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But we’re here to showcase sleeves that use the medium as a gimmick to sell or reinforce the title inside the cover.Īn early example is Grand Funk’s 1974 album Shinin’ On which came with push-out star-shaped specs as part of the front cover.

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Many have witnessed Kraftwerk’s recent concerts whilst wearing the flimsy cardboard glasses free with magazines and I remember Hexstatic handing them out for a London gig as early as 2002. The 2D record sleeve is a perfect canvas for such depth-defying delights and music always having a visual side has exploited the medium too. With photography by Michael Wilkin, Food dons his spectacles and kicks things off with a mind-bending look at 3D record sleeves.ģD was a big craze for a minute in the mid ’50s, famously in films and also in comics where the green & red offset wonders sold like crazy for a year before dying a death and going underground for nearly three decades. To remedy this, we’ve invited Food to hold down a monthly column exploring the stranger corners of his collection, from mini-records to postcard novelties. Having let us into his peerless collection of flexi-discs we were blown away by the variety of weird and wonderful records that remained largely undocumented in his impeccably organised shelves.

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Keeper of one of the country’s most eclectic record collections, he’s spent the last two decades supplementing his vast archive of beats and breaks with forgotten relics from vinyl’s more obscure niches.Ī graphic designer with a passion for comic book culture and visual ephemera, his attention to record sleeves and packaging is second nature. “My criteria is… when you look at a record and go ‘What the Fuck?'” A collector’s collector, if anyone’s got an eye for the unusual it’s DJ Food. Freaky formats is a new column for Kev Foakes aka DJ Food to share some of the weirdest formats in his collection.

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