The one with the pounds had lorem ipsum. Definitely was a free template for someone to use to advertise their own club. And then the others, like you say, were chopped up concert / gig posters that someone in china must have found doing an image search. Super neat imo
Not even real event posters, just templates with filler text - you can even see a block of Lorem ipsum at 3:47. They're probably free templates on one of those cheerful-looking online design apps like Canva.
The Marilyn Monroe label says "Fluss Ohne Wiederkehr" on it, that's the German title for "River of No Return", which is indeed a Movie starring Marilyn Monroe.
I think they’re “promos for promos”, and were made by an event promotion merchandise manufacturer, to send out to venues, to say “Hey, we can make your flyers look like vinyl records for just x amount of cents per unit!”, with generic “Imagine your business name here!” kind of labels.. one for more “trendy” clubs, one for rock and alternative nights, one for retro ‘60s vinyl nights etc.
Those not-fake decorative records seem like an easy way to start an instant international record collection, with unusual sounding songs to peruse through... :P
Wow, those "Fake" real records are actually cool as hell. They are basically Record Loot Boxes as you'll never know what your gonna get. That first Japanese Album sounded surprisingly awesome and the 1 sided Columbia record would make for a cool decoration with Columbia embossed on one side.
These were supposed to be simply fake records, and you received double fake records, so the seller gave you more than you wanted. In my opinion there is no reason to be dissatisfied 😂
@@sjefhendrickx2257 well, let’s say you’re from Western Europe and the records are from Japan, which is an island; wouldn’t that make them to be from overseas to you as well? 🧐
I've bought quite a few batches on 7" singles sold for "art/display use only" & "unplayable". Each batch were either of 50 or 100. Using my ultrasonic cleaner I've been able to play around 95% & add them to my collection. Richard, UK
Back in the 80's there was a second hand books and records shop near me, I would go in about once or twice a month and buy a bag of 20 or so LP's for next to nothing. There were some quite good albums from artists I've never heard of before or since. (and a lot of utter crap. lol)
@@frankowalker4662 I can remember there were bargain bins where they sold 7"'s for about 20% of the normal price which wouldn't sell otherwise. The catch was they were tuckered close so you couldn't listen to them in advance. But I bought quite a few of those, and some were actually pretty nice. Some of them had unknown songs by artists I knew, so I took a chance on them, and there was a specific one among those that still puzzles me - "Tu" by Umberto Tozzi - because it's actually a pretty well-known song which you can still hear on the radio today here in Vienna. I bought another batch in the early 90's when they sold off unsold singles by local artists which were a few years old, which you actually could consider rarities because they got some airplay when they were released, but failed to chart highly, still I could remember them.
The surviving Beastie Boys in a recent interview described a time they were high and took their Paul's Boutique gold record down from the wall to play it and found it was some old Japanese piano recording. So apparently Japanese surplus vinyl is the way to go if you want something that looks like authentic vinyl for decoration.
A record shop I frequented in the early 90s had a gold record of the Beatles Love Songs in a frame. The owner decided to play it, and it was a flute album. A God awful crazy person playing the flute. We never did figure out what it was exactly. But I'll never forget his facial expression when those first notes came out of the speaker. Fun times.
A mate of mine bought one of those replica gold records off the internet a while back. He decided to play it out of curiosity, expecting it to not be the original artist. It ended up being a children’s audiobook of Cinderella! What was really shocking was how clear the audio was, even with the gold paint over the grooves!
Seeing Junko Yagami in “fake Amazon records” almost made my heart skip a beat. She’s a marvelous singer, a true icon of Japanese city pop, and it’s often hard to find her records outside Japan for a good price.
Our local dealer specializes in Japanese promos, used and sealed. Apparently their Japanese suppliers also send in tons of 1970s Japanese pops that no one wants even in their home country... so the dealer's offer is: buy one genuine sealed record, take home as much junk as you can carry. Guess what? The guys who buy sealed promos don't care about all these "extras".
Fake records. whaaaaaaaaaaat?! Reminds me of fake books. All the things people do to keep up the appearances, signal sophistication to the unknowing eye. The destroyed old ones, on the other hand, can be a nice decoration. Giving stuff a new life. Reduce, re-use, recycle. Much better than sacrificing playable records. And the dog is listening to his master's voice... Always has been.
It's a Tarantino soundtrack in a box! What a whole lot of fun! I bet there'll be some absolute gems in some of these boxes. Maybe even some lost media or super off the beaten path tracks.
I did this once where I bought a stack of used 45s “for decor” on Amazon to see what I could get and I got a few good titles in rough shape, a couple bad titles and the rest of them were the exact same Neil diamond record. I ended up with like 6 or 7 copies of the same Neil diamond record on 45, lol.
I was given a wall clock years ago that was made from a record, the lable said it was Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd. The lables looked really good. So I removed the clock mechanism and played it. It was some crappy 12 inch noise fest of a cross between thrash metal and techno. It's still on my wall looking good.
