I stumbled upon the current comedy pop hit "I've got to dance 'til the band gets through" by the great singer Bill Simmons. When I looked at the clock the next time, 5 hours had past hearing music of another kind.

I highly recommend to visit "The Great 78 Project"

Of course, the hit single mentioned above is from this collection, the digitized 78 rpm shellac discs. The song is from 1906 (!!!), which shows that not much has changed regarding our interest in music. "I've got to dance", well, that mantra is still alive.

You don't get a perfect mix of a perfect 32-track.
You don't get mastering.
What you get is what was used to be done: A one microphone live recording of an act, with high noise ratio, cracks and scratches. On shellac, which was used until the late 1940s, when finally vinyl took over.
But you also get a connection to a time that lies 100 years behind us. It's like using a time machine, just more comfortable.

Enjoy!

In case you just want to hear that one mentioned song (shame on you!), it's here:
https://archive.org/details/78_bill...ets-through_arthur-collins-spink_gbia0014216a

 

are you joking? wtf is this shit? lol fallout soundtrack/can't understand a word


gtfo

 

relax lashy.. it's called real music.. I know it's shocking... to hear something that's not a bunch of overproduced nonsense..

but this is the way the world was before all the technology... this was POP music...

 

For a 1906 song it sounds very modern indeeed, 30s-40s vibe.

 

The band and the singer, Arthur Collins, were totally locked in and tighter than a bug in a rug. And by the way, technology played a huge part in this production. The choice of microphone (in this case a carbon plug microphone as that was all there was in 1906, but I am sure that there were at least a handful of manufacturers from which to choose from, each with their own sound) as well as the super important aspect of mic placement. Furthermore, much importance had to placed In respect to not only of the microphone placement itself, but in addition one needed to decide how to set up the band, perhaps with louder instruments like that crashing metal sheet further back, the woodwinds up a bit closer with that tuba further back with of course the singer closest of all. This all was not only technical but needed to be artful as well. Then of course was the most technical and perhaps most important bit of all, the recordist really needed to know their shit. For instance this platter was recorded directly to shellac and there were so many technical aspects one needed to do in order to get it right.

 

yes i second that. i was on there the other day.....tons of interesting stuff !

 

Very cool, some great stuff there!