Where's the most foreign place you found wax?
spencergroovnyce
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spencergroovnyce
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nothing that exotic but....
a furniture store with mad crates in the bx
an ex who was a grade school teacher housed kiddy lps for me from a p.s.
a copy of jb's hot pants that had a marie queenie lyons in it instead of hot pants on 6th ave and 7 th st
for a dolla
didn't mo majihd find beats in a cave in india or some shit
and then there's frank
(hokkaido is the northern island of japan, kind of the equivalent of vermont (without the tourism drawn by the ski industry) or at times even alaska). aside from the city of sapporo, largely a poor mountainous northern countryside dotted with small towns subsiding on farming, coal mining, and fishing on the coasts. unbelievably beautiful, but socially and economically grounded in a rugged sort of subsistance dictated by the natural environment and subsequently bound by those limitations.
anyway, i had been hiking in the mountains for 4 days and came down into this tiny town in the middle of nowhere. i believe it was Furano, although i could be mistaken. rather non-descript and could have been mistaken for any run down northern city with a handful of gas stations, a few 24 hour convienence stores, a smattering of modern architecture designed to represent a future that never was, and of course whatever it is people need to get through a dark cold lonely winter...in this case bars and pachinko parlors.
anyway, my cousin claimed that one of the best restaurants in hokkaido existed in this town, and we were seriously hungry from hiking in the cold mountains. so we rolled in and it was some old tradtional style japanese inn with enormous wooden beams and cedar walls and floors. apparantly the chef had built it himself, and some of the surfaces weren't entirely level. had the impression of being on a ship at sea. anyway, as we walked in there was an open kitchen to the left and just to the left of that in between the kitchen and the entrancehall was a tiny room...slightly bigger than a large walk-in closet, with a curtain covering part of the doorway. but you could still see inside. there was a record player on a table, and the rest of the room was crammed with more vinyl LPs than i have ever seen in a private collection. i can only imagine how as the evening wears on and the customers start to dwindle, the vinyl comes out and the chef cooks and plays whatever it is that he gets into. i can only imagine. i didn't ask about the records, i was too busy enjoying the company of my friends and the food, and in any case i would have thought it rude. but the fact that all these records are out there in the middle of absolutely nowhere, in an entirely neglected and forgotten part of the world, lost in obscurity. shit was as deep as i've ever seen it get.
but then again, isn't that the game?
Outside of the US I've found records in Buenos Aires, Rio, Cape Town, Prague, Hong Kong, Cologne, Salvador, Amsterdam, Hamburg, London, Brisbane, Santiago, Munich, Sydney, Berlin, Porto Alegre, Dortmund, Sao Paulo, Paris, Toulouse, Nimbin, Port Elizabeth, Vitoria, Budapest, Cornwall, Tokyo, Zurich, Montevideo.
And I would bet money I'm not the most traveled person here.
(I??m Norwegian.)
Went digging in China. Found some cool stuff.
- J
Khartoum was really really difficult.
Dress
San Marino is officially its own country, right? Beautiful place.
Karakow, Poland and the Cinque Terre, Liguria are my most 'foreign', though the pale in comparison to Khartoum, China, and Frank's adventures...
Ha, I just looked it up. I guess it is. You wouldn't know it being there. Shit thats my new favorite country. Viva La San Marino.
costa rican newstand?
found records in bahamas but didn't need any late 90s soca 12"s at the time.
found Rabbits & Carrots in Mérida, Yucatan, México and did need that at the time.
most exotic?
the all black porn shop in south Dallas...
place has bomb ass records as well as a backroom with a sign on the door saying "members only. do not enter. filming in progress" or something to that effect.
you really find records or am I on the outside of an inside joke?
I couldn't find anything there either this past December, though that could have been due to the holidays.
San Marino is not so much a country as a very large gift shop. I bought a Dan Marino hearts San Marino t-shirt there. Yeah, it was a while ago.
shit was FILLED with mad records....one of my best digs to date.
god damn did i clean house.
then spahn ranch in shimotizawa(sp?) tokyo
I hope you stacked up on xanax or something good...
I found some good 45s in a half-way home for crackheads...it was sad...I made sure to overpay the fella as it was sad...
lildude right there.
yeah.. was there in November and got distracted by that whole beach thing and didn't look. But in other cities my busted Spanish has gotten me into a fair share of random private residences to sift through mad Jose Jose, Jaun Torres and Richard Clayderman LPs.
Plus Peru, Mexico, India, Egypt, Singapore and scariest of all (and I mean this in all seriousness) way East of the 110 in Athens/Watts/??? blocks. Been hit up many a time.
came up on some nice psych-bolero business in Guatemala.
with directions from a friend, found a storeroom with more than a million records (I would guess, seeing as how it was bigger than "THE THING") above a hardware store in San Juan, PR. Fania for daaaays.
got many dope records in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. Found vinyl in other parts of West Africa, but wasn't able to carry and lacked means to ship home.
also have found siiick music in Indonesia, but that's for the cassette tape heads only.
Strangest location to find records located: A now defunct window store in Houston, that for some unknown reason had a seperate room filled to the gills with records. Oh that was a happy two days.