A geography
of vinyl.
Every real music city has its own vinyl geography. Precise addresses, shopfronts on side streets, handwritten signs. It doesn't show up on Google Maps. You find it by going.
On the evening of 18 March 2023, Mario Buscemi pulled down the shutter on Corso Magenta for the last time. Fifty-two years of Buscemi Dischi.
Berwick Street, Soho. For thirty years the most important address in world vinyl.
Records handled like porcelain, priced like they matter.
No city bent the record toward the future like Berlin. Here vinyl is still the currency of the club.
The capital of the film score, and one of Italy's oldest record scenes. Here vinyl is layered like everything else.
Under the arcades, vinyl found its home — from opera to punk, without missing a beat.
Two hundred miles from London, Manchester built its own labels, studios and shops — and never asked permission.