DJ Alex Corton – Good Looking Records

Good Looking Records

Various – Points In Time 001 to 009

1999 – 2000

Good day to all. Well, another weekend drifts away and the work week staggers toward us with life’s charms and perils for us. I hope everyone had a good weekend and found time for the goodness and comfort of sounds. What would the world be without music? Strewth, I just got major shivers thinking about it.. 

   It’s a new week of reviews and while the main thread of these write up’s is based mainly on the vinyl off the shelf, there are occasions where the words can spill onto other formats.

   Today we start a series of three consecutive days of posts focused on collections within the Good Looking Records catalogue, before we return for our last few vinyl releases on the label. 

   There are vinyl releases of each one of the Points In Time volumes but I never bought any due to the fact I had all the 12” singles that came on each one. The main reason I did buy these CD’s was for the CD player in the car (which now doesn’t work), and also for the two cracking mix CDs, featured on Points In Time – Volume 5 with DJ Tayla and the on Volume 9 with Nookie. Tayla took 10 of the tracks from  volumes 4, 5 and 6 to mix (which was odd as this was before Volume 6 came out), and Nookie, took 11 tracks from volume 7, 8 and 9. 

    Artwork for the PIT series fell to Nick Purser who kept the series stretching across the spectrum of colors, and adding that fiery GLR logo of the character on the labels. This happy face was called “Shermy” from the standart pack which came with CorelDRAW software, 1989. Looks like he’s downed a few bowls of Ready Brek on these sleeves!

  If you’re after a collection or snapshot of this monumental label, these CDs are well worth having, especially as many of these tracks are so expensive these days if you were to seek out the 12”s. The mixture of tracks across both Good Looking Records and Looking Good Records seriously fulfills any atmospheric heads quench for some of the most foundational sounds of the deep. 

   If you are interested in reading up on any of the tracks on these Points In Time series, and they came out on Good Looking Records, you’ll be able to find the tunes you want, on this blog. It’s compiled by catalogue number though, so you may have to look that up. It’s not difficult though. You’ve got this!