hi!
just returned home from work...
1) the best flead market is at boxhagener platz in friedrichshain - the area
t.raumschmiere lives - and mostly young people hang around - 99% locals -
what has a positive effect on the price of the records.
the collection at strasse des 17. juni is huge - but this is a pure tourists
flea market. records starting at 10 euros if you find some cheap ones :-)
2) all the shops are open on saturday - not on sunday
the opening hours of hardwax on saturday are from 12am to ? - don't know
exactly about closing time cause when the weather is nice i'm usually
sitting on the opposite of the river at the Ankerklause for a nice cup of
coffee at 10am - waiting for hardwax to open...
can't add anything to the list brian provided - only the info that "Platten
Pedro" is a must see... this shop rocks. he has besides of 10 thounsands of
lps 180 thousand singles in his shop. you can't see any walls in there -
only records...
3) ? if you wanna buy records for 1 euro the best choice will be flea
markets. another nice one is at the end of zossener str. - near spacehall
record shop - if you think about looking for the minimux-maximum 4 lp set -
check out spacehall. got mine for 49euros and i had the choice between gsa
version and international version. they have most stuff hardwax has but they
are little more expensive - about 1 euro per record. great selection of
minimal stuff and cds.
4) watergate is still great - went there on saturday to see moodyman and the
place was still rocking when i left at 6.30am. my personal favourite is
berghain atm. if you wanna sleep for an hour or so - they even have
darkrooms :-) it's the best location - not just because of the fantastic
architecture. don't bring your camera. they don't wanna have any pictures
taken - so the security will do a proper search - they even have a female
one for the girls. had to leave my camera at the counter. the few girls that
go there on a saturday night are a) with some gay male friends or b) because
they know that it's safe to go there being a woman that just wants to party
instead of having to scare away the horny guys all the time. berghain is
naturally a good place to listen to house music although they allways have
djs coming from other styles - like monolake few weeks ago - laurent garnier
last weekend and (excerpt from my weblog): coming up next week (friday) @
panoramabar: Playhouse pres.: Warhol's unfinished symphony - with: Ricardo
Villalobos / Daniel Bell / Heiko MSO / Meat
saturday?... maybe Maria: www.clubmaria.de or WMF www.wmfclub.de or
berghain/panoramabar www.berghain.de or watergate www.water-gate.de
have fun!
roman/berlin/germany
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Q1) Are the fleamarkets on Saturday as well as Sunday? Any in particular
that are best for records?
The best fleamarket is on Straße des 17 Juni, go to Tiergarten S-bahn
station. It's open only on saturday and sunday from 8 till 16. It's the
best
place for finding records. There's loads of them there.
Q2) Is it true all the shops are shut saturday? I managed to go to hardwax
saturday, but need to know if all the big second hand shops open saturday?
also, what about sunday?
Some are, some aren't... try your luck... That fleamarket is already a
very
good spot but if you can sqeeuze in some time, here's a link that I always
use when I go to another country hunting records:
http://www.cs.uu.nl/people/jur/recshops.html It's a pretty good place to
find shops, eventho the guy collecting is into progressive rock or
something
and some of the addresses are perhaps outdated. But it's a very good
start,
it helped me find decent 2nd record shops in many different countries.
Here's some I know of that might be of interest:
- Das Drehmoment @ Lychener Str. http://www.das-drehmoment.net/
- Dense Recordshop @ Danziger Str. (near to das drehmoment) -
experimental
stuff
- Franz & Josef @ Kastanienallee - 2nd hand shop, all 80`s/70`s stuff for
good prices on 2 floors.
- Platten-Pedro @ Tegeler Weg- charlottenburg
- Spacehall @ Zossener Str.-Kreuzberg. Lot's of electro.
- Raw Music @ Zossener Str. Wide colelction of electronic stuff.
- DNS @ Alte Schönhauser Str.
- Tonhalle @ Kastanienallee
- Melting Point @ Neue Schönhauser Str.
Get a map to find out where they are exactly and what U-bahn to catch,
Berlin is a city devided in area's (Kreuzberg, Mitte, etc).
Q3) I have a list of about 20 record shops. any in particular that are
best
for 2nd hand? Looking for rare MAXI's of any description - you know, the
sort of shops that have massive piles of records for 1 euro. Not
interested
in getting any techno, I'm strictly on the "gotta pick up some pieces
cheap, need to sell some etc vibe". So, weird pop/rock/electronic disco
etc
etc etc etc .
See Q2.
Q4) Does I-F only play Friday nights in berlin? where should I go saturday
night - anything good? is watergate still ok?
I-F is moving a lot between holland and Barcelona lately, I'm quite sure
he's not playing in Berlin this weekend. Ostgut is indeed a very nice
place:
http://www.berghain.de/
There must be several sites that informs about all the clubs and events in
Berlin, this is just one of them (first hit I got in google)
http://www.circonium.de/berlin/music-events.html
thanks in advance.
alec
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