Malaysia's "gramophone deejay" is back on the decks, winding up his music machines and taking the whole vinyl revival experience back even further. It all started when he bought some shellac gramophone records at a flea market in his hometown of Muar, Johor, and realised that it could not be played on his family’s record player. Of his 500-plus records, fewer than 100 are of Malay and Chinese songs, which are more expensive and rarer than Western gramophone records. This is needed, he says, because unlike in the West, Malaysia does not have a freely accessible archive of early sound recordings. Goh will be playing at the "Wind-Up Gramophone DJ" event series at REXKL in Jalan Sultan in Kuala Lumpur on July 25 and 26.

Source: The Star July 25, 2020 01:52 UTC