Groove Attack Record Store - Record Shop in Cologne

Brüsseler Platz basement. Hip-hop, out of the distributor that carried German rap.

Shop

Groove Attack Record Store

Address

49 Maastrichter Straße

Town

Cologne, Germany

Established

1990

Formats

Vinyl, CDs, 7"

Crates

Hip-hop, Soul, Funk, Electronic, Reggae, Disco

In the shop

Mail order

Opening hours

Mo-Fr 12:00-19:30; Sa 12:00-18:00

Heribert "Mue" Meuser and Frank Stratmann were DJing by 1988 and opened Groove Attack as a shop in Wuppertal in 1990, moving it to Cologne in 1992. It grew into one of Germany's significant independent distributors, focused on hip-hop and drum and bass, with labels of its own - Groove Attack Productions, Krush Grooves, Superrappin. The shop was sold to its long-serving staff in 2004 and kept the name with "Record Store" added, and it is still in the same basement near Brüsseler Platz. The hip-hop section is the reason to come and is as deep as anywhere in the country