Rare vinyl online music store launches

DJ History, a new online music store hailed as "Dance music's basement", has launched today (September 19).

The site, which sells downloads of rare vinyl tracks, claims to "do the digging, so you don't have to".

"We'll never be as big as iTunes, but we'll always be more interesting. The store is aimed at DJs, music geeks and anyone who wants great, unknown music,” co-curator Frank Broughton told The Guardian.

"We're starting small but we have some great projects lined up. There's two albums of disco gospel, and Penitentiary Soul, an album of 70s funk made by prisoners" he added.

The site includes a section called Secret Weapons, a monthly release of tunes that 'DJs normally keep to themselves' and a forum.

"The label is about the people on the forum. They suggest things to license and they get to show off their amazing rarities and do legal remixes and edits of favourites from their collections," says Broughton, while Brewster adds: "It's the philosophy of acid house in action.

"The forum attracts hundreds of brilliant unknown DJs as well as massive names like Djs like Francois Kevorkian, Darshan Jesrani, David Mancuso, Prins Thomas and Greg Wilson. They've all contributed in some way. It's a community filled with experts, and they all share what they know."

Visit the site at www.djhistory.com


Source: Bazzeroo newsdesk