25ThC – Forty Five Kings Collective – 75th Mix: An Eclectic Selection of 7’s In addition to 45 Day I am heavily involved with the Forty Five Kings Collective and in particular in heading up and running live streams for the collective on their Twitch channel. They
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The Traffic – Beat it/Thriller – 45 Day Review If you have listened to any of my mixes or radio shows you will know that I am a big fan of cover versions. I already own a number of The Traffic’s releases on 45 which are always
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45 Day now in Days of the Year! After 45 Day last year Mark James from Soul 45 suggested that I should submit 45 Day to Days of the Year as it was going to be a regular event and it would help to spread the word
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Rare~Grills Interview You are a reader in Ethnomusicology. Can you tell us what this entails and what first drew you to this area of study. I’ve been Reader in Ethnomusicology for two years, but my research has been rooted in ethnomusicology for a long time, it just
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Obliveus – Interview You have a large collection of 45s spanning many different genres. What would you say is your strangest 45 purchase and how did that come about. did come away with Jim Nabor’s doing ‘The Impossible Dream’ from an op-shop once and anyone that knows
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WeeG – Interview When did you first fall in love with the 45 format and why do you still spin 45s? Hi, thanks so much for inviting me to do the guest mix for you and the interview. I’d also like to thank both you and Rob
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MiSTerSalT – Custom 45s sleeves 45 Day 2020 DJ and Artist MiSTerSalT designs custom sleeves for 45s. We found out more about what inspires him and his techniques. Creatively, I go by the name MiSTerSalT, real name Paul Salt. I bought my first pair of turntables in 1989
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Professor Gramophone – A DJ’s Tragic Shellac Love Story, Played at 78 rpm Following on from Nick Carlings article on 10″ records, we asked Professor Gramophone to tell us about his love of 78s. I’d been in and around a few vintage events through my partner as
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Lets hear it for the 10’s! Here at 45 Day we firmly believe that 7″ vinyl is the greatest musical format. There are however other vinyl formats available and we thought it was only fair to see what they have to offer. Nick Carling from Fruitful Soundsystem gives
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77 Sevens Around the time that 45 Day was being launched, Lee Poynter was busy putting together his own unique 45s project – 77 Sevens. Lee tells us more about how it came together. The 77 Sevens project has just dropped (what I’m optimistically calling) ‘Volume One’,
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