@@frankowalker4662a different taste good sir. What can I say, I'm an old punker. I tried getting into it. Never got into it. There are piles of 70's prog rock bands I would rather listen to, sue me lol 🤷😜
I love your videos. Theres never any "subscribe to the channel guys" or "like if you want more" Your channel is only pure entertainment!! Keep up the great videos!!
Even better there are no sponsorships to skip through. He's the last of the true youtubers who do it for the fun of it, not to make a living from and milk his audience out of every dime possible. That's why I watch all of his videos even if I'm not very interested in the topic.
There's a local record shop which used to sell big "mystery boxes" full of all the used records that they just couldn't sell otherwise. I bought a few of them and sometimes there were some unexpected gems, although most of them were crap or highly damaged. I expect that a lot of these records are just things sent to them by warehouse liquidators or something.
I used to buy the mystery grab bag lots at Half Price Books. I figured if I could get 2 or 3 decent albums per $10 box it was a good average. Once, I got a bunch of Val Doonican- an Irish singer.
At least fake records are WAY better than ones that are colored with marker, and probably utterly destroyed. I like $2 records, since there's always a chance to find a gem, but fake records? Thought they'd be more expensive.
Those are so cool. Thanks for the info. I actually liked the few snippets you played from each one. It’s like buying the random garage sale junkers without going to a garage sale. Overseas makes it better since it would be music you may not find here. And at least they gave you blank labels to print on should you desire to. Not sure why people are complaining on Amazon, it would be a total win win for me
That Kult of Krameria song is actually good. Googles.... "Kult of Krameria is a Portuguese production duo as well as a live electronic band, based in Lisbon." I miss shopping the used record store and getting several vinyl records for cheap (usually notched cover corner radio demos).. to find new music. Shout out to Backdoor Records in Johnson City TN. I visited many times in the 80s. So much incense inhaled....
The Japanese sleeves are in such great condition! Maybe they were a bulk purchase of new old overstock. Either way sounds like a great haul! Junko sounds really good!
I have often heard from several industry insiders that the "gold" or "platinum" records that artists get presented with are often actual pressed records, coated gold or silver and often just any old reused vinyl and not even necessarily one of the artist's actual records. They just coat them, relabel and frame them.
Beastie Boys played there gold record and it wasn't them. In the early 90s I frequented a record store that had a gold vinyl of the Beatles in a frame, and he decided to play it one day. It was God awful flute music. Hilarious.
According to the label, Jimmy Fontana is accompanied by a certain "Ennio Morricone and his orchestra" on that Twist No. 9 record, whoever that obscure guy may be ;-)
Gianni Morandi was a star in the 60s, definitely not obscure. That Korean movie that won the Oscar for best picture even uses one of his tunes. Ennio backed a lot of Italian pop singers back in the day. That stuff is worth seeking out (and people in the know actually do). Check out Gino Paoli, fantastic songwriter, his early albums feature Morricone.
1:48 - Wow, I never thought I would see something related to my hometown on this channel. Fun fact: _Köpenicker Straße 70_ is indeed the address of a pretty well-known club here in Berlin, albeit it doesn't go by the name _Berlin Music Club_ (probably because that would be the most generic name ever).
Fake real records. That's awesome. It's like a record mystery box. The Japanese opera-like thing and you calling house disco had me lol. [edit: that was so cool I had to see how much they cost on Amazon Canada... $73!?!?...WTH something weird there]
It's no wonder you got Enka in that 7" stash. There are piles and piles of Enka records at the recycle shops in Japan that no one wants. That and just odd foreign music that no one wants. Grandpa's junk. I dig in those bins for Kayokyoku records and sometimes find some gems. That being said, those 7" Enka records you got go for 50 to 100 yen each in Japan.
The Enka industry is very notorious for mass releaes. They usually released compilations every three months for profit. There's an online seller in my country (the Philippines) that sells some Japanese records for decoration purposes. I usually buy some older Japanese records thru requesting from a seller since I'm a Kayōkyoku addict.
A lot of other countries used to send their waste/garbage to China for disposal/recycling, I wonder if these were picked out of that waste and some enterprising person(s) figured out a way to sell them?
The way those fake ones look and the way polymer prices work out i'd say the are made from contaminated ABS regrind, some of which is a transition refuse. It's not structurally very useful since you never quite know what sort of endurance you're going to get, it's an abundant industrial waste, its value teeters right around zero because it's right on the cusp between potentially useful filler polymer and disposal headache. I could bet good money that no virgin polymer is being wasted here.
Interesting, but I recall in the late 1980s "fake" 45s as part of a mall store window display. My sister and I stole one and found it to be a real (undesirable) 45 with just a sticker for the store's event placed over top of the real label.
Found a vendor on Etsy who sells batches of random vinyl records, real ones, for whatever purpose you like. Price depends on quantity. If you buy 25 they're $50 so $2 each.
33 rpm was the norm for 7 inch records here in Brazil. In fact I only recall having seen a 45 rpm 7 inch record once, and it was probably bought in the US.
