„The public order office did not tolerate this set-up and closed the location,“ explains Ralf. At the beginning of the 90s, however, it had to be vacated because it was actually not a store, but a regular apartment on the first floor. It all started with a store in Andreasstraße in 1986, which was founded by Ratinger Hof legend Jürgen Krause. Hitsville has already journeyed all over Düsseldorf. However, Wallstraße in Düsseldorf’s old town was not always the home of the record store. Ralf, who has been running Hitsville for 25 years this month, offers both CDs and used vinyls which seems a sensible thing to do on his large shop floor on Wallstraße. But there are some cool tapes in the selection. – and it is therefore not worthwhile to resell them. This is due to the fact that especially old records are often sold at unfair prices on reseller online-platforms such as Discogs etc. Marc deliberately keeps the offer for these genres rather limited.ĬDs and second-hand records don’t cross the threshold into Marc’s shop.

In terms of reggae, electro and jazz, there is certainly the odd overlap between the two stores. This includes everything to do with soul, hip hop, Brazil/Latin/Afro and dub. Marc offers those genres for which he had to travel to Cologne or Aachen in the past, because the selection was simply not available in Düsseldorf. While the playlist of Ralf Brendgen’s Hitsville is wildly mixed from pop, hip hop to punk to electro, Beat Retreat’s approach by Marc Taake is a bit different. One reason for choosing either Hitsville or Beat Retreat is the genre mix on offer. *** Hier geht es zu deutschen Version des Beitrags / Click here for the German version of the article *** Both have one thing in common: their winning personalities.

We meet a veteran and a newcomer for a chat: Hitsville on Wallstraße is a true institution in Düsseldorf Beat Retreat is the latest new kid on the block in Flingern on Ackerstraße. It’s time to take a look at the record stores in Düsseldorf. Even though it is criticised by many (because it has become very commercialised), since its launch in 2008, the event has certainly contributed to the success story and return of vinyl. At the „International Day of Independent Record Stores“ approximately 2,000 record stores take part worldwide and sell special and limited (re-)editions of vinyl records that entire Saturday. On the 13th of April 2019, the „Record Store Day“ will take place again this year.

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