Berliners! Where should I go record shopping?

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I'm off to Berlin in a week and I intend to spend as much time as possible in record shops. Which ones should I check out?

I guess I'm looking for microhouse, minimal techno, very small electro, the usual electronic stuff, but surprises are welcome too. I've started a list, here:
http://www.ultrahyper.net/blog/2005/03/record-shops-in-berlin.html

Can you help narrow it down, or indeed widen it out?

― Andy (foopfoop), Friday, 11 March 2005 14:49 (twenty years ago)

http://theoriginalsoundtrack.com/blog/

― j blount (papa la bas), Friday, 11 March 2005 15:00 (twenty years ago)

das drehmoment / radio nord has mostly hard ebm-style records, neurotitan focuses on obscure experimental stuff and boteca appeared to be closed the last time i was there. hardwax are exactly what youre looking for.

― fe zaffe (fezaffe), Friday, 11 March 2005 15:03 (twenty years ago)

hard wax!! you must go to hard wax. i think it's the best.

also rotation is a bit smaller but friendly and in a good location

― geeta (geeta), Friday, 11 March 2005 18:21 (twenty years ago)

Other threads:

Berlin record stores
berlin record shopping -- coolest ever???

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Friday, 11 March 2005 18:55 (twenty years ago)

Your blogged list is pretty comprehensive. I just discovered Freizeitglauben yesterday. All their stock is vinyl, but it seems pretty much what you're looking for.

http://www.freizeitglauben.de/

― Momus (Momus), Friday, 11 March 2005 18:58 (twenty years ago)

Dense is pretty much the greatest thing ever if you like noise and experimental music.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Friday, 11 March 2005 19:00 (twenty years ago)

Dense is my personal favourite of the Berlin record shops too. And there's a newish place at about 11 or 13 Rosa-Luxembourg Str. in Mitte which is pretty good, although more indie-ish than minimal techno-ish. Also has a little art gallery attached. Can't remember the name.

― Momus (Momus), Friday, 11 March 2005 19:09 (twenty years ago)

That's the same as Neurotitan right? Or have they changed their name after the promo company that Ed and Mauro run?

neurotitan.de My fave shop for experimental stuff too.

― Jena (JenaP), Friday, 11 March 2005 19:25 (twenty years ago)

No, I'm pretty sure I know the place Momus is talking about and it's not too far from Neurotitan. I stumbled upon it one night but it was closed. It looked like a great place from the stuff in the window, though.

Strangely, I took a picture of that street -- looking away from the record store. I thought it was a great example of 4-storey and 5-storey buildings meshing with each other on the same Berlin block.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Friday, 11 March 2005 19:32 (twenty years ago)

hardwax

also check out some great stores on Kastanianallee (great street) in prenzlauerberg.

― wordyrappington (wordyrappington), Friday, 11 March 2005 19:35 (twenty years ago)

Thanks for the tips. gonna have to get a big wallmap and plan my route with little different colour pins and bits of string. maximun efficiency.

― Andy (foopfoop), Monday, 14 March 2005 14:26 (twenty years ago)

three months pass...

Tell me about Popkomm.

― Semaphore Burns (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 16:48 (twenty years ago)

x-post
the one in rosa luxemburg str is called 'leila-m' and they have the nicest staff i have ever come across in a record shop

― Owen Hatherley (owen), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 17:03 (twenty years ago)

Ha: "micro-house, minimal techno, very small electro, miniscule breaks, infinitesimal disco, Angstrom-core, and sub-atomic dub."

― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 18:14 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

Leila M has a lovely CD selection, and yes nice staff. Nicholas in Rotation is a top bloke too, helped me out with lots of non-music related tips, remembered me coming in from 2 years ago!

OMFG at Spacehall on Zossener StraBe, Kreuzberg though. My mind melted. Cheers Barry!

And the next shop along (Scratch?) gave me some free doo-dads for my jukebox-crippled 7"s so cheers to them also :)

― fandango (fandango), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 09:17 (nineteen years ago)

i went in a good shop on Pucklerstrasse near Gorlitzer Bahnhof but can't remember the name - altho don't know what they were like on new dance stuff.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 09:33 (nineteen years ago)

if I pass it I'll add it here.

― fandango (fandango), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 09:45 (nineteen years ago)

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