A Personal Collectors Website
Highlighting unknown, obscure or simply excellent musicians
A small personal website with the aim to share detailed release information for a number of artists, but also to highlight items from my collection
collection features
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Read more: Introduction to acetate records
In my previous collection feature, I talked about The Cross their second album called Mad: Bad: And Dangerous To Know. The article ended with two rare acetates for an unreleased single and this prompted me to dive into the world of acetates! What is an acetate disc? In order to produce a vinyl record, a […]
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Read more: The Cross MAD: BAD: releases
Queen’s drummer Roger Taylor founded a new band called The Cross during mid 1987 while Queen were on a break after their Magic Tour ended in August 1986. Unlike in Queen, Roger featured on lead vocals and rhythm guitar in the band. The other members, recruited through anonymous adverts, were Clayton Moss on guitar, Spike […]
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Read more: The Police prototype heaven
Despite The Police short-lived career, which lasted from 1977 to 1986, not counting the 2007 reunion and numerous Greatest Hits releases, the band still managed to create a collector’s heaven for those who are passionate enough to dive deep into their discography. Reggatta de Blanc In October 1979, the band released their second album called […]
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Read more: 1982 Queen/Bowie test pressing
Queen were arguably on an all-time high in 1980 after their album The Game and single Another One Bites The Dust topped the charts globally for many weeks. Especially in the US is was a huge chart topper, where it has sold four million copies to date. The success of John Deacon’s Bites The Dust […]
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Read more: The 3″ Queen CD-singles
Queen dabbled their toes into the world of CD’s as early as 1983, but released their full album discography on CD in 1986. About two years later, in 1988, they decided to release some of their past singles on the 3″ CD-single format. Possibly because it was a new exiting format for singles by other […]
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Read more: Peter Hammill 1991 letter
Peter Hammil is an English musician who is mainly known for his work through the progressive rock band Van der Graaf Generator for which I made a feature back in June. His solo career more or less started simultaneously with the band in 1968. Once the band broke up in 1977 (but reunited in the […]
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Read more: Phil Collins’ ticker
Here we have a nice collaboration: in early 2003 Phil Collins teamed up with Swatch to produce this lovely box set. I don’t know how this came to be, but Phil released a song called Wake Up Call as a single in March 2003 which was taken from his 2002 album Testify. Maybe that song […]
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Read more: VDGG Masks 7″
In March 2015 I listened to the band Van der Graaf Generator for the first time. UK magazine Record Collector had an article about them which sparked an interest and so I decided to give them a try. Nine years later and I am now fully hooked, including the singer’s solo output. I never intended […]
Artist Updates
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Read more: Horrors to release Lotus Eater
The Horrors have announced the release of a new single from their upcoming album Night Life called Lotus Eater. Based on a short preview on…
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Read more: First Neu:NOIZ CD release
Neu:NOIZ unveiled details of their first CD release since they reformed under the new band name in March. The new release is going to be…
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Read more: The Horrors release Trial By Fire
The Horrors have unveiled the second single from their upcoming album Night Life called Trial By Fire. It is a great atmospheric banger and certainly…
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Read more: New Horrors music imminent!
The first few details of The Horror’s new single and album have leaked! Tomorrow, October 2nd, we can expect their first release since 2021 in…
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Read more: ROG shares the music!
Two days ago I published a new collection feature for a nice Queen test pressing. A visitor was eager to hear the unreleased audio which…
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Read more: 8 Horrors releases added
Last week I finally added the band The Horrors back to the website plus I added quite some missing releases and images. Today I have…
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Read more: Horrors are back!
…well the band never stopped, but they did leave ROG for 5 months. It took me two weeks, but the band has been added to…
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Read more: Apparatjik back on ROG
The band Apparatjik have been added back to the website since the re-design in April of this year. I think it is a crime that…
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Read more: Few more JP releases added
It was time to add a few more missing releases to the website for メトロノーム. I already added them to my collection earlier this year,…
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Read more: 5 more artist templates updated
The remaining five templates for featured artists have been updated. They are Lovelife, Mumm-Ra, UCHUSENTAI:NOIZ, Zebra and Snake and メトロノーム. All internal links have been…