I had a look on the Amazon reviews for the store you got those records from and you were lucky, some purchasers got multiple copies of the same record. It was also a surprise to see Ennio Morricone's name on one of those records. He's quite a well known film music composer.
Good old distressed inventory. Reminds me of those stories I heard here in the UK of water-damaged US comics being used as "ballast" for transatlantic crossing ships. Still, one way for Japanese record dealers to get rid of otherwise unsellable stock.
In particular, JVC is a separate entity from RCA in the US that has control over the "His Master's Voice" logo for Japan only. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JVC
There's (or at least used to be) a restaurant in Rome, Italy that used real LP records as table mats. My music loving friend was horrified when we went there.
The only successful Japanese release was "Ueo Muiti Arako", labelled as "Sukiyaki" for the western market because that was the only Japanese word familiar to westerners. The artist was Kyu Sakamoto and was recorded and released in Japan by Toshiba in 1961(JP-5083) but turned up on His Master's Voice in Australia(EA-4559) and New Zealand(HR-10146), In Britain as His Master's Voice(POP-1171) and Germany on Electrola(E 22 477) all in 1963. As well as these *major* markets, the lesser Canadian market on Capitol(4945) and the insignificant American market, also on Capitol(4945) in 1963.
That’s because “Sukiyaki” by Kyo Sakamoto became his only big hit in the US in 1963. A Taste of Honey did their version in 1981 and done in English, and again in 1994 by 4PM (For Positive Music).
@@Musicradio77Network Sukiyaki was a hit in the *MAJOR* markets of Britain, Europe, Asia, Australia and New Zealand before it hit in the *insignificant* North American markets.
How you kept it together at 12:13 after the thunder, I'll never know but thank you for leaving that in. Was humorous without being embarrassing bc you held it together so well.
This is really tempting especially given the sound quality you got in those records.... I'm sure they found it was cheaper to buy huge bulk collections instead of making fake ones
Great stuff! All very interesting and would certainly be welcome in my collection. I love Junko Ohashi and that's the sort of material you often see fetching well over 50 bucks in the record stores of LA's Little Tokyo or anywhere hip enough to dig it up.
5:24 - You couldn't have timed that better. "Let's see what's inside," Thunder crash. Opens box. The only thing that would've made it better would be a maniacal laugh.
@@vwestlife Not to mention, it was very close. Early on, I originally thought that the rumbling sound came from the fake records, until I realized it was thunder at 5:27.
@@vwestlife Kavin the Spanish/Mexican record... is Mariachi Elpidio Ramírez.. (look for it in wikipedia).. Violinist, composer, arranger and Revolutionary Mexican Hero..... the man die in 1960.. stop recording Mariachi at end of the 40's... ¡¡¿¿who the hell that record finish in China!!??😳..
I actually recognize that record label at the beginning of this episode. RCA Camden used to be the “budget” division of lesser known music and children’s music. Even Dr. Seuss used it to vendor certain storybooks. Nice little thunderstorm going on there today I hear in the background. I think the cardboard container was just made in China, and the recordings came from their respective countries.
It's quite easy to tell Chinese from Japanese even if you understand neither. Most of the time, Japanese text has both kanji (complex symbols) and kana (simple round or blocky characters for syllables), while Chinese text only uses the former. Default or common fonts have different style, too. The source of those records is easy to guess. Even young people from 1965 are now in their seventies and eighties, and we all heard that Japan has a lot of solitary old people and empty homes of those who have deceased. Someone's belongings got auctioned for cheap, or were exported with electronic waste, then got sorted and repackaged to return to so-called first world. I don't think anyone can have a sustainable business buying those kind of second hand items deliberately, no to mention shipping costs of heavy enough packages.
It might also be a Chinese company with a deal with a Japanese record store, buying the unsellable stock in bulk for dirt cheap Japanese buyers also have higher standards for used stuff than Americans and Europeans
The Denon DN-S3700 DJ controller came with a fake 9" vinyl record. It was designed for vinyl DJs who wanted to switch to digital playback without losing the feel of vinyl. The record was screwed down onto the platter and it has real grooves. You can take the record off, put it on a real turntable and try to play it. But the record doesn't actually have any audio on it.
I used to DJ in the mid to late 90s and I had a few Twisted 12 inches. Artists like “Funky Green Dogs” and “Wayne G” come to mind when I saw that yellow label
The blank fake vinyl records are used in restaurants and sports bars, those are good for decorations. But the companies who use discarded vinyl records that are clearly not fake, they’re just abusing real records!
My guess is once upon a time these were samples of fake records and you could order a set with a custom label, hence the "Your Club" and fake phone numbers.
