these are, visually, to me, the most beautiful records ever made.

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from my pal yuri's website. these are vintage russian underground recordings. some of them recorded onto x-ray film. so, you get an ancient russian folk song recorded onto a skull x-ray. anyway, so many of them are works of art. you can have your fancy faberge eggs. i'll take these.

section starts here: http://www.russian-records.com/categories.php?cat_id=397

some of my favorites:

http://www.russian-records.com/details.php?image_id=24594

http://www.russian-records.com/details.php?image_id=23471

http://www.russian-records.com/details.php?image_id=19388

http://www.russian-records.com/details.php?image_id=18839

http://www.russian-records.com/details.php?image_id=18942

http://www.russian-records.com/details.php?image_id=7926

http://www.russian-records.com/details.php?image_id=10472

scott seward, Thursday, 7 November 2013 04:00 (eleven years ago)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/93/Faust_AlbumCover_Faust.jpg

nonightsweats, Thursday, 7 November 2013 04:10 (eleven years ago)

my lord those are stunning, scott, thank you. i'm going to give them a listen, too.

never have i been a blue calm sea (collardio gelatinous), Thursday, 7 November 2013 04:12 (eleven years ago)

they look like they could have inspired gerhard richter (the painter), but they feel less deliberate and fussy than his work.

never have i been a blue calm sea (collardio gelatinous), Thursday, 7 November 2013 04:28 (eleven years ago)

Holy shit, this is amazing. Really like some of the music, too.

emil.y, Thursday, 7 November 2013 12:25 (eleven years ago)

Misic on the ribs

contenderizer, Thursday, 7 November 2013 12:38 (eleven years ago)

wow

curmudgeon, Thursday, 7 November 2013 15:11 (eleven years ago)

Amazing. Song on the skull x-ray album is called "You come quietly (Ты потихоньку приходи), foxtrot".

brio, Thursday, 7 November 2013 16:56 (eleven years ago)

When I interviewed Nate Young last year he said he'd recently got into using x-rays as part of his lathe-cutting process, never seen pics of them but these are ridic, massive s/o to scott as always for bringing the goods.

the Shearer of simulated snowsex etc. (Dwight Yorke), Thursday, 7 November 2013 16:59 (eleven years ago)

see, it's funny you mention nate young cuz what made me think of these records yesterday - and yuri's site - was aaron dilloway posting on facebook that he had finally found an original copy of his favorite song which was an old avant garde industrial russian 78:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93zP5psYSUU

scott seward, Thursday, 7 November 2013 21:41 (eleven years ago)

holy shit dude these are the best

combination hair (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, 7 November 2013 23:02 (eleven years ago)


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