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Asfalt Shop - Record Shop in Warsaw

Warsaw's hip-hop record shop, run by the label that made it.

Shop
Asfalt Shop
Address
Mysia 3
Town
Warsaw, Poland
Established
2007
Formats
Vinyl, CDs, Cassette
Crates
Hip-hop, Soul, Funk, Jazz, Electronic
In the shop
Mail order
Opening hours
Mo-Sa 10:00-20:00; Su 12:00-18:00; PH off

Asfalt Shop started in 2007 as the mail-order counter for Asfalt Records, the Warsaw rap label, and sold nothing but its own catalogue until it began stocking the records the people running it actually wanted - Stones Throw first, then most of the rest. It only became a room you could walk into around the end of 2015, on Kredytowa 9, and it now trades on the second floor of Mysia 3 as Asfalt Winyle i Wino, which is a record shop and a wine shop and entirely unapologetic about it. Several thousand titles, weighted to classic and Polish hip-hop but reaching across black music and electronic records, and it is still the label's own shop rather than a chain's idea of one.