Hey my name is Josh.
And I'm Sarah and we're Phantogram. We're here at Amoeba.
And this is what's in our bag.
I'll start. Ok, well I picked
this Kendrick Lamar record 'good kid, m.A.A.d city' because
it's really one of the best hip-hop records I've heard in a long, long time.
It tells an awesome story and the beats are great, his rapping is great.
So I wanted this on vinyl so I got it.
One of my first ones is James Brown, 'Hot Pants.'
I don't know any of his full albums but I'm a huge fan of James Brown.
Are those his pants?
I think... I hope so, I mean...
It's hard to tell.
Yeah. I don't know what his butt looked like close up but now I do.
I've never heard it but I'm a real big fan of Tony Allen. I think his drumming is amazing
And I love rhythm and I always sample stuff, and it just looks really cool.
Next one is a J Dilla record 'Ruff Draft.'
Kind of reminds me of back when Josh and I started working on music together.
We would listen to a lot of it on the car rides back and forth to where we were recording.
We would just pop it on and tune out, man.
While we're on the subject of J Dilla, this is one of the newer Madlib records.
Because we tour so much, I don't get out enough to buy records
and I read that you could only buy this on vinyl.
I love his sound because it's real like loose and almost like stonerish sounding hip-hop
like psychedelic, so I'm happy to have this.
That will be fun.
Yeah.
This one, Janet Jackson, 'Control.' Obviously.
I guess this is one of the artists I grew up listening to when I was really young
and the songwriting is his timeless on this one.
This is one that I read about online. It just looks really interesting to me.
It says 'raw and psychedelic afro sounds of the 70s.'
We're always looking for cool, interesting things to loop up or sample
or just get inspiration from. So this looks really cool. I like the photography as well.
Next one is good old Outkast, 'Stankonia'
which is one of my favorite albums of the 90s.
Classic.
And of all time.
We looked up to these guys when we first started working together.
I'm an Aquarius and Josh is a Gemini
and we always thought it was kind of rad that we made up 'Aquemini' as well.
This is a Sun Ra record.
I don't have this one. I have a couple other of his albums.
It's like real psychedelic sounding jazz stuff, like outer space.
He's such a kinda funny dude.
He dresses really cool. Talks about outer space a lot.
My Bloody Valentine. Josh and I are huge fans of 'Loveless.'
We love shoegaze music, we're influenced by them a lot.
This is one I picked for us because I knew you would pick it if you saw it.
Thank you guys, it was a pleasure having you.
Thanks for having us. That was fun.