![]() ![]() That’s something younger people are getting in tune with, and now there’s a whole new listener base coming to vinyl.”Ģ47 Water St Suite 104, Brooklyn, New York, 718- 210-2144, legacy dumbo. “The whole ritual of taking it out, maybe cleaning it, putting the needle on the record, and then just listening to the world come *alive*. Download this stock image: Record shop Brooklyn New York NYC second hand vinyl records music stack stacks piles pile - HDBC13 from Alamys library of. “There's something magical about records,” says Barkim. That is at the forefront of our mission.”Īnother part of Legacy’s mission is to simply share the joy of music in analog form. We don’t take that lightly and just throw, like, a dollar on it. Because usually it came from the pain of Black people. We don't pretend that they came from a leprechaun. “Whether you're buying out someone’s storage space, or someone had to sell their records after a fire or eviction, or ‘Big Mama died now what am I going to do with her records?’ – usually, for a store to acquire records, someone else has to have lost almost everything. “We honor the legacy of where the records come from,” Victorious says of this arm of the business, recalling a new trove acquired from the sister of a Brownsville woman who recently passed at age 75. In addition to selling their own records, Legacy also works on consignment selling other people’s LPs. DuBois (plus a dedicated section of new releases). The expert staff at Legacy are always down to give recommendations from their massive collection that are fun, surprising and eclectic: Bad Brains, Linda Lewis, a live Portishead record, Wu Tang Clan, Nikki Giovanni or a recorded autobiography of W.E.B. So, for me, this store is about preserving culture.” “We’re the creators - but we don’t preserve our culture as well as other people preserve it. “When it comes to a lot of music, we don’t really have a hand in the business side of the industry, whether it’s marketing or distribution,” Haile says. So last September, they made the exciting yet bittersweet move to share their treasured catalogs with the world by opening a record store, Legacy.Īs one of less than 30 Black-owned record stores in the entire country - even as vinyl sales are skyrocketing - Legacy has another, bigger-picture mission. The New York City natives also had serious vinyl collections teeming with rare and obscure LPs spanning jazz, soul, rock, hip-hop, African highlife, Jamaican dub, R&B, recited poetry and more. But the three friends, who came together over the years as members of the Five-Percent Nation, were passionate about music: Victorious, 44, and Barkim, 51, are former DJs, while Haile, 29, is a rapper and producer. Opening a record store wasn’t a long-held goal for Victorious De Costa, Barkim Salgado and Haile Ali. ![]()
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