Vinyl Destination – Page 11 – Records, design and thoughts. Simon Minter is a freelance designer from Oxford, UK.

THE SOUP DRAGONS: Hang-Ten! E.P. (12″, Raw TV…

- March 27, 2010 - simonminter 2 Comments

People often bang on about the fashion/style wasteland of the 1970s, but I'd suggest that the mid-to-late 1980s were in fact one of the darkest times in Britain's sartorial history. I remember, as a naive…

12" / Normal music

SUEDE: Animal Nitrate (12″, Nude NUD 4T, 1993)

- March 18, 2010 - simonminter 3 Comments

Sleeve designed by Andrew Biscomb & Peter Barrett. I only picked this record up a couple of years ago, along with a couple of other Suede 12"s, from an Oxfam shop. I recall though, way…

LP / Weirdo Folk Music / Wraparound sleeve

VARIOUS: By The Fruits… You Shall Know The…

- March 14, 2010 - simonminter 3 Comments

This triple album could be seen as an important part of the early development of a now-popular 'new psychedelic folk' scene. I'm not sure when it came out, but it was several years ago, before…

C JOYNES: The Running Board (7″, The Great…

- March 8, 2010 - simonminter 2 Comments

Here's an interesting situation. For the first time, my random number generator has pointed me at a record that I know I own, but which has become misplaced in my carefully-arranged (or perhaps, not so…

7" / Coloured vinyl / Freebies and inserts / Post-rock-type Stuff

CALVADOS BEAM TRIO: [Untitled] (7″, Bearos BEAROS014, ?)

- February 27, 2010 - simonminter comment

Groovy packaging on this record. I'm a big fan of the use of transaparency and opacity effects in design, especially when it's used to mess with your mind a little bit. Not sure that it'll…

7" / Indie Rock Punk Noise / Silkscreened / Wraparound sleeve

FEDERATION X: Nude Disintegrating Parachutist Woman (7″, Wäntage…

- February 18, 2010 - simonminter comment

What a great cover design. Totally meaningless, seemingly unconnected to anything, but bold and striking enough to make me ponder at length about how and why some bird-headed warriors on horseback are representative of Federation…

12" / Indie Rock Punk Noise

THEE HYPNOTICS: Floatin’ In My Hoodoo Dream (12″,…

- February 13, 2010 - simonminter 4 Comments

This was a charity shop purchase at some point during the 1990s. Thee Hypnotics weren't (indeed, aren't) a band I felt particularly desperate to hear, but at the time my thinking would have been influenced…

7" / Indie-pop

COMET GAIN: Strength (7″, Wiiija WIJ66, 1997)

- February 7, 2010 - simonminter 1 Comment

This is a great record. 'Strength' is a little slice of girl-group/Motown-infused indie-pop that is a lot more proficient and 'together'-sounding than pretty much anything else you might hear by Comet Gain. That might sound…

7" / Indie-pop / Wraparound sleeve

MECCA NORMAL: Rose (7″, K IPU 32, 1992)

- January 23, 2010 - simonminter 1 Comment

This is another choice from a pile of seven inch singles that I purchased from a kindly Brighton-based seller on eBay some years ago. I think I've mentioned this transaction on here before. It was…

VIBRACATHEDRAL ORCHESTRA/THE TELESCOPES: Live at AUDIOSCOPE04 (10″, Fourier…

- January 21, 2010 - simonminter comment

Aha, good work, random number generator. You've selected a record that I have several interests in. Firstly, I created this record. Kind of. Now, I wasn't involved in the music, you understand, but Fourier Transform…