Hong Kong

Hong Kong is a great place to visit, record shopping isn't one of its major highlights but the odd thing pops up; italo-disco must have been massive here in the 80s.

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Hong Kong Island
Central:

Collectibles
Address: 2/F, 11 Queen Victoria Street, Central
Tel: 2559 9562
URL: http://collectables.jrstation.com
Opening Hours: Monday - Sunday; 12pm - 8pm
Directions: Queen Victoria Street is a street next to the wet market where the escalator begins near Des Voeux Road.
Description: It's a bit dusty, you walk out with filthy hands but there are some good finds to be had here. It's a second-hand book shop too.

Pro Sound
Address: 5/F, 3 Queen Victoria Street, Central
Tel: 2122 9369
URL: http://www.prosoundhk.com
Description: Mostly classical, new CDs and some vinyl with a small second-hand section.

Choice Hi Fi
Address: 5 Queen Victoria St, Central
Tel: 2526 3382
Description: Quite a lot of unorganized second-hand vinyl here as well as new classical releases. Example finds: Places And Spaces - HK$40, It Should Have Been You - HK$40, The Man·Machine - HK$120.

Classics
Address: Room 201, Won Hing Building, 74-78 Stanley Street, Central
Tel: 2541 7733
Opening Hours: Monday - Saturday; 11am - 7:30pm
Directions: Tricky to find, from Queen's Road walk up the road the escalator takes and take your first right down the dead-end street full of outside restaurants. There's a door on the left half way down in a white building, go through here and to the second floor.
Description: Quite often not open, has signs on the door at lunchtime - out to lunch, hmm, that's when you get customers ... the guy seems to be more into it as a hobby than a business. You will find mainly classical, jazz and rock but there are always a selection of 12"s and these will be bargains if you're lucky enough to pick up a gem, I have once or twice.

Walls of Sound
Address: 3/F, 38 Cochrane Street, Central
Tel: 2805 1584
Opening Hours: Tuesday - Sunday; 12:30pm - 7:30pm
Directions: Next to the escalator, opposite Starbucks.
Description: Mainly Jazz, Rock and Classical but there's a selection of dance music 12"s. Examples find: Logic and Venus. Fair selection of second-hand CDs and DVDs too.

Percival Records Co
Address: Harvest Bldg, Wing Kut Street
Tel: 2541 0855
Description: Leaning towards audiophile releases, mainly CD, some vinyl - all new.

Admiralty
HK Records Ltd
Address: Pacific Place
Tel: 2845 7088
Description: Mainstream CD/DVD shop in Pacific Place.

Sheung Wan
Cat Street (Upper Lascar Row):
A bric-a-brac stalls street mixed in with antique shops. One or two of the shops also have a selection of second-hand records. An interesting area for any visitor.

Wan Chai
Saiko Sounds
Address: 14th Floor, Kai Kwong Building, 332-334 Lockhart Road, Wan Chai
Tel: +852 2573 9161
Fax: +852 2573 3404
URL: www.saikosounds.com
Description: Goa Trance, Psy-Trance, Techno, Ambient, Dub

Time Traveler
Address: Shop B07, Emperor Group Centre, 288 Hennessy Road, Wan Chai
Tel: 2574 3773
Opening Hours: Monday - Sunday; 2:30pm - 8:30pm
Description: Quite a lot of stock but not terribly exciting.

Music Shop
Address: Shop 202, Oriental 188 Shopping Centre, 188 Wan Chai Road, Wanchai
Description: A few pieces of vinyl to be found here and the shopping centre itself is quite interesting in a nerdy sort of way.

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Kowloon

Mong Kok:
The Beat Records
Address: Ground Floor & The Cockloft, 53 Tung Choi St, Mong Kok
Tel.: +852 2780 0956
Opening Hours: Daily 1:00pm - 11:00pm
Description: Some great condition obscure bargains found here, lots of unused stock from decades ago.

Shun Cheong Record Co., Ltd
Address: Room 801, Wing Lung Bank Centre, 636 Nathan Road, Mong Kok
Tel.: +852 2332 6397
Opening Hours: Monday to Saturday, 11:30am - 7:30pm
Description: Showroom of Shun Cheong Trading Co. Hong Kong

Ducky Records
Address: Room 1, 2/F Prosperity Building, 61 Tung Choi Street, Mong Kok
Tel.: +852 2771 9930
e-mail: [email protected]
URL: http://blog.yahoo.com/_POYD4ILAPLODZT4QGXFPWU4S2E/articles/page/1
Opening Hours: Monday to Saturday, 12:30pm - 8:30pm
Description: Mostly classical, lots of interesting items all over, relaxed and friendly

Sky Music
Address: Shop M14-M15, M/F, Sino Centre, 582-592, Nathan Road
Tel.: 2780 5680
e-mail: [email protected]
URL: http://skymusic.com.hk
Opening Hours: Daily 1:30pm - 9:00pm

