One of best things about visiting cities is getting the chance to dig in interesting stores for brand new/forgotten gold. Last year at ADE I dragged my wife to Rush Hour and then later accidentally a Clone pop up store aka as a double result. So this year I decided to check out what Bordello A Parigi (a compact store near the red light district, jam packed with great music) had to offer and a second hand fair at the Volkshotel.  Here are a few scooped on this trip.

Basslines to die for and coming straight outta Scotland. Cheap as chips to pick up, but if you hear these records played on a decent system they are just ridiculous!

Some people just do their own thing regardless of any fads and trends that spiral in and out around them and I’m generally drawn to those people. Terre Thaemlitz aka DJ Sprinkles is def one person doing things on their own terms and as a result creates timeless headphone trips & dubbed out club bliss. I keep returning to these tracks with each listen sounding more and more special.

Here are five all sprinkled with that magic!

If you are not already aware, then we tip you to check out fellow Belfastian L.O.R (Lunar Orbit Rendezvous) who has just dropped his debut album.

His tracks, remixes and edits have been sneaking their way into our DJ sets over the past few years, always sound so deftly strripped back & sonically beautiful in clubs as much as at they do on a home turntable. Here our five i’ve taken out for a spin more than a few times.

Also worth tracking down is his amazing remix of DAF.

Kompakt records is still going strong after all these years. They are a label with a deep back catalogue and a strong vision and sound. Although I can’t profess to loving everything they do, they were definitely a label that opened my ears to a certain strand of Techno and beyond. I’ve selected 5 below that I will always go back to.

These records are amazing, if you see any of this EROS series, simply grip them on sight! They touch on alot of the important things I want to hear in dark rooms, chuggy hypnotic disco, machine drum workouts, great vocals & sleazy basslines. Their choppy style of arrangement means they have a great energy to them, always work the floor and stand out on the night. LOVE, LOVE, LOVE…

One of the things I think is important if you are involved in the sheer madness of buying records (and I know you are) is not to fall into the trap of spending silly money on so called rare records that you don’t really love anyway. We’ve all done it. More importantly for me is finding the forgotten b side on a cheap record. There’s plenty of amazing records out there for only a couple of quid if you do a bit of digging that blows any rare african synth private press b-side out of the water. Although if you have a copy of that private press hit me up and maybe we can do a swap!

Below are five that I picked at random from my records that are ‘common as muck’  and all available for only a couple of quid.

There are few people who’s names crop up regularly between myself and Mr Black in our music convos. Mr Weatherall is one and for obvious reasons, because of his constant musical evolution, his great DJ sets and his pigheaded mission to follow no one. One personal favourite of his many projects was the Two Lone Swordsmen double act with Keith Tenniswood. It covered everything from weird stripped back house to fuzzy electro and dubby rock music.

Here are five from that chapter…