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Canadian Band Releases Music Made Just For Fisher Price Turntables
OTTAWA — It seems the return of the record player isn’t just for grown-up music fans any more.
A new release from Ottawa-based Kelp Records featuring the music of local band Hilotrons is available only for the Fisher-Price toy record player. A departure from other Fisher-Price selections like Camptown Races and Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star, it offers roughly 25-second versions of Hilotrons tracks “My Number” and “Not There Tonight.”
Kelp Records founder Jon Bartlett, who was a childhood fan of the late-’70s music box, came across a YouTube video last summer of a Fisher-Price turntable playing Led Zeppelin’s Stairway to Heaven that “blew his mind.”
“I’ve got a little guy now who is almost three,” said Bartlett. “That’s one of the first things I bought him, so the thought that someone figured out a way to create the discs got me really excited.”
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/Ottawa+band+release+spins+only+Fisher+Price+record+player/8519637/story.html
A new release from Ottawa-based Kelp Records featuring the music of local band Hilotrons is available only for the Fisher-Price toy record player. A departure from other Fisher-Price selections like Camptown Races and Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star, it offers roughly 25-second versions of Hilotrons tracks “My Number” and “Not There Tonight.”
Kelp Records founder Jon Bartlett, who was a childhood fan of the late-’70s music box, came across a YouTube video last summer of a Fisher-Price turntable playing Led Zeppelin’s Stairway to Heaven that “blew his mind.”
“I’ve got a little guy now who is almost three,” said Bartlett. “That’s one of the first things I bought him, so the thought that someone figured out a way to create the discs got me really excited.”
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/Ottawa+band+release+spins+only+Fisher+Price+record+player/8519637/story.html
They've just out-hipstered every indie band on the planet.
