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    Brilliant reggae cover of this SADE song will lift your spirits

      December 14, 2023
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    Brilliant reggae cover of this SADE song will lift your spirits

    I always like to make time and check out some of the records that have sold in my shop before shipping.

    This morning i was packing this beauty from Karen Smith on the brilliant Mango Records and i am ashamed to say that when i listened to this, i had not been previously aware of it.

    Every single day i discover new songs and versions of songs that i didn't know existed, even after 32 years of running record shops.

    I have well documented love of Sade but am always slightly sceptical of cover versions. I absolutely love this.

    Produced by the legendary Sly & Robbie this cover version has such a beautiful, simplistic, happy vibe.

    I'm wishing now that i had held on to this one. But alas, some fine collector of quality reggae in Glasgow is now the proud owner of this gem. Enjoy sir.

    https://youtu.be/1-Xwm85qRlg?si=bk4yCMNbtLWfpqRp

    CHECK OUT OUR OTHER MANGO RECORDS IN STOCK

    MUSIC & MEDIA EXCHANGE SCHEME

    TURN THE RECORDS THAT YOU DON’T USE ANYMORE INTO CASH OR EXCHANGE THEM FOR FRESH VINYL THAT YOU WILL USE.

    WE believe that lurking in everyone’s attic / roof space is a dusty old box of vinyl records or at the bottom of your shelves there’s a ton of records that you bought years ago and your taste may have changed and you no longer like.

    We buy and trade those records that you may have grown out of or have double copies of. These unloved pieces of plastic could be generating serious cash for you and offering a well needed financial boost on the lead up to Christmas.

    Cash is paid on the spot for records of ALL styles OR an exchange rate of 1.5 times the amount is offered

    FOR EXAMPLE

    If we value your collection at £100. We offer you a choice of either £100 in cash OR £150 in store credit to use either in-store or online. This credit option is particularly useful if you want to refresh your collection. 

    Get in contact with details of any records, CDs, instruments, equipment that you wish to offload..

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    DJ FERGIE MCWILLIAMS

    Helping out a DJ friend

      December 11, 2023
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    Helping out a DJ friend

    Sometimes out of the blue, life can throw a cruel curveball.

    Fergie McWilliams / DJ Fergie / DJ Fergie Freeman (not to be confused with the other DJ Fergie from Larne) has been a part of the DJ scene in Northern Ireland for over 25 years.

    Known for his love of BIG tunes and the uplifting styles of electronic music, Fergie gained thousands of fans and friends through his many club residencies and hundreds of mix tapes back in the day.

    Fergie suffered a brain injury a while back, resulting in many life problems, which include no longer being able to walk unaided and loss of speech. This has affected his life in so many ways that are unimaginable for someone of such big character.

    Go Fund Me Page AND 1 Huge DJ event...

    His best mates initially set up a GO FUND ME PAGE to help out with their dear friend’s many complex needs and so far they have raised almost £3,000. The hope with the initial fund raising is to secure the necessary funds to purchase an electric wheelchair to aid and help in his continued rehabilitation.

    Time to ramp things up a bit!

    To take things to the next level, his friends came up with the plan to run the mother of all fundraising events and get as many of Fergies DJ pals from throughout the years to play for FREE.

    Response from the DJ community was instant!

    So, for one night only Sat May 4th 2024 the lads are asking that you join them for a night of seriously big tunes as they come together to support our dear friend and talented DJ who is facing incredibly tough times due to his illness.

    The power of music brings people together, and now it's time to use that power to make a difference in someone's life.

    Event Details

    DJS ON THE NIGHT
    An incredible selection of DJs have offered their services FREE of charge in the hope that much money can be generated to help Fergie.

    The choice of name 'A NIGHT OF LEGENDS' could not have been better chosen for this event.

    ↓Just checkout this lineup of local DJ legends ↓

    MUSIC & MEDIA EXCHANGE SCHEME

    TURN THE RECORDS THAT YOU DON’T USE ANYMORE INTO CASH OR EXCHANGE THEM FOR FRESH VINYL THAT YOU WILL USE.

    WE believe that lurking in everyone’s attic / roof space is a dusty old box of vinyl records or at the bottom of your shelves there’s a ton of records that you bought years ago and your taste may have changed and you no longer like.

    We buy and trade those records that you may have grown out of or have double copies of. These unloved pieces of plastic could be generating serious cash for you and offering a well needed financial boost on the lead up to Christmas.

    Cash is paid on the spot for records of ALL styles OR an exchange rate of 1.5 times the amount is offered

    FOR EXAMPLE

    If we value your collection at £100. We offer you a choice of either £100 in cash OR £150 in store credit to use either in-store or online. This credit option is particularly useful if you want to refresh your collection. 

    Get in contact with details of any records, CDs, instruments, equipment that you wish to offload..

    Chat on WhatsApp

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    Big day of used records

      December 5, 2023
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    Had a great day of adding used records to the website today.

    I have been digging deep into the vaults lately and adding records from across all the genres. Collections that were purchased almost 10 years ago are getting added to the site. I'm making it my goal to have every single record and CD listed for sale in the next 12 months. This should bring the inventory to over 35,000.

