Prior to founding the band Morphine, Mark Sandman launched Hypnosonics, built around a stripped down drum kit with no toms and a piece of plywood in place of cymbals, played by Jay Hilt. With funk in its heart, Hypnosonics was originally a five piece with Sandman on guitar and organ, Tom Halter and Russ Gershon of the Either/Orchestra on trumpet and sax, and Mike Rivard, who later founded Club dâ''Elf, on bass. After Morphine took off, Dana Colley joined Hypnosonics, Hilt added hi-hat cymbals to his kit, and the horn section started singing. In 1996, the same year that Morphine recorded Like Swimming at the legendary Cambridge, MA studio Fort Apache, Hypnosonics visited the Fort to play a live-in-the-studio radio broadcast on beloved local rock station WFNX.
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Ortofon 2M Blue Premounted
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Pro-Ject Phono Box DC Pre-Amp
Compact, high-performance phono preamplifier for both MM and MC cartridges, delivering a clean, detailed signal with minimal noise.
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Pro-Ject Debut Carbon EVO
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Audioengine A2 Plus
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Nagaoka MP-110H Cartridge
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Featured Upcoming Vinyl
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Coach Party Caramel (Light Yellow)
Chess Club
September 26, 2025 -
FM Brotherhood [2xLP]
Frontiers New Recordings Physical Only
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Cardiacs LSD [2xLP]
Cardiacs /The Alphabet Business Concern
September 19, 2025 -
Tedeschi Trucks Band/Leon Russell Mad Dogs & Englishmen Revisited: Live At LOCKN' [2xLP]
Fantasy
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Wisdom in Chains Split (Baby Blue)
Dead Serious
September 26, 2025 -
Cameron Whitcomb The Hard Way
Atlantic
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Ivy Traces of You (Beige)
Bar / None Records
September 5, 2025 -
Giggs Let Em Ave It [2xLP]
Xl Recordings
September 26, 2025 -
Daffo Where The Earth Bends (Eco-Mix Blue)
Concord Records
September 26, 2025 -
Wednesday Bleeds - Eco Mix
Dead Oceans
September 19, 2025 -
The Shame Cutthroat
Dead Oceans
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Rhys Fulber Memory Impulse Autonomy
Artoffact Records
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Brian Dunne Clams Casino
Missing Piece Records
September 5, 2025 -
Wednesday Bleeds
Dead Oceans
September 19, 2025