A CD sleeve with a hazy image in shades of red. Tipped 90 degrees and running bottom-to-top is pinkish lowercase sans serif text reading “eliane radigue naldjorlak pour charles curtis - violincelle”

Now playing: Eliane Radigue - Naldjorlak CD (2008, Shiin). I got to see Charles Curtis play this in Oakland, and it was incredible. RIP Eliane Radigue. #recordsthegoodkind #nowplaying

A Digipak CD case leans against a piece of electronic equipment with a black face and wood casing. The CD cover is of green weeping willow leaves and branches hanging over water that reflects the weeping willow. The artist’s name and track titles are at the lower left in a small white “computery” font, and the title in the same font but larger and in pink.

Now playing: Rosy Parlane - Jessamine CD (2025, Touch). Absolutely top-notch extended float, with Marcel Bear on shimsaw - that’s a credit I’ve not seen in 30+ years. #nowplaying #musicisayes #recordsthegoodkind

A slipcase CD cover. The cover art is a sepia-ish photo of plants in a greenhouse, with the band name and title in small, black sans serif font. A light from behind the photographer glares on part of the slightly glossy surface, and the CD cover leans against a preamplifier with a wood case and black face.

now playing: The Necks - Disquiet CD (2025, Northern Spy). Currently in the midst of the brain-breaking rhythmic fuckery of Disc 2. #nowplaying #theforbiddenformat #recordsthegoodkind

CD booklet art: a white field, mostly covered with small, evenly spaced and sized dots. The bottom 1/8th is just white, and says ‘vespertine’ in lowercase sans serif font to the upper right of the white space.

Now playing: Birchville Cat Motel - Vespertine CDR (2000, Last Visible Dog). This one has thus far escaped disc rot and three children going through the terrible twos. Four-track hovering mystery at its finest. #recordsthegoodkind #nowplaying

Now playing: Michael Beach - The Sea/de facto Blues 7” (2024, 25 Diamonds) “The Sea” is great, sort of working around a piano riff that sounds a whole lot like the Velvets’ “Murder Mystery.” #nowplaying #recordsthegoodkind #singlesparty

Record sleeve leaning against a turntable with a black plinth. The sleeve is a pale pastel blue with pinkish lettering and similarly pinkish images of roses at the mid-to-lower right corner.

Now playing: Au Pairs - Diet/It’s Obvious 7” (1980, 021/Human). #nowplaying #recordsthegoodkind #singlesparty

Plain white record sleeve with the band name and title in black, off-center to the left on the upper half. At the bottom right in a small black-outlined box in small black letters: A BBC recording.

Now playing: Swell Maps - The John Peel Sessions (2025, Mute). OF COURSE my household needed additional recordings of “Veryical Slum,” “Full Moon in my Pocket,” “Armadillo,” et al. #recordsthegoodkind #nowplaying #diy

CD cover. It’s pretty simple: a matte black background with kd II in gold gothic script.

Now playing: Kevin Drumm - Sheer Hellish Miasma II CD (2025, Erstwhile). #recordsthegoodkind #nowplaying #noise

Amateur Hour - Går I Kras LP (2025, Appetite). Smeared late-night psychedelic menace, fir which I have a great appetite. #nowplaying #swenoise #recordsthegoodkind

Record sleeve with a color photo of a beach scene. In the foreground, the rear end of a big American late-50s/early 60s car sticks out of the sand, next to two chairs with a yellow-and-orange floral pattern at a yellow table, beneath a frilly yellow umbrella. In the background is Young in white pants and yellow suit jacket, long brown hair hanging past his shoulders, back to the camera.

Now playing: Neil Young - On The Beach LP (1974, Reprise). #nowplaying #recordsthegoodkind

Record sleeve with what seems to be a child’d drawing of three ling, strip, six-legged dragons roaring at the Moon.

Now playing: Laughing Clowns - Laughter Around the Table LP (1983, Red Flame). Every rocker I know from Australia and New Zealand worships Ed Kuepper. This particular Laughing Clowns record reminds of the Blue Orchids, which is JUST FINE. #nowplaying #recordsthegoodkind

Record cover with a slate-blue field. At the center is glued a small b&w photo of an African-American man in a dark suit, holding an electric guitar. All around the photo are gold-foil embossed lightning bolts, as though shooting out of the photo.

Now playing: V/A - All of This Goes Too: American Soul Music 1955-1972 LP (2018, Cairo). As with all things Cairo Records, a great soul mixtape with an extensive booklet of notes, which happens to be a double LP. #nowplaying #soul #recordsthegoodkind

Record sleeve: b&w photo of the band’s singer gripping a microphone in a dark, low-ceilinged club. There’s a red border around the photo; superimposed over the photo at upper left is a red box with white italicized lettering with the band’s name, and below that a white box with the title in red italics.