Hang Sing Records
Address: Shop 601, Sino Centre, 582-592 Nathan Road
Opening Hours: Daily 12.30pm-8.30pm
Tel: 95211998 (Sam)
URL: http://hangsinglp.com

Old Song Collection
Address: 1305B, Sino Centre, 582-592 Nathan Road
Tel: 9012 9307

Zoo Records
Address: B31, Sino Centre, 582-592 Nathan Road, Mong Kok
Tel: 3188 2303
URLs: Official site, Facebook group
Description: Sino Centre is a cheap shopping centre on Nathan Road. Down the escalator you'll find maybe 20 little units, mainly CDs and Canto-Pop, one shop highlighted here. There have been second-hand vinyl shops here in the past and they may spring up again - Stand On The Word was found here for HK$10.

Sham Shui Po:
Take the MTR to here, get out at exit A2 or C2, walk up and down the market stalls and shops, there's lots of electrical equipment, often at good prices and you can also get DJ equipment here too. Two or three of the shops also have a selection of second-hand records.

Paul Au
Address: 5/F, Welcome Mansion, 38 Kweilin Street, Sham Shui Po
Tel: 9841 7136
Description: Paul is famous in Hong Kong, he's a friendly guy and he has a lot of records - call ahead as the shop is not always open.

Hang Sing Records
Address: 237 Ap Liu Street
Opening Hours: Daily 1pm-8.30pm
Tel: 2708 2833
URL: http://hangsinglp.com
Description: Second hand vinyl in random order. May be some finds if dig deep. Another branch in Mong Kok.

San Po Kong:
Records Rendezvous
Address: Flat 1405, 14/F, Efficiency House, 35 Tai Yau Street, San Po Kong
Directions: New address, previous shops in TST and Kowloon City have closed down.
Tel: 2716 9333
e-mail: [email protected]
URL: Facebook group

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HMV
Don't sneer at the HMVs in town. Apart from the regular mainstream genres all of them also have separate "dance" sections where you can always find something of interest. Typical prices; chart toppers go at HKD 100-110, regular CDs at HKD 140-160 and the expensive European imports are around HKD 200-300. Over the years I have picked up quite a number of electronic pearls although with each passing year the selection seems to be tighter and more commercial.

HMV Central
Located inside the Landmark mall on top of MTR station Central. from exit G, climb the two stairs and move straight through the building and make a U-turn when you come up on the exit on the opposite side. All HMV branches tend to have more or less the same stock, but currently the Central branch is the one with the biggest inventory. For those interested, this shop also has a very wide range of DVDs available.

HMV Tsim Sha Tsui
Over on the Kowloon side. Take the MTR to -you guessed it- Tsim Sha Tsui and take exit A1 to Beijing Road. Go south just round the corner and enter Beijing Rd, from then on you'll find it on your right hand side at Hankow Road, the second road on the right. Used to be the best of the HMV lot although Central has now surpassed it.

HMV Causeway Bay
You know the drill by now, exit the MTR at Causeway Bay, exit E Windsor House. Immediately turn left on the busy street and follow it eastwards towards Victoria Park. HMV is in a big mall on the left (next to IKEA) and should be easy to locate. This is the weakest of the three although the three did tend to complement each other fairly well. Often titles would only be available in one of the three shops, so it pays to look around.

There are also branches at Queensway Plaza (MTR: Admiralty), at Telford Plaza (MTR: Kowloon Bay) and Elements (Kowloon Station).

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To be checked out, info from the phonebook:

