Over 320 quid!
A few weekends one half of Dublin’s top notch club Electric City, Simon Conway, was over in Berlin so I ended up breaking my record buying fast and went on a pretty big spending spree! Our first port of call was Das Drehmoment, which is only five minutes walk from my house (dangerous!), here I picked up the new Egyptian Lover/Dexter collaboration on Clone Records, aptly entitled “The Clone Machine” amongst other things. Das Drehmoment seems to be good for the Dutch electro end of things, I also spotted a few choice italo numbers in the stock. Simon picked up a few good things and got talking to the owner who naturally enough is a fellow CBS member. We had a little chat about some nerd music things, my only complaint was that he didn’t have the new Jimmy Edgar on Citinite in yet (it wasn’t his fault though!). I also got the new Comtron “Special Consumer Series Part 2″, the new Faceless Mind (Luke Eargoggle) on Creme Organization offshoot Creme Eclipse, an old Advent thing I’d been after for a while “Time Trap Technik”, the Aux 88 12″ on Creme Organization and two Black Devil Disco club ones I didn’t already own.
Next up we popped into Da Capo Vinyl which is also about five minutes from my house (the other way though!) which is a good second hand shop, not much in the way of techno, electro etc, but a great collection of older electronic weirdness, I think Simon was eyeing up a few Tangerine Dream things, I picked up the “Circumstantial Evidence” album by Shalamar! Some great sampling material there! I also got Fatback - “14 Karat” and a bit of disco cheese in the form of Gene Chandler - “Get Down” on Chi-Sound Records!
Still on the second hand tip, our next visit was to Franz & Josef Scheiben (can’t find a website for them) which is at Kastanienallee 48. A lot of newer stuff here and a great collection of 80s/new wave/synth pop/what have you. My best find was Blancmange - Blind Vision, I’d still like to find the instrumental version though. Also in the bag was the classic Arthur Baker production “IOU” and Patrick Cowley’s “Megatron Man” album.
Our last stop was the mighty Space Hall, saying this place has a massive techno collection is an understatement. I can see myself spending a lot of weekends down there working my way through the archives. They also have a large electro section where I picked out things I’d been after for a while. Records bought included the new Autechre album, the new Cristian Vogel album on Tresor “The Neverengine”, an old Direct Beat one: Munchman - By Design (classsssssic Detroit electrobass!), and a few Databass Records (I like to drop the odd bit of ghetto tech into an electro set, I couldn’t stand a whole set of the stuff though!)
All in all a good day’s shopping, it’s dangerous really having such a great collection of record shops in the city you live. At least I’ll save on the mail order fees from Juno though!