If I haven’t been doing much recently I have at least been picking up records. Here’s some bits I’ve grarpsedd in the last month or so.

Pretty much started and completed my Leon Thomas solo collection in one go. That Louis Hayes has a great “My Favourite Things” on it. The Impulse comp is a nice curio and “Bill Cosby Talks To Kids About Drugs” is just as good as you’re imagining.

ToTP theme tune & best Led Zep cover of all time. “Optimo” is probably my favourite white record of the early 80s and “Cavern”’s not to shabby either. That Fantuzzi is nuts btw. Daft.

I still buy raps. I was moaning that you never get nice US pressings of the early Def Jam albums and then that “Radio” plopped into my lap.

That Kain LP is only a reissue so it remains one of my most wanted, being as it is the source of most of the vocal samples on KMD’s “Black Bastards”.

Nice Yazz.

The Marvin, Otis and Last Poets are gorgeous american originals and look, I finally got something on Motown’s Black Forum Records. A good one at that.

That’s some of what I’ve got recently. It’s a good time for records.

Oh yeah, I’m also accumulating Christmas records at my regular pace.

The 12″ on the bottom right is the Jim Jones/Dipset christmas song which I just had to get on vinyl. The Colonel Sanders one is a bit crap but it looks great.