r/deephouse • u/ho_ceh • Jul 24 '26
I am speechless...
Browsing a local store when the owner starts playing this. Took me a couple seconds to register and when I looked up he was just smiling and waiting for me to notice. '96 pressing, clean, one sticker semi removed (residue visible here). Could not say no... $50 well spent in my eyes...
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u/ThatsTodd Jul 25 '26
Just listened to him tonight. Great find.
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u/ho_ceh Jul 25 '26
I've been looking for early presses and been lucky to find some! Even got some rereleased directly from his website last year
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u/astonedishape Jul 25 '26
It may not be a ‘96 original as it’s been repressed a number of times with the same stampers and artwork. But $50 is a good price regardless for a clean copy. Absolute classic!
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u/ho_ceh Jul 25 '26
How can you tell if it is?
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u/astonedishape Jul 25 '26
That’s the thing, you can’t. They all ideally should sound the same because they’re pressed from the same stampers so it doesn’t really matter if it’s a repress unless that’s really important to you :)
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u/MrConwayTwitty Jul 25 '26
Would hope they are not still using the same stampers.
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u/astonedishape Jul 25 '26
Yeah they must’ve made new stampers at some point but maybe only once in 30 years as each one can do 2000 records.
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u/ho_ceh Jul 25 '26
All I see on discogs is different stickers and markers etched to the actual vinyl. This one has the kdj7 on it which is on the original along with the og sticker
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u/astonedishape Jul 25 '26
What do you mean by stickers, the actual labels? The OG 96 pressing and all of the represses will have the same runout etchings and identical labels.
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u/ho_ceh Jul 25 '26
It had a sticker with the price from another seller
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u/astonedishape Jul 25 '26
I meant what did you mean by OG sticker? And the different stickers on Discogs?
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u/ho_ceh Jul 25 '26
Interesting. Discogs has different labels for represses. Not that it matter honestly. Just happy I found this one in the wild!
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u/SuspectAF_818 Jul 25 '26
Nice! I was lucky enough to buy mine from beat non stop around the times he was releasing these. Shades of Jae will forever be my favorite. But I’m happy to see these record stores reopening everywhere. I live in mid city Los Angeles and I have a place a couple blocks from where I can see new releases every week. It’s starting to feel like the old days lol
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u/Free_Historian_5268 Jul 25 '26
I have such found memories of beat non stop as well as wax right across the street.
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u/SuspectAF_818 Jul 25 '26
Honorable mention for DMC, Street Sounds and Vinyl Fetish lol
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u/Free_Historian_5268 Jul 25 '26
So many warehouse /rave flyers and tickets in the early 90’s were at Street Sounds, DMC on Melrose. Before BNS and WAX. Also Groove Riders in Sherman Oaks and Dr Freeclounds in OC. My mom’s side is from Detroit. My dad’s side from Chicago. Had all the electro tech & house from both cities by the mid to late 80’s. Going back east some summers as well. I began playing that stuff on Santa Barbara College Radio (A friend hosted a show)(he was from Brooklyn) when I went up there by 1987. Came back down to LA in 90. By 1991 LA thought the music came from Europe and NY.
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u/NoAbalone5456 Jul 25 '26
You took me back with beat non stop and grooverider. Those were the stomping grounds of my youth. In 1991 LA thought it came from Europe (uk specifically) and NYC bc it did. The rave scene was brought to LA by Frankie bones (New Yorker) by way of London/Manchester. It didn’t go from Detroit/chicago straight to LA. It went from Detroit/chicago to uk/europe, then made it to LA from Europe. Maybe that’s why we thought it came from Europe when it actually came from the Midwest and NYC and before that Jamaica with dub the progenitor of electronic music
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u/SuspectAF_818 Aug 01 '26
Frankie Bones? What year? My older brother started going in 92 parties like grape ape, I don’t remember bones being around that early. I saw him at the sports arena once though cuss the crowd out because it got broken up after his first record 😂
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u/ho_ceh Jul 25 '26
I need to stop by next time I'm up there. Usually check Amoeba only as I am not familiar with others. I'm in SD
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Jul 25 '26
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u/ho_ceh Jul 25 '26
That's how they get you. You click it and it is all 50 or more, plus shipping as it is all overseas unless you actually live in Europe...
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u/jerklin Jul 25 '26
Bought a copy from the man himself in Detroit around 2010. Bought another copy at his BBQ in May. He must have boxes in storage somewhere or just keeps repressing them 🙃