Vinyl Reservat

2nd stop in Göttingen was Vinyl Reservat which looks a bit like Digger’s Paradise. Behind the counter I met Hans Philipp, who told me: “We offer the full range of music styles and have appr 40.000 records in stock, but it is not about quantity - it’s about quality. We have some new releases in the store, but our focus is on 2nd hand. Styles are rock/pop music starting from R&R, beat, psychedelic, progressive, classic rock, 60ties, 70ties, 80ties and newer ones. A good selection of jazz, swing, dixie and ragtime plus a country blues section, one of the best folk collections, soul/funk/disco, Hip Hop, Punk, Reggae, Krautrock, world music ranging from indian classical to libanese belly dance to greek rembetiko to name a few and some electonic music records too. Of course we have a classical music as well, ~ 8.000 records. I have a special intersst in african music, so we have quite a lot of african original pressing (mostly from nigeria, ghana and benin) and RE here in the shop. Labels like Analog Africa, Hot Casa and awesome tapes from africa. Since 2018 we run a label focused on local artists mainly, we do a lot of concerts in the shop and at other places and in august 2019 we will start a cafe in the shop, so you can have some nice espresso or juice while digging!”