In Antwerp, people still care about records. We even have a few very good record stores left. (If you’re 15, and wondering what on planet earth a record may be, let alone a recordstore, please now illegally download a copy of ‘High Fidelity’ and sit down for 90 minutes.) Welcome Back. As we were saying: Antwerp still has a bunch of good record stores. Places where people share the love for good music and beautiful cardboard sleeves.
THE seminal Antwerp recordstore Brabo seized to exist in 2008. It’s now a pharmacy. Luckily, there’s still a bunch of good places: Coffee & Vinyl , FatKat , TuneUp , Backtrack , Wallhallarecords (if you’re into early techno and new wave) Chelsea , Record Collector, Inside Records and Marksound (classic and jazz) are probably the most important ones.
Another fine one is Wally’s Groove World . Wally’s was originally a story for the more danceable vinyl, but over the last few years they have developed into an eclectic store that stacks up dubstep, minimal wave, techno, house, but also more avantgarde stuff that is plain impossible to dance to.
And now for the great news: Wally’s Groove World is full! And to make a bit of space the two coming weekends they’re having their annual summer sales. They really seem to plan on cleaning out the closet, this time, because 95 % of the items in the shop will be € 1 or € 2. The other 5% will be 50 % or 25 % discounted.
Sat 30th june from 12:00 till 20:00Sun 1st july from 13:00 till 19:00Fri 6st july from 11:00 till 19:00Sat 7th july from 11:00 till 19:00
See you there! (we will be the giant stack of records with two legs under it)
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