DJ SET BY MC SHELLAC

Running Time: 4:33

Released On: "ノスタルジアトラッキングフォースブラスト" - Various Artists (15 tracks)

Label: Institute For Alien Research

Release Date: 25th January 2022

Format: Download

Buy Link: Bandcamp

N o s t a l g i a   T r a c k i n g   F o r c e   B l a s t

Great to be back in the world of IFAR again, our first release on the label in over a year. Shaun Robert had first published a call out for tracks for a new records themed edition in the spring of 2020, for which we had duly produced Grafonola Shellac (I Am Your Father Luke)! For one reason or another, the release of that album got pushed back to the point where it had been sitting in our Pending folder (oh yes, we have one, very organised) for over a year. When EFSPACM were doing a set themed Odd / Old Oddities last summer, we asked Shaun if we could use it for that instead, on the promise that if he came back to the project later and we'd left him a track short, we'd be happy to do another one. Well, in a nutshell, he did, we were and this is it.

Having already done three record themed pieces for IFAR, covering standard vinyl (The Black Polyvinyl Chloride Cult), flexis (Ostracism On Principal Thoroughfare) and specifically spoken word flexis (It Was Friday Evening), we figured that 78's were about the only angle left, so chose to do another involving my Columbia Grafonola, but different to the other one. Whereas that was just the mechanics (winding the spring et al) and point (gramophone equivalent of a stylus, ask your dad!) on the gap at the end of a disc, we wanted to include some actual record clips in this one too. What we ended up with rather gave us the impression of an old time DJ having a panic attack, desperately trying to keep two decks wound and loaded. So that's what we decided it should be, a DJ Set By MC Shellac from a 1939 party on Penny Street.

Why Penny Street? It's where the old gramophone record shop was in our local City of Lancaster.

Why 13th October 1939? Well, it's an appropriate decade for the gramophone itself, plus it's the day my father was born.

And I ask you, what chance do you have in life when your father was born on Friday 13th...

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