Beat Mining with the Vinyl Hoover

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Radio 4 on Music

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54 episodes

9 months ago

From Armstrong to Zappa - music documentaries from the Radio 4 archive.

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From Armstrong to Zappa - music documentaries from the Radio 4 archive.

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Beat Mining with the Vinyl Hoover

Radio 4 on Music

56 minutes

11 years ago

Beat Mining with the Vinyl Hoover

Broadcaster Toby Amies digs into the archives to discover the value and significance of old vinyl.

He uncovers a network of dealers and buyers, supplying a community of 'crate diggers' and 'beat miners' and a world in which samples from records bought for a few pence in a car boot sale can provide the basis for a million-selling hit.