dessalles

It took nearly 2.5 years since YouTube’s inception for someone to realize that uploading videos of classic reggae 45s playing on a turntable is a really good idea. Just hearing the needle come down on a record used to be enough - countless collectors went about archiving their records as mp3s. But mmrk, MotownMaster, 78MAN and oldwah seem to have all similarly committed to migrating their record collections onto YouTube. They want to see the record spin. Brilliant.

What I especially like about these videos is how aware I am that I’m seeing and hearing a specific record owned by a specific person. And how by maintaining that ownership, some sense of fulfillment for the record collectors seems to be preserved.

[spotted on The FADER Blog]