About Rarekind Records
Tell us a little bit about your store? What's the vibe?
Rarekind Records has been in business for 10 years in central Brighton, we sell new and second hand vinyl, split about 50/50. We specialise in Hip Hop, Reggae, Funk/ Soul and World music, but sell all genres , the more interesting and unusual the better.
The first record shop I really remember is Rounder Records in Brighton, I bought my first releases on tape from there - pretty certain the very first was Billy Joel - An Innocent Man. My first record came from there too, I got them to order a copy of Cypress Hills first album on vinyl in 1992, it took about 3 weeks to arrive. Ever since then I've always spent a lot of time in record shops and they have undoubtedly played a massive part in deciding the music I listen to , when I was younger the only way to find out about a lot of the stuff I was interested in was to ask at the counter in specialist shops. I've always been into buying second hand records , and there is something I particularly enjoy about walking into a shop / record fair / boot sale and not knowing what music i might come across.
My favourite all time record shops would probably be Mr Bongo's in Soho and Beanos in Croydon... Bongo's because it had incredible stock and was literally the only place you could buy a lot of stuff from at the time , as mentioned above you could rely on their recommendations and visiting there always meant discovering dozens of previously unheard of titles... Beanos because it was massive with great stock - 3 floors of second hand gems to dig through.
There's been a few well know people pass through the shop, especially hip hop types, including some personal heros.. naming them would be name dropping tho!
Roots Manuva, Blak Twang & Fallacy at the old Concorde in Brighton
The Outsiders by SE Hinton
The Sting
Sam Cooke - A Change is Gonna Come / Nas - Lifes A Bitch / Buju Banton - Untold Stories
ha impossible! James Brown / Tribe Called Quest / Arethea Franklin / Prince / Sly & The Family Stone / Aesop Rock / Janis Joplin / London Posse / Al Green / Kano / The Rolling Stones . .you could literally go on forever
Nas - Illmatic
Events Coming Up
From 7pm there will be in-store live music with free entry! Appearances from Sonnyjim with DJ MK.