New Turntable)

Spinning a few records on my new turntable....very excited!

Miles Davis - Decoy - 1984 - Canada - CBS

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Metallica - Ride The Lightning - 1984 - Japan - Nexus

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Opeth - Blackwater Park - 2001 - 2010 Re-Issue - Music On Vinyl

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Triptykon - Melana Chasmata - 3x10" - Germany - Century Media

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Playing some rock!

AC/DC - For Those About To Rock - 1981 - Japan - Atlantic

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Aerosmith - Rocks - 1976 - Japan - CBS/Sony

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Fritz Lang Metropolis 1926 - Re-Visited by Giorgio Moroder in 1984

Inspired by Alain and his love for Original Soundtrack, I decided to play one of my favourite Soundtrack of the 1980s. In fact, it is not really with the Soundtrack that I fell in love... but with this 1926 classic, German Science Fiction movie.  This movie, considered by many to be the first ever science fiction movie, has been re-visited by Georgio Moroder in 1984 ... who replaced the classical music (once played "live" in theatre while the movie is being played) by a new wave, techno pop soundtrack typical of of the mid 1980s.

I was really impressed by this movie when I saw it for the first time (hard to believe it was filmed in the early 20s) and I remember in the late 90s, seeking and paying serious $$ for my VHS tape of this film! In 2009, a "fan" of the movie re-edited a DVD copy (pirate) of the film by replacing some parts of the film with images of better quality. Of course, I also purchased that one.

The story of this film is exciting because over the years, most of the original copies of the movie have either disappeared or have been destroyed. In addition, the original film was truncated repeatedly so that some versions contain only 25% of the original images and scenes. To give you an idea, the more recent discovery of lost sequences for this movie happened in 2005 (!).

I'm not a big fan of New Wave but I find that the music of Georgio Moroder written nearly 60 years after the original release of the movie, match very well the storyline.


My favorite song is "Machines"

Metropolis Soundtrack - Giorgio Moroder - 1984 - Japan - CBS/Sony

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Now playing - 2014-09-29

Now that I have a proper quadraphonic setup, it was really a blast to play some very nice quadraphonic LPs. I think one of the artist that embraced the quadraphonic capabilities in the 70s is Santana. After a proper calibration of my setup (by the way...how freaking cool is it that Popular Science released a record in 1973 to calibrate your quadraphonic (SQ) system!?!?  ) I played this amazing Santana album....in all its quadraphonic glory!

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Santanta - III - 1972 - Japan - CBS/Sony 

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Metallica - Cliff Burton - RIP - 1986-09-27

I know it will sound "cliché" and "cheesy"...but you have no idea how much the next record I'm playing had an impact on my life. I still remember the day that my friend brought his walkman in high school... and came to me saying..."Man, you have to listen to this. The bassist of that band died last week while he was on tour..that's a shame because this band is AMAZING". It was the first week of October 1986 and Cliff Burton had passed away the week before. In fact, yesterday was the 28th anniversary of its death. 

The first song I heard was Welcome Home (Sanitarium)... and I was immediately hooked! Needless to say that I wanted to listen more... The second song I heard was "Battery"... I still have a hard time believing what I heard at the time...and I'm sill amazed today when I hear that song. Metallica became my favourite band ever...and it has been my favourite band ever since.

 Fast forward a little less than 28 years later, after what seems to be a sequence of very surrealistic events, I had the chance to watch Metallica...on their stage...and I've had the opportunity to introduce a song...in front of 45000 people. That song was... "Battery". All I have to say is that life can be so amazing! Some people says that I was lucky...but I like to think that luck didn't have anything to do with this