The week in mandersmedia

Welcome and hope you’ve had a good week…

We are now selling books! This week sees the launch of Bookogs and we are selling books, for the time being Discogs will be the main focus but Books will become moreso as time goes on, by the way, still look at Discogs for music books which we will be starting to list in the next week.

We’ve purchased a scanner! Mainly for administration but will be used for sleeves (Cassette, CD, 8 Track etc.) when we list more in the future.

Play Grading focus: Akai CR-81D This is the 8 Track machine used for play grading, this is seen as one of the best 8 Track machines ever made, you may be intrigued to know that 8 Track was created by a consortium lead by Bill Lear of Lear Jet fame. Anyway, here’s more information on the Akai CR-81D.

New Blogs and Podcasts added! 78Man is a enlightening podcast about the world of all things 78RPM from themed shows to favourites, each podcast is around 30 minutes each, if you’re a 78s collector or interested to know more about this format, have a listen. Keep an eye on the Blog as when they post, you will see it here.

#DiscogsData Discogs describes this as ‘All music trivia, all the time. Interesting facts on releases and genres in real-time.’ Again, watch this Blog as this will also appear here.

Discogs Seller Feedback, this is be a real-time posting of ALL feedback from customers purchasing from us on Discogs, we believe it’s important for you to see what experience you’ll get when purchasing from us.

A few other tweaks we’ve updated to bibliogs to bookogs and Instagram logos in the Seller’s Shipping infomation.

Price Reductions every week, we review the prices to continue to be fair and competitive in our pricing, please see the tags for a list of artists that have had Price Reductions, if you’d like to see what we have on your ‘Items I Want’ list, go to bit.ly/mandersmedia.

That’s it for this time, have a great week ahead… John

This day in music On this Day August 23, 1980

David Bowie was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with ‘Ashes To Ashes’ his second UK No.1. Taken from the Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) album, the song continued the story of Major Tom from Bowie’s
‘Space Oddity’. The video for ‘Ashes to Ashes’ was one of the most iconic of the 1980s and costing £250,000, it was at the time the most expensive music video ever made.

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Discogs Blog Crate Diggers Portland: 10 Underappreciated Oregon Releases with Brandon Lieberman

Discogs sponsored Crate Diggers Record Fair comes back home for its fourth event in Portland, hot on the heels of its Canadian debut in the great cities of Montreal and Toronto! Crate Diggers is the ultimate event for record collectors, vinyl junkies, and music fans, taking place on August 26th, 2017 at White Owl Social Club. The day begins with a record […]

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Discogs Blog Crate Diggers Portland: 10 Underappreciated Oregon Releases with Brandon Lieberman

Discogs sponsored Crate Diggers Record Fair comes back home for its fourth event in Portland, hot on the heels of its Canadian debut in the great cities of Montreal and Toronto! Crate Diggers is the ultimate event for record collectors, vinyl junkies, and music fans, taking place on August 26th, 2017 at White Owl Social Club. The day begins with a record […]

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The Real Mick Rock The Pointer Sisters – London, 1973

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Discogs Blog Essential Wax with Cults

Cults have been absent from the world of synth-pop since touring on 2013’s LP, ‘Static’. Brooklynites Madeline Follin and Brian Oblivion took time off to refuel their brains with new ideas some of which came from the band drawing inspiration from Discogs’ faves, Pink Floyd. Their forthcoming release ‘Offering‘ is the result of diving into the […]

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Classical-Music.com Free Download: ‘Loquebantur variss linguis’ by Thomas Tallis

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This week's free download is Thomas Tallis's seven part motet  Loquebantur variis linguis, recorded by Gallicantus for their latest disc, Queen Mary's Big Belly. The recording explores the year in which Queen Mary I's first phantom pregnancy gripped the nation, through the music written for royal services and celebrations. The disc was awarded four stars in the July issue of BBC Music Magazine. 

'This imaginative, informatively annotated programme is well worth investigating,' writes Terry Blain. 