    Anyone out there who also does this for a living will understand and appreciate how it can be a never ending battle. Once everything is added, the products that were added many years ago now require updating. Some of the more rare records naturally increase in value as they become more scarce and some decrease due to changing trends.

    Every day i receive at least one sale through one of the platforms that was priced years ago and now is seriously underpriced compared to the others for sale around it. This never bothers me as i like the concept that if people dig, in the same way that they do in physical record shops, they will find a cheeky gem at a bargain price that the shop owner has missed. I do this myself when i visit shops around the world. I roll my sleeves up and get down and dirty under the racks, looking for the forgotten boxes.

    Sadly shops like this are getting harder to find as even the charity shops these days have gotten wise to the price of vinyl.

    This lovely and very rare white vinyl 10" single from Prince was one of my personal favourite finds of the day. Graded at a conservative VERY GOOD condition. Its not cheap, but i've nestled it price wise in between the other 2 UK copies for sale. It possibly won't be a fast seller, but with cool, rare and quirky records that doesn't bother me.

    CHECK IT OUT HERE

    Elsewhere on the Used category there's a ton of funk & soul, obscure rock, late 90's trance and truckloads of house added. Stacks of bargains as well.

    CHECK OUT ALL THE LATEST USED ADDITIONS HERE

    I'm keeping this little advert below for the Music Exchange Scheme pinned to the bottom for a while as i'm gradually developing that side of things alongside Belfast Underground. The WhatsApp link goes straight through to me, but please be advised that this is purely a text number.

    Until tomorrow folks, have a lovely evening.

    MUSIC & MEDIA EXCHANGE SCHEME

    TURN THE RECORDS THAT YOU DON’T USE ANYMORE INTO CASH OR EXCHANGE THEM FOR FRESH VINYL THAT YOU WILL USE.

    WE believe that lurking in everyone’s attic / roof space is a dusty old box of vinyl records or at the bottom of your shelves there’s a ton of records that you bought years ago and your taste may have changed and you no longer like.

    We buy and trade those records that you may have grown out of or have double copies of. These unloved pieces of plastic could be generating serious cash for you and offering a well needed financial boost on the lead up to Christmas.

    Cash is paid on the spot for records of ALL styles OR an exchange rate of 1.5 times the amount is offered

    FOR EXAMPLE

    If we value your collection at £100. We offer you a choice of either £100 in cash OR £150 in store credit to use either in-store or online. This credit option is particularly useful if you want to refresh your collection. 

    Get in contact with details of any records, CDs, instruments, equipment that you wish to offload..

    Chat on WhatsApp

    VERY LATEST ADDITIONS TO SHOP

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    Just another manic Monday

      December 4, 2023
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    Today was one of those days that went past in the blink of an eye. I managed to 90% fix the small glitch on the website with the replacement of some code that I received from a developer.

    Added some lovely new titles to the website. Some great deep, dubby techno and a few big tribal techno monsters.

    AND

    Got some very limited reissues of the out & out classic, Mental Cube, “Q” These are seriously scarce. An absolutely stunning record.

    https://belfastunderground.co.uk/the-future-sound-of-london-present-mental-cube-mental-cube-original-recordings-from-1990/

    This was just a quick tester post to check how this will work. I think it gives more scope to add more proper content of all kinds. facebook posts are limited in what they can show.

    MUSIC & MEDIA EXCHANGE SCHEME

    TURN THE RECORDS THAT YOU DON’T USE ANYMORE INTO CASH OR EXCHANGE THEM FOR FRESH GEMS THAT YOU WILL USE.

    We believe that lurking in everyone’s attic / roof space is a dusty old box of vinyl records or at the bottom of your shelves there’s a ton of records that you bought years ago and your taste may have changed and you no longer like.

    We buy and trade those records that you may have grown out of or have double copies of. These unloved pieces of plastic could be generating serious cash for you and offering a well needed financial boost on the lead up to Christmas.

    We pay cash on the spot for records of ALL styles and conditions.

    FOR EXAMPLE

    If we value your collection at £100. We offer you a choice of either £100 in cash OR £150 in store credit to use either in-store or online. This credit option is particularly useful if you want to refresh your collection. 

    Get in contact with details of any records, CDs, instruments, equipment that you wish to offload..

    Chat on WhatsApp

    VERY LATEST ADDITIONS TO SHOP

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    Royal Mail collection service

     
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    I didn’t get a chance to post anything yesterday as the shop was busy until around 7pm, so I’m back in the shop today (Sunday) to process orders.

    I’ll be shipping out a very broad range of music tomorrow from orders over the past 24 hours. The most extreme ends of the musical spectrums are selling at the minute, tomorrow has stuff going out from Richie Hawtin, Max Boyce, Tiesto, David Bowie, Lustral, Bob Dylan, Mary J Blige, Killing Joke, The Beatles and a heap of bargain house music from late 90’s.

