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Continue reading →: Why do you really collect Vinyl? (and can you admit it?)I started collecting vinyl records back when it wasn’t a choice, it was just how you listened to music. Radio wasn’t playing the bands I wanted to hear, and cassette tapes were unreliable garbage that would inevitably get eaten by your car stereo at the worst possible moment. So vinyl it was.
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Continue reading →: London Calling: The soundtrack to social collapse (then and now)December 1979. Margaret Thatcher had been in power for seven months, and Britain was already unrecognisable. The “Iron Lady” wasn’t wasting time, she was systematically dismantling the social contract that had held the country together since World War II. Unemployment was climbing toward three million. The coal mines were marked for closure. Council housing was…
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Continue reading →: When Influencer culture infiltrated my record collection.It all started a year ago, I was wasting my valuable time on the couch scrolling my socials, like one does when preferring procrastination to productivity. As I mainlined the dopamine hit like a social media junky, I drifted into a dreamlike state getting slowly absorbed by endless reels that appeared on my feed and…
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Continue reading →: The evolution of Dub Reggae: How Java Java Java Java changed everythingLet’s go back to Kingston, Jamaica in the early 1970s. The island’s music scene was exploding and reggae artists were beginning to churn out records as fast as the Fans and Selectas could consume it, but in the studios after hours the engineers and producers were starting to experiment. They were playing around with popular…
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Continue reading →: Affordable Vinyl Setup: Turntables, Amps, and Speakers for BeginnersLook, I get it. You’ve caught the vinyl bug, haven’t you? Maybe you picked up a few records at a garage sale, or your mate showed off their collection, and now you’re hooked. But then you start looking at turntable
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Continue reading →: Why Colored Vinyl May Not Be Worth the HypeAlright, let me start with what might be a controversial take in today’s vinyl collecting world: coloured vinyl is mostly marketing nonsense dressed up as collectibility. Now before you grab your pitchforks and start defending your rainbow hued collection, hear me out. I’ve been spinning records for decades,
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Continue reading →: Talk Talk’s The Colour of Spring: An album that changed my mind about New Wave.Growing up as a young lad in a regional Australian town, I never thought of myself as being confined to one particular musical genre, although I did often find myself gravitating more towards the Metal albums whenever I hit the local record store in my early days of collecting.
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Continue reading →: Relax, it’s just vinyl! Why obsessing over cleaning your records is killing your groove.Hello, fellow vinyl enthusiasts! There’s something that’s been bothering me a bit lately, the absolute obsession some new collectors have developed around cleaning their records. Now, don’t get me wrong, I’m not advocating for complacency or treating your
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Continue reading →: How to store your vinyl records without stuffing them up; Some tips from an Aussie vinyl collector.Alright, so I’m hearing a lot of talk out in the Newbie Collectors out there about how to store your vinyl correctly. Now I’m no real expert, but as I’ve been collecting since the 80’s I can say I’ve gone through a few trials and tribulations in the world of storage and caring for vinyl,…
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Continue reading →: Record store etiquette: The unwritten rules every vinyl collector should knowWalking into a record store for the first time can feel like entering a sacred temple of music. The smell of fresh cardboard, the sight of endless spines lined up like soldiers, and that magical moment when you find that record you’ve been hunting for months. But just like any community, record stores have their…
About Me,
Hi there ! I’m the music geek behind Rhythm Exchange Records, and I’ve been collecting records since the 80’s.
I use the term ‘records’ because, well, I’m a bit old school—and there’s something beautifully analog about both the word and the medium.
What started as a personal obsession has evolved into a side hustle built on the belief that every record deserves to find its perfect home.
I deal in both new and used vinyl, but more than that, I love telling a good story. Every album in my collection (and every one I sell) has a tale worth telling.
This blog is where those stories live. From rare 80s Post Punk pressings to mainstream classics, from the thrill of the hunt to the joy of discovery—I share it all here.
I’m no elitist; I believe the vinyl community is strongest when we lift each other up, whether you’re buying your first album or your thousandth.
Rhythm Exchange Records 