{"id":1374,"date":"2011-10-12T11:01:36","date_gmt":"2011-10-12T10:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/?p=1374"},"modified":"2011-10-16T16:33:49","modified_gmt":"2011-10-16T15:33:49","slug":"5-records-i-wish-i-still-owned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/2011\/10\/5-records-i-wish-i-still-owned\/","title":{"rendered":"5 records I wish I still owned"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nI still have a bunch of records!<\/font><\/i><\/p>\n

A few years back I decided I needed to trim down my record collection, for both space and money reasons, so I ended up selling a lot of the tunes I had, across all kinds of different genres (and my Death Sentence<\/a> mix was even inspired by the selling process). <\/p>\n

Since I got it in my head that I needed to be ruthless, part of this process involved getting rid of entire genres’ worth of stuff …<\/p>\n

Meaning no more hard house …<\/p>\n

No more hard techno …<\/p>\n

No more tech-house …<\/p>\n

No more electro …<\/p>\n

No more breaks …<\/p>\n

Some of these decisions I’ve never really regretted (for instance, I’m not particularly bothered about having liquidated my hard house collection), but over time I’ve really come to wish that I hadn’t gotten rid of so many electro, grime, and breaks tunes. Dumb decision! <\/p>\n

This is especially so because over the last year or two I’ve gotten quite into the nascent UK Bass scene which has emerged from the confluence of dubstep, UK Funky, grime, and other styles of music. I’ve been dabbling in buying a bit of the stuff (funds allowing, I’m a dad now after all!), which has made the regrets stronger, and I even got to play a set of it at my friend Al’s birthday party last week (grab his great Machines Ate My Vinyl<\/a> mix if you’ve not got it yet!), which just made the regret stronger.<\/p>\n

Having been moodily contemplating this stuff over the last few days, I thought I would chuck up a post on five records that I used to own, sold (often for pretty shitty amounts!), and now wish I still owned. Pheh.<\/p>\n