I’ve been so busy of late I’ve not had the time to update the blog. Last weekend I traveled to Russia for a couple of gigs and visited a huge basement record shop in Moscow called Sound Barrier. It was so huge and stuffed with records that I was overwhelmed after two hours in there although that could have been from the heating blasting out and the crazy high prices on the records.
Whenever I travel I try to buy local records from where I am and luckily the Russian discs I bought were cheap. I found many issues of Krugazor, the 7″-sized magazine with several flexi discs in each issue and some beautiful covers. I’ll feature them more in a separate Flexibition post but here are some shots of the shop and some other finds.
Thanks Kev for info and if you are ever over towards Nottingham check out Robs Records at Hurts Yard just off parliament St https://www.facebook.com/robsrecordsnottingham/ Rob Smith is a big time northern soul DJ well known on the circuit and as cheap as chips likes a haggle over prices and another one with some gems is http://www.recordshopnottingham.com/how-to-find-us
@ J@ames – there is/was a huge warehouse in Johannesburg called The Treasury, it has whole floors of records, books, antiques etc. – crazy amounts of stuff
Kev that record store looked huge where has been the best store you have been to so far just for size
Purely by covers in Russia but sometimes a record is worth buying for the cover
Wow , Kev do you go by the covers and label or is it just lucky dip