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This was my trip back in August of 2014. It has apparently closed now, so I wanted to post this because it represents a big part of dance music culture in London. Here is my FB post I wrote about it when I found out that it was closed as of today.

"I was just here in October of last year - and it was a milestone visit for me because I had bought records from this location 17 years earlier when I visited and stayed with my good friend Taff Bakali when we were roaming London together.
I even played a few records in a Birmingham after hours club - where opened with Sabres of Paradise / David Holmes remix of SmokeBelch - for those that know, you know! Epic track.

So, I took video going through this store last October to mark the occasion - so I should post it here for posterity sake. Because as far as I'm concerned, Black Market records is a historical landmark for vinyl and dance music in London.

One of my favorite memories was walking downstairs where they sold drum and bass and jungle tracks - and it was packed! and the record store guy was dropping bombs for people to listen too and people were throwing their hands in the air, like it was a club. It was so intense, I actually couldn't stay in the room! ha ha. It was amazing. Love that memory.

One other cool thing that happened this last October, I met a random guy at the store, we chatted a bit and then I ran into him at Fabric later that night. Turns out he WORKS for Fabric as well - which was great. Drink tickets incoming! ha ha. Good times. He even told me about that underground event going on under a bridge on the river Thames that night - which I went to but then came back to Fabric to finish out the night with Nina Kravitz and Ben Klock. Epic times!
Looks like they are closing for good. Damn. Glad I got to go back tho and revisit that memory before this happened."