Now playing: Hardware - Untitled LP, 1979 LP (2025, Dirty Knobby). A great public service in compiling their two excellent 7s from the N.A.R.C. label, plus two unreleased songs. If you like Ubu, NNB, The Fall, this will do the job. #diy #nowplaying #recordsthegoodkind

7” picture sleeve featuring a black-and-white photograph of the front of a late-1970s Dodge van converted into a camper. Curtains cover the windshield and camper’s front window. The band name is in black bold lettering on the camper shell, and the title below the front bumper.

Now playing: Cheater Slicks - I Am Low 7” (2024, Morbid Web) #nowplaying #recordsthegoodkind

7” picture sleeve with a black-and-white photograph of a shambling, run-down light-colored clapboard house. Above the house is black, all-caps text with the artists’ names, then a new line with the title, both lines centered on the sleeve.

Now playing: Don Howland/Cheater Slicks - Endgame 7” (2025, Morbid Web) #nowplaying #recordsthegoodkind

Record sleeve with a natural cardboard-colored tannish field, the band name printed in green all-caps at the upper left, and a photo image also printed in green monochrome, what appears to be a fogged-in boreal forest river valley.

Now playing: Kroppskännedom - Kroppskännedom LP (2025, Morc). Mildly noisy, almost subconscious repeato Swe-noise, with a few guest appearances from Sofie Herner, whom you already know if you spend too much on Swedish free-noise records. #recordsthegoodkind #nowplaying

Pinkish album sleeve with simulated dirt, mildew, and ringwear and a stamped “GALAXIE 500 UNCOLLECTED” right of center and a bit crooked but almost vertically centered. There’s also a fake round silver-foil sticker crookedly applied left and above center, which has an image of a human eye in the middle and “SILVER CURRENT RECORDS” around the periphery.

Now playing: Galaxie 500 - Uncollected Noise New York ‘88-‘90 LP (2024, Silver Current) Excellent collection of outtakes and non-album singles. #nowplaying #recordsthegoodkind

A record sleeve, the right 2/3 of which are dominated by an old sepia-toned b&w photograph of a steam locomotive that has burst out the far side of a roundhouse, which happens to be on the second story of the building on this side. The left 1/3 is a dark-green color. At the top left is a hand-scrawled title in large red lettering, straying into the locomotive photo. At the bottom left and tidily contained in the green are two thin red horizontal bars, between which “the ex + tom cora” is typed in a lowercase sans serif font, also in red.

Now playing: The Ex and Tom Cora - Scrabbling at the Lock LP (1991, Ex Records). Great-sounding, and Cora’s cello is so well folded into The Ex’s noisy postpunk. The several Mediterranean-sounding songs are especially striking. #nowplaying #recordsthegoodkind

Record sleeve with the upper 2/3 of the field in white, the rest black. Atop the black is a high-rise cityscape in off-color-register brown, red, green, and yellow. At the top the band name is in big, bold all-caps block letters, and below that the title is in tiny lowercase.

Now playing: Man Sized Action - Five Story Garage LP (1984, Reflex). Still good and a nervous jitter somewhere in the Feelies-Urinals/100 Flowers neighborhood remains, but the guitar work is a lot further in the Hüsker shadow. #nowplaying #recordsthegoodkind

Record sleeve, with a bright red field; the band name is at the top left and title at the lower left, both in black, Italicized sans serif lettering. Off-center to the right between the text is a square with a white background and a drawing of a man’s head, hands to his cheeks somewhat like Munch’s “The Scream.”

Now playing: Man Sized Action - Claustrophobia LP (1983, Reflex) Another one inherited from my brother-in-law, who played out with them some times but is not on either record. This is really good, at times like a burlier Feelies. #nowplaying #recordsthegoodkind

Record cover with a bunch going on. All text hand-inked, I think. The edges are white - a bit dingy on my copy - and most of the field is a pinkish-orange square-ish field, on which, clockwise from upper left: the title; the black stylized T of the Takoma logo and a bold print all-caps STEREO on white; a reddish-brown background with “The Volk Roots & Hiart Leaves of” - switch to an off-white field - “JOHN FAHEY. BLIND JOE DEATH. HUBERT THOMAS. VIRGIL WILLIS JOHNSTON. L. MAYNE SMITH. MARK LEVINE.” A new gray blob says “THE FAHEY PICTURE ALBUM: GENUINE PHOTOGRAPHS OF BLIND JOE DEATH, KNOTTS BERRY FARM MOLLY, THE ADELPHI ROLLING GRIST MILL, &c.” A blob with a pale-green background features a drawing of a turtle on a rock, small green islands in the background. The furthest back has a palm tree. Last, another blob with reddish-brown field; the text reads “Being a Musical Hodograph & Chronologue of the Music of JOHN FAHEY, Including his most recent Composition, “The Story of Dorothy Gooch.”

