🌍 SUNDAY MORNING: BEYOND THE MAINSTREAM.
At 0800, we switch the frequency to Back 2 the 80's. This is the quintessential 80s experience, curated from a personal collection spanning decades of club and mobile DJ work.

With a massive terabyte-sized library of tracks, we aren't just playing the hits—we're playing the vibe.

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#80sRadio #UndergroundClub #RetroRockRadio #WaybackWeekend #Live365 #CrateDigging

72 hours until your friendly neighborhood Vinyl Ape switches coasts for a week, to go vinyl digging through my native land of Boston.

Long list of stores to visit; some old haunts of mine, as well as some new places I’ve never been before.

#vinyl #vinylrecords #vinylcommunity #vinylcollection #retro #vintage #art #music #analog #boston #BostonMassachusetts #massachusetts #cratedigging #recordstores

My 80s instrumental synth pop #CrateDigging has been very fruitful. I now have several hours of real no foolin 80s instrumental synth pop and instrumental covers of massive hits as well as 80s-inspired retrowave, dark synthwave, and ambient. Threw in a few banger soundtrack cuts as well. I even managed to home in on a few Swedish artists! Although the venn diagram of "svenska," "80s synth pop," "instrumental," and "available on youtube or bandcamp" is pretty narrow.

Now I must organize them into context-specific playlists for the upcoming #TalesFromTheLoop mystery I'm running for my wife's birthday. I will probably just limit myself to three -- adventure, quiet moments, and trouble. Doing location or NPC music like I do for major campaigns like #DeadSands will be wasted effort unless we end up running an entire campaign in this game some day.

Today I am at a track meet waiting for my son to compete in the 1600m and starting to crate dig for music to score my d&d group's upcoming Tales From the Loop game. I need recommendations! vibes: 80s-inspired synth pop, fairlights and drum machines ranging from John Hughes to Stranger Things, but it's gotta be instrumental or nearly so. Bonus points for Swedish period-accurate tunes!

What you got, #music nerds?

#CrateDigging #TTRPG #TalesFromTheLoop

DUSTdevils - Gutter Light

Always a must buy when I see these fine folks in the shop. I had Rhenyards Grin back in the #80s and obsessed over it for a bit. Funny enough, more than 20 years later, I was chatting about music on line and ended up in a conversation with Michael Duane. Told him how much I loved his records and asked what he was up to. Ends up he was working with Bendle from The Door and The Window and they were looking for a drummer. I ended up joining up to do a couple of releases. Really proud of the work

https://bendle.bandcamp.com/album/while-speaking-softly-you-can-hear-the-insects-sing

https://bendle.bandcamp.com/album/and-chuang-tzu-dreamed-that-he-was-me

https://bendle.bandcamp.com/album/accidental-music

#vinyl @vinylrecords #crateDigging #noiseros #NoWave #bandcamp #DIY

Various Artists- Sounds of the Geographically Challenged

Found in the cheap bin at Hex Enduction Records. Some of my favorites on this collection. Lovely handmade cover. #vinyl @vinylrecords #postRock #dreamPop #90s #NowPlaying #crateDigging

Tangerine Dream - Stratosfear

Saved this clean OG copy from the cheap bin today while out to lunch with my lovely wife. One of their best imho #vinyl @vinylrecords #crateDigging #nowPlaying

Yusef Lateef - Reevaluations: The Impulse! Years

A nice compilation saved from the cheap bin today. #jazz #vinyl @vinylrecords #crateDigging #NowPlaying

Richie Havens - Richard P. Havens, 1983

Saved from the cheap bin on the way to the train today #vinyl @vinylrecords #folk #soulMusic #classicRock #NowPlaying #crateDigging - always liked Richie, but never owned any. Time to change that.