Shek Tong Tsui
Worth Record & Video Tape Co
Chong Yip Centre
Tel: 2547 4277

Causeway Bay
King & Queen Record Co
60 Yee Wo St
Tel: 2576 3280

Chai Wan
Golden Crown Records Co
Winner Centre
Tel: 2838 7772

Kowloon
Tsim Sha Tsui
CD Paradise
Peninsula Centre
Tel: 2721 2013

Kowloon Bay
A & B Sound Ltd
Shopping Centre Telford Gdns
Tel: 2799 4919

Ching Mei Records Co
Hope Sea Ind Centre
Tel: 2388 6776

Mong Kok
Man Chi Records Co Ltd
Sun Hing Bldg
Tel: 2388 8619

Ng Kit Ying
Pak Cheung Bldg
Tel: 2388 9727

Used-Records Mkt
Beverley Coml Centre
Tel: 3113 6684

Wink A V Shop
Sin Tat Plaza
Tel: 2381 0716

Yau Ma Tei
Ching Mei Records Co
208 Temple St
Tel: 2385 8662

Lai Yuen Yee
Richland Gdn Coml Complex
Tel: 2404 0077

Hung Hom
Fat Kee Records Co
16 Ming On St
Tel: 2334 3981

Sham Shui Po
Hang Lok Disc Co
304 Castle Peak Rd
Tel: 2386 7503

Original Video Ltd
96 Yen Chow St
Tel: 2728 3933

Tim Kee Record Co
Nam Cheong Ct
Tel: 2387 5145

Wong Siu Kuen
Pak Tin Shopping Centre
Tel: 2776 6418

Kwun Tong
Lead Way AV Shop
Kwun Tong Plaza
Tel: 2344 0733

Lai Chi Kok
Modern Audio (Internatl) Ltd
Mei Foo MTR Stn
Tel: 2148 4035

Kowloon City
Original Video Shop
85 Lion Rock Rd
Tel: 2718 2029

Tai Kok Tsui
Tin Lai Photo & Audio
14 Anchor St
Tel: 2391 1417

New Territories
Tsuen Wan
CD Warehse
Discovery Park Shopping Centre
Tel: 2940 3533

Hit Music Centre Ltd
68 Chung On St
Tel: 2439 4886

Hon Fung Records Co
Riviera Gdns
Tel: 2490 8868

Tuen Mun
Ching Mei Records Co
Tuen Mun Town Plaza Coml Centre
Tel: 2430 9131

Yip Yun Ying
Lee Bo Shopping Centre
Tel: 2458 0782

Yuen Long
Hei Lee Music Ltd
Healey Bldg
Tel: 2479 2822

Wan Shuk Fan
Shui Tsiu Lo Wai
Tel: 2638 1448

Wing Hing Records Co
Hang Cheong Bldg
Tel: 2477 9293

Tai Po
Sine Ngai
Fung Nin Bldg
Tel: 2638 5180

Sheung Shui
Man Kee Video & Audio Records Co
34 San Lok St
Tel: 2672 3112

SAIKO SOUNDS
14th Floor
Kai Kwong Building
332-334 Lockhart Road
Wan Chai
Hong Kong

Tel: +852 2573 9161
Fax: +852 2573 3404
Homepage

Goa Trance, Psy-Trance, Techno, Ambient, Dub

Don't sneer at the HMVs in town. Apart from the regular mainstream genres all of them also have separate "dance" sections where you can always find something of interest. Typical prices; chart toppers go at HKD 100-110, regular cds at HKD 140-160 and the expensive European imports and around HKD 200-300. Over the years I have picked up quite a number of electronic pearls although with each passing year the selection seems to be tighter and more commercial.

HMV Central

Located inside the Landmark mall on top of MTR station Central. from exit G, climb the two stairs and move straight through the building and make a U-turn when you come up on the exit on the opposite side. All HMV branches tend to have more or less the same stock, but currently the Central branch is the one with the biggest inventory. For those interested, this shop also has a very wide range of DVDs available.

HMV Tsim Sha Tsui

Over on the Kowloon side. Take the MTR to -you guessed it- Tsim Sha Tsui and take exit A1 to Beijing Road. Go south just round the corner and enter Beijing Rd, from then on you'll find it on your right hand side at Hankow Road, the second road on the right. Used to be the best of the HMV lot although Central has now surpassed it.

HMV Causeway Bay

You know the drill by now, exit the MTR at Causeway Bay, exit E Windsor House. Immediately turn left on the busy street and follow it eastwards towards Victoria Park. HMV is in a big mall on the left (next to IKEA) and should be easy to locate. This is the weakest of the three although the three did tend to complement each other fairly well. Often titles would only be available in one of the three shops, so it pays to look around.

There are also supposed to be branches at Queensway Plaza (MTR: Admiralty), at Telford Plaza (MTR: Kowloon Bay) and Elements (Kowloon Station) although I have not investigated these.

EDIT: Situational Update

Regarding the Sino Centre... I've not visited this Indie shop but it looks to be promising...

Zoo Records
Address: B31, Sino Centre, 582-592 Nathan Road, MongKok
Tel: 3188 2303
URLs: Official site, Facebook group

BTW According to the record bag, that Beat Records (節拍唱片) place is on the Ground Floor & The Cockloft (whatever that means), No. 53 Tung Choi St. I think the address recorded above should mention this :)

choice hi fi is moving to: 8 queen victoria st
as of the 18/aug/09

still regarding Sino Centre ...
there's a good shop on the 13th floor ... very reasonable prices and good selection of 70's and 80's rock/pop

White Noise has moved. Stumbled across it today. If you want your fix of Finnish Underground Japanese Doom Metal etc. the new address is:

Room 1901, Workingview Commercial Building, 21 Yiu Wa St, Causeway Bay.

It's also the place to go to get gig tickets for the few decent acts that come through.

bayonic
still regarding Sino Centre ...
there's a good shop on the 13th floor ... very reasonable prices and good selection of 70's and 80's rock/pop

That shop details:

VERY COLLECTION
Sino Centre, Room 1305B
Tel: 90129307 / 23599826

The door was locked so I didn't get a chance to enter.