This vinyl collection from the 1990s and early 2000s comes from a technician who cut his own records. Deep inside the techno and house scene, he received promos, test pressings and rare white labels straight from DJs. Many of them were never even played.
Not everything was used. A lot of records went straight into the shelf, untouched. Perfectly preserved, as if they were waiting for another chance.
His heart was in sound itself. In speakers, amplifiers, frequencies. The louder and cleaner, the better. Even today he still builds speakers, with a fascination for tone that you can hear in every detail.
What came out of his shelf is a time document: 12-inches full of raw energy from the 1990s and early 2000s. Hard trance, Dutch house, Detroit techno, Italian releases. Music that once defined the dancefloor, but is rarely found this complete and untouched.
And yet, in the end, the shelf had to be cleared. Not because he had lost his love for records, but because his daughter needed the space for her own collection: handbags. Collecting clearly runs in the family, only the object of affection was different.
As a father, he emptied the shelves, and a new phase began. The music that had sat in silence for years now wants to be played again.
