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Never Mind The Bootlegs: Aaron Dilloway's Favourite Music
Jennifer Lucy Allan , July 14th, 2021 10:25

Aaron Dilloway picks thirteen 7"s, LPs, bootleg VHS and cassettes for his Baker’s Dozen, which veers from field recordings of bigfoot to experimental classical music from the early 20th century

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Bigfoot – Location Recordings

This is a 7" of field recordings of Bigfoot a label called Stomach Ache put out – a sort of secret side label to RRRecords where he would do a lot of really raw noise records and really goofy novelty records. This one that has this ridiculous drawing of Bigfoot on the cover, then it's a collection of what were supposedly 'real' recordings people had made of Bigfoot – I believe it's recordings from various documentaries – so it's these really raw, hilarious recordings of Bigfoot. I thought it was the most hilarious record, but it also got me excited about sound effects records. I started collecting sound effects and animal sound records after getting that one.

There's a label called Droll Yankees and they put out these great wildlife records where one side is just sounds of frogs and the other is the same thing but with narration. I took their layout for Hanson Records – the records I was putting out throughout the 2000s have these silkscreen covers with the flaps on the outside – I took a Droll Yankees record to the die-cutter and had them copy that template.