Wow, some amazing songs among those fake fakes 😊 that thunder really made you jump @12:15 😅 thank you for sharing this great content with us, stay safe 🥰
Great video as always, I reckon you'll never run out of content, as you seem to have a knack for finding such strange and obscure topics. Throughout this video, I just imagined some enterprising Chinese man amassing hundreds of thousands of vinyls in the early 2000s, through the tears and doubts of his friends and loved ones, as storage rental fees compiled exponentially. Yet he knew and stayed true to his dream. The dream that one day, vinyl sales would rebound, and that all those who watched retro audio tech UA-camrs would know the name LEPTETEK
Junk-o, thats a funny one Junko Ohashi has had a revival of sorts with the song "Telephone number" being memed a bit in recent years. But sadly she is no longer with us.
@@nrdesign1991there's four Junkos in the Japanese music industry. Junko Sakurada, Junko Yamomoto of Hi-Fi Set, Junko Ohashi and of course, Junko Yagami!
The labels feel like a mix of "completely fake labels made for this purpose" and "chopped up concert posters."
The one with the pounds had lorem ipsum. Definitely was a free template for someone to use to advertise their own club. And then the others, like you say, were chopped up concert / gig posters that someone in china must have found doing an image search. Super neat imo
Not even real event posters, just templates with filler text - you can even see a block of Lorem ipsum at 3:47. They're probably free templates on one of those cheerful-looking online design apps like Canva.
The Marilyn Monroe label says "Fluss Ohne Wiederkehr" on it, that's the German title for "River of No Return", which is indeed a Movie starring Marilyn Monroe.
I think they’re “promos for promos”, and were made by an event promotion merchandise manufacturer, to send out to venues, to say “Hey, we can make your flyers look like vinyl records for just x amount of cents per unit!”, with generic “Imagine your business name here!” kind of labels.. one for more “trendy” clubs, one for rock and alternative nights, one for retro ‘60s vinyl nights etc.
Probably just cut up stock photoshop design files for club events where they expect you to edit them
7:17 Junko Yagami is actually pretty good japanese city pop, Im jealous lol.
That’s what I was thinking!!
Been frantically commenting that same sentiment.
@@mikehall3976 Your point has been taken.
Yes and to think it came in a Ledtetek "fake" vinyl box set
"city pop" you mean POP MUSIC?
Those not-fake decorative records seem like an easy way to start an instant international record collection, with unusual sounding songs to peruse through... :P
I love random music that you'd never have a chance to hear. You can feel special finding a gem too.
The only reason I even fool around with vinyl anymore is the random odd stuff you can find.
What I've done lately, A shop near me had a lot of German LP's I bought under the Polydor and Ariola labels.
You'll need warehouses of phone cartridges though as those records can and do damage the stylus.
I bought many online for random music they are super nice and sounded great! I got many Japanese records.
YOU GOT A JUNKO RECORD??? what a find for that price, her music is wonderful
That's one hell of a thunderstorm.
You can hear crickets going crazy in the beginning. But once the storm rolls out, it’s only rain.
I'm scared hold me 😟
@@TheStanHillthe animals know it's like nature to them 😁
This video is beautiful asmr
Very inconsiderate of the storm when there's recording going on :)
That Junko compilation is a nice find.
Yea, I started listening to her stuff when I discovered city-pop. Good stuff!
fr id be ecstatic to get that
Indeed. Iwannit.
Better than compilations by _the other_ Junko. #Danganrompa
@@taofanarchy96-renzomaracas14true! That Junko Yagami compilation is very affordable to get.
Wow, those "Fake" real records are actually cool as hell. They are basically Record Loot Boxes as you'll never know what your gonna get. That first Japanese Album sounded surprisingly awesome and the 1 sided Columbia record would make for a cool decoration with Columbia embossed on one side.
I want that damn junko yagami comp!
Aw! Dangit
You should return that Amazon order. Those are fake fake records.
That’s the point?
These were supposed to be simply fake records, and you received double fake records, so the seller gave you more than you wanted. In my opinion there is no reason to be dissatisfied 😂
Used old records from overseas are way cooler than actual blanks.
Yes definitely!
Overseas? From wich point you see that?
You must be an american saying such not so clever thing….
@@sjefhendrickx2257I'm literally quoting the video. 18:10
@@sjefhendrickx2257 what?
@@sjefhendrickx2257 well, let’s say you’re from Western Europe and the records are from Japan, which is an island; wouldn’t that make them to be from overseas to you as well? 🧐
Congrats on being the very first Shazam of that cover of La Bamba!
That's wild! I'm surprised they have all this stuff in the database! I missed that one, but caught one with 2 and another with 4 shazams.
@@volvo09it's probably the record company that registered it on Shazam in bulk with other records
After accidentally leaving out a bunch of vinyl in direct sunlight during a party this year , I’ve got a bunch of “decorative” records now! 😂
I've bought quite a few batches on 7" singles sold for "art/display use only" & "unplayable". Each batch were either of 50 or 100. Using my ultrasonic cleaner I've been able to play around 95% & add them to my collection.
