RIP Red Records

[hipipol]

This. Never seen a record shop so desperate to go bust. They couldn't compete for reggae with Blacka, Music Temple, Supertone etc, but I'd have thought there would be plenty enough business in Brixton for a decent hip hop/garage/grime/urban music shop.

BTW to suggest that the staff in Music Temple aren't knowledgeable is way off the mark. They might have made a mistake on one Studio 1 record but their knowledge is deep. 80's digital tunes are now making huge money 'cos there's a massive demand for them. Trends change, keep up son.

I have several very large boxes full of 80s early digital stuff, perhaps as its not a discovery thing for me, having bought them at the time, I'm less interested - who knows???

He did have a copy of Little Curt - Dont Touch the Crack - well ahead of its time sadly

 

[ringo]

True that, some of the tunes making big money now I never heard of at the time, they didn't sell, but that's always the way isn't it.

 

[isitme]

the record shops in newcastle are struggling as well. part of it is probably down to bad management, but there just aren't as many younguns getting decks as there were in the past

 

[ringo]

Just ordered these. The closing of record shops has been really sad but the closing of even CD shops is something I can hardly contemplate. Downloads could eventually be the only way to buy new music.

 

[isitme]

i haven't gone to a record shop for years. you just get a better selection and better advice online, there is the social side of it, but it's not worth paying that much money just for that

it's just that the world is different now.....

 

[hipipol]

i haven't gone to a record shop for years. you just get a better selection and better advice online, there is the social side of it, but it's not worth paying that much money just for that

it's just that the world is different now.....

Agree its different....

But is it BETTER?????????

 

[hipipol]

True that, some of the tunes making big money now I never heard of at the time, they didn't sell, but that's always the way isn't it.

A lot of that Jammies Digital Bobby/Bobby Digital is pertty cool, the Maxxy/Fluxie stuff also good in the main, once they'd got their heads round the software
Nitty Gritty, Anthony Red Rose, Tenor Saw, Tenna Fly, even Little John are all part of that early 80s digital boom doing some good shit, then came the Sleng Ting Ryddim!!!!

 

[isitme]

if i had the money i'd have decks as well....

 

[co-op]

Yup, bought my copy of Jah Screechy's Walk & Skank in there for £2 many moons ago.

*flicks fingers*

CHOOON!

 

[co-op]

A lot of that Jammies Digital Bobby/Bobby Digital is pertty cool, the Maxxy/Fluxie stuff also good in the main, once they'd got their heads round the software
Nitty Gritty, Anthony Red Rose, Tenor Saw, Tenna Fly, even Little John are all part of that early 80s digital boom doing some good shit, then came the Sleng Ting Ryddim!!!!

Anyone else on here got any of those Jammies mix tapes that used to be sold in the market by an old rasta guy? "Sweet Reggae Music 1" was my favourite. Bonkers old-style selector + operator mixes. Sample rant: "you is always going on like you is impertinent but dis is a time you gonna find a different excitement, COME MY SELECTOR!"



and thrice times

 

[pinkychukkles]

Never went to Red Records, even when I lived in Brixton... poking me head through the door would reveal a small diminished vinyl section (which is all I was interested in) of music that I wasn't into. Just not for me. Used to go to Selector though (the up Brixton Hill near the White Horse pub), some stuff would be over priced but I would dig in the basement and you could find some stuff at cheapo prices (<£4). Haven't been there for quite some years now though but I'm not down in south London a lot, these days my 'yard' is East London but, now I feel like a visit... hmmm *shakes wallet*...

 

[ringo]

Selector doesn't have the bargain basement any more I don't think. He now sells a lot of expensive tunes on Ebay.

 

[ringo]

Anyone else on here got any of those Jammies mix tapes that used to be sold in the market by an old rasta guy? "Sweet Reggae Music 1" was my favourite. Bonkers old-style selector + operator mixes. Sample rant: "you is always going on like you is impertinent but dis is a time you gonna find a different excitement, COME MY SELECTOR!"



and thrice times

You could try my mate Stephen:

http://www.mrsoundtapes.com/

 

[pinkychukkles]

Bummer - every shop needs a basement for the diggers... or chislers as the staff at the Music & Video Exchanges, call them.

 

[planetgeli]

It's been 25 years since I moved out of Brixton. I've just been google mapping because of editor post about a car crash. Only now have I learned about the demise of Red Records.

My very good friend Roger owned the flat above it. Over time we lost touch, as these things happen, but for many years I had a close association with that flat, and the record shop below. I learned a few weeks ago that Roger had died. For years he was my dealer (cannabis). That flat holds many stories, as does Red Records. One place that was never going to get burned down in the riots, though it nearly came to harm when Roger's gf was seen videoing the riots from the flat.

It's hard to believe the shop has gone and Roger has gone too. So much change. He was one of the first people in this country to grow weed under lights - in that flat. He became my own inspiration for growing for 20 years myself. He got bust on a random stop of his van when he was carrying - besides the growing and dealing he worked so hard, man with a van, and nearly went to prison because of it. The night they bust him his gf got a call saying what had happened and there ensued much mayhem as growing plants were thrown out on to the streets of Brixton, many of them landing on a parked van in Bernay's Grove below. The cops never found them, and he was probably saved from prison by that.

He was well-known in Red Records. I can't believe I didn't know it had gone. And he has gone.

RIP to it all. That's part of my history.