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The Vinyl Guide - Artist Interviews for Record Collectors and Music Nerds

Ep348: Cut Chemist - DJ, Producer, Record Collector

The Vinyl Guide - Artist Interviews for Record Collectors and Music Nerds

Nate Goyer

Music, Music History, Music Interviews

4.7579 Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2022

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Turntablist and innovator Lucas MacFadden, aka Cut Chemist, has spent decades seeking records around the world and evolving the turntable into an instrument of vast possibilities. Today he takes us through some particularly insightful perspectives and tales of cratedigging and record collecting adventures.

Topics include:

  • Discussing "Let It Be" records in Minneapolis' warehouse of records
  • What records is he still looking for
  • Does he enjoy digging or shopping off Discogs?
  • How many records does he buy each week?
  • Is he fussed about NM vs VG+?
  • What will happen to Cut Chemist's record collection after he passes?
  • How he organizes his records
  • Does he feel a lot of pressure when doing a DJ set?
  • How much of a DJ set is preplanned and what is improvised?
  • Times when things have gone wrong
  • How many records does he travel with now?
  • Cut's ill-fated story of trying to de-warp a record
  • Does he think we are in a vinyl bubble?
  • How he gets a lot of promo and test pressings
  • "The records know who they want to go home with"
  • Repairing records / Fixing scratches
  • What's the weirdest thing he's ever found in a record?
  • Deciding which records to bring home during a large dig
  • Buying records in bulk
  • Crate digging in Brazil
  • Spending time listening/analysing the records he's brought home
  • Finding a 2nd record to beat juggle
  • Working with sample license fees, etc
  • The process for making "Die Cut"
  • "A Stable Sound" club on Bandcamp
  • The current size of his record collection
  • Selling records with provenance
  • Interview wrap up
  • Book Cut Chemist for a candlelight set

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If you like records, just starting a collection or are an uber-nerd with a house-full of vinyl, this is the podcast for you. Nate Goyer is The Vinyl Guide and discusses all things music and record-related

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:04.3

for your vinyl collection. Ask for the groove washer from your local shop or go to groove washer.com.

0:09.7

Discount code, Vinyl Guide 10. And now, on with the show.

0:16.3

Well, hey, everyone. Welcome to episode 3,4,8 of the vinyl guide, the podcast for record collectors and music nerds.

0:23.7

And wow, we've got a phenomenal guest today, DJ, producer, turntablist, and of course, fellow record collector, cut chemist.

0:32.4

Now, cut chemist has a long, illustrious career of bending the rules of records, exploring crates

0:39.1

around the world, twisting music, and innovating around the physics of turntables and vinyl

0:44.9

records. To try to describe what he does is impossible, however, if you're unfamiliar with the

0:50.0

exploits of Cut Chemist, give him a Google, check out some of the videos. It's absolutely amazing

0:55.7

what he does with the turntable and a handful of records. Now I want to recommend everyone

1:01.5

check out his pages, cutchemist.com, as well as cutchemist.bancamp.com, where you can follow him

1:07.9

and find many releases, as well as a stable sound club subscription,

1:12.9

which gives you access to CutChemist Megamixes, unreleased music, behind-the-scenes videos,

1:18.4

cassette uploads, first access to limited merch from the vault, and much more.

1:22.4

Just click the follow button at cutchemist.com.

1:27.5

And while we're on the subject of subscriptions, there is an extended commercial-free

1:32.0

and high-resolution version of this interview available only to patrons of the podcast,

1:38.0

which can be obtained at patreon.com slash vinyl guide.

1:42.7

Much more of this interview is up there and we always give out extras.

1:46.8

Experience the vinyl guide in extended form, longer interviews, higher resolution,

1:52.4

commercial free versions, and much earlier access than the public podcast feeds.

1:57.2

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