Richard, UK
Back in the 80's there was a second hand books and records shop near me, I would go in about once or twice a month and buy a bag of 20 or so LP's for next to nothing. There were some quite good albums from artists I've never heard of before or since. (and a lot of utter crap. lol)
@@frankowalker4662 I can remember there were bargain bins where they sold 7"'s for about 20% of the normal price which wouldn't sell otherwise. The catch was they were tuckered close so you couldn't listen to them in advance. But I bought quite a few of those, and some were actually pretty nice. Some of them had unknown songs by artists I knew, so I took a chance on them, and there was a specific one among those that still puzzles me - "Tu" by Umberto Tozzi - because it's actually a pretty well-known song which you can still hear on the radio today here in Vienna. I bought another batch in the early 90's when they sold off unsold singles by local artists which were a few years old, which you actually could consider rarities because they got some airplay when they were released, but failed to chart highly, still I could remember them.
The surviving Beastie Boys in a recent interview described a time they were high and took their Paul's Boutique gold record down from the wall to play it and found it was some old Japanese piano recording. So apparently Japanese surplus vinyl is the way to go if you want something that looks like authentic vinyl for decoration.
A record shop I frequented in the early 90s had a gold record of the Beatles Love Songs in a frame. The owner decided to play it, and it was a flute album. A God awful crazy person playing the flute. We never did figure out what it was exactly. But I'll never forget his facial expression when those first notes came out of the speaker. Fun times.
I remember hearing that the "gold record" trophy was never _that_ record, but might be an older gold record or some random album.
A mate of mine bought one of those replica gold records off the internet a while back.
He decided to play it out of curiosity, expecting it to not be the original artist. It ended up being a children’s audiobook of Cinderella!
What was really shocking was how clear the audio was, even with the gold paint over the grooves!
Seeing Junko Yagami in “fake Amazon records” almost made my heart skip a beat. She’s a marvelous singer, a true icon of Japanese city pop, and it’s often hard to find her records outside Japan for a good price.
Our local dealer specializes in Japanese promos, used and sealed. Apparently their Japanese suppliers also send in tons of 1970s Japanese pops that no one wants even in their home country... so the dealer's offer is: buy one genuine sealed record, take home as much junk as you can carry. Guess what? The guys who buy sealed promos don't care about all these "extras".
Junko Ohashi vinyl in good shape will sell well since city pop is pretty popular.
Enka? Not so much. 😂
@@iankphonejunko yagami
lets not pit two queens against each other, both junko's are great 😌
Cool.
Junko Yagami, oh man, classic city pop right there. I would have been stoked to get that one.
Fake records. whaaaaaaaaaaat?!
Reminds me of fake books. All the things people do to keep up the appearances, signal sophistication to the unknowing eye.
The destroyed old ones, on the other hand, can be a nice decoration. Giving stuff a new life. Reduce, re-use, recycle. Much better than sacrificing playable records.
And the dog is listening to his master's voice... Always has been.
It's a Tarantino soundtrack in a box! What a whole lot of fun! I bet there'll be some absolute gems in some of these boxes. Maybe even some lost media or super off the beaten path tracks.
I did this once where I bought a stack of used 45s “for decor” on Amazon to see what I could get and I got a few good titles in rough shape, a couple bad titles and the rest of them were the exact same Neil diamond record. I ended up with like 6 or 7 copies of the same Neil diamond record on 45, lol.
Neil Diamond is one of the greatest songwriters of our or anyone's generation
Can you make grown men and women weep tears of joy by playing Tom Jones' "It's Not Unusual"?
I was given a wall clock years ago that was made from a record, the lable said it was Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd. The lables looked really good. So I removed the clock mechanism and played it. It was some crappy 12 inch noise fest of a cross between thrash metal and techno. It's still on my wall looking good.
Was it a different record entirely or was it simply pink floyd worn out?
I'd take a trash metal/ techno lp over Pink Floyd any day of the year 😂
@@stofopdenaald132 It's a 12 inch single, and you have no taste. LOL.
@@frankowalker4662a different taste good sir. What can I say, I'm an old punker. I tried getting into it. Never got into it. There are piles of 70's prog rock bands I would rather listen to, sue me lol 🤷😜
@@stofopdenaald132 🤣
Damn, that Junko Yagami vinyl is a freaking gem.
A rainy day record party is always more fun.
I love your videos. Theres never any "subscribe to the channel guys" or "like if you want more" Your channel is only pure entertainment!! Keep up the great videos!!
Even better there are no sponsorships to skip through. He's the last of the true youtubers who do it for the fun of it, not to make a living from and milk his audience out of every dime possible. That's why I watch all of his videos even if I'm not very interested in the topic.
@@JaredConnell I do the same thing. I don't beg for likes and subs, i just want for someone to see my content and enjoy it
No “shocked face” thumbnails either. God I hate those!
And no: 'With that said, let's get into it.' followed by a minute long intro with bad thrash music and distorted graphics.
@@lidbass yea
There's a local record shop which used to sell big "mystery boxes" full of all the used records that they just couldn't sell otherwise. I bought a few of them and sometimes there were some unexpected gems, although most of them were crap or highly damaged. I expect that a lot of these records are just things sent to them by warehouse liquidators or something.
