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Sound It Out

Over the last five years an independent record shop has closed in the UK every three days.

SOUND IT OUT (75 mins) is a documentary portrait of the very last surviving vinyl record shop in Teesside, North East England. A cultural haven in one of the most deprived areas in the UK, SOUND IT OUT documents a place that is thriving against the odds and the local community that keeps it alive. Directed by Jeanie Finlay who grew up three miles from the shop.

A distinctive, funny and intimate film about men, the North and the irreplaceable role music plays in our lives.

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Automatic Gramophone and the Like, 1937 ›

This invention relates to gramophones wherein records are automatically fed one at a time from a stack onto a turntable where, after being played, on on side or on both sides they are automatically rejected into a discard magazine.

Silly ancestor. Whilst automatic vinyl feeding and rejection mechanisms are clever and all that, two turntables and a crossfader is far more fun.

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hodgsona: When you are upset and you hold your ear against the speakers and concentrate only on the crackles and pops over the muted vocals so all you get is a blur of electronic noises and then you turn the volume right up so that it is all you can hear - and then you know you are safe because you cannot hear anything else.This is why music can be so vital in times of strong ups and downs. I will confess that the glitches of semi-broken cables being shook, power-on pops, crusty potentiometer crackles, vinyl fluff mush, and intentionally induced ground hum are indeed comforting to me, although I can’t explain why. zoom

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When you are upset and you hold your ear against the speakers and concentrate only on the crackles and pops over the muted vocals so all you get is a blur of electronic noises and then you turn the volume right up so that it is all you can hear - and then you know you are safe because you cannot hear anything else.
This is why music can be so vital in times of strong ups and downs.

I will confess that the glitches of semi-broken cables being shook, power-on pops, crusty potentiometer crackles, vinyl fluff mush, and intentionally induced ground hum are indeed comforting to me, although I can’t explain why.