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Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville: “No. 5” (“Au Claire de la Lune”)

Earliest sound recording an intriguing historical tidbit, but not everyone will need to own it on vinyl On April 9, 1860, 17 years before Thomas Edison invented the phonograph, French scientist Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville made the world’s first successful sound recording. And of all the sounds he might’ve attempted to capture, he chose the human voice, singing a song....  read more

More Photos from Dust-to-Digital's Take Me To The Water Collection

Earlier this year, Atlanta-based crate-digging label Dust-to-Digital released Take Me to the Water: Immersion Baptism in Vintage Music and Photography 1890-1950, a 96-page book...  read more

Down by the River: Dust-to-Digital's Latest Small Miracle

They’re dunked in wide rivers and lazy farm ponds. Some are dropped down holes sawed through winter ice, the better to cool—as Memphis preacher E.D. Campbell once sermonized—that “fire burning in my soul...”  read more

Dust-to-Digital to Release Take Me to the Water in May

Consider this another reminder that you can't get everything on iTunes. In its ongoing quest to unearth ultra-rare recordings, Atlanta label Dust-to-Digital is set to release a new photography/music collection called Take Me to the Water: Immersion Baptism in Vintage Music and Photography 1890-1950....  read more