I used to buy the mystery grab bag lots at Half Price Books. I figured if I could get 2 or 3 decent albums per $10 box it was a good average. Once, I got a bunch of Val Doonican- an Irish singer.
At least fake records are WAY better than ones that are colored with marker, and probably utterly destroyed. I like $2 records, since there's always a chance to find a gem, but fake records? Thought they'd be more expensive.
12:14 that must have been one heck of a strike for you to jump like that! Props to you for filming straight through a storm like that!
2 shazams and 4 shazams on a few of those tunes, surprised they are even in the database, that's wild.
Those are so cool. Thanks for the info. I actually liked the few snippets you played from each one. It’s like buying the random garage sale junkers without going to a garage sale. Overseas makes it better since it would be music you may not find here. And at least they gave you blank labels to print on should you desire to. Not sure why people are complaining on Amazon, it would be a total win win for me
12:13 That thunder nearly made you turn that record into a Frisbee 😂
Those 7 inch singles are pretty cool as time capsules to not only 1960s music but also graphic design.
That Kult of Krameria song is actually good. Googles.... "Kult of Krameria is a Portuguese production duo as well as a live electronic band, based in Lisbon." I miss shopping the used record store and getting several vinyl records for cheap (usually notched cover corner radio demos).. to find new music. Shout out to Backdoor Records in Johnson City TN. I visited many times in the 80s. So much incense inhaled....
🎵Kult kult kult kult of Krameria you come and go you come and go 🎵 the old Culture Club classic
The Japanese sleeves are in such great condition! Maybe they were a bulk purchase of new old overstock. Either way sounds like a great haul! Junko sounds really good!
I have often heard from several industry insiders that the "gold" or "platinum" records that artists get presented with are often actual pressed records, coated gold or silver and often just any old reused vinyl and not even necessarily one of the artist's actual records. They just coat them, relabel and frame them.
Beastie Boys played there gold record and it wasn't them. In the early 90s I frequented a record store that had a gold vinyl of the Beatles in a frame, and he decided to play it one day. It was God awful flute music. Hilarious.
According to the label, Jimmy Fontana is accompanied by a certain "Ennio Morricone and his orchestra" on that Twist No. 9 record, whoever that obscure guy may be ;-)
Thanks, I missed seeing that! Interesting. (Frantic soundtrack is one of my faves of his.)
Gianni Morandi was a star in the 60s, definitely not obscure. That Korean movie that won the Oscar for best picture even uses one of his tunes. Ennio backed a lot of Italian pop singers back in the day. That stuff is worth seeking out (and people in the know actually do). Check out Gino Paoli, fantastic songwriter, his early albums feature Morricone.
Hmmm idk who is, he should produce movie scores or something, I like his name
I like the special sound effects in the background of the storm outside what a wonderful tension to detail
i find the thunder in the background kinda cool!! adds some aesthetic to the video!!
Playing Jean Michel Jarre would be perfect.
1:48 - Wow, I never thought I would see something related to my hometown on this channel. Fun fact: _Köpenicker Straße 70_ is indeed the address of a pretty well-known club here in Berlin, albeit it doesn't go by the name _Berlin Music Club_ (probably because that would be the most generic name ever).
Fake real records. That's awesome. It's like a record mystery box. The Japanese opera-like thing and you calling house disco had me lol. [edit: that was so cool I had to see how much they cost on Amazon Canada... $73!?!?...WTH something weird there]
12-inch vinyl singles are generically called Disco singles because that was the first genre to make use of them, at least here in the USA.
It's no wonder you got Enka in that 7" stash.
There are piles and piles of Enka records at the recycle shops in Japan that no one wants. That and just odd foreign music that no one wants. Grandpa's junk.
I dig in those bins for Kayokyoku records and sometimes find some gems.
That being said, those 7" Enka records you got go for 50 to 100 yen each in Japan.
The Enka industry is very notorious for mass releaes. They usually released compilations every three months for profit.
There's an online seller in my country (the Philippines) that sells some Japanese records for decoration purposes. I usually buy some older Japanese records thru requesting from a seller since I'm a Kayōkyoku addict.
ah yes "Twist No.9", the prequel to "Mambo No.5"
And apparently the good the bad and the ugly 😂
That Junko record was kinda bangin.
I really enjoyed the video! Nice to see and hear records most of us probably have never seen or heard.
A lot of other countries used to send their waste/garbage to China for disposal/recycling, I wonder if these were picked out of that waste and some enterprising person(s) figured out a way to sell them?
This channel is a good source of unintentional ASMR. Informative but cozy.
It's more "wasteful" to use a "fake record". That's a whole new piece of plastic/vinyl. Just recycle an oldie that "no one cares about". ;)
The way those fake ones look and the way polymer prices work out i'd say the are made from contaminated ABS regrind, some of which is a transition refuse. It's not structurally very useful since you never quite know what sort of endurance you're going to get, it's an abundant industrial waste, its value teeters right around zero because it's right on the cusp between potentially useful filler polymer and disposal headache. I could bet good money that no virgin polymer is being wasted here.
