fujee wrote:A_Northern_Soul wrote:You know how we're always told to follow our dreams?
I can rarely remember mine, but after last night I *really* want to buy a derelict industrial unit with my mate (who in reality I haven't seen for almost 2 years) & convert it - very quickly, somehow - into a combined artist's studio complex/ gallery/ recording studio/ cafe / photography studio/ bookshop/ record shop called "Greyscale". It was fucking amazing; you'd all love it.
I've always said if I ever won the lottery I would build or buy a huge complex and turn it into a creative commune. You'd have easily enough money for everyone to stay free of charge, you could put on exhibitions, gigs, lectures, screenings etc. As long as everyone was respectful, people could come and go as they please.. it would literally be utopia. Oh to dream.
I wanted to do something kind of like that.
It'd primarily be a record store and its main focus is anything and everything ambient, ambient techno, IDM, what have you - the "bedroom producer" music, whatever all this stuff is. Everything from BoC and Aphex to the most independent artists, if they came in and played their music and it was good, I'd take their homemade copies and put them up for sale. Of course it'd have other things, but it'd be purely and simply an electronic/experimental music hub at its core.
And it'd have a stage where local (and visiting) artists could come play, a coffee shop, a library, screening room for films/music videos/documentaries - really cozy aesthetics, it would feel like a house with couches and everything. You could just stay and talk and relax even if you weren't going to buy anything. Take a nap if you'd like on the couch, just doze off. We'd have a couple dogs and whatnot, maybe some chilled out dachshunds. There would be interviews, merch, so much in like this place that from the outside looks like a house or something completely inconspicuous. I forgot what I thought would be a cool name but it was somewhere between something like Primer and Obsidian.
And the playlist would be fucking amazing.
Ideally, the electronic/ambient music would be on the first floor - extended selection - every fucking thing. Everything else (alt rock, shoegaze, metal, whatever) would be on the second floor - general record store selection.
So yeah, if someone made that...I'm all for it.
Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2014 3:39 pm
