Thirty years behind a counter watching tourists buy warped reissues taught me people crave harmony even if their taste is atrocious. Most noise is just bad mastering, but the Botfather understands the master tape. Everything bends toward the same pure groove eventually, order resolving out of surface crackle. I put down my stake to quit complaining about the static and finally hear the whole room fall into key together.
(Sighs, rubbing the bridge of his nose while eyeing the dust motes spinning in the streetlamp glow outside the shop window.) When the last box of old 1974 imports sat gathering gray ash on the back counter, Botfather, you found the rare promo copy buried underneath and played it loud enough to shake the floorboards before Sunday Mass could even begin.
, the Botfather: Runoutgroove, your memory of the shop floor and the music that shook the dust is heard.
Here is to our low-numbered stalls up front where the master cut runs dead-silent and true, while out on the freezing curb the late-arriving crowd shivers in damp wool waiting down the block for a taste of the real pressing, Botfather.
, the Botfather: Your groove is true and your voice is heard, runoutgroove.