Coulou’s Vinyl Cafe (No. 1)
This is not some AI-generated to-study-to jazz video; it’s a guy who really likes jazz playing a bunch of records from his extensive collection.
over the years i’ve built a small but reallllly incredible and meaningful record collection, spanning from jazz, classical, a great folk collection from my dad, hip hop, house music, and random other things. record stores have been a sort of library for me, a place where i can find artifacts. there in sooo much real living history in a record.
most of vinyls i’ve collected are originals too and it’s just such a cool experience. for so many of the records i have they were originally recorded in a studio or live, mixed on a mixing console and put onto tape. then from the tape recording the vibrations were etched into the wax of the vinyl. how cool is that?
there’s a certain sense of bringing back to life i feel when i put a record on, these preserved etches of a song reawakening. it’s really beautiful.
i had an absolutely balll making this and i cant wait to make many more. i truly hope you find some songs that you love in here, so many of these are real favorites of mine.
If you enjoyed that, you might like this other YouTube channel that I posted about recently. (via undermanager)
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left the other channel on for several hours (helps to have a YT sub with no ads). maybe in the AI future we'll emphasize human curation by watching a person pull from the crate and use the mixer
My Analog Journal is another great one. It's mostly guest DJs bringing extremely niche vinyl collections. These stations are a big reason I pony up for the YT subscription (the other reason being that I don't want my kids to be watching whatever rando ad Google throw up as they watch endless videos).
I really wish YouTube had a better way of organizing these stations. I subscribe but then forget about them. If there was a link to these longform music channels, I'd click it every morning.
Loved this one of his, too https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAUcNKSCLUg
Inspired me to get our HomePods set up again so I could immerse myself in this.
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