tkat is going crazy in the office, re-organizing, re-arranging shelves, and forcing me go through all my old boxes throughout the office... god bless him. it got me thinking about the pack rat nature of djs... collecting all sorts of weird shit with weird intrinsic values... here's a peak at what i'm finding...

box #1 - old cassettes

this is one of many boxes of cassettes i have laying around the office. all those grey ones? those are probably turntablist mixes i tried to make without a 4 track... i would start off with a solid 5 minutes of material, and inevitably things would go to shits... and i would just start with a new tape (just in case, the next one was the one!). the one never came...

93 til infinity.... i bought this in 93... im freaking old. and that clear case? that's where i kept my favorite tapes...

i spent a couple summers in seoul. they had this record shop in Intaewon (it's like the bootleg-GI district of Seoul). they had bootleg tapes of all the new wave stuff. they even made color covers from the originals. they had the tape duplicators running out in the open in the store. i bought a ton of good tapes there...

in my opinion, reggae sounds best on tape... think i bought this one in San Diego with frogman... it has all the classic Studio One dubs...

boy genius made me this one... it probably had a bunch of Green Day, Hootie, Dave Matthews, Weezer and Soundgarden, and Jock Jams... mtv was a powerful thing.

this one is going straight into the lab Volvo...

the inevitable Stretch + Bob tape... this one reads "Supernat"... that dude used to be huge amongst rap nerds... but looking back he was doing the equivalent of stupid human pet tricks.

i used to love this band... Ride was like the second coming of My Bloody Valentine to me... every year i try to go back and listen to their stuff, but the heavily accented vocals make me want to barf...

ladies and gentlemen, i present to you the CASSINGLE! this one even has the instrumental on the b-side... useless!

here's a keeper. during the funk boom, the daptone guys had an incredible show on Columbia radio... they did this James Brown festival for days (?), bringing in original JB collaborators and playing the most incredible JB stuff. I think i recorded a couple tapes worth....

i actually bought this one not too long ago at a store in Williamsburg... i thought it was cool to have on tape...

probably one of the albums i anticipated the most... Nothing's Shocking was my teenage skater wheelhouse... this was sadly disappointing, especially the sell-out "Been Caught Stealing"... however, over the years, the entire b-side has matured into something magical... "Three Days, Classic Girl, Then She Did" ???

this wasn't my shit or anything, it just goes to illustrate the bane of promo stuff... i don't know why it used to be so hard for me to throw promo shit out... i still have illstyle live lps, finley quaye 12"s, and other totally useless things... i am throwing this shit out as we speak....

more to come...