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Discogs Blog Essential Wax with Cults

Cults have been absent from the world of synth-pop since touring on 2013’s LP, ‘Static’. Brooklynites Madeline Follin and Brian Oblivion took time off to refuel their brains with new ideas some of which came from the band drawing inspiration from Discogs’ faves, Pink Floyd. Their forthcoming release ‘Offering‘ is the result of diving into the […]

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Jazzwise News

The Canary Wharf Jazz Festival has been successfully putting on a free weekend of concerts since 2007 and its 11th incarnation featured a host of jazz, latin and crossover acts. An appreciative audience had already gathered at Canada Square Park to hear bop pianist Rob Barron, accompanied by virtuoso vibraphonist Nat Steele and guitarist Colin Oxley.

By contrast, young singer Poppy Ajudha began her set with her tribute to Billie Holiday in the form of an R&B version of ‘Speak Low’, followed by a selection of original tunes and her version of Solange’s ‘Cranes In The Sky’. Cuban violinist Omar Puente (below) had the crowd dancing to his infectious Afro-Cuban grooves while Norfolk’s Mammal Hands provided the ambient chill-out music, starting their set with their now familiar tune, ‘Quiet Fire’.

Saturday’s programme was completed with a fiery and energetic set by Riot Jazz Brass Band who created a party atmosphere in an otherwise corporate enclave of East London, with MC Chunky getting the crowd moving, and drummer Steve Pycroft and sousaphonist Pete Robinson laying down a steady groove to Riot Jazz originals such as ‘Checkmate’.

Sunday began with Brazilian vocalist Luna Cohen and British guitarist Rob Luft performing mellow latin grooves while talented guitarist Clement Regert‘s Wild Card (above) played an eclectic mix of well-known tunes such as Mongo Santamaria’s ‘Afro Blue’ and a unique version of ‘Fever’ with vocalist Annabel Williams, with an all-star band that included trumpeter Graeme Flowers, saxophonist Jim Knight and drummer Sophie Alloway.

The staff at Canary Wharf were on hand to dispense free waterproof ponchos for the many who braved the rain to hear the grooving, ethereal sounds of Shabaka Hutchings and The Comet Is Coming (above) before Pete Wareham’s Melt Yourself Down (pictured top) brought the festival to a close with some intense and upbeat grooves.

– Charlie Anderson

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(Piano star Jason Rebello guests on the Talking Heads stage with the Southampton Youth Jazz Orchestra, led by Dan Mar-Molinero on soprano sax)

Eighteen months ago the Talking Heads was a small pub on the outskirts of Southampton, presenting local jazz bands once a week in a gloomy back room. Today, having relocated to plush premises twice the size in the centre of town, it has established itself as one of the city’s most popular jazz venues, and is attracting the top UK players. It also means that, taken in conjunction with the city’s other venues, there is now jazz available somewhere in Southampton almost every night of the week.

Pianist Dave Newton says it’s among the best UK jazz clubs he’s played in: “I like it very much. The main room is a nice size to play to and it has a really good stage, a tremendous sound system, an excellent bar and a really comfortable backstage room. There aren’t many local jazz clubs that can supply all that. Long may it continue.”

In fact the pub boasts two concert rooms, each with a full bar. The larger of the two has a wide stage with state-of-the-art lighting and PA, and it’s here that the volunteer-run Southampton Jazz Club presents the likes of Alan Barnes, Gilad Atzmon and Liane Carroll on Tuesdays once a month.

In the smaller adjacent bar, the city’s other voluntary-run club, the Southampton Modern Jazz Club, presents more contemporary jazz free-of-charge every Sunday and alternate Thursdays, in an intimate setting in which the audience is no more than four metres from the band.

The events are organised by two local jazz musicians, tenor saxophonist Lizzie Bennie and drummer Ted Carrasco, who have tried to make the venue the kind of place which they, as musicians, would like to play in themselves. Bennie says: “We’ve both been on gigs where we’ve found ourselves stuck in a corner of a bar with barely a reachable power socket or decent lighting available. Here we provide all these, plus lights for music stands, spare stands as well, and a decent baby grand piano. And with candles on the tables and real ales on tap as well, it gives all the benefits of your local bar with a top quality jazz club vibe.”

– Ian Gilchrist

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