Both turntables at Kissa Kissa run Ortofon Concorde MKII Club cartridges into ModWright tube electronics and Harbeth speakers. On jazz in our all-analog Brooklyn listening room, the sound is like a live performance. Ortofon's full specs are included.
New Land's four-LP box of Charles Mingus' 1961-1962 Birdland radio broadcasts, remastered from the original reels and issued officially for the first time. We play the whole thing on Wednesday, September 30th.
Chet Baker recorded five albums in one week in August 1965. New Land Records just reissued them as an all-analog 5LP box set mastered by Kevin Gray. We're spinning the full set June 23 + 24 at Kissa Kissa.
Kissa Kissa's 5,000-LP library is not random. Here's the curatorial philosophy behind the collection -- and why every record earned its place on the shelf.
Streaming taught us to skip. Vinyl taught us to stay. Here's why playing an album from start to finish is one of the most rewarding things you can do with 40 minutes.
