Not as much as this guy ( sidebar, The Church are a criminally underrated band-one of the best ever)
However, the lab has now been given a new lease of life as a vibrantly hued, maze-like music archive and hub, which will be opened up to creatives visiting or living in the Portuguese city. Created by guitarist Marty Willson-Piper of Australian psych-pop icons the Church, the In Deep Music Archive houses an expansive, painstakingly curated collection of over 65,000 vinyl records. To put things into perspective, that’s about the same as legendary California beatmaker DJ Shadow (per Questlove’s estimate) and not far off the 70,000-rich haul famously sold by Elton John for his AIDS Foundation charity in 1993. Add to this the 15,000 CDs, cassettes, stacks of prime vintage gear (which includes Rickenbacker 6- and 12-strings and a Roland space echo unit), and memorabilia-like signed concert posters and David Bowie Barbie dolls, and you’ve got a veritable candy shop for music enthusiasts. Virtuosic drummer Virgil Donati, members of Brian Jonestown Massacre, and Dais Records mavericks Drab Majesty have all paid the archive a visit since Willson-Piper and his wife Olivia first sourced the premises in spring 2023.
However, the lab has now been given a new lease of life as a vibrantly hued, maze-like music archive and hub, which will be opened up to creatives visiting or living in the Portuguese city. Created by guitarist Marty Willson-Piper of Australian psych-pop icons the Church, the In Deep Music Archive houses an expansive, painstakingly curated collection of over 65,000 vinyl records. To put things into perspective, that’s about the same as legendary California beatmaker DJ Shadow (per Questlove’s estimate) and not far off the 70,000-rich haul famously sold by Elton John for his AIDS Foundation charity in 1993. Add to this the 15,000 CDs, cassettes, stacks of prime vintage gear (which includes Rickenbacker 6- and 12-strings and a Roland space echo unit), and memorabilia-like signed concert posters and David Bowie Barbie dolls, and you’ve got a veritable candy shop for music enthusiasts. Virtuosic drummer Virgil Donati, members of Brian Jonestown Massacre, and Dais Records mavericks Drab Majesty have all paid the archive a visit since Willson-Piper and his wife Olivia first sourced the premises in spring 2023.