Interesting, but I recall in the late 1980s "fake" 45s as part of a mall store window display. My sister and I stole one and found it to be a real (undesirable) 45 with just a sticker for the store's event placed over top of the real label.
Found a vendor on Etsy who sells batches of random vinyl records, real ones, for whatever purpose you like. Price depends on quantity. If you buy 25 they're $50 so $2 each.
What a jumpscare you had with that thunderstorm, I'm sorry for laughing so hard 😂♥️
33 rpm was the norm for 7 inch records here in Brazil. In fact I only recall having seen a 45 rpm 7 inch record once, and it was probably bought in the US.
No one over 40 is going to be fooled by that first set of records, they just look... Wrong. Even at a distance. Uncanny valley sort of thing.
I had a look on the Amazon reviews for the store you got those records from and you were lucky, some purchasers got multiple copies of the same record. It was also a surprise to see Ennio Morricone's name on one of those records. He's quite a well known film music composer.
Good old distressed inventory. Reminds me of those stories I heard here in the UK of water-damaged US comics being used as "ballast" for transatlantic crossing ships. Still, one way for Japanese record dealers to get rid of otherwise unsellable stock.
always a good day when VWestlife uploads!
Victor Company of Yokohama is... JVC.
In particular, JVC is a separate entity from RCA in the US that has control over the "His Master's Voice" logo for Japan only.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JVC
There's (or at least used to be) a restaurant in Rome, Italy that used real LP records as table mats. My music loving friend was horrified when we went there.
Oh, I don't know if I'd be able to go there either.
The only successful Japanese release was "Ueo Muiti Arako", labelled as "Sukiyaki" for the western market because that was the only Japanese word familiar to westerners. The artist was Kyu Sakamoto and was recorded and released in Japan by Toshiba in 1961(JP-5083) but turned up on His Master's Voice in Australia(EA-4559) and New Zealand(HR-10146), In Britain as His Master's Voice(POP-1171) and Germany on Electrola(E 22 477) all in 1963. As well as these *major* markets, the lesser Canadian market on Capitol(4945) and the insignificant American market, also on Capitol(4945) in 1963.
That’s because “Sukiyaki” by Kyo Sakamoto became his only big hit in the US in 1963. A Taste of Honey did their version in 1981 and done in English, and again in 1994 by 4PM (For Positive Music).
@@Musicradio77Network Sukiyaki was a hit in the *MAJOR* markets of Britain, Europe, Asia, Australia and New Zealand before it hit in the *insignificant* North American markets.
You can get 100 'random' 12" vinyl records in sleeve for about 25€ here in Germany (mostly classical music).
The 7" 331/3 records sound pretty good.
How you kept it together at 12:13 after the thunder, I'll never know but thank you for leaving that in. Was humorous without being embarrassing bc you held it together so well.
This is really tempting especially given the sound quality you got in those records....
I'm sure they found it was cheaper to buy huge bulk collections instead of making fake ones
Cool way to find obscure music you'd otherwise never get to hear.
In Japan, 7 Inch 33’s are common for EP releases going back as far as 1960.
To think about it, you can use this as an almost free sampler lootbox basically :D
Great stuff! All very interesting and would certainly be welcome in my collection. I love Junko Ohashi and that's the sort of material you often see fetching well over 50 bucks in the record stores of LA's Little Tokyo or anywhere hip enough to dig it up.
5:24 - You couldn't have timed that better.
"Let's see what's inside,"
Thunder crash.
Opens box.
The only thing that would've made it better would be a maniacal laugh.
Wow, I actually kind of want that Yagami Junk record. She's quite popular among City Pop fans!
I actually would pay for a blind bag of clean Japanese 45's. Would be a fun experience.
At 12:14 Kevin got spooked by that thunder!
It was loud.
@@vwestlife Not to mention, it was very close. Early on, I originally thought that the rumbling sound came from the fake records, until I realized it was thunder at 5:27.
@@vwestlife Kavin the Spanish/Mexican record... is Mariachi Elpidio Ramírez.. (look for it in wikipedia).. Violinist, composer, arranger and Revolutionary Mexican Hero..... the man die in 1960.. stop recording Mariachi at end of the 40's... ¡¡¿¿who the hell that record finish in China!!??😳..
@@WeatherSTARIIIdidn’t know you commented on videos on other channels instead of weather channel fan related channels.
@@ultimatehunter36 Every now and then yes. I also had a fascination with electronics too.
12:13 That was a big clap! Made me jump watching you jump!
But can they play the DOOM ost?
Still pissed at myself for not snatching up that bootleg that dropped like 5 years ago.
Thank you for the video. A very random and enjoyable video about random records and the enjoyment of the discovery new music. Well done!
I actually recognize that record label at the beginning of this episode. RCA Camden used to be the “budget” division of lesser known music and children’s music. Even Dr. Seuss used it to vendor certain storybooks.
