M'sian music fan deejays with wind-up gramophone, playing century-old recordings


Goh's passion for the gramophone has led him to present deejay sets, featuring hand-cranked antique phonographs that spin 78s and cylinder records. Photo: Caleb Goh

Head down to RexKL this weekend for a walk down memory lane with music from nearly 100 years ago. Caleb Goh will be playing a selection of British and American swing and jazz records on two machines: a HMV 31A gramophone built in 1927 in India, and a HMV 101 from 1926 built in the Britain.

Malaysia's "gramophone deejay" is back on the decks, winding up his music machines and taking the whole vinyl revival experience back even further.

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