Hard Wax

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The Hard Wax is a record store for electronic music and Reggae / Dub Dubstep and later in Berlin- Kreuzberg. He is one of the oldest record stores stocked to the field of electronic music and is considered an important communication point of the international techno scene. In addition, made ​​out to be, to have been involved in the early 1990s instrumental in the development of the techno scene.

Hard Wax is chaired by the music producer and label owner Mark Ernestus. It opened in December 1989, initially located together with the studio of the label Basic Channel in a ground floor shop of a residential building of Reichenberger Straße. In 1996, the shop on the third floor of a factory floor in a backyard at the Paul - Lincke-Ufer. The staff at times were DJs and musicians like DJ Hell, Marcel Dettmann, Modeselektor, DJ Rok, Gabriele " Mo" Loschelder, René Pawlowitz or Electric Indigo, which was responsible for the sales of 1993 to 1996.

As for example, the club Tresor, the Hard Wax used from the outset a constant exchange with musicians from the Detroit Techno, which in turn strongly musically orientated to the European styles and is thus a central institution of the so-called " Berlin- Detroit axis." For the future it is planned to offer online digital formats in addition to the mail order business for vinyl LPs. 50 percent of the business ran in 2009 on the mailorder.