...and while you're at Clear, walk a few blocks up Valencia & check out
Soundworks, on the other side of the street. A little broader selection
than Clear, but some excellent house there as well. Perfect complement to
Clear.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gen Kanai [mailto:gkanai@earthlink.net]
> Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2000 7:39 AM
> To: acid-jazz@ucsd.edu
> Cc: desmondlmiller@hotmail.com; ziobro@earthlink.net; Richard Kanno
> Subject: vinyl shopping in SF
>
>
> Hi everyone! I've been scouring the bins for you lately in NYC and SF
> (quick write-up on the SF vinyl scene)
>
> Gen
>
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>
> I spent the whole day on Monday walking from Golden Gate Park
> to Market
> Street along Haight St. I think I stopped in on 8 or 9
> different vinyl
> shops. While the East Village in NYC has a bunch of record stores
> clustered relatively near each other (Satellite, Dubspot, Breakbeat
> Science, Dance Tracks, Other Music, Eight Ball, Temple, etc.)
> the SF shops
> are almost all right on Haight.
>
> I started at Amoeba, 1855 Haight...which I think is one of
> the best, if not
> best, independent record stores in the US. It's HUGE and
> they carry every
> kind of music imaginable on all formats. I haven't been to
> anything quite
> like it anywhere else in the US. It's a MUST stop kind of a place,
> imho. Their used record collection is always interesting.
> One of my best
> finds there last year was "Delusions of Grandeur" a
> compilation album by
> the Hardkiss Brothers and Rabbit in the Moon which is a rarity.
>
> Housewares, 1322 Haight...is a store that I thought I would
> like, but they
> didn't really carry much in the way of "my sound." It's one
> of the "house"
> music stores on Haight, and while they didn't carry pop club
> house per se,
> I walked out of there with nothing. I think that there's so
> much variety
> in "house" music that there can be 3-4 stores that sell "house" but
> specialize in different varieties.
>
> Tweekin Records, 593 Haight...is this relatively-well stocked
> basement
> store close to Spundae Records (which is a trance/prog house
> store.) The
> owners are English and they know what they're doing. I love
> record stores
> that categorize by "import" and "domestic" because if they
> don't, it's even
> more confusing. Tweekin carries mainly house, with a back room of
> classics/disco reprints, downtempo and a small drum'n'bass
> collection. I
> found a bunch of great stuff there including the "Clubbed to
> Death" 12"
> that is probably a rare find these days. Their selection of
> albums on
> vinyl was also pretty good, although not as good as at
> Amoeba. I ran into
> Mark Little there, who used to be a fixture in the NYC house
> scene as a
> producer and substitute DJ at Body&SOUL. He's now just moved
> to SF and has
> "seen the light of Northern California."
>
> OPEN MIND MUSIC, 342 Divisadero...this is a few blocks off
> Haight but worth
> stopping at because they have an extensive used section. I
> found my copy
> of the Latin house remix of "Beau Mot Plage" here and they
> have a pretty
> good selection of 45s and used rock and jazz. I would say
> that their new
> house/dance isn't that great (I think that their specialty is
> indie rock)
> but it's worth checking out if you're looking for used jazz,
> world music,
> old disco or other rarities.
>
> Clear Music, 147 Valencia...was the last stop in my long day and was
> clearly the best store for my kind of house, which I guess is
> deep, jazzy,
> Latin, tech-ish. Great selection, really friendly owners, no
> snobbery at
> all. This is clearly a place where they understand house
> music. The owner
> told me that he used to be roommates with the guy who owns the NYC
> Satellite store, fwiw. I only had an hour there and you
> really need 2-3
> hours to go through all the crates and listen to everything.
> Great place-
> best jazzy/deep house store in SF, bar none.
>
> In conclusion, check out Amoeba, Tweekin' and most definitely
> Clear Music
> when you go to SF...and use Hyperreal's Rotator Locator to
> find cool stores
> in your area.
> http://music.hyperreal.org/rotator/
>
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