!K7 Loves Record Stores

Last week the Love Record Stores campaign started across social media to support local independent record stores during this crisis moment. As part of the campaign !K7 team have shared some of their favorite record stores from San Sebastian to Stuttgart. These are really important places for all of us, there where many of our formative experiences around music began and we hope they continue for many years to come. If you can afford to support your local record store through buying online or purchasing a voucher then now is the time to do it. We’re sending love and solidarity to the music industry and beyond in this uncertain time!

Piccadilly Records, Manchester  – Rachael, Management

Piccadilly feels like the birthplace of my love of music. The incredible staff (shout out Martin, I miss buying records from you) have helped to shape my taste for such a long time  – over half of my young life now – that though I’m now away from home and can’t shop there so much except online, I still pretty much religiously listen in on their end of year lists for inspiration and discovery – theirs are always spot on.

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Academy Records, NYC – Adam, Sales

Academy Records & Academy Annex are NYC  vinyl institutions. With no specific genre focus they have everything from colombian psych to ambient dub. Not limited to used records they carry nearly all the important indie releases and dont waste floor space with major label flub . A true diggers paradise!

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Beltza Records, San Sebastian – Mai, Marketing

Beltza records takes me back in time to my first vinyl. This record store based in San Sebastian it’s not only a shop but a place where you can explore and discover music. 

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Plattenbau, Stuttgart – Till, Physical Distribution

Plattenbau in Stuttgart-South at Marienplatz. Shoutout to Axel!  Always nice to see him chilling in the sun getting a tan. He is an original and so is the store. Records stacked everywhere in each genre and everything in between. One day we were so deep into it, that he left us the store keys to get himself a beer in the sun. – legend!

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Rat Records, London – Stas, Digital Distribution

Down the hill from my family home, Rat Records in Camberwell was where I found my feet as a teenage digger. You could always count on finding some obscure rave cuts tucked away amongst random hip-hop gems. But it’s picking up records by Talking Heads (Fear of Music) and Throwing Muses (Chains Changed EP) for the first time that’s most etched in to my memory.

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Oye, Berlin – Aitor, Physical Distribution

For me it has to be Oye. They have two stores in Berlin, the big one you can find last releases organized by genre and then you can get lost in the other two rooms sorted by label and classics etc. The people working there are really nice and helpful!

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Jumbo, Leeds – Alice, Marketing

This shopping centre might be the last place you’d expect to find one of the city’s best independent record shops but Jumbo has been going strong since the 70s. They’ve got a huge range of all genres, very friendly staff and a long-time supporters of the Leeds independent music scene. They will even give you free gig posters to put up in your bedroom.  

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