David Ontempi
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David Ontempi
@ontempi.bsky.social
Crate digging, vintage samplers, green tea and slow afternoons making music.
Looking for new record store recommendations in the Bay Area. What's popping?

#BayArea #cratedigging #recordshopping
December 8, 2024 at 8:33 PM
When is it too late to still order pumpkin space lattes?

As an Australian new to the Pacific Northwest... is there a rule book on these tricky etiquette issues 🧐 #askbluesky #seattle
December 8, 2024 at 3:13 AM
Can you guess which city this is? It's overcast, cold, rains a lot, and we drink a lot of coffee... #overcast #ontempi
November 28, 2024 at 12:28 AM
Shalamar was on some proper 80s nonsense with these song titles, but this cover is about as bad as it gets. The track however? Well it's bad too, but hilariously so, so check it. #cratedigging in Seattle.
November 23, 2024 at 6:30 PM
Even back then, this was not it, and now, it's even less it. #cratedigging in Seattle.
November 22, 2024 at 6:06 PM
I'm all for Christmas albums, but this, this is a hard pass. #cratedigging in Seattle.
November 21, 2024 at 5:26 PM
Is this the strangest cover for a French flute and piano album? Calm down Jazz people. #cratedigging in #Seattle.
November 20, 2024 at 5:56 PM
I've got more than a few Kamahls in my collection too 😂
One of the unbroken truths of crate digging in Australia is that you will always find at least one Kamahl record. In the southern states you're going to find a lot of Nana Mouskouri but Kamahl is undefeated as the king of all op shop vinyl crates.

#opshopping #cratedigging #kamahl #australiathings
November 20, 2024 at 7:22 AM
As a half-kiwi I'm always going to give love to New Zealand artists you need to know about. Here's Aldous Harding with a truly lovely track (and a stunning film clip setting).
youtu.be/qPB6iPXhkdI
Aldous Harding - Fixture Picture (Official Video)
YouTube video by 4AD
youtu.be
November 20, 2024 at 3:39 AM
I bought this 60% for the creepy cover figure, and 40% for the "And French Folk Songs" text. Or maybe vice versa. Either way, it's terrible and great and more than a couple of sneaky samples ending up in the mix... #cratedigging in #Seattle.
November 20, 2024 at 2:20 AM
Bjork being Bjork is the best thing... "Set to take over Centre Pompidou in Paris, Natural Manifesto hopes to “remind citizens of the raw vitality of endangered creatures”".
mixmag.net/read/bjork-s...
Björk's new sound installation will "recreate" extinct animal calls
Set to take over Centre Pompidou in Paris, Natural Manifesto hopes to “remind citizens of the raw vitality of endangered creatures”
mixmag.net
November 18, 2024 at 10:24 PM
Ten cents for this Ray Price record? Bargain. Aside from the lovely strings to sample, the namesake song is a beautiful breakup song, and Ray's legacy is an often understated part of country/crooning classic America. As the wonderful cover photo suggests. #samplephonic #sampling #rayprice
November 18, 2024 at 10:19 PM
Loving these unhinged album covers from the era where putting something, anything, digital in the signal path of otherwise entirely analog bands was something worth marketing. Digital spectacular!!
November 17, 2024 at 2:21 AM
hello world....
November 16, 2024 at 11:29 PM