STEREOFOUND

A collection of ‘non-music’ and ‘oddities’ on vinyl, found at thrift stores and flea markets. Think of stereo-test records, jingles, sound effects, instructions, spoken word, language courses and, well, basically everything recorded out of the ordinary.

Today is Queen’s Day, a dutch national holiday to celebrate our Queen’s birthday. One of the best things of Queen’s Day is the traditional freemarkets all over the country where everyone can sell what they want in the streets… basically one big second hand market. The perfect day for crate digging in search of new Stereofound material.

To celebrate, here’s a double record with recordings about and of our former Queen: Juliana, who sat on the throne from 1948 to 1980. There’s people speaking and singing about Juliana, speeches by Juliana herself and information, historical recordings and highlights from her queenship.

This is a single once handed out to stationers/ office suppliers to promote Ballograf ballpoints on fathersday (a ballpoint makes the perfect gift, right!)
The recording is a bit weird: it’s a collection of short spoken sketches cut up in parts and put on the record in random order. The introduction explains that it’s a game. The idea is that you listen to the record and put the parts in the right order. By doing so you should be able to answer one simple question at the end of the record and enter the competition to win 1000 guilders.

There’s not much to add about the recordings itself since I don’t speak spanish… but I love the typical 50’s sleeve design. It holds 20 pages with lessons accompanied by some fun vintage duo-tone illustrations and nice typography. I love it!