Nice little thunderstorm going on there today I hear in the background.
I think the cardboard container was just made in China, and the recordings came from their respective countries.
It's quite easy to tell Chinese from Japanese even if you understand neither. Most of the time, Japanese text has both kanji (complex symbols) and kana (simple round or blocky characters for syllables), while Chinese text only uses the former. Default or common fonts have different style, too.
The source of those records is easy to guess. Even young people from 1965 are now in their seventies and eighties, and we all heard that Japan has a lot of solitary old people and empty homes of those who have deceased. Someone's belongings got auctioned for cheap, or were exported with electronic waste, then got sorted and repackaged to return to so-called first world. I don't think anyone can have a sustainable business buying those kind of second hand items deliberately, no to mention shipping costs of heavy enough packages.
the former is called "hanzi" for chinese btw
It might also be a Chinese company with a deal with a Japanese record store, buying the unsellable stock in bulk for dirt cheap
Japanese buyers also have higher standards for used stuff than Americans and Europeans
Awkwardly reading record labels makes for a good cure for insomnia, so thanks for that
Daaamn I loved the sound of thunder in the video. Really neat.
The Denon DN-S3700 DJ controller came with a fake 9" vinyl record. It was designed for vinyl DJs who wanted to switch to digital playback without losing the feel of vinyl. The record was screwed down onto the platter and it has real grooves. You can take the record off, put it on a real turntable and try to play it. But the record doesn't actually have any audio on it.
You know what. Worn to death DVS timecode records (Serato, Mixvibes, Traktor Scratch) would make for perfectly adequate decoration material.
Maybe the record has some sort of signal on it
Listening to your storm in the background while there’s a storm happening here right now is odd. Cool show!
What to do when there is gloomy weather? Listen to some real records that was sold as fake. 😂 Superb video as always.
16:51 Oof, sounds like they should have stopped at Twist No.8.
I was gonna say the storm outside gave the video a nice cosy vibe until I saw how startled you got at 12:14 😱
"Here's one that does not have a sleeve..."
* Pulls it out of its sleeve....
*original sleeve
@@vwestlife: Oh, OK. Shoot, too bad that's not what was said on the video. Thanks for clarifying. I did enjoy the video.
I used to DJ in the mid to late 90s and I had a few Twisted 12 inches. Artists like “Funky Green Dogs” and “Wayne G” come to mind when I saw that yellow label
14:47 To my understanding, the pop-outs were so they could use them in jukeboxes.
I noticed UK 45's do this too.
Dude! You can still get all the Mitch Miller and Herb Alpert you want at Goodwill for $1-2 each!
And Englebert Humperdinck
Don't forget barbara streisand!
The blank fake vinyl records are used in restaurants and sports bars, those are good for decorations. But the companies who use discarded vinyl records that are clearly not fake, they’re just abusing real records!
Watch out VW ! If the thunder don't get ya, then the lightning will !!! 😂😂😂😂
Ah yes, 🎶it's ~yesteday~ once more🎶
4:25 these are from a doll brand where the fake record came with the dolls. The doll brand is LOL OMG Surprise
and they do actually play music on the box which comes with the doll
My guess is once upon a time these were samples of fake records and you could order a set with a custom label, hence the "Your Club" and fake phone numbers.
Wow, some amazing songs among those fake fakes 😊 that thunder really made you jump @12:15 😅 thank you for sharing this great content with us, stay safe 🥰
Great video as always, I reckon you'll never run out of content, as you seem to have a knack for finding such strange and obscure topics.
Throughout this video, I just imagined some enterprising Chinese man amassing hundreds of thousands of vinyls in the early 2000s, through the tears and doubts of his friends and loved ones, as storage rental fees compiled exponentially. Yet he knew and stayed true to his dream. The dream that one day, vinyl sales would rebound, and that all those who watched retro audio tech UA-camrs would know the name LEPTETEK
Loved the evening storm sounds in the background. Made the video feel really cozy to me.
5:25 the thunder timing is gold
“So, let’s see what’s inside!”
*thunder*
These 12 inch house singles were so cool. Btw, people do not realize how common the 12 inch single format is.
Junk-o, thats a funny one Junko Ohashi has had a revival of sorts with the song "Telephone number" being memed a bit in recent years. But sadly she is no longer with us.
Yeah but the Junko in this vid is Junko Yagami.
@@clagygulap my bad. The most popular "Junko" i could think of was Junko Ohashi.
I think it's pronounced joon-ko?
@@nrdesign1991there's four Junkos in the Japanese music industry. Junko Sakurada, Junko Yamomoto of Hi-Fi Set, Junko Ohashi and of course, Junko Yagami!
loved the video and loved that you left being jumped scared by the thunder in lol XD
At 7:15 Junko Yagami was a Japanese Pop singer in the 70's and 80's.
Woah great find on the Junko compilation ‼️‼️‼️
Loving the thunderstorm, haven't heard one like that for ages.
Oh junko…..
People that don’t know 😅
People that know 😳
Danganronpa?