So here's a little story I've heard a few times that may be of interest to fans of the "old ways" we heard about music.  If you're a fan of dance and industrial music, you're more than likely acquainted with Chicago's WaxTrax! Records . Beginning life as a record shop, it eventually became a label with an oddly diverse slate of releases. WaxTrax! is probably best known for being the home of Ministry and their many side projects like Revolting Cocks , Pailhead and 1000 Homo DJs , but they also released records from Coil , My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult , KMFDM , Meat Beat Manifesto , and Divine to name a few. Yes, that Divine , the one that ate shit in a John Waters movie. And the single she released through WaxTrax! is awesome! But that's all kinda beside the point. What's important to remember is that WaxTrax! were an American independent record label with a lot of popular releases and ties to international labels and distributors like P

I had a rough draft of my first post back written and the music ready to go, when I decided it was a bit too serious, at least in that point. I've left that post in a rough state and may eventually return to it, but thought I'd do something a bit easier for my first post back. And with that, I present to you... Who else loves Bizarre Ride II The Pharcyde ? It's one of my favorite hip-hop albums of all time, reminding me a lot of Paul's Boutique while sounding complex and effortless at the same time. It's been reissued way too many times to count, all because of Delicious Vinyl's catalog having been bought or sold just as many times. It definitely complicates matters for a number of odd reasons, like the original US pressings being distributed by Atlantic/WEA before being shifted around repeatedly and some of the mixes being changed on reissues. The most notable of those changes is probably Passin' Me By , where a certain word was dropped from the second v