Was trying to take a day out from life yesterday, but somehow got sucked into having an ‘organize or die’ day instead. Sometimes it just feels I have all this really unnecessary stuff just clogging up my life. All these clothes I never get round too wearing, old computers under my bed that I can’t quite bring myself to chuck and just piles and piles of music that I can’t even get too let alone get into.

I remember living with this dude once who just had too many records. He was famed (sort of) in town for having the heaviest collection, and his room was floor to ceiling killer music. Loads of original Impulse, all these amazing Japanese Blue Note re-issues, that whole 70’s soul/funk thing just everything.

Problem was he just ran out of space. It got to the point that he couldn’t even get too whole sections of his collection cause the way was blocked by more and more vinyl. He could never find anything, let alone listen to it. In the end it became like a weight round his neck, literally blocking the light into his room. A bloke from Reckless came up and bought the lot for 10 grand (probably less than a pound a record)-but he was free, well free to start buying again as it turned out.

Bottom line-you can always have too much stuff.

My clearout was thankfully far less extreme, but I still managed to get a little hit of that ‘losing stuff-gaining headspace feeling’ and as a bonus I found some amazing music that had been hidden at the back of the crates for y’all to enjoy.

First up a killer form curtis mayfield’s last album ‘new world order’, it’s a bit of a diamond in the rough, as lot of the rest of the album is pretty lightweight-but this is just beautiful. A fitting way to remember an incredible artist.

Curtis Mayfield-Here but I’m Gone