I’m going to be making a last minute trip to the UK Thursday next week, for the sure-to-be-amazing sold out dreamscape party:
Staying through part of the next week up until Thanksgiving.
If anyone has any suggestions on lesser known record stores I can dig at for tunes to post on the blog, please drop a line!
As much as I love discogs it has killed a bit of the fun of record scrounging since so many shops automatically price based on it (or at least were last time I was there in 2008). I don’t mind paying “going rate” for records at all, but it is kind of a buzz kill when you have so many otherwise useless record names and catalog #s etched into your brain, not being able to use that knowledge to score some crazy stuff.
So if there’s any further out places that I might have better luck at, feel free to drop me a private email using the address on the right. Maybe it’s wishful thinking assuming anyone would let me in on their “secrets” like that.. but worth a shot 🙂
I’ll mostly be around London but am considering taking the train out to other places if there’s worthy stuff going on… Brighton or Bristol maybe (2 of my old favs)
Is there a more seminal rave flyer than the original Dreamscape?
I don’t think so… if I could have one giant poster sized rave flyer hanging in my house, it’d probably be the Dreamscape one!
love the original flyer, remember it well but never made it to Dreamscape. Shame this one sold out or might have been tempted. Haven’t been digging in London for years but just moved back there so if I spy any likely spots I’ll let you know.
Try the charity shops around london I’ve found some little gems on vinyl and some of them were worth about £30 and they were selling them for 99p
lol jungle at thrift shops?? arghhh that would RULE
I was happy finding an old abandonware computer game cyberpunk game ‘Hell A Cyberpunk THriller’ for $3.50 10 years ago hehehe
yeah I figured thrift shop scores would be harder now as I’m pretty sure Oxfam price off the internet as a matter of course (fair play to them in that instance since the money is going to charity). Def not looking forward to the endless copies of T99 Anasthasia for 10 pounds tho at the regular shops
might be worth checking out some of the car boot sales around brighton? and one of the markets in london does a regular record fair but no idea when it is, you cud also pop into my mates place, vinyl pimp he has a wharehouse in hackney holding 50,000 records including doc scotts collection and simon bassline smiths collection lots of oldskool to be had there altho they are all listed on discogs but you will at least be able to hear things maybe youv never seen before, he is in hackney wick.
heh heh I know him.
In fact he knows every DJ i’ve met in London 😀
yeah I know about that VinylPimp guy, aka DjDTL on discogs.
He has metric fucktons of AMAZING stuff listed on discogs (as in maybe 200 or more of the things on my want list) and continually relists it at identical prices so it keeps showing up in my inbox every couple days as a new listing. Also, though his prices for some less rare stuff are definitely reasonable, a lot of the rarest stuff is listed for ridiculous amounts.
He offers a good service to DJs and I’m unbelievably jealous of his warehouse / what he does (wish I could be doing it, hoovering up the occasional rarest of the rare for myself like acetates etc 😉 ), but TBH it’s so annoying getting the multiple pages of same marketplace records from him at exactly the same prices over and over, it’s put me off buying from him and makes me support smaller sellers who don’t do this stuff.
haha that is what EVERYONE says! Hilarious.
He is willing to neogotiate though, so it might be worth paying him a vist.
I’ll see how I’m doing earlier in the trip getting tunes the old fashioned way… if tuesday rolls around and I’m having no luck, I’ll hit him up if only to nab some stuff. Also curious to see if he can keep a straight face while quoting some of those prices to me in person hehehehe
hahah yeh everyone complains about those discogs updates, he`s even had death threats :0
yeh sod the expensive stuff i was thinking more along the line of trying to find some unknown white labels that i know are hiding in there, you can listen to anything you want. oh and he`ll keep a straight face alright he`s ruthless.
Thanks for the the big ups (And knocks). I do what I have to do to stay top 😉
Look forward to meet you all, I am in Holland for the weekend, but will be back from Monday!
Cheers!
hah. the all seeing eye of the pimp!