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Crate Diggers Spotlight: Salt Box Records
The Discogs community is and has always been a collaborative effort, and we take pride in supporting our sellers. Last year, Discogs took Crate Diggers events around the world and as a result, we are launching a new series via the Crate Diggers brand that has a simple mission: Highlight record stores and our music collecting community worldwide. For […]
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RECKATZ: Your New Favorite Comic About Collecting Records
Reckatz is the comic by a record collector for record collectors about record collectors. Some of the situations depicted in Reckatz feel eerily familiar, to the point where you’ll be wondering if artist/author, Tim Schulze Dieckhoff has been tailing you. From explaining your new record haul to a disinterested partner, convincing said partner you love […]
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State Of The Data: Most Wanted & Collected Items On The ‘Ogs Sites
You probably know Discogs most Collected and Wantlisted records off by heart by now: Dark Side Of The Moon, Thriller, Sgt. Pepper’s, Rumours, etc. So what about the most Collected and Wanted items on our other collector sites, Gearogs, Comicogs, Bookogs, Filmogs and Posterogs? We still have a long way to go before the newer […]
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10 Amazing Lesser-Known New Order Sleeves
By Josh ModellRecord collecting can be as much about the artwork as it is about the music itself, and few bands have done cover art with as much style and class as New Order. But beyond the iconic New Order sleeves for releases like “Substance“—with its stark black-and-white text—and “Blue Monday,” which replicated the […]
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Crate Minds: VinylExpress
As most of our readers know, Crate Minds is a recurring series where we highlight Sellers from all over the world with a spotless trajectory at Discogs. Today we have the pleasure to introduce you to VinylExpress. With the largest Inventory we’ve ever seen at Crate Minds, Rogier van Genugten runs VinylExpress. With a distribution […]
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On The Record: King Tuff
Kyle Thomas – aka King Tuff – describes ‘The Other’ as “basically where songs come from, it’s the hidden world, it’s the mystery. It’s the invisible hand that guides you whenever you make something. It’s the thing I had to rediscover—the sort of voice I had to follow—to bring me back to making music again […]
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Discogs Mix 70 – DJ Roane
DJ Roane (aka Roane Namuh) is a Portland-raised DJ, producer, and record collector. Digging since the age of 12, Roane is known for his deep, eclectic crates ranging from rare 60’s-70’s Jazz-Funk, 80’s Boogie/Disco, 90’s Boom Bap and R&B, to modern Leftfield Soul and House. Roane has been DJing regularly in Portland for more […]
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Top 10 Discogs Purchases With DJ House Shoes
House Shoes, AKA Michael Buchanan, isn’t concerned with popularity. Unfailingly outspoken, the Detroit-born DJ and producer condemns and exalts music with equal vigor. If he hates your record, expect soul-atomizing honesty. If he loves it, he’ll play it endlessly. For instance, after befriending a young J Dilla at a local record store and becoming enthralled […]
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VinylHub’s Top 10 Most Visited Record Stores Worldwide
In the spirit of celebrating independent record stores, we’re highlighting some of the most popular record stores across the world, as documented on VinylHub, the community-built database of record stores. Now at over 7000 record stores, just when we think we’re closing in on our goal to have every record store in the world in […]
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Vandisc Convention Internationale Du Disque & CD
On the 28th and 29th of April, the 17th edition of Vandisc Convention Internationale Du Disque & CD will take place in Auvers sur Oise, near Paris, in France. It’s the first time we’ll be attending a record fair in France, so we’re looking forward to meeting the French record collecting community and exploring the record […]
