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Lots of 4AD way back. __________

Here's a bit of history, the original HeadRoom Max Balanced Headphone Amplifier prototype: It sold for $850 apparently, which seems like a bargain to me.

Best mate sold his UK software company and is in the process of moving to Portugal. Said this is the inspiration.

This is going to be a long walk. 4AD is a storied indie record label that released a ton of works by post-punk and indie rock artists in the 1980s. At that dawn of that decade they put out a bunch of releases by the Bauhaus, The The, Modern English, The Birthday Party and a host of other contemporaries of that era. I have a few 4AD Bauhaus records that I've owned for 35+ years. At one point in the late 80s, I had a The The T-shirt in spite of owning none of their music (I thought the name was funny.) Among the early 4AD releases is a one-off that is the only release by the band Rema-Rema while the band was active (there's a been a number since they broke up, but that's not really relevant.) Said release is an EP called Wheel In The Roses. I've heard it, but not any time recently. The EP's cover art has its own story at least as famous as the band. While not intentionally or historically so, the image has an enduring legacy due its homoeroticism. In the 90s I knew a gay house DJ who had a copy of the original 12" framed on his studio wall. The back story of the photo is wild and dark one. The subject of the photos is two wrestlers from the Nuba tribe in Africa. It was taken in 1948 by photojournalist George Rodger. Rodger took the photo on his tour of Africa. He set out on such a journey post-WWII to deal with the horrors he'd witnessed. His photos of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp were some of the first images of the holocaust that were seen internationally. Here's where the story goes off the rails. George Rodger's son is Peter, who is a successful documentary filmmaker. Peter's son, George's grandson is ...was, Elliot Rodger, the incel mass murder.