anyone know anything about record shops in BERLIN

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ok so berlin is this amazing musical capital, gateway to a nation of amazing labels, scenes and genres. but where can you buy this muzik?

in other words, please give me a guide to the record shops of berlin.

― ambrose (ambrose), Wednesday, 14 May 2003 09:27 (twenty-two years ago)

are you going to berlin ambrose?

here is a thread from last summer where momus helped nalini out with berlin suggestions before we went there. it was a good trip

― gareth (gareth), Wednesday, 14 May 2003 09:38 (twenty-two years ago)

That thread didn't seem so very helpful, Gareth.

― Tag (Tag), Wednesday, 14 May 2003 09:50 (twenty-two years ago)

no thats what i thought:/ me and nalini enjoyed our trip regardless though

― gareth (gareth), Wednesday, 14 May 2003 10:01 (twenty-two years ago)

no tom is. or rather he is going now. gone, even. he is going to dresden for a day too, to some massive sonig festival thing

― ambrose (ambrose), Wednesday, 14 May 2003 10:26 (twenty-two years ago)

I do still want to go back to Berlin this year, money permitting.

Both times I've been previously I've been with people who knew their way around and as a result I doubt I could find any of the good places again. Is Kreuzberg still "cool"?

― Tag (Tag), Wednesday, 14 May 2003 10:42 (twenty-two years ago)

ambrose, Berlin is this amazing what? Are you sure you don't confuse Berlin with Cologne?

― Frühlingsmute (Wintermute), Wednesday, 14 May 2003 20:21 (twenty-two years ago)

well alright. but theres got to be something in berlin, right?

― ambrose (ambrose), Thursday, 15 May 2003 08:30 (twenty-two years ago)

there is a cool record shop in berlin that had a vinyl copy of metal machine music prominently displayed on the front door. They wouldn't even give me a price for it, I think it was so expensive they took one look at me/smell of my aftershave and thought "can't afford it". The inside of the shop stocked a bizarre mixture of Front 242 style industrial and "the sound of leamington spa" twee. Sorta the way Paris indie record shops seem to have a mixture of japanese noise and dub and nothing in between.

I'm really sorry but I can't remember where it was, I was being driven around. It was in East Berlin somewhere :-(

― pulpo, Thursday, 15 May 2003 08:42 (twenty-two years ago)

theres got to be something in berlin, right?

Sure there is. Go to Hard Wax @ Paul-Lincke-Ufer 44 and ask them to recommend you some contemporary German music. (Don't take all your money with you.)

― Frühlingsmute (Wintermute), Thursday, 15 May 2003 09:04 (twenty-two years ago)

one year passes...

there is some street in Prenzlauerberg near Kopenick's Kurrywursthaus that has loads of nice record shops on it. I will look at a map of Berlin and tell you the street's name, yes.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Monday, 20 September 2004 13:03 (twenty-one years ago)

if you could please let me know DV!! your tips have been OTM

― You've Got to Pick Up Every Stitch (tracerhand), Monday, 20 September 2004 21:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Check this thread :
Berlin record stores

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 02:23 (twenty-one years ago)

It's Kastanienallee, I'm guessing. Station B, Da Capo, Oye (on Oderberger Str. off of K-Allee). And some down near the bottom of the hill.

― Guymauve (Guymauve), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 05:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Because I accompanied DV on his record spree on, er, the Spree, I can confirm that he is indeed talking about Kastanienallee. Station B was particularly good, run by a very friendly bloke who seems to love his music.

― rener (rener), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 10:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Kastianallee - yes. that must be it. the guy in the shop is great. He enthused about some record I was looking at, and when he realised my German is UNAUSPRECHLICHEN SCHEISE he switched languages until he found one I could speak. I still didn't buy it, because I am a FULE, but I did get other great stuff there.

OH OH OH - you MUST go to the Saturn record shop in Alexanderplatz and buy Disc 3 of the "Das Beste Aus Der DDR" series. It is called "Teil 3 - KULT" and has loads of bonkers DDR nonsense on it.

Oddly, "Teil" seems to mean something rude in German.

Alexanderplatz is great... Irene says it reminds her of Birmingham.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 10:56 (twenty-one years ago)

I think you might mean Peter. Sadly when I was last there (about three weeks ago), he had left, due to the attitude of one of the other employees. Thing is, I thought he owned the place. But they're all nice to those outside their little circle. Very happy to chat about music and will gladly guide you through the shop if need be.

And I'll second a visit to Saturn. They've put pretty much their whole store on listening posts. Just take a CD run it under the scanner at one and listen away. Brilliant system. Get yourself some Neue Deutsche Welle (NDW). Will suit you fine.

Alexanderplatz was one of my daily icons while there (and from my office I could see the Reichstag).

― Guymauve (Guymauve), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 11:01 (twenty-one years ago)

also, check out the Roger Whitaker section of Saturn. People chortle at HASSELHOF's popularity in Germany, but there is no laughing at the mysterious enthusiasm for Herr Whitaker.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 11:12 (twenty-one years ago)

staalplaat, torstrasse 72.

― :| (....), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 11:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Go to Danziger Strasse in Prenzlauerberg (nearest U bahn Eberswalderstr.) and at number 28 or so there is Dense, an excellent little electronica / improv shop. Nearby is Lychener Strasse, which has a good vinyl and secondhand place. Also in Mitte, at the back of a courtyard (and up some stairs) right next to the Hackesche Hof on Rosenthaler Str is Neurotitan, pretty good for eclectic avant pop/rock.

― Momus (Momus), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 12:00 (twenty-one years ago)

and comics!

― :| (....), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 12:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Momus i may have gone in the shop on Danziger that you mention. it was a cube-like room on the south side of the street done in muted grey, almost too small to properly move around in with more than four or five people inside. to distinguish it from the trance shop just a block away we called it "the intellectial record store" and eventually "phono intellektual." it, and not the trance shop, was the one that led us to a thoroughly discombobulating hip hop experience put on buy some australians in a basement on lychnere street, under a (squat?) place called "aus land" (outland?) in which they wore 1) a judo costume 2) a home-made dinosaur costume (!!) and 3) a couple of vaguely piratic costumes of indeterminate description. they sang songs about lawb biryani and frowning.

more time!! the clouds darken in, over effra road

― You've Got to Pick Up Every Stitch (tracerhand), Thursday, 23 September 2004 16:01 (twenty-one years ago)

"intellectual" "lychener"

― You've Got to Pick Up Every Stitch (tracerhand), Thursday, 23 September 2004 16:02 (twenty-one years ago)

you live on effra road? what country is that in? I feel that I know someone on an Effra Road - maybe it is YOU!

― DV (dirtyvicar), Thursday, 23 September 2004 16:13 (twenty-one years ago)

it's in the Nation of Brixton! (Brixton at 3pm on any given day is more hectic than any part of Berlin at any time of day, at least when i was there). I think my favorite street is Oderbergstrasse, which bisects Kanstanienstrasse and runs toward that bleak and windswept park, on which another orphaned bit of the wall still runs, now apparently protecting some mammoth playing field, if that's what that is. The light towers they've built for it are the most threateningly huge things ever.

― You've Got to Pick Up Every Stitch (tracerhand), Thursday, 23 September 2004 17:36 (twenty-one years ago)

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