Charles P.
Yelp
My Swedish friend is a DJ and wanted to show me some cool record shops in his neighborhood of Malmö.
This was the first shop he brought me to and it was really cool. It was nice to see the "record shop culture" is truly universal. The owners couldn't have been any cooler, and man do they know their stuff. Even if you may not be a fan or follower of a certain type of music, a record store owner will still know all about it.
As soon as we came in and did our introductions, the owner (knowing my friend is a hip hop DJ) pulls out a record he just got in, and played a "break" for him. My friend is a pro, yet he had never heard this break before. And that is the beauty of the record shop. You can listen to music for decades, and yet there will always be something you don't know about. Whether you dig for it yourself, or the shop owner will bust something out to show you- the finding of a new gem is an amazing feeling, and what keeps you digging for more, never ending.
This shop had a wide range of genres, not to mention an impressive amount of music, for the size of the store. It was broken down into three rooms. There was also a very nice selection of 45s (7") as well. Had I not been moving on to Denmark and Russia after Sweden, I would have walked out of there with a huge stack of records.
Another surprise I saw was a good amount of cassette tapes, which for good or bad is starting to make a come back as well.
I can't wait to get back to this shop again, so I can have a proper dig, and be able to bring some of it home.