When I first met with "Snoid Studios" in the midth 70ies our friendship was founded on a common passion for Max Romeo & The Upsetter "War ina Babylon". He was then deeply into Reggae, had a big collection of LPs and singles he had purchased in Zürich, where a good Reggae Store was placed.
At that time I was engaged in taping everything that could be found in my friends' record collections and so this funny wall of tapes arised from that - including a Reggae part I'm just busy ripping by now. I'm on R 19 (of 36)
My method then was to give something I called "signum" like David Bowie = DB and only recording stuff from one artist under that "signum". Well today, we all call this an "index" but then I was dreaming of a machine, where I could correct my faults on the writing machine I used not with Tipp-Ex but only by pushing a button ... That came some years later in my life but the bureaucrat in me had develloped a paper sheet to document every tape I recorded
When my first MSX homecomputer allowed me to store the stuff in a CP/M (later known as DOS) compatible form I copied all the sheets to files and my first "serious" software allowed me, what I dreamed of : "Hits" from 1992, written in Clipper, based on a "relational" database, and I can use it even today on a WinXP machine ... Yup, I Was A Nerd Before You Were A nerd ;)
Snoid Studios was one of my main sources. He had "style" in everything, made me read the books of Robert Anton Wilson, good american underground comics and ... listen to good music, from the Dead to Zappa, from "Krautrock" to Reggae. I'm still grateful for everything he teached me then and I look forward to my birthday and his yearly visit in the "garage" (next month btw. my 7th birthday was ruined by someone killing JFK)
And here we are: Some years ago another friend of mine from the old days, bernd, having always the best music machines like nakamishi tapes and self constructed boxes, started ripping proessionaly some of Snoid Studios Reggae singles. And here they are
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