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Posted by ed on Sep-09-2001 03:46:

Best Record Store?

I was just wondering what was the best recordstore (in your opinion) in the Toronto Area. I've been to a few of them, Release Records seemed pretty damn good for progressive. How are the other places?

syl

Posted by TimeWarp on Sep-09-2001 05:14:

U can check out Metropollis Records on Queen and Spadina... or Solid Sound Records on College and Spadina..
Both are good.... SSR's has a life size poster of Tiesto signed.. i heard from a guy that the owner of that place is like buddies with Tiesto

Posted by Ckerr812 on Sep-09-2001 14:29:

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Originally posted by TimeWarp
U can check out Metropollis Records on Queen and Spadina... or Solid Sound Records on College and Spadina..
Both are good.... SSR's has a life size poster of Tiesto signed.. i heard from a guy that the owner of that place is like buddies with Tiesto

Everytime Tiesto somes to town he goes to SSL to check it out..last time he was there I missed him about by 1 hour...this time I am going to hang out at the store all day waiting to meet him

Posted by DJ Rob Noli on Sep-11-2001 04:40:

Heh, that makes two of us.

Posted by ed on Sep-19-2001 14:04:

I went to SSL, It seemed really raunchy and didn't have much of a selection. so far Metropolis is the best and I haven't made it to Eastern Block yet.

quote:
Originally posted by TimeWarp
U can check out Metropollis Records on Queen and Spadina... or Solid Sound Records on College and Spadina..
Both are good.... SSR's has a life size poster of Tiesto signed.. i heard from a guy that the owner of that place is like buddies with Tiesto

Posted by sKyBreAK on Sep-19-2001 14:41:

From what I know..
Release Records & Eastern Bloc have been the best ones I've been to
I hear solid sounds is also good but i havn't been to that store yet..
i will in the near future though

Posted by Kalemic on Sep-26-2001 04:19:

Record stores in TO

For my taste...

Release Records is my favorite store, the staff is very knowledgable and they get stuff WAY before anyone else usually, they have the best hookups for progressive in all of north america its seems. They get stuff was before even some of the biggest places like Satellite in NYC.

Metropolis has alot of quirky (read lots of ambient, dub, and underground techno, house, etc) sounding stuff but they have a nice place as well and you can find some good stuff there that you may not see in other places.

The Pit has a fantastic selection of techno, they also have alot of great trance, house and other stuff as well. Plus they have a ton of cds and tapes. The service there isn't the most friendly though, and you need to have a bit of a clue about music before going in there. But don't let the intimitade you, even though they seem like you are boring them they know what they are doing and will help you in a second.

Solid Sound Records is fantastic for trance and acid techno, they cover the "hard" spectrum fairly well and last time I was in they had the best selection of hard core in the entire city. They are very friendly as well and for true trance I don't think they can be beat.

Eastern Bloc gets TONS of good stuff in, in looking at it in pure numbers your best chance of getting stuff if you can't get to a record store the moment the shipment comes in. They will usually still have stuff a few days after other places have sold out. Again very knowledgable staff and great selection, probably the largest in the city for all forms of music.

Play de Record, is the place for hip hop, they have lots of great stuff as well. Its hard to find stuff but you can find some real gems hidden behind all the was sittin there. They carry pretty much absolutely every genre of music.

Traxx, I won't even talk about. The place sucks if you want anything but the latest top 40 record.

So all in all I usually go to Release as my first choice and pick up a bunch of stuff there (get there early shipment comes in at noon on Wed) then head down to Eastern bloc for more progressive and techno, then over to The Pit to find my techno. Sometimes I stop by the other stores and manage to find some nice stuff but those 3 are the top stores for me and the order in which I go to them and rate them.

Posted by Lyphe on Oct-10-2001 04:34:

Hi Silphin,

Depending on what you are looking for, we have a new record store in the heart of Toronto that puts a heavy emphasis on trance / hard-trance / UK and other underground genres!

You can get more initial info from our site at www.ElectricOrangeRecords.com . Then if you like, yer welcome to come down and say hi ~ ask for Phil and I'll be happy tuh give you the tour. We currently have over 2000 records in stock!

Peace friendly - Lyphe

Posted by mute79 on Oct-10-2001 06:45:

personally, i think solid sound is the best record shop in town!!