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Shira Medina – Connect Through Music

We're meeting Shira, 35, at her apartment in Rehovot, where she had moved with her partner almost a year ago: record shelves are sharing the room with instruments and sound gear, and nothing really hints at her day job as an English teacher. Growing up surrounded by music from day one, she jumped into the vinyl rabbit hole only in her 20’s. Yet, there’s very little randomness in her modest collection; every record has its value, personal meaning or cherished memory. Every piece of vinyl is a treasure, which she enjoys sharing with anyone willing to listen.

Anya Karmanova & Julia Rodionova – Moscow, Russia

Try and imagine how many records there are in this world. Think of all the places they exist. Record Shops, swap meets, thrift stores, yard sales. Listening rooms, living rooms. Boxes gathering dust in attics and water damage in basements, buried in the backs of closets and storage units. LPs in tote bags and 45s in hard cases, mailers traveling by air. Decades of pressed wax, resting and turning over, recorded, released and collected everywhere. Most of us will only ever see a small sliver of it all, hardly more than what our little corner of the world contains. We frequent our record shops and thrift stores, we know who’s who of the local collectors, and we stay up on what we know to look for online. Maybe we even get to travel now and then and hit up shops in other cities, or drive through other small towns. But in terms of what’s really out there, the sheer volume of what the world holds, we are left imagining. 

Lexis

Montreal-based collector Alexis Charpentier is nothing if not eclectic. He’s equally comfortable digging for fusion jazz records in Serbia as he is vibing to Quebec hip-hop. With a voracious appetite for musical knowledge, DJ Lexis’ collection spans genre and medium to create the best collection in the world—for him, anyway.