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Introducing Turntabling Records

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Turntabling.net has become Turntabling Records! We’ll still be doing the usual blog posts but when there’s news on Turntabling Records releases, we’ll post them here. Turntabling Records will release material on vinyl and .mp3 and perhaps even CD if it’s convenient…but the shiny disc seems to be an endangered species, so who knows? Vinyl is much tastier. We’re very pleased to be serving up unusual music under the Turntabling banner and planned releases include several compilations, the resurrection of the American military/punk  sensation TOILET (formerly released on Zombie Records) and Opinion 8. Turntabling Records is a continuation of the now-defunct Zombie Records, which began in Texas in 1995.

We’re pleased to present our first release is Paisley Babylon’s Midnight Hallucinations, which you can buy on iTunes, CD Baby, Napster and elsewhere. Here are two sample tracks from Midnight Hallucinations for your listening, mashup and free distribution pleasure:

Paisley Babyon–Not a Hangover mp3 (may be freely distributed)

Paisley Babylon–Pavement and Broken Windscreen mp3 (may be freely distributed)

Buy Paisley Babylon’s Midnight Hallucinations on iTunes

…And here’s a bonus track from the ultra-rare Paisley Babylon release The Alpha Wave Variations:

Paisley Babylon–Alpha

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Stay tuned for more information on Paisley Babylon and other Turntabling.net releases coming soon.

JapRockSampler: Julian Cope on Far East Psych Vinyl

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I picked this up yesterday in one of Chicago’s finest vinyl sources, Reckless Records. I’m already four chapters into this amazing tome and I must say, Copey is right on the money. I got addicted to his confessional acid-soaked memoirs Head On and Reposessed ; since then Cope has written a slew of books including the vital KrautRockSampler.

Julian Cope has a fascinating brain. He’s not content to look at the music–he examines the cultural forces which shaped Japan’s psychedelic music explosion–including the seeming contradictory anti-drug stance of some of these performers. Acid music without the acid? A stretch for the western mind, to be sure until you understand that Japan has a long-standing cultural association with meditative states and free-form musical expression. Take one part Shinto, one part Zen, and mix in an obsession with death and rebirth and you have a quite fertile breeding ground for the imagination.

Cope hits all this, plus Commodore Perry’s “opening of Japan” and more. I’m a huge fan of this book already and haven’t yet put it down except to write this. All the bands listed in this book are on vinyl, glorious vinyl and I am afraid that I’m about to be drawn into some kind of obsessive tunnel-vision quest for all these and more. Any musical omnivore will love this.

I foolishly paid $30 for this, only to find it JapRockSampler at Amazon for much cheaper. This will teach me to fall in love with hardcover books before doing my research. Still, I don’t begrudge Reckless Records–I never would have found this otherwise until getting clued in by some fellow traveler.