A great little video, where DJ Eclipse gives a tour of the legendary Hip-Hop Vinyl Record Store Fat Beats in New York.

Tour Fat Beats NY w/DJ Eclipse from FatBeatsRecords on Vimeo.

(via Crate Kings)

The biggest record fair in Europe and maybe in the world, the Mega Record & Cd Fair in Utrecht begins tomorrow.

Either if you’re looking for rare Dutch Beat singles or pretty much anything else you should be able to find it here, as the fair gathers over 500 specialized exhibitors from all over the word.

There will also be exhibitions, book presentations, live performances and DJ sets at fair.

Credit: Tim Wingert, Fourth Floor Photography

Details

The Mega Record & CD Fair at the Jaarbeurs Utrecht, The Netherlands,
is open on:
Saturday, 22th November from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Sunday, 23rd November from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Admittance at the fair: 11 euro per day or 19 euro for two days.

Admittance by the online pre-sale: 10,50 euro per day or 18,50 euro for two days

Address of the Jaarbeurs:
Jaarbeurs Utrecht
Jaarbeursplein 6
3521 AL Utrecht
The Netherlands

More information here

WFMU’s traditional record fair took place in New York this weekend. JNOTA from wonkabeats.com brought his camera and recorded interviews with people from waxpoetics.com and cratekings.com among others. A small solace for all of us who could not attend.

WFMU Record Fair, NYC October 2008 / Waxpoetics / Cratekings from jnota on Vimeo.

One of the things we want to achieve with NYLVI is to make it a great place for buying and selling rare records and collector’s items. I have written a little bit about that before, and so far it seems like we will have a ton of rare records when we go live some time in the end of September/beginning of October.

A couple of weeks ago we also went record hunting at an awesome record fair held in the Velodrom in Berlin, and I just found out that there will soon be a new opportunity in our area to buy some great vinyl. Tonauslese will be held at ZMF in Berlin-Mitte on October 4. and, although focusing on electronic music, it will also have music from other genres. The doors will open at 14pm and closing time is 20pm. There will also be a DJ contest and for those, who want to party there will be plenty of opportunities on two floors from 10pm.

MySpace here.

We’ll be there so if you want to meet up just get in touch.

So vinyl records are making a comeback. Well, it’s not like they ever really went away. Among collectors, within certain genres and for music passionates it has always been the preferred format. What we’re seeing is music recorded on vinyl breaking into a wider audience. As a consequence more new music is now released on vinyl and we’re seeing re-issues of previously released records. Great!

We have talked a lot about NYLVI being a marketplace for vinyl structured to reflect the world’s music scenes. What we have not talked that much about is the efforts we are making to turn NYLVI into a great place for discovering and buying rare records. It’s our vision to have as many of these records as possible and to be a place where record collectors can meet and share the passion for record collecting.

I’ve spent some time this morning digging through a tiny fraction of the records we will make available once we launch and it’s been an interesting search. Seems like there will be a ton of rare records, promos and limited and special editions. We can’t wait to make these records available on NYLVI.

If I only had the money to buy the Vinyl, 7″, limited edition Love Buzz Big Cheese by Nirvana released on Sup Pop Records, which was limited to a thousand hand numbered copies in red. Well, maybe later, so meanwhile off to look for something cheaper.

We’re going to the huge record collector gathering, First And Last, in Berlin tomorrow so among several things we’re spending some time today putting together a flyer. It’s in Velodrom and starts at 11am and ends at 17pm so if you’re in the Berlin area and are looking to buy some records and connect with fellow record collectors it might be a great way to spend parts of Sunday. Tickets can be bought at the door and some information is available at the Velodrom site here.