Dee Sada
Alpha Deluxe
DJ Femi Fem
TheMenWhoFell2Earth
Billy Steiger
Club REEPERBAhN
To mark Record Store Day 2011 (it’s TODAY!), i-D’s phenomenally fabulous Music Editor, Princess Julia, has selected some of her tip-top, tremendous vinyl spinning pals and grilled them on their crate digging memories.
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Dee Sada is… Bass Vocals Blue On Blue
Tell us about your most treasured record store?
RPM Music in Newcastle. The shop that literally changed and saved my life when I was growing up. I first discovered it when I was 14 and used to spend hours traipsing up and down the back streets of the town centre with my friends discovering record shops and thrift stores.
Tell us about your most treasured record store find?
This was quite recently when I was in Manchester playing In The City. I bought The Breeders’ Pod album on vinyl – in excellent condition and really cheap. I love finding amazing bargains but then I stop and wonder, why the hell IS this so cheap?! It should be more sought after because it’s amazing! Then I get a massive headache and have to lie down!
What’s on your soundtrack for this summer?
Teeth Of The Sea’s ‘Your Mercury’, I’m desperate to check out Planningtorock’s new album, I’m very excited to hear Fever Ray’s work for The Red Riding Hood soundtrack and Chemical Brothers soundtrack for the film ‘Hanna’.
You can find Dee Sada at The Victory, Dalston on 20th of April and soon Blue on Blue will be releasing their debut EP!
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Alpha Deluxe is… Suave and sophisticated.
Tell us about your most treasured record store?
Music & Video Exchange in Camden. Their basement has a massive stock of obscuro disco records, Stock Aitken and Waterman offcuts and really camp 80’s comedy LP’s. I get amazing things every time I go in. I’ve been going to it since I was about 15. It’s not hard to miss.
Tell us about your most treasured record store find?
Marsha Raven’s 1982 italo disco pounder “I Like Plastic” at the aforementioned shop, in mint condition for 25p. It gets played almost every time I DJ, a true staple of my sets.
Why do you think the vinyl and CDs are still important today?
Sound is a form of energy. Music is made of sounds, and energy cannot be destroyed. An MP3 is a recorded sound that can be deleted forever. You can break a CD, or melt a record, but the recording will still be on it. If we didn’t still have CD’s or vinyls, our musical heritage would gradually slipping away.
What’s on your soundtrack for this summer?
A lot of overproduced late 80’s Hi-NRG records, as usual.
DJ Femi Fem is… Funky, egalitarian, pptimistic, gregarious and soulful.
Tell us about your most treasured record store?
Popbeat Camden, circa 1980 to 1992.
Tell us about your most treasured record store find?
‘Message From The Soul Sisters’ by Vickie Anderson. I’d heard Barrie Sharpe play it at The Cat In The Hat Club in 1985, I loved the whole feel, soulful funkiness, the message and the fact that it was another James Brown produced female production.
What’s on your soundtrack for this summer?
Supperclub’s London Compilation, the freshest new collection of tunes and ‘A Feast For All Your Senses’
DJ Femi Fem is resident DJ and Musical Director at The Supperclub. He can be found with Barrie Sharp on the 17th of May at BiG STuFF New North House, London.
TheMenWhoFell2Earth are…
Two of us playing records.
Tell us about your most treasured record store?
The long since departed ‘FAB Records’ in Finchley, North London. Close enough to school that I could go almost every day and at lunchtime too. It had a huge 7” section which is probably where that obsession came from. They’d even sell me stuff on Friday afternoon’s that had been delivered to go on sale Monday morning – something about having it before everyone else always made it sound better!
Tell us about your most treasured record store find?
An old 90’s house record called “Feel The Groove” by Cartouche bought it in ‘Eastern Bloc Records’, Manchester. Like all records, hearing it stirs up memories of what you were up to back then and loads of other records you were playing at that time – or even the records that came after it on the compilation tape you’d inevitably made with it on… in this case, it was followed by “God’s Cop” off Happy Mondays Pills n Thrills album as I remember it.
What’s on your soundtrack for this summer?
Now this has stirred up loadsa early 90′s memories, this summer we will mostly be ‘bringing baggy back!’
You can find TheMenWhoFell2Earth playing punk-funk, dirty disco and remixed rock’n'roll on the first Saturday of every month at East Bloc, London.
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Tell us about your most treasured record store? Rat Records in Camberwell is really good. When I was living in the area I had to steal myself not to visit at least twice a week to peruse the ‘recently in’ section. Sometimes charity shops come up with gems too; I once had the pleasure of scouring New Model Army bassist Moose Harris’ entire record collection in a Bromley branch of Barnardos.
Tell us about your most treasured record store find?Impossible to say as there’s far too many. I’ve recently been listening to a great record called Upon The Gravehill by the American band Gehenna that I picked up for a song, sadly, when the Bristol independent record shop in question was having a closing down sale. So it’s something of a bitter-sweet purchase.
Why do you think vinyl and CDs are still important?Because when an international terrorist group manages to blow up the internet, I’ll be holding all the cards.
What’s on your soundtrack for this summer?HANATARASH!!!
Club REEPERBAHN are…
Two people having fun, sometimes.
Tell us about your most treasured record store?
Rough Trade East, Music and Video Exchange Soho, Spitalfield Market
Tell us about your most treasured record store find?
Simon: Little Nell, Aquatic Teenage Sex and Squalor. I saw it at the front of a pile on a stall in Spitalfield Market. I always expect market sellers to read my excitement if it’s too obvious and it was only 50p so I held back hard on squealing as if I were about to buy a house, but I got away with it, 50p! Linn: I found a Graphik Magazin EP with a track called ‘Tape-Recording’ in Music & Video Exchange years ago. Played it every day for years, the whole EP is brilliant.
What’s on your soundtrack for this summer?
Daybed, and we’re really looking forward to Austra’s album.
You can find Simon and Linn at REEPERBAhN, a monthly synth night in Shoreditch. Find more on REEPERBAhN here.