How do you catalogue your reagge vinyl? By artist? By label? By producer? By genre?

[leggo rocker]

Oh, I forgot to say:

CDs: Chucked in boxes randomly and locked away in store except one box of 'special favourites' for the car.



And when Bellyman says for instance >> Wackies 12"/10" = abc << do you mean by abc by ARTIST or by SONG TITLE?

[Guest]

ok i have some time left so i will tell

i have a really good way but it works only like dat:

Dub....i know im in a dub room but i just throw everything in one case because i dont play it out side i play only dancehall. no worries i love dat music but i let others play so i can njoy.
iight:
Label from A to Z - Foundation 1 - Studio 1, Charmax, some channel one but not roots radics, but rockers style, such as earl sixteen & drums of .., clinch etc)
Label from A to Z - Foundation 2 (Tunes with hard drum snare like sly & robbie taxi, roots radics, jammys hypocrite (bun a fire pon), riddims like dennis brown - slow down woman goes sameway here, also lick shot by screecher nice- (get flat) but not michal palmer on power house he goes to di next one.. but beenie man/levy murderer stays here..
next one:
Label from A to Z - Digital (Jammys, Bobby D, Jah Life ... only stuff like love punaany bad , ninjaman-psalm, stone love real rock, sizzla "volcano errup", jus stuff with digi-rimshot & etc, jah life would be "too experience", beres hammond - fire, etc)
easy
next one:
Label from A to Z - Roots digital (Most xterminator, the whole x - rated (label), mixing lab, harmony house such like plenty bag/jungle , buju hill & valley, Things & time penthouse...
nex one: roots rockaz but nowadays like harmony house - get in groove/ good life/ etc, hungry days - jr kelly, some xterminator like the world riddim or other live riddim, graduation to zion would go sameway here but some would put it to the first one in the list, i respect dat still but i put it here., fire links try relick bobo dread with sugar & minott would go same way in dis one i dont feel like they really meant it to be like box 2.. all riddims of course from A-Z
it work good also for the head.
another good way is just keep all by label like in a record shop and just separate the riddim.

haha i hope someone will ovastand, my selecta didnt from the first time but now he get the idea.
and yo, dancehall would go by the year and style from first to present..

[leggo rocker]

Don Digital, you must really know all your music and records very well to order them like that!

[ton1]

In crates alphabetically for artists, by label for V/A and shelved for well represented artists (Marley, Tosh, U Roy, Isaacs, Gladiators, Culture...)

All mixed up for 7' and 12' (don't have a lot).

Shelved and almost alphabetically catalogued for african, caribbean, punk and 2-tone ska and all mixed up for the other kinds of music (soul, rock, classical etc...)

[Dadi Digi]

My records are all over the place, neatly shelved but as for what is where, you just have to take a dip in and see what you draw out. I have approx 2000 Reggae LP's and 600 12" disco's and a jungle load of 45s but we wont even go there. I do have my Studio 1 45's a seperate box though and there is about 70 odd of those.

Some day I'll get time I guess )

[wareika]

I'm into reorganising my whole collection.

Before it was simply arranged by Artists, alphabetically. First the discomixes and after the LP by date.

Actually I feel this organisation is a nonsens cause you have differents vibes depending on the producer. Spear is a good exemple IMO, the Dood produced LP, the Jack Ruby one and the self produced which does not sound the same at all.

So the first move was to reorganise by producer and I have to say it was great because every LP from each section shared the same vibes. Also very interesting to listen back to back all the Junjo, for exemple, and having various versions of some riddims.

The point is that some sections were thin and some LP were impossible to clasify. So I came a little back and decide to classified them like this:

1) Discomixes. First section by producer, 2nd one roots, 3rd one early dancehall / pre-digit, 4th digital, 5th UK reggae.
2) Fav producers by artist alphabetically, like Dodd, Bunny Lee, Junjo, Hookim, Duke Reid, Jammy, Niney, Perry, Pablo and few others.
3) Solo singer (abc) / all singer LP but the one related to the producers above.
4) Vocal trio, same way as above
5) Deejays
6) Dub, by mixer and... well not sure yet
6) UK reggae + comps + some stuff like French early dancehall and digit and few other things. Work still in progress.

Actually, I'm into the dub section classification for the last 2 weeks. Lot's of LP to listen still as I'm a dub fanatic and this section is the largest. The first step is to classify them by mixer and it is really a killer way IMO (so far it's possible). I classified some less known mixers so far, like Errol Brown. I felt a great joy by listening back to back the Errol Brown mixed "Medley Dub" and "Meditation Dub" for instance. Actually both LP don't have any point in common (the first is S pottinger stuf from rocksteady area and the second W Riley reggae production) but Errol Brown mixing style. Listening these LPs the, so distinctive, Errol Brown style became more evident than it ever was to my hears. And IMO, it's all what dub is about: mixing style and techniques.

Of course, this organisation will be hard to maintain cause many, if not most of, LP were mixed by various dub masters, some don't credit anybody and others credit wrong mixer, so I have no clear idea of the next step with the remaining LP.

Last but not least, this reorganisation is also due to the fact that I don't have anymore space for the LP I still buy and (by far the most important) the one I still really want to have one day. I'm trying to put aside plenty LP to prepare a trade list.

wareika

[leggo rocker]

Wareika!

Errol Brown: I have myself recently just picked up on his work. Lovely style.

Trade List: Don't forget to forward that list to me, please!

Catalogue suggestions: Very useful ideas here, especially as you carefully 'justify' your choices. I will certainly be taking some of those ideas in mind when I start my sort out next week.

So far, for digital reggae I just have a couple of boxes with it all thrown in. Only the 12s have any kind of order = label/catalogue number.

Great suggestions coming here, I am really enjoying this thread!

[hans]

1. lp-inch-cd
2. artists, including compilations (=va), and inch a-site artist all from a-z
3. album titles (artists & va) and songs (inches) from a-z

btw: inches are splitted in 7-10 & 12

if i wanna look for producers, labels or whatever, i use our Roots Archive's d-base (maybe some time we can browse for inches in this dbase ) and go back to my music collection as mentioned above.

[rasdragon]

No real order except seperation from 7" to 12" & LP.
Wish I was more organized.

[Rootikalist]

I use shoes box for 7''...i should try to find something better!

7'' Various Label from 1970 to 1975

7'' Various Label from 1975 to 1981/2

7'' Various Label Digital...not many!

7'' Divided in producers or crew - Lee Perry,Glen brown,Augustus,Niney,Tuff Gong,Talent and some other

12'' Roots JA & UK Not Original Sleeve / Original Sleeve

12'' Rub-A-Dub & Digital

10'' Reissue,Original,New

LP'' Big Box...but i don't use any order!