The In Deep Music Archive is an eclectic collection of music in many forms. An historical and contemporary library of all available physical formats - Vinyl, CD, Cassette, Reel to Reel tape, 8 Track, 78RPM, VHS, DVD, Laser discs, reference books, encyclopedias, catalogues, biographies and magazines. Collected by Marty Willson-Piper over the past 50 years, the archive has grown into this wonderful collection through a life of scouring the record stores around the world, but also through generous donations from friends, fans and record labels alike. Any funding goes directly towards either running costs or increasing the content. Our ambition for the archive is to create a musical culture centre with a small venue, that will also be used for music lessons and workshops and as a meeting place for music lovers in a unique atmosphere.
Music today has taken a dive into the area of obscurity, executed by people who you might not have thought had it in them. I suppose you might consider Pink Floyd a non-mainstream band even though they were absolutely massive. In 1981 Nick Mason, Floyd’s drummer, came up with a weird album with a weird […]
Music today started with the debut album from Dutch legends Focus. Their first album, Focus plays Focus, was released in the Netherlands in September 1970 and is the only album with the original lineup of Thijs van Leer, vocals, keys and flute, Jan Akkerman, guitars, Martin Dresden, bass, trumpet, vocals, and Hans Cleuver, drums, vocals. […]
Music today is the long overdue Sly And The Family Stone, starting with the third album. Life (1969) did not do as well as expected after the hit from the previous album Dance To The Music even though the reviews were good. I just didn’t have that mega single that was the title track, it […]
Music today was me randomly picking an interesting album and that happened to be Dreams’ debut, released in 1970. It was more music in the area of Rock with horns, but not as successful as Blood, Sweat & Tears and Chicago even though they also had good songs and incorporated the brass in an interesting […]
Music today was inspired by a trip to the greengrocers, but not by a vegetable, so not Green Day or Steve Hillage’s Green or REM’s Green or The Smithereens’ Green Thoughts, or Greenslade or even Candlewick Green or even Hughie Green, but by a song that was being played on the radio – Romeo. You […]
Music today was a bit of a smash and grab. I have a whole lot of records to put away, records that had been hiding in a shelf because they needed listening to to authenticate their genre. So I picked up the first Chango album (1975). It’s Salsa Rock a la early Santana. If you […]