Now playing: John Fahey - The Voice of the Turtle LP (1968, Takoma). My first exposure to Fahey was my mom buying me a CD copy of this somewhere in the mid-90s. #recordsthegoodkind #nowplaying

CD sleeve with a mostly black background, overlaid with golden paired lines, perhaps a maze? At the lower left is the group’s name in bold sans serif letters; below that is the title in all lowercase, and jumbled up in various triangular arrangements.

Now playing: Hubbub - abb abb abb CD (2024, Relative Pitch). French quintet EAI not a long way from 90s AMM, though the sounds are delivered more in slow pulses than strata. #nowplaying #recordsthegoodkind #eai

Record sleeve with a black charcoal drawing of a frog on a white background. The title and subtitle are left-justified in italic black text at the lower left.

Now playing: Frogs: A Selection of Field Recordings by Felix Hess LP (2024, Dead Mind). Acoustic herpetology fun, compiled from records Hess put out in the 1980s. #nowplaying #recordsthegoodkind

Black-and-white record sleeve, with a broad black band down the left side with white letters reading NOMMO. The upper right has a photo of Graves and Pulken, two African-American men standing in a lush garden in suits and ties. The lower right has a white band with the artists’ names in all caps.

Now playing: Milford Graves with Don Pullen - Nommo LP (1967; reissue 2023, Superior Viaduct). Masters of free drums and piano, live at Yale University. #freejazz #nowplaying #recordsthegoodkind

Record cover with deep purple background, embossed with gold foil symbols at each corner (a scale; Saturn; a pyramid, and a snake encircling a shining sun), and a large gold foil circle at the center with a black-and-white portrait photo of two African-American men in white shirts and dark suit jackets.

Now playing: Various - The River’s Invitation: American Soul Music 1960-1973 LP (2022, Cairo). Latest addition in my house from Cairo’s fine series of soul mixtapes-on-vinyl. #soul #nowplaying #recordsthegoodkind

CD cover art, plain white background with Ghost Bells in small black lettering at upper left, and a pen-and-ink drawing of a pair of over-the-ear headphones and their curly cable.

Now playing: Ghost Bells - Another Sunday CD (2024, Another Sunday). NZ instro electric trio in the free-noise zone, albeit with some recognizable riffs now and again. Porteous/Elborado/Yeats bring some pedigree. I learned of this via @radiodiesscreaming.bsky.social #nowplaying #recordsthegoodkind

A record cover: black background with three explosion-ish white irregular shapes, each with SHOP REGULARS typed inside them in a bold font. At the lower right is 33 1/3 RPM STEREO in white letters.

Now playing: Shop Regulars s/t LP (2024, Merrie Melodies). Jammy (presumably) stoned repetition, like if the Feelies liked Beefheart more than the Velvets. #recordsthegoodkind #nowplaying

Record cover with a color flash photo of what I presume is the band playing at a house party. A man is seated on the floor, gripping a microphone with both hands; he is in short blue shorts and a red print shirt with a cutoff midriff. One blue-jeaned leg, the body of a yellow guitar, and the right hand are visible of one guitarist; on the opposite side of the singer are the brown pants, black guitar, blue long sleeves, and right hand of the second guitarist. A large, sweaty man leans over the singer, as does a blonde woman and another less visible man.

Now playing: Stiff Richards - Dig EP (2018; reissue 2020, Erste Theke Tonträger). They operate in a space I’ll lazily describe as like Eddy Current Suppression Ring, if they were more Willamson-era Stooges than Wire/Fall. Let’s get ‘em to Gonerfest. #nowplaying #recordsthegoodkind

Record cover with a painting of the back of a man; to his side is a head-sized globe. All this is in reds and browns and yellows. A serif-happy all-caps announces GLOBE UNITY ALEXANDER VON SCHLIPPENBACH” at the top center.

Now playing: Alexander von Schlippenbach - Globe Unity LP (1967; reissue 2022, Corbett vs. Dempsey). Schlippenbach’s first as leader, and I think his first recorded appearance, period. Some fine post-Cecil barrage; some meandering “avant.” #nowplaying #recordsthegoodkind

Record sleeve with a blue-tinted black-and-white profile head shot of Hubbard in partial shadow, looking intently at something, mouth a bit open. The top left says READY FOR FREDDIE, then FREDDIE HUBBARD in all caps - the title in a very light turquoise blue, the artist’s name in white. Beneath that, in lowercase and the same blue as the title, is the rest of the ensemble: “with wayne shorter bernard mckinney/mccoy tyner art davis/elvin jones”. This is followed by the catalog number and “STEREO BLUE NOTE.”

Now playing: Discogs inventory project, record #20: Freddie Hubbard - Ready for Freddie LP (1961; reissue, 1995, Blue Note). A fine record with a superb band, including half or 3/4 of the John Ctrane Quartet, depending how much credit you want to give Art Davis. #nowplaying #recordsthegoodkind