Salvadiscos: the new vinyl sanctuary in Barcelona


The music abducts you as you walk through the door, but it’s as if it came from long before. On CD saver (Plaza de Santa Madrona, 4) the records always turn in their infinite concentric dance, overflowing the atmosphere with good vibes and perfect syncopations. Here that atavistic and circular ritual has a mantra: “We buy, sell and save vinyl records”. This non-profit cultural association was created in 2021 with the idea of ​​stimulating initiatives related to music and culture.

After the greetings, the head bobs between dub melodies and seductive basses. On the way to the bar, the body loosens and gives in to the rhythm. David serves vermouths while he enthusiastically recapitulates the still brief history of the place. are already more than 2,000 partners, it says. By 10 euros you are part of this audiophile community all year. There are days when the tails to enter.

The guy lounging by the pinball machine gives you a hungover smile, but your gaze is lost in the infinity of buckets with disks. The collection can be a bit overwhelming at first, so with the first sip you take some time admiring the details. The float with the name of the place stands out among the fruit boxes that shelter pearls of jazz, hip hop, funk and a thousand more styles. The furniture is fine and retro as could be. The seventies tables and sofas with Kubrick airs are amazing, that counter as a DJ table, the wooden bench that emerges from the moon of the place, and the small reserved with a green wall background.

The posters of each session are also all elegance, emulating the sleeve of a record in outstanding colors. The one of today, especially Martian, promotes the subtle rhythms that it supplies us Elena, aka Me No Pause. from your collective L’Electra organize once a month Vermutant Sessions, nine hours of music from noon to night. Contagious beats and evening with tapas. In fact, Salvadiscos holds a daily schedule from tuesday to sunday. Your schedule includes concerts, talks, projections, audiovisual shows, streaming radio, and workshops on musical production and DJ technique. Here they are signified by the high musical culture. His parish is knowledgeable people, but neophytes also arrive. In this community, any member is invited to get behind the decks, no matter how amateur.

Those two nerdy-looking guys crawl around on the floor, minutely inspecting each record. The smooth electro-taste draws you in and you gawk at the glorious towering album covers that decorate the walls: ‘Jazzmatazz’, Primal Scream’s ‘Screamadelica’, and even Vanessa Paradis’ ‘Joe Le Taxi’. You definitely have to slide your fingers through those buckets.

The grooves of chance

CD saver It was born from the raids through markets of its founding members, Jordi Ribe and Salva. They accumulated so many vinyls that they had to rent a place. Playing music, his little underground store was teeming with people all day, a bit like the regulars at Harvey Keitel’s tobacconist in ‘Smoke’. Hence the idea of ​​setting up a cultural Association where people could have a drink and the activities multiplied in sessions with djs kilometer 0. Salva’s family building in the Santa Madrona Square it became the temple for that glorious diaspora of afternoons and evenings of jazz, boogie, reggae, soul, and even experimental electronica.

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Outside, a puppy skids enthusiastically with his ball in tune with the dance showcase which can be seen through the large window. The afternoon closes while the beats per minute determine each heartbeat. The atmosphere is cheerful and steamy. The groove addicts they let themselves go, shaking themselves absorbed in front of the booth, in an infinite taste for music lovers. The disk keeps spinning.



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