Landed in China Where all The record Spots!
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Whats crackin guys. I posted a while ago inquiring about record spots here in China. Ive been here for about a month and couldnt find anystores in the more northern part of China I.E. Beijing Hangzho Xi'an etc. Im stayin here in Shanghai for a couple of days there has to be something here hiphop aside from shitty graffiti.Can anyone put me on to some reocord spots?Also Kenny if you get this im makin my way down to Hong Kong on monday any new record stores pop up?Shout out to Dj Day for puttin me onto this site awhile ago grats on the new EP.
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Seriously, if you're talking mainland China, you might as well just not bother. There's no records, not in any real way.
If you're in Shanghai, stop by "The Lab" - the spot my man Gary Wang (DJ V-Nutz) runs.
In BeiJing there??s a spot in the GuLou ("bell tower") district, next to a fabrics shop, that carry used CDs and some records. Can??t remember the name, but it??s at the end of the main road leading from the tower, by "The Blue Lotus" (go there and order a "Tintins travels", it??s awesome.)
THere are records in Shanghai. Theres a spot somewhere around Changhua station. Ask around for "Lao Chang Pian", it??s situated in a scrap market for computer parts.
Finds there included:
Sorry about the sketchy info, but just know that there ARE records around, and getting to them is fun.
- J
oh sh*t o-dub you know v-nutz? small world. i ran with him for a couple of years in shanghai c. 2000-01...gary is good people. i also recommend checking his spot and will cosine that there aren't many records, maybe a handful like cosmophonic pulled...but when in rome, or china, might as well indulge in the unlimited supply of da-ban (boot) DVDs and multitudes of ju-hua cha (chrysanthemum tea)...
Lao Chang Pian is the name of the store?
I think
LAO = OLD FOR PEOPLE
JIO = OLD FOR STUFF
if that makes any sense...
But I wouldn't know for sure. I would cosign with hitting The Lab by Gary Wang, they're doing some good things there with the music scene!
But hey, almost all of the best records I have now, I found them here in Hong Kong! So, maybe you'll find something you want here.
Some decent spots there, but I CANT REMEBER the names, because we had Syan as guide there and did not record every step...
But there were shops w lots of vinyl there, only prob was to figure out whats on all that rex, because of the Mandarin writing...
check this link here to get an idea of what we did there:
www.discodiamant.de/downloads/HKG.rm
best,
scoper
Thanks guys
The stop I mean is the one where you get off to go to YuYuan (the Ming dynasty garden and "old town" area of Shanghai). Lao Chang Pian means "old records", it??s not the store (I doubt it even has a name). It sells old broken record players, and there are a few crates on the floor. Dirty and dingy as fuck, but there were some good things in there. I??m sorry I can??t be more specific, considering Shanghai is HUGE.
Well, just walking around there is fun as well. Good luck in HK.
- J
I highly doubt the ex-pat population there will make a shred of difference unless they decided to port over their entire vinyl collections and then randomly dump them on a non-existent market.
HK is an entirely different story but as far as the mainland goes, there are dozens of better things to do in Beijing and Shanghai than go record shopping (start with eating).
Yeah - I met him back in 2002 and hung out with him again in 2004. Really good peoples - my friends moved to Shanghai in 2005 and totally helped them get settled - for a year or so, they even found an apartment in his complex. He also lives next door to the Shanghai Museum of Sex.
Are you calling this a...
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(gulp)
FAKE FINDS POST?
Yeah Shanghai is shit for records (I lived there for a year and found just that ONE store), but I just wanted to show dude that there was at least something.
- J