Russian X Ray Vinyl For Sale

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Russian x ray vinyl for sale.

But a few bootleggers found a way to. Old x rays from hostpitals. Coates a musician who s been performing in russia for ten years with his band the real tuesday weld four years ago stumbled across what he thought was a vinyl type disc cut onto an x ray in a st. They tend to focus on rock n roll but a lot of russian music.

Real medical x rays purchased or picked out of the trash from hospitals and clinics were used to create the recordings. This was one of the best uk punk records back in 1977 god i remember a bit over 30 years ago when this lp was getting around 100 bucks a pop it was so rare then by 1990 91 the reissues started on cd of coarse i got a vinyl reissue around 1992 on orange vinyl and it is hard to belive that that reissue is worth more then the original 77 lp now my rarest copy of this classic is the japan. The weird secret history of soviet x ray music in cold war russia getting your hands on an american rock record was close to impossible. Stephen coates is explaining the remarkable story behind his x ray audio project.

Telling the story of forbidden culture bootleg technology and human endeavour this is the secret history of russian x ray records and of the people who made bought and sold them. In the ussr during the cold war era the music people could listen to was ruthlessly controlled by the state. But a secret underground subculture of music lovers and. The x rays were cut into 7 inch discs and the center hole was made by burning it with a cigarette.

Many older people in russia remember seeing and hearing mysterious vinyl flexi discs when they were young. Click for more information and to hear the music on each. According to russian musicologist artemy troitsky grooves were cut at 78rpm with the help of special machines made they say from old phonographs by skilled. Before the tape recorders they used the x ray film of bones and recorded music on the bones bone music this process was famously captured in the opening credits of the 2008 russian cult.

On the turntable is an x ray of a human ribcage on to which is etched the grooves containing fitzgerald s 1954 recording. Click the menu above to explore the x ray audio site below are a selection of records of forbidden music cut onto used x ray film during the cold war era in the soviet union.