Location: 130 Talbot Road, W11 1JA, London, UK
Long-time customer Keith Fullerton Whitman calls it “the warmest, most inclusive record shop on earth”, so who are we to argue? Meticulously curated, like most of the city’s infamous dance music outposts, a reputation for suffering no fools has only enhanced Hard Wax’s appeal. Located in an old factory building behind the canal in Kreuzberg, DJs of all stripes can be found on both sides of the austere metal counter, DJ Hell, Modeselektor and Marcel Dettmann all honing their trade as employees over the last two decades. What’s the story? The cherry on top of a big year for Berlin, Hard Wax was founded in 1989 by Basic Channel duo Mark Ernestus and Moritz Von Oswald and quickly established itself at the nexus of the Berlin-Detroit axis. Location: Paul-Lincke-Ufer 44A, 10999 Berlin, Germany Got tips for where we should go next? Let us know in the comments below. With our travels resuming in the new year, we thought it would be a nice moment to see the first 50 come together in one place. Rather than rank them, these are simply the first fifty shops we’ve featured so far, each of which offers something personal and unique to the worldwide vinyl community. A sort of “1000 places to visit before you die” for record collectors, we’ve scoured the globe from New Delhi to Cape Town, São Paulo to Singapore to bring you a new shop every week to add to your bucket list. All this year we’ve been on a hunt of the most influential, hospitable and downright essential record shops in the world.
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