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Tony L

@pinkfishmedia.net

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

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Tony L @pinkfishmedia.net · 1d

#VintageComputing

YouTube delivers yet again: Boards Of Canada’s ‘Olson’ on a DEC PDP-1:

youtu.be/wubkrBd3-gg?...

Boards of Canada "Olson" on a 1959 PDP-1 Computer

YouTube video by Joe Lynch

Tony L @pinkfishmedia.net · 4d

PS Still got a spare briefcase badge and knob!

The blue on clear perspex badge of a Synthi AKS that was riveted to the briefcase plus one knob!

Tony L @pinkfishmedia.net · 4d

I owned one of those for a while back in the early ‘90s. I really regret selling it. A remarkably stupid decision! Fabulous thing, such a unique and characterful sound. I’ve owned a lot of vintage synths (I bought and sold as a secondary income) and that was the one I wish I’d kept.

Tony L @pinkfishmedia.net · 8d

Just 12.

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11, or 12 if I count A Nice Pair (I have Piper and Saucerful).

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Miles & TD (I’ve got pretty much everything Miles ever recorded!).

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Tony L @pinkfishmedia.net · 29d

Everyone in Liverpool was in a band at the time. Including me (disk five, track six!)

Tony L @pinkfishmedia.net · Sep 10

Looks like exactly the right balance of lethal mains voltage,
pink plastic and gaffa-tape. Respect.

Tony L @pinkfishmedia.net · Aug 1

#Vinyl

This week’s fresh oddness from Brighton: The New Eves - The New Eve Is Rising. A hard one to categorise, kind of shambolic freak-folk meets The Slits via Amon Düül (I more than II). Certainly its own thing. As ever I can’t resist a signed copy on pre-order.

The New Eves The New Eve Is Rising on pink vinyl with signed front cover.

Tony L @pinkfishmedia.net · Jul 27

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Tony L @pinkfishmedia.net · Jul 22

#Vinyl

Another one of those sad days. RIP Ozzy. Pleased I got to see the original line-up (1978, Liverpool Empire, I was still a school kid). An astonishing genre-defining band.

Black Sabbath debut album, UK Vertigo pressing.

Tony L @pinkfishmedia.net · Jul 12

#Vinyl

New Wet Leg album Moisturiser landed, albeit a day late despite the comedically huge £6.15 postage charge. It is growing on me after a couple of plays. The “3d lenticular” cover of this edition is quite amusing; Rhian’s somewhat creepy expression changes depending on the viewing angle.

Wet Leg Moisturiser, limited ‘deluxe edition’ preorder from the band’s store with signed insert etc.

Tony L @pinkfishmedia.net · Jul 10

17, helped somewhat by the bizarre number of Bowie albums!

Tony L @pinkfishmedia.net · Jul 4

Such an amazing album. One of those few that are unlike anything else. A one off.

Tony L @pinkfishmedia.net · Jul 4

One of my better £1 bin finds was an original hand-sprayed cover copy of the first album. A shop in Chester in about 1983, very possibly Penny Lane. Good album, I knew nothing about them at the time, just that it had to be worth a quid!

Pop Rivets ‘Greatest Hits’ with hand sprayed cover, hand stamped label and two rather faded photocopied inserts.

Tony L @pinkfishmedia.net · Jul 1

Best review ever! I’d have bought eight copies at least based on that.

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Tony L @pinkfishmedia.net · Jun 28

PS UA’s catalogue was so strong at this time, really good and often challenging stuff. I can’t remember the story, but it’s something like some of Hawkwind’s Ladbroke Grove friends getting A&R roles! It is certainly connected to them somehow. You can add Nektar too.

Tony L @pinkfishmedia.net · Jun 28

5! (Hawkwind, Man, Amon Düül II, Can & Neu!, though the Neu! is a reissue).

Tony L @pinkfishmedia.net · Jun 19

I recall Luxuria being much more ‘rock’, guitar solos and the like. I’ve got their first album and single and actually saw them live (never got to see Magazine), but I can’t remember that much about them other than that! Must dig them out for a spin…