November 8st, 2018 | The Best Entry-Level Turntables

If you’re interested in getting up and running with playing vinyl records, but you’re looking for an affordable record player, then you’ve come to the right place. In this article, I’m going to explain to you everything you need to know to get started when it comes to playing music on vinyl (consider this a helpful beginners guide to getting into turntables, if you will). I’ll also lay out a handful of great record players that are not only good at playing your records, but are really good options for the money too.

Now, it should noted that getting into records doesn’t have to be an expensive endeavor like some people claim. Some “audiophiles” will tell you that you need to spend a few thousand dollars to get a record player that does a halfway decent job.

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November 1st, 2018 | The 10 Best Soul Jazz Records To Own On Vinyl

Plenty of musicians with jazz chops wanted to keep up with the times, but were neither comfortable going full pop nor diving headfirst into the chaotic din of “The New Thing.” Instead, these musicians found a way to bring the social, danceable element of jazz into modern times, taking the soul sound of Motown and Stax and infusing it with the free-wheeling improvisations and fleet-fingered dexterity of bebop and cool jazz. The results, collectively known as soul jazz, were funky, sophisticated and run through with sinuous grooves. Little before or since has been as thumpingly danceable; it’s not for nothing that these records were picked clean for samples starting in the late 1980s, when the likes of A Tribe Called Quest, Digable Planets and The Beastie Boys raided their respective parents’ record stashes to slice and dice some funky music of their own.

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