    From next week I’m arranging for Royal Mail to pick up my mail every day, which is very handy as previously I dropped my own packages off. When you use the tracked service it also works out 16p cheaper per package, so it’s a win / win on all levels. I’m not sure how happy the drivers are about having the extra workload on their route, but they seem ok so far with the few days that I’ve went for this option.

    I’m starting to put these messages into a this blog format which i’ll start sending a link to. This will hopefully also have the added bonus of helping out with boosting the website on Googles rankings.

    Will keep you posted on that.

    Until tomorrow. Have a lovely evening. 

    Dilly

    THE MUSIC & MEDIA EXCHANGE SCHEME

    TURN THE RECORDS THAT YOU DON’T USE ANYMORE INTO CASH OR EXCHANGE THEM FOR FRESH GEMS THAT YOU WILL USE.

    We believe that lurking in everyone’s attic / roof space is a dusty old box of vinyl records or at the bottom of your shelves there’s a ton of records that you bought years ago and your taste may have changed and you no longer like.

    We buy and trade those records that you may have grown out of or have double copies of. These unloved pieces of plastic could be generating serious cash for you and offering a well needed financial boost on the lead up to Christmas.

    We pay cash on the spot for records of ALL styles and conditions.

    FOR EXAMPLE

    If we value your collection at £100. We offer you a choice of either £100 in cash OR £150 in store credit to use either in-store or online. This credit option is particularly useful if you want to refresh your collection. 

    Get in contact with details of any records, CDs, instruments, equipment that you wish to offload..

    EMAIL:

    belfastundergroundrecords@gmail.com

    TEXT / WHATSAPP:

    07590 628453

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    Shane MacGowan passes away

      December 1, 2023
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    Lots of seriously tasty new music added to the shop this week.

    New titles and re-stocks from Toolroom Records, Green Velvet & Adam Beyer, SLD (classic 90’s piano) Shadow Child, Camelphat, Moby.

    https://belfastunderground.co.uk/product-category/latest-arrivals/

    As predicted after the long winded rant about our website issue yesterday, we immediately lost 5 members from the Facebook page broadcast group within an hour. BUT on the other side of the coin, we then gained an extra 12 members, taking the total to 346. 

    Some light hearted troll actually commented on one of our TikTok videos recently calling Dilly a ‘Super Long Winded Irish Guy’. We do have a habit of stretching things out sometimes that could be said in just a few words.

    The website issue is still not rectified. We are now on with some experts now. It still functions perfectly and orders are coming through, it’s just a niggling little issue with one page. 

    So, another legend has left us! Poor Shane MacGowan has transferred over to the great punk gig in the sky. It didn’t take long for people to jump on the Pogues catalogue of music. Within an hour of his passing I had an email from one of the main distributors of their records trying to seize the moment and shift a ton of stock, and within 3 hours of his passing all my Pogues records had been snapped up by collectors. Unlike other sellers I don't jump in and double my prices when someone dies, I find that a little bit insensitive and exploitative.

    May he rest in peace.

    Well, that’s slightly shorter than yesterday's post. Have a lovely evening beautiful people.

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    Facebook broadcast list

      November 29, 2023
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    So, I set up a Facebook Broadcast group and Wow, received 287 members joining up in the first 24 hours. LOVE IT!! Thank you so much you beautiful people ❤️

    I have absolutely no idea how these lists work so I’m going to be tweaking it a little bit over the coming days.
    Apparently there are polls which would allow for interaction, will look more deeply into it.

    I’m going to limit these messages to one a day as I think any more and it will seriously encourage a lot of you to mute the message notifications.

    I’ve been seriously considering getting back into Facebook paid advertising to reach out to those who may not know about Belfast Underground. I got decent results from it when used previously. The beauty of FB and Google paid ads is that you can set your own daily budget and as you see results you can increase the spend.

    Anyone with a Facebook business page will appreciate the fact that when you post something that appears to be sales related, the algorithm shows your post to less than 1% of your followers. I totally get the logic here as Facebook are very much about creating engagement between people.

    Anyhow, I’m cautious of getting all ranty on these broadcasts but at the same time want to offer a little bit of insight into my day to day behind the scenes workings of a record shop and how may very overactive brain works.

    Highlight of yesterday musically, was sent a stunning new remix of one of my favourite ever SADE songs, a song that always stirs emotions inside me.
    It’s gonna be coming on Vinyl next year and I’ll share the audio snippet with you soon (when I’m allowed ????)

    Anyhow, enough for today. I’ve already had to delete a ton of stuff from this. Don’t want to puke you all to death in the first few days ????

    If you need any help or advice with anything, drop me a message via the BU page or my own personal page, or via
    The WhatsApp link on the page.

    To sign up and get a notification each time there’s a an update, follow this link.

    https://m.me/j/AbbWuTsp4j9FQdeF/

    Have a great day ❤️

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    New site design live

      August 29, 2023
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    We wish to thank you all for your patience over the past few days as we tweak our fresh design for the website. All the functionality remains the same and there’s now over 20,000 records on there.

    You will notice a brand new shopping cart area also which is a lot more streamlined and a few of the older areas have been updated.

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