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BOOK REVIEW IN THE NY TIMES

Dust & Grooves in the New York Times

NYT captureNew York Times’ Larry Rohter compares two books about vinyl record collecting and shares some eclectic photos from Eilon Paz’s debut photography book Dust & Grooves: Adventures in Record Collecting. The first run sold out, but a second edition (including an interview with Questlove) is due out in October…

Below is an excerpt from the feature, and you can read the full article here:

Coveting Vintage Discs in a Digital Universe

BY LARRY ROHTER

“…Eilon Paz’s “Dust & Grooves: Adventures in Record Collecting” makes clear that collectors of vinyl can be just as eccentric and obsessive. His lavishly illustrated coffee-table book contains portraits of some 130 “record diggers,” as he sometimes calls them, who have often gravitated to genres as obscure as Turkish psychedelia, “Sesame Street” albums, lounge acts, sexploitation and horror film soundtracks, ’60s girl groups from France and Japan, and even colored discs.

Ms. Petrusich focuses on the East Coast of the United States, but Mr. Paz, an Israeli-born photographer who created the Dust & Grooves collectors’ website, ranges wider.”

Read more at nytimes.com.

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