Sometimes, for whatever reason, great art slips past audiences and remains woefully underappreciated. Which is why we’ve created an essay series called Fossil Records, devoted to helping people discover lost and obscure work that never got its due. Ambient music, though conceptually simple, perpetually walks a tricky line: make it too minimal and it risks being boring […]
Fossil Records: Lowdown da Sinista’s Coming for Your Soul
Sometimes, for whatever reason, great art slips past audiences and remains woefully underappreciated. Which is why we’ve created an essay series called Fossil Records, devoted to helping people discover lost and obscure work that never got its due. As far as I can tell, there is no widely available information on rap artist Lowdown da Sinista aside […]
Fossil Records: The Units’ Digital Stimulation
Sometimes, for whatever reason, great art slips past audiences and remains woefully underappreciated. Which is why we’ve created an essay series called Fossil Records, devoted to helping people discover work that never got its due. The creative process gets compared to conception and gestation fairly frequently and for good reason. There is the conception of an idea […]
Fossil Records: Jean Pierre Decerf’s Space Oddities
Sometimes, for whatever reason, great art slips past audiences and remains woefully underappreciated. Which is why we’ve created an essay series called Fossil Records, devoted to helping people discover work that never got its due. Go deep enough in crate digging culture and eventually you’ll encounter the mysterious world of music libraries. Essentially a service for […]
Fossil Records: Peter Ivers’ Terminal Love
Sometimes, for whatever reason, great art slips past audiences and remains woefully underappreciated. Which is why we’ve created an essay series called Fossil Records, devoted to helping people discover work that never got its due. A frequent point of similarity with lost albums and artists is being a little too forward thinking, but few artists have been […]
Fossil Records: Cambodian Rocks
Sometimes, for whatever reason, great art slips past audiences and remains woefully underappreciated. Which is why we’ve created an essay series called Fossil Records, devoted to helping people discover work that never got its due. Like so many budding music geeks before me, one of my first jobs was behind the cash register at a local record […]