There are a few stores in São Pulo, and still less stores in Rio. But
they're expensive, with very limited number of titles, covering only
the releases wich will please the average day-to-day club dj.
Kw
On 20/04/2008, at 11:39, JT Stewart wrote:
aw shucks that's a shame about Emporium 50...I only managed to order
from them twice but the service was perfect and they carried Detroit
stuff no one else did, that I could find anyways...
I shop TTL at Xmas time for the nonsense products (vids mostly)...some
of my friends are into the style of re-issues, disco and hipsterhop
they carry (sometimes i am too)...most of my friends in nyc write off
TTL...I'm surprised so many have had problems with them but warning
taken...
@kowalski ahhhh ok, brazil....there isn't good selection there? I was
under the impression most distribs were covering S America, but i
guess a lot of stuff doesn't make it down there?
these days i try dancerecords.com first -- even if things i want are
out of stock, if there's any chance they're still in print i'll click
the re-order button and wait and see -- their re-order system is
fantastic. then i go dopejams for the more esoteric. then i go rush
hour for the 80% of my wantlist that doesn't get any american
distribution blargh
On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 4:08 PM, Frank Glazer
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
i should mention that turntable lab often has a lot of obscure
represses and hipster disco, and of course they have almost all dfa
releases. i don't shop there much because i'm annoyed that
their new
releases rss feed doesn't distinguish between records and the
hundreds
of other nonsense products they carry (clothing and accessories,
needless tech gizmos, every time they get a restock on gruvglide
they
add it to their rss feed, it's really dumb)
On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 3:09 PM, JT Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
as much as you can find at dancerecords.com (lightning fast shipping
which is often free for orders over 50$, ridiculously huge
stock..),
then more boutique type shops like dopejams, emporium50,
submerge etc
to fill in the gaps
i second Tom's question though, why the heck would you order
records
from a u.s. store when you live in europe? american labels send the
majority of their stock there anyway, there's probably next to
nothing
you can get here that you can't get there
FE gets a low rating from me, they've sent me the wrong records
even
when what i ordered was in stock, and not much of what i order
is ever
in stock. kudos to them for providing some much needed distribution
services, but the store is "meh"
On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 7:41 AM, theREALmxyzptlk
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
FE is fine if what you want is in stock.
Speaking as someone who'd like to keep on *current* things
domestic and
abroad musically, it's not so hot.
It won't do to wait on them to get in much of anything that's
limited, and
it's a crap shoot waiting to see if they'll get the records in
which create
a buzz here. Usually it's a losing bet. On the other hand,
they'll often
roll out a huge back-catalogue of a label which wasn't that hot
last year.
It depends on what you want. They are efficient and fast if you
specify you
want backorders skipped and shipping asap, but as far as keeping
*consistently* current on things (save mostly the 'trendy' ends
of techno,
the Soul Jazz catalogue, and the odd gem here and there) - and
especially as
Tom mentioned, the Detroity stuff - you're better off elsewhere.
I use a
mail order service (PBE) which is run out of NY.
No online site with interactive samples, etc, but excellent and
faster
service with a more varied stock (including imports).
jeff
forced exposure. great experience every time. email them to
make sure
what you want is available, especially if it is slighty more
uncommon.
--
peace,
frank
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