I know I'm not the first one on the boat for these guys, but I must say I am finding Finders Keepers right fascinating. Headed by a group of British DJs, producers and collectors, their mission is to "[introduce] fans of psychedelic / jazz / folk / funk / avant-garde and whacked-out movie musak to a lost world of undiscovered vinyl artifacts from the annals of alternative pop history." They are plundering world pop archives for what, we in the states and, apparently, the UK, call obscure. And what the people from the countries these were plucked from call "popular" or maybe even "oldies". I'm not so fond of the typical Western / first world countries attitude of suddenly validating this kind of stuff by "rescuing" it or discovering it. You know, like Columbus "discovered" America. (Native Americans waving, trying to get our attention: Hellooo. We were here first. Hellloooo).That ranting aside, I am appreciative of labels like Finders Keepers exposing us benighted Westerners to what folks in Turkey or Budapest or Afghanistan were groovin' to. Or even the lost off-color gems of UK folk or German prog. As a fancier of the obscure, I welcome this stuff into my collection. This is the kind of stuff that hipsters wet themselves over. I, for one, would don my Gen X Depends for them. I picked up their release: Selda - Selda. Part of their Anatolian Invasion series. Selda indeed rocks out with the wah-wah and the fuzz pedals. A turkish radical folk singer who delved into the psychedelic, she was an important figure in the social-political scene of her home country in the mid 70s. The production of this album has that nice faraway or underwater, low-buck, lo-fi quality. When I put it on it reminds me the kind of music you hear in local middle eastern grocery or restaurant. A favorite worn out cassette of the proprietors. They've got a slew of interesting titles. Check them out at: "Finders Keepers":http://www.finderskeepersrecords.com/home.htmlAnd also their sister labels, "B-Music":http://www.b-music.co.uk/ and "Delay 68":http://www.delay68records.co.uk/Support them weird lil' labels. They're what we live for.