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The WMC '07 Miami Guide gives an insider's peek at this year's Winter Music Conference, serving up daily event previews, DJ profiles, insider reports, and audio/video clips.
Wax Ecstatic: WMC's first record fair
At Barcelona's annual Sónar festival, a draw that's almost as popular as the performances themselves is the féria discografia, or record fair, where all manner of labels, distributors, and independent retailers peddle their wares. WMC has never had a record fair, which in some ways isn't surprising: between the heat, the humidity, and the relentless pace of the partying — not to mention the possibility that many poolside parties can quickly become pool parties, given one well-placed push and a mad, collective dash for the water — March in Miami might not seem like the optimal setting for carting around armloads of rare wax. This year, however, devoted vinyl enthusiasts will have the chance to prove that theory wrong, as WMC mounts the First Annual International Record Collectors Show.
The fair is a collaboration between WMC and Waxpoetics, the groundbreaking crate diggers' journal dedicated to excavating forgotten histories of jazz, funk, soul, and hip-hop. It's an exciting pairing, suggesting that the stalls won't be limited to recent-issue dance music, but could also provide seriously fertile fields of the rare, the obscure, and the plainly ridiculous. (Just make sure you get there before the Stones Throw crew shows up; legend has it that when they were in São Paulo for the Red Bull Music Academy a few years back, they pretty much cleaned out the city's shops.)
The International Record Collectors Show is held on Sunday, March 25, at the Miami Beach Resort & Spa; admittance is free for badge holders and only $5 for the general public. The table fee for dealers is $35 for badge holders and $50 for non-badge holders. WMC is still accepting applications from dealers; visit the fair's official page for more information.
March 05, 2007, 10:10 AM
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