Before the record industry set upon the rubber pellets that now make up the vast majority of humanity’s record collections, music was pressed on shellac, a much more brittle product—it is often made out of a resin literally from bugs. Shellac was mostly too brittle to try to print a full LP on, so most of the records made from it are 78-singles. Owing to that fragile quality, and for how utterly disposable the single was in the pre-1960 era—a lot of 78s were pressed by furniture companies trying to sell record cabinets, with records as an add-on—78s are some of the most sought after records in all of the crate digging universe; the subject of books, $37,000 purchases, and New York Times Magazine multimedia projects.
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78转的唱片在互联网上极为罕见，因为将它们从原始来源转换——这往往只是一个压制盘本身；那时录音室还不存在——使得许多数字文件带有嘶嘶声，让人们不太可能在iTunes上冒险购买它们。然而，本月刚上线的一个惊人项目旨在将尽可能多的78转唱片上传到互联网上供免费下载。
互联网档案馆与纽约当代音乐档案馆（ARC）合作，通过保存78转唱片以供后代使用，将尽可能多的录音上传到互联网上。他们已经上传了超过30,000个录音，从约德尔到夏威夷音乐，还有一些最早的合成器录音。当全部完成后，计划存档接近200,000张唱片。
那么，你应该从哪里开始听这些呢？好吧，有大量像山姆·库克和灵魂激动者这样的福音音乐，布鲁斯(乔舒亚·怀特, 桑尼·博伊·威廉姆森, 铅腹先生, 和 盲柠檬·杰斐逊), 以及汉克·威廉姆斯的乡村音乐。还有极其丰富的爵士乐选择, 主要是比波普之前流行的迪克西兰版本，意第绪语课程, 以及可能是有史以来最早的版本的《太阳升起的房子》（比动物乐队早25年）。有一些值得选择的 圣诞 歌曲, 木工刨声音效果的唱片, 以及伊迪丝·皮雅芙的杰作。但这个周末我最开心的是探索夏威夷音乐档案, 因为很多这些东西还没有进入世界音乐经典。
综上所述，这是我迄今为止最喜欢的发现：形成卢·贝加“曼波五号”的采样。
Andrew Winistorfer is Senior Director of Music and Editorial at Vinyl Me, Please, and a writer and editor of their books, 100 Albums You Need in Your Collection and The Best Record Stores in the United States. He’s written Listening Notes for more than 30 VMP releases, co-produced multiple VMP Anthologies, and executive produced the VMP Anthologies The Story of Vanguard, The Story of Willie Nelson, Miles Davis: The Electric Years and The Story of Waylon Jennings. He lives in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
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