Jazz-first shop on Boterstraat: first pressings, foreign pressings, audiophile reissues.

Shop: No.1 Hotwaxrecords
Address: 5 Boterstraat
Town: Alkmaar, Netherlands
Formats: Vinyl
Crates: Jazz, Soul, Funk, Blues, World
In the shop: Buys collections, In-store gigs, Listening booth

No.1 Hotwax Records is a one-man shop on Boterstraat that describes its job as supplying fine records to talented listeners. It specialises in jazz and collectable records but keeps a selection for everyone: original first pressings, sought-after foreign pressings, audiophile reissues and plain affordable copies. Come for a coffee and a recommendation tailored to your taste, or to sell, because the owner buys collections of ten records or ten thousand. The shop has released its own live recording, one side cut in the shop itself in May 2023, the other an unissued 1978 BIMHUIS duo it dug up.