#bone records

[victorsqualor]

bone records

[arctic-hands]

Next time I get xrays I need to ask for the actual film itself and not just the digital or paper copy bc bone records are really fucking cool but I'll never be able to afford a surviving one so I'll need to make my own fuck i just realized I need to get a machine that will actually engrave music onto vinyl fuck

[dinnickhowellslikes]

Just learned about these today from a film maker friend - Bone Records? "Bone, what?" I said. "Bone records - musical records made of bone x-rays", he said! "Get out of here! "I said... but they are real. Text from The X-Ray Audio Project:

A Short History of Bone

In the Soviet Union in the years after the second world war, a lot of music was banned.  Almost everything Western was forbidden because the USA and Britain in particular had become seen as the enemy and their culture was held to be harmful.  But a lot of Russian music was also forbidden. Anything made by emigres was off limits because by definition, any Russian who had wilfully left the country or who stayed away by choice was now considered a traitor - whatever their repertoire and even if they had previously been approved of.  Some of these people had been huge stars before the war. And what is perhaps more difficult to comprehend, is that a lot of domestic music made by Soviet citizens was also forbidden, or at the very least deemed 'unofficial'.  Why? Learn more about these bizarre things on the X-Ray Audio project, and you can listen to some as well!!

[gangstathug]

bone records

[the-ablest-navigators]

Three of my Bone Records from the former Soviet Union. (My collection; iPhone 6)

[theyounglovers]

http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/bone-music/ Vinyl was scarce in Russia during the Cold War. So illegal copies of forbidden American music had to be printed on old X-Rays.

[dyingforbadmusic]

X-Ray Audio: The Documentary

You've probably already heard about bootlegged records of Western music in the Soviet Union between the 50s and 60s. Back then, music lovers cut Rock'n'Roll music into x-ray film and sold it on the black market.

Last year, there was an exhibition going on, a book was published and now a documentary by The Vinyl Factory and Antique Beat appeared on youtube.

The documentary gives some insight into the process of making those records and shows the protoganists talking about the risks in possessing or distributing them.

What I miss is the detail, the Fugitive Waves podcast mentioned: the KGB (Secret Service) started to pirate the pirates. After they seized their lathe cutting machines and sent their operators into prison, they started to flood the market with unplayable records in an efford to kill the demand. They also cut messages into the middle of the music recording, saying things like: "You like Rock'n'Roll? Fuck you anti-soviet slime!"

With that being said, be grateful for the easy access of music today and value the work of musicians!

Watch the docu and listen to the podcast.

[zecafeine]

Bone records : pour l'amour de la musique

Bone records : pour l’amour de la musique

Il y a quelques années, lors d’une tournée en Russie, Stephen Coates, leader du groupe The Real Tuesday Weld, découvre dans un marché aux puces un curieux objet : une sorte de disque vinyle, gravé sur une vieille radiographie. Une butin surprenant qui va l’amener à enquêter sur le monde fascinant des “bones”, des bootlegs dont l’origine remonte au milieu du XXème siècle…

Il ne faisait pas bon…

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