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Rainy Day Music: Repost

8/4/2020

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REPOST:
A fantastic tribute album:

Mercury Rev the indy rock band formed in 1989 has produced -Bobbie Gentry’s “The Delta Suite” Revisited.
​A truly thoughtful tribute , consistent mood runs throughout with covers by a stunning array of brilliantly talented women from the music world .I waited ages for it to arrive and was not disappointed , is already in its second pressing.Unlike so many tribute albums that inevitably contain 2-3 skippable covers , this one has a beautifully consistent atmospheric quality that reflects but in my opinion does not seek to merely imitate. Steady production aspect and the liquid ,and totally ranging beautiful voices singing Bobbie 
Gentry’s storytelling lyrics makes for a great rainy day listen.
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Japan pop ads

8/4/2020

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I have been digging through my pop culture folders and ran across this set of Japanese ads from various sources .
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BANDAI  “8 BAN” Miniature RECORD PLAYER 2004

8/4/2020

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Another  item from  the ANALOGUE PLASTICS ARCHIVES
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​My Bandai 8BAN miniature record player .I bought it in 2004 on a whim and am so glad I did.
​here is more info about it from the fab  Museum of Obsolete Media 
“8ban records are so called because they are 8 cm in diameter (just over three inches). They were introduced for the Japanese market by Bandai in 2004 along with a special battery-powered player and eighty titles were available at launch, including Japanese pop and some Western oldies.
Bandai produced the player for around a year, and in 2005 the band The White Stripes bought up the remaining stock of 400 players to sell as merchandise on their tours, along with 8ban versions of eight of their singles. They called the format Triple Inchophone, referring the 3-inch size, and these records now command a high price.
​8ban records are single-sided and can hold up to 4 minutes of music played at 33⅓ rpm. Some records have a small centre hole, while others have a larger hole like a US 45 rpm single, so the 8ban player came with a small adaptor for these. Although the Bandai 8ban player only had one speaker, the records were usually stereophonic. Due to their small size, most standard record players cannot play them.
In 2019 a new 8ban record player was released, the Crosley RSD3, along with 20 new titles for Record Store Day.
As of April 2019, there have been 116 titles produced on 8ban records.” (Text Source -obsoletemedia.org )

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