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Before Dubplates There Were Bones: The Soviet X-Ray Vinyl Story

How Cold War Leningrad pressed its forbidden records into other people’s skeletons, and why every bedroom producer who has ever cut a dubplate owes...
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Godskitchen, Reloaded: Fergie Returns to the Room That Made Him

The last time Decoded sat down properly with Fergie aka Robert Ferguson, Daz Pearson was holding the dictaphone, the venue conversation revolved around Legends...
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Fergus Alexander: 25 years of Raving through the shadows of Brisbane

It’s close to 2pm when Fergus Alexander pulls up outside my hotel in Brisbane’s inner north, engine idling, a faint pulse of Selador sessions leaking through...
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Throwback Thursday: The Technics SL-DZ1200 — Beautiful, Ambitious, and a Little Broken

There are pieces of gear that divide a room, and the Technics SL-DZ1200 is one of them. Even now, mentioning it to the right...
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Korg Revives the Vestax Handy Trax Portable Turntable

Have you ever just wanted to play your records anywhere? Not in a club, not in a bedroom, not tethered to a setup that...
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The Record Crate Gets Its Long Overdue Redesign

There’s a particular kind of frustration that every serious record collector knows. You’ve spent years, possibly decades, building a collection that means something to...
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From DJs to Data Points: How We Traded Musical Expertise for Engagement Metrics

Recently over the holidays, I took advantage of a Spotify deal, 2 months free back on an account I stopped paying for a year...
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Spin Class: The 10 Most Expensive Turntables in the World

Let’s face it, most of us are lucky to snag a nice Technics 1210 with a decent cartridge and call it a day. Whether...
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The Tiny Giant: How Sony’s MiniDisc Almost Changed Everything

It’s 1992, you’re holding a disc the size of a business card, encased in a protective shell that clicks satisfyingly shut. You slide it...
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The ELP Laser Turntable: When Japanese Precision Meets Vinyl Obsession

How a $15,000 laser turntable became the holy grail for vinyl purists who refuse to let their records dieThere’s something beautifully ironic about using...
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