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Aiden D'Araujo

BIO:

2014 and I'm finally utilising my journo degree having joined the sartorial selectors at The Ransom Note though my sentences still too long... Anyway 'House Hunting' chronicles my jaunts to wax haunts in London (and beyond) with me diggin' deep and waxing lyrical about long lost house records... Every vinyl frontier I jet on I typically dig out a record from the transatlantic triptych of Chicago, New York and Detroit meaning my credit card gets rinsed proper on the black crack so why I agreed to compose this column weekly I don't know - yo what happened to all the Nu Groove and Dance Mania dollar bin specials y'all?! Right House Hunting rules are strictly vinyl and vintage house - original pressings no resissues...

House Hunting #69 – Kasso

House Hunting #69 – Kasso

Italo flow from a production powerhouse.

House Hunting #66 - Kano

Our crate crusader returns with a bang.

House Hunting #65 - Metro

“As far as vinyl disappearing from the surface of the earth, there will always be DJs, there will always be clubs and there will always be turntables at clubs”.

House Hunting #64 – Colonel Abrams

More crate crusades with our very own house mogul...

House Hunting #62 – Bubba & The Jack Attack

So since my last lethal lacquer love letter it’s been a jam-hot hectic few weeks for House Hunting…

House Hunting #61 – Dynamix

With Tommy’s Dad being an electronics repairman, in his youth one of the tech’s at his Dad’s shop introduced him to the primitive art form of the one slide control on a Radio Shack mixer...

House Hunting #59 - Trax Records

"So after a brief hiatus House Hunting is back! Sorry Retail x Easter = me being jam-hot hectic so slack on the lyrics front."

House Hunting #58 - Touch

So if you go back a few editions you may remember my Essex escapade where I scored a serious house haul from an arsenal of vinyl that was 15,000 strong.

House Hunting #57 - J.M. Silk

So if you regularly tune in you know I’ve been scoring a lot of collections of late where I’ve cherry-picked the choice cuts and stockpiled the surplus ready to move on.

House Hunting #56 – Level 3

Aiden’s quick stops in Shoreditch found him some super-cheap Sleeping Bag Records…

House Hunting #54 – World Premiere

After my crate crusade in Essex I was back in home turf and as I was in the east environ of Dalston last week I paid a visit to house purveyors’ paradise..

House Hunting #53 – Sharon Redd

"So what choice Prelude production had I scored? This one is the classic ‘Beat The Street’ by disco diva Sharon Redd and produced by proto-house pioneers Eric Matthew and Darryl Payne...Sharon in her full fierce glory"

House Hunting #51 – Soho

Aiden ventures into Hackney... "So who’s behind the Soho record? Well, it’s cult NY house pioneer Pal Joey aka Joseph Longo who I still think is one of the unsung heroes of house. "

House Hunting X Thunder Presents Miles Simpson – Gherkin Records Mix

Signing off House Hunting week in style...

House Hunting Hot Giveaway #2

Get your hands on a £20 vinyl voucher for Love Vinyl...

House Hunting #50 - Various Artists Ltd #5

Get inspired from these rack raids and take a jaunt to your local wax haunt...

House Hunting Hot Giveaway #1

Get your hands on an ORIGINAL PRESSING with the shrink intact...

House Hunting X Ransom Note Presents Mark Seven – Parkway Mastermix Vol. Iv

"This one will take you back time to miss and reminisce"...

House Hunting #49 - Sleeping Bag Records

Aiden gives us another label love letter...

House Hunting #48 – Movin’ Records

Aiden's back to his daily dose of black crack...