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I hit up Dusty Groove a couple weeks ago during a break in class (which was happening in the gallery upstairs at Corbett vs. Dempsey). In fifteen minutes I managed to find some cool stuff.

• Beastie Boys: Paul’s Boutique - The deluxe 20th anniversary reissue and all I had intended to buy.
• Gilles Peterson: Digs America 2 - Overall I’m not as impressed as I thought I’d be.
• various artists: Welcome to the Basement (A Spicy Mixture from Black and Latin America) - I don’t know anything about the label that put out these last two comps other than that they’re German. Both are pretty good and there’s a third volume I think I’ll need to get.
• various artists: Cold Sweat (From Jazz to Soul ‘n’ Funk to Blaxploitation)

Then a week later I swung by Jazz Record Mart for the first time in about a year. I told myself I was only going to buy one record and ended up with three:

• Jack McDuff: Gin & Orange - Dusty Groove reissued this on CD recently.
• Herbie Hancock: Blow-Up OST - For anyone who ever wondered where the bassline on “Groove is in the Heart” came from.
• various artists: Nigeria 70 Lagos Jump - Sequel to what, for me, is still the best afrobeat/afrofunk compilation ever assembled and the one which turned me into a fiend for all things Nigerian from the 70’s. I downloaded this from emusic awhile back and tried looking online for it on vinyl at the time with no luck so I was surprised to stumble across this. !K7 has taken over Strut and I’m really hoping they’re gonna get the entire catalog back in print.

I have a couple pieces in a show up now at Roots and Culture through March 21. They’re part of Robert Snowden and Carson Salter’s publication/curatorial project called FloorPlan which consists of drawings of sitcom residences executed from memory. Each artist participating was asked to create drawings from memory of the main sets from Seinfeld, The Simpsons, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, The Cosby Show or Full House. Some of the results are pretty fantastic and many include notes about what they do and do not remember. There’s even one of the upstairs of the Full House house by Mary Kate Olsen. Can’t wait to see the book. More on The End of Analog.

Me and the Floor Plans (my two second and third from the top, closest to me)