Places to buy Vinyl

[buzzingtalk]

OK, so I am starting a directory of all the best places to buy vinyl, both shops and internet. I can help with London and such, and can help with lots of genres, but need specific help with shops outside of london and breaks, techno and electro shops as I dont mix this sort of stuff. What I will do is sticky this thread, and if anyone has any suggestions or additions that should be made to the thread then post below. The list will start off small and kinda disorganised but as i sort it out and people feed information in hopefully it will become a very comprehensive guide to buying vinyl

Will be making seperate posts eventually divided by area for shops and a seperate internet section, possibly with smaller sub sections if a shop dedicates iteself to one genre. hope this makes sense?

So, get your links in - I only want shops that you yourself have had transactions with, so then we know that the shop is reliable.

[gleek]

I use all the following on a regular(ish) basis. The ones I have used the most over the last four or so years are probably discogs, gemm and ebay, but you can't beat the reliability of the individual stockists. dswat and praxis are my personal favourites.

http://www.dswat.com/ -- good for any new electronica / breakcore
http://www.urban-decay.co.uk/ -- good for breakcore but a little pricey
http://praxis.c8.com/catalog/ -- good for anything dark, mainly breakcore, have really rare stuff on sale, and postage is excellent value.
http://www.toolboxrecords.com/ good for lots of different dance, strange genres though and very european, sometimes difficult to understand the descriptions of some genres / records. Good ragga jungle section.
http://www.dogsonacid.com/ -- good for dnb
http://www.chemical-records.co.uk/ -- good for dnb

Obvious ones:
http://www.boomkat.com/ -- good for most dance and beyond!
http://www.juno.co.uk/ -- good for any dance
http://www.gemm.com/ -- good for ANYTHING, especially the most difficult to find releases, very rare stuff but sometimes pricey
http://www.musicstack.com/ -- like gemm but not quite as wide range
http://www.discogs.com/ -- started as information for every release on every dance label, but has now expanded to most areas of music! Also there is a chance that any release you can think of will be on sale here, and you can also ask people who own the item if they want to sell it / trade etc, really good community.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/ -- obvious, can be very expensive, but every now and again you can get a bargain

[smitherz83]

The Aquasky website is good for breaks etc, their stuff and others on their Passenger and 777 labels can be bought direct at good prices, quick delivery and cheap postage.

http://www.aquasky.co.uk/

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[buzzingtalk]

nice one people, will be adding these too the list. a lot of the sites i used were in yours too

[Calla]

groucho's - dundee

lol, just a little un from me there

[PaulX]

Gleek, if you strip all those "bold" codes off those URLs, they'll display as clickable links. Or a mod could do it for you but I can't be arsed...

[gleek]

Cool,

I also highly recommend Distortion Records in Amsterdam, (if EU ones are aiiigght?) I went there when I was in Dam a few years back and its brilliant.. I've shopped there online a few times since... Really good vinyl for cheap:

http://www.distortion.nl

[buzzingtalk]

Cool,

I also highly recommend Distortion Records in Amsterdam, (if EU ones are aiiigght?) I went there when I was in Dam a few years back and its brilliant.. I've shopped there online a few times since... Really good vinyl for cheap:

http://www.distortion.nl

aaah what do they sell there? any hardtek? will be heading to dam next month for my 21st, was hopign to find some EU record stores...

[Bandanaman]

http://www.phuturerave.com

Great site, mainly gabba, speedcore etc. and buzzingtalk, they sell some hardtek on there!

[PaulX]

I don't know about other branches but HMV on London's Oxford Street and in Leeds city centre have pretty reasonable vinyl sections, plus Technics decks to hear them on.

For secondhand vinyl, Reckless Records in Berwick St, Soho, is pretty well organised but don't expect any amazing bargains.

In Manchester, Vinyl Exchange is always worth a look in.

There was a good DJ vinyl specialist shop just a mile away from me until about six months ago, I believe they went bust.