On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 08:07:27PM -0800, Fred Heutte wrote: > Hmm . . . Tweekin in San Francisco, Submerge/SID (of course), > and three no longer in existence -- Ameba in SF (not the current > Amoeba which is a good super-store), Exotique in Seattle and > Sonic Groove in NYC. > > Other ones I have liked include Record Time in Detroit, 12-Inch > Dance Records in DC (also out of business now), Eightball in > NYC (also gone), BPM in SF, Flying and Vinyl Junkies in London, > Gramophone in Chicago and and our own Platinum and Starbass > (gone) here in Portland. There are quite a few well known > house/techno stores that I have not been to (LA and Toronto in > particular) so this is hardly a comprehensive list.
I haven't been to shops in the USA other than in Miami, but think I have been to many memorable shops in (central) Europe/UK. Fat Cat back in 1995 was the only one I think would rival Hardwax, both in terms of classic stock, unsual stuff to discover, and interesting/funny situations, like bumping into Dave Angel entering the shop with his spliff on, or introducing Basic Channel 01 to then Advent's Colin McBean... Reckon that Hardwax in 1999 had an almost complete catalog in stock for labels like UR, Metroplex, Dancemania, Strictly Rhythm, many Trax/DJ Int'l, etc... Clone in Rotterdam and Rub-a-Dub in Glasgow are/were very good and also carry loads of classics and (techno) labels catalogs. Also Piccadilly in Manchester is rather good, but they are more diverse and do not stock so much... On a somewhat lower level, than the list would go on&on like Rare Records in Eindhoven, Vinyl Junkies and Smallfish in London, Import in Paris, etc... > But only Hardwax is on a block (actually they are in a back One thing really cool about HW is the staircase leading to the shop full of grafitti and signatures from DJs/artits... Oh, and seeing the first snow flakes falling last year while some rather deep and dope stuff was on the shop soundsystem was fun as well (at least to a tropic guy like me). G -- Guilherme Menegon Arantes, PhD Sao Paulo, Brasil ______________________________________________________
