The Skinny
A Family Affair: The Gayfield Enterprise Demos
A hidden gem from the post-punk era, The Gayfield Enterprise Demos sees Kevin Low and Fiona Carlin’s stunning bedroom pop jams receive a long overdue first release Feature by Michael Lawson | 02 Mar 2021
One of the city’s foremost crate diggers, Glasgow DJ, producer and radio host Adam Low is used to unearthing overlooked oddities in secondhand record stores across the country. His latest sonic discovery – a collection of around 80 battered cassette tapes dug out from his parents’ loft – is far closer to home. “There were mountains and mountains of them to go through but I thought I’d give it a go during the first lockdown,” he recalls. “Initially I was looking for the stems with the view of potentially doing some remixes. Then I discovered that a lot of it was exactly the kind of music that I’m into – which was a bit of a shock.”
Other Music’s staff tell us their Top 10s of 2020 (listen to the playlist)
We ve been asking artists and other industry figures for their Top 10 albums of the 2020, and here we have year-end lists from a bunch of staff members of much-missed NYC record store
Other Music, which closed in June of 2016. One of the first things a lot of customers did on walking into Other Music was look up at the giant white board above the counter to see the current staff Top 10 lists, so it s a treat to have a virtual version of that here. We got lists from 20 staff members, including co-owner