Derek's Dime Museum

I'm just listening to the "Ventures in Space", which is probably their best offering ever after the first few LP's. It's an outstanding LP, way beyond the usual Ventures album and it rarely gets played or a fair shake...  It's highly collectible now, so… more »

A lot of people think this LP from 1987, was the SPK end.  The reality is that there are very few commercial tracks on this LP, basically it's the first three on side one.  Everything else is great and you should give this a listen more »

I've always been a big of Orchestral Maneuvers in the Dark, but I'm just listening to Yellow Magic Orchestra from 1979 and I swear the track La Femme Chinoise contains the best riff from OMD's Genetic Engineering.  and it's just a throwaway… more »

Electronic Music: Turnabout 1965 Interesting artifact with meeping, UFO sounds  and noise, includes some very dark moments from the dawn of the synth.  Good test for your turntable.  Features Walter Carlos.  Some of this sounds current. Susan Jacks:… more »

  Roches - Another World Wow, what happened here?  The first LP is SO sweet and raw and unproduced, and that was the whole appeal of The Roches.  This one has an over-produced eighties "sound" including synths which doesn't work with these beautiful… more »