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| Copenhagen's Second Beat Records Store Front |
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Denmark native and fellow crate digger Jesper was kind enough to provide a nice, short and sweet guest blogger's Record Store Review for one of his preferred local record sellers. Besides being a well-versed jazz head and knowledgeable record collector, he's also producer of the original diggin' documentary Beat Diggin' available at crateescaperecords.com
Jesper writes:
Jesper writes:
One of my favorite
local used record shops. They carry pretty much all genres of modern rhythmic
music from Hip Hop, soul, funk, jazz and rock, to afro, reggae, electronic, punk and
world music. Sometimes you can even find some avant garde or classical. It’s a
pretty small space, but there are usually new records in several times every
week, and the prices are fair. Sometimes they price a lot of stuff down to move
stock faster and make room for more. And when they get bigger collections in,
you can usually get a nice discount, if you buy a bunch. There’s usually also a
bunch of bargain bins on the floor with the occasional odd gem. A great thing
for hiphop heads is that they don’t seem to take hiphop very serious, so it’s
often priced pretty cheap (yay!)
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| The Jazz section holds vintage, jazz funk and avantgarde |
I highly recommend
this shop for any digger or collector visiting Copenhagen. The only setback is
that there’s no listening station, but they will usually play you a couple of
tracks on the turntable, if you ask nicely. As a service to customers they have
started posting about new arrivals on their Facebook group.
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| Psych, prog and punk is found in the Rock section |
They also sell used books
(mainly music, art and philosophy), collectable comics and vintage toys. And
when you’re in the area, you can take a stroll though the nearby Assistens cemetery,
where a number of jazz greats like Dexter Gordon, Ben Webster and Kenny Drew
have found their eternal resting place.
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| Jazz and more Jazz! |
10 of my best recent
pick-ups:
Siah & Yeshua Da Poed: Visualz EP, NM –
4 Euros
Main Source: Peace is not the word to play PC
12”, NM – 10 Euros
Tribe: Check the rhime 12”, NM – 1,5 Euros
Ice-T: Ya don’t quit 12”, NM – 2,5 Euros
Funkdoobiest: Brothas Doobie LP, NM, stickered sleeve – 4
Euros
Kam: Neva again LP, German press PC, NM – 4
Euros
Gary Bartz NTU Troop’s Harlem Bush Music:
Uhuru LP, VG++ – 6 Euros
Leon Thomas: Spirits known and unknown LP,
VG++ – 6 Euros
Roy Ayers: Virgo vibes LP, VG++ – 6 Euros
Jorge Ben: A tabua de Esmeralda LP, VG+ – 7
Euros
Buses: 18, 6A, 5A,
350A.
Thanks for the informative review Jesper!
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