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I get this in reckid shops when looking for stuff. A decade back you could have called me an indie kid (indie-dance crossover was the OFFICIAL creed) and i knew where i was in a shop and where to find that all important sarah records band.

Now where the bloody feck do i look for the music i'm listening to these days. I get this in mainstream shops (tower, hmv) but also in the good little guys (selectadisk, sister ray).

Am i just out of touch with what to class stuff as?

― Alan Trewartha, Friday, 30 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

aw reading that back doesn't make any sense. but take the other day looking for cornelius stuff. is this rock, indie, alternative, "electronica". argh. i end up running around from pillar (and pillock) to post looking for something that isn't bloody well there anyway.

Think i'll stick to cdnow/amazon.

― Alan Trewartha, Friday, 30 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

You should consider yourself lucky they've still got the categories you mention when you go shopping. Here in Belgium they got their own categories for everything (and no, I don't mean it's all in Flemish or French) and, apart from hip hop, none of it's what I'm used to. I can never find a damn thing I'm looking for. (Oh and Stereolab is officially "dance" here. Which is good)

― Jeff W, Friday, 30 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

You can always ask! Seriously though, I know exactly what you mean - e.g are Ultramarine techno, ambient, chillout (hate that word) or just plain dance? I've seen them in all categories. When does house become deep house, trip hop become blunted become.....etc?

I always had trouble finding stuff in Sister Ray until I noticed that the coloured stickers are a code for which label they're on (e.g Warp, Mo Wax..). Duh!

― Dr. C, Friday, 30 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

aargh the "label" shelves too! looking for bloody weird techno noise stuff is hard enough withouy having to know i should be looking for it under "warp" or "aphex etc". grrr.

I'll annoy everyone by saying that indiephilia will only persist as long as record shops have an "indie" selection and it saves them the time thinking about all the other intereseting stuff. (i want the label indie wiped out anyway. it seemed anachronistic in the 90s.)

― Alan Trewartha, Friday, 30 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Clearly you should be looking at the Goth/industrial/ethereal/EBM section

― Nick, Friday, 30 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Most of the time you'll find me under "rock". I went to Amoeba to buy a Mouse on Mars CD, and felt really weird standing in the electronica section. I thought for sure all the kids in that aisle were thinking I was a poser.

― Sean, Friday, 30 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Jeff, where do you shop in Belgium? Antwerp? Must be. I have been in some shops there and it freaks me out. But I mainly stick to my local recordshop (in Bruges) cause he knows what I like and I can order stuff from him.

― helen fordsdale, Friday, 30 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

it's easy here because 85% of the stores are filed under "rock/pop/r&b" and it's just alphabetical. The corners may have other stuff but they can't take more than 5 or 10 minutes to completely finish looking over because of the lack of...well...other categories.

― Maria, Friday, 30 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ultramarine are canterbury prog, Dr C Hur Hur Hur ("United Kingdoms = one of my favourite albums, U'll be amazed to hear)

― Norman Phay, Friday, 30 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

(the goth/ethereal/industrial/EBM section at piccadilly tower seems to have gone)

― mark s, Saturday, 1 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

meeting friend in towah reckids i stumbled on cornelius and Boards o' Canada downstairs under "dance". see it CAN work for us.

― Alan Trewartha, Monday, 3 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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