THE MAP
Every vinyl destination inside the greater Berlin footprint. Zoom in to see individual venues.
Berlin's shops are the reference point for club music worldwide.
Berlin runs the deepest electronic-music retail on earth. Hard Wax in Kreuzberg has been the barometer for techno, dub, reggae and bass since 1989 — the wall behind the counter is a working index of the last thirty years of club music. Space Hall on the same block covers the wider dance spectrum. Bikini Waxx, OYE (both Neukölln and Prenzlauer Berg), Sound Metaphors and Rotation Boutique complete a network no other city can match.
The city is more than techno, though. Awesome Tapes From Africa runs a shop-and-label out of Schöneberg. Record Loft handles jazz, soul and library. Coretex covers punk and hardcore. Vinylpresswerk Berlin brings pressing back to town, and a growing listening-bar wave — Coro, Unkompress, migas, BANKERT — proves the city can slow down as well as it can stay up.
THE FIVE ROOMS
Paul-Lincke-Ufer 44. The most influential record shop in club music, full stop. Techno, dub, reggae, bass — graded, priced, listened-to.
Oderberger Str. 4. House, disco, boogie, jazz, edits. The taste-making shop for warm-up-to-peak selections.
Zossener Str. 33. The generalist to Hard Wax's specialism — three rooms of new + second-hand across every dance genre.
Manteuffelstraße 48. Small, sharp, resident-run — the shop for the deeper end of Berlin's after-hours.
Crellestraße 26. Brian Shimkovitz's shop and label — the widest and best-curated African-music room in Europe.