Friday, April 15, 2011

Spain joins this year's big party disk

Spend hours snorkeling among the speakers of a small neighborhood record store. Find you are looking for for years. Carefully scrutinize its cover. Check the year of publication. Take it home, set it and enjoy it. Music lovers of the world are enjoying a ritual that only makes sense in the record stores of all life.

Those that gradually has been disappearing urban landscape with the advent of the Internet, MP3 and digital downloads. Tomorrow, and every third Saturday in April four years ago, is your big day. Independent record stores celebrate Record Store Day, a party born in the U.S. in which these businesses celebrate their existence in style: special limited edition disc designed for the occasion, street concerts, meetings between the bands and their fans and a host of activities with music as a protagonist.

On this occasion, for the first time, the Record Store Day will feature a Spanish edition of the stores that have joined the Madrid, Barcelona, Oviedo, Granada, Valencia, A Coruña, Vigo and Bilbao, among other cities. Rosa Fernandez, K7 Disc (Granollers), has been responsible for coordinating an initiative that has something to protest: "We want to remind people how special it is to go to record stores.

Reclaim the love of the hardware, by the object itself, with its art work, and all that entails. " A pleasure, according to Rosa, "are losing the younger generation." But his words there is no victim to the times. Just pure celebration. "We will not quarrel with anyone, quite the opposite: we want to reward a special way those who are still there, loving the music," he says.

Paco Fernandez of the Madrid Raven Store, has been one of those who have not hesitated to join the initiative. "The union of so many stores around the world helps the message across a little more. It is important that people try to remember what it means to buy discs and hence the importance of the value of music" points.

The idea of celebrating Record Store Day started in 2007 by Chris Brown, employed by a small record shop in the U.S.. A year later, became reality with guests: Metallica. The band led by James Hetfield was responsible for giving a push to a party whose influence and recognition has grown exponentially every year.

That 2008 was launched 10 special issues and participated in the festival 300 stores in the U.S.. Last year, the leader of Queens Of The Stone Age, Josh Home, sponsored a conference at which totaled 1,400 institutions. That Saturday, 150 references to the delight of collectors. The Rolling Stones From the Muse, to The Flaming Lips, Bruce Springsteen, Gorillaz and LCD Soundsystem.

Even a single unreleased John Lennon was born for the occasion. The main merit of Record Store Day is to bring your little bit to try to shore up a business that only that day turnover last year by 140% more than usual. Similarly, and although the numbers are still ridiculous, "the vinyl has experienced in recent years a growing until recently unthinkable, thanks to initiatives like this.

Because there is always someone who wants to continue enjoying the ritual. The 2011 edition of the Record Store Day has received a sponsor's exemption, the incombustible Ozzy Osbourne. This year, the reference list has expanded to unimaginable. Artists like Radiohead will go on sale a single unpublished.

A Spain will be the exclusive supplier records AC / DC, Arctic Monkeys, Big Star, Eric Clapton, Deftones and Green Day, among others. The full list of participating stores release and is at www. recordstoredayspain. com

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