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Oi Lata! That's no way to treat your vinyl, lady!

An unapologetically random selection of records. A bunch of the earliest 1960s ones I found in a job-lot in Spitalfields market about ten years ago. Apparently this era stuff is what all the big guns and hipsterati collectors are now looking for.

I keep my eye out for tasty looking primers because this is such a vast uncharted territory, the excellent "Golden Voices from the Silver Screen compilations", a three-part collection compiled by Ben Mandelson for Globe Style records to accompany the "Movie Mahal" Television series narrowly missed inclusion here, but it's obviously a Western concoction, not the real thing like these records.

I picked up my original copy of the legendary "Hare Rama, Hare Krishna" (India seeing itself through a glass onion...) in Frome in Gloucestershire for a pound. Shalimar is not an original, and its awesome, though I've actually seen the reissue go for loads of money on eBay. The Nav Keetan I found in Glasgow for two quid. Bobby is a seven inch that my good friend Flashos gave to me (genuflects).

One thing that always strikes me upon finding this sort of material in the UK is that if wasn't any good at all, no-one would bother importing it, hence my old attitude of "buy-on-sight" upon encountering it.