Big Star Basement back in action

Attention heads!
The Big Star Bassment on Rundle Street has reopened and is stocking fresh DnB and Dubstep every week in copious quantities.
Come and sus the new look store and fresh wax (usually landing on fridays)
Also for a limited time check the bargain section for some mad old school rollers on Moving Shadow etc going for 10 bucks a plate!

Watch this space for info on incoming tunes every week and don't hesitate to pm or email bigstarbasementwax@gmail.com for order inquiries if you're keen for specific tunes.

cheers 

bassment crew

sweet i was wondering if that was gonna reopen

well to be honest, me buying there again all depends...

is the morbidly obese rude as fuck cunt still at the counter??

if so, then i think i shall be heading elsewhere.

if not, will be back there with bell's on. was a great little shop to buy from till that fat cock-brain decided that only he was allowed to play the records. no one else!

fuck you, ugly fat cunt.

anyway, i hope he's left and the new store will allow people to play there music there without fear of being eaten.

 

Oh Chris.

 

Wow

you have no idea who he is do you chris...



double for the irony

who me?

If you mean me... Nah I dont know but I just thought that post was legendary !

crossed my mind too, i used to dare not listen to records there 

I can second that there is a decent selection there now. I saw no morbidly obese eating machine either.

Also to the bigstar crew Cooh - Duure is DnB not Dubstep.

 
DJ Ian

used to run the cool 'POP' nights in the mid90s and took photos for dB/ripitup and subsequently thought he was king fuck.

POP was cool, but dude what a dickhead

Dropped in today. I like basements.

They got some decent tunes for sure. Worth a look fo' sheezy!

was i supposed to?

yeah man dont you know

who is he then?

don't keep up the suspense kurko!

he better be spiderman or something.

What time are they open til on weeknights? Used to like the basement, might try and pop in after work one night.

Yes! I've still got a $30 voucher from 2 years ago for there.

haha so awesome

i daresay he expected that everyone should, hence the 'tude

he was a prick to me for ages until i said "seriously man-what's your fkn problem hey?  I'm in here every week buying shit off you, whats with with the attitude? Is "asshole" your thing or something?"

and he was fine from then on

Ian Bell (big fat guy) was the first DJ I used to follow back in the late 80's/early 90's.

Used to play the best music in the Time Tunnel at Le Rox before I discovered the main room & E. Haven't looked back since.

So where the fuck is this joint?

Rundle Street. Near the Mall end.

did they have a shop at street level?

Still is. You go inside the shop then down the stairs to the basement. Some good stuff in at the moment. Nice sized specials pile with vinyl priced around 10 dollars. I went down today to speak to someone who works there about a show he's putting on, but as he wasn't there I decided to have a squiz. I really have to stop squizing so I can avoid spending money.

you've never seen/heard of bigstar?!



fucking awesome

i think he mustve not been a complete cunt to me cos he remembered my mug from all those weeks at POP, but i could still see the 'tude boiling away beneath the surface.

I always thought he was a bit of a knob as well to be honest. When did he become the turntable Nazi though? I remember buying tunes from there circa 2004 and you could play them yourself. Of course it was right under his nose on his desk and I seem to recall him bitching about no finger marks on the vinyl once when I was selecting a tune to sample... 

Of course I have but never been into any 'bigstar basement'. Been to the shop in rundle but never knew they had a basement let alone a selection of D'n'B

you remember the shitty little turnie he had next to the counter?

well i pretty much had to hand him the record so he could get it out of the sleeve himself (i must have had shit on my hands or something, not like the chocolate he had on his) because he knew how to do it properly. even when i said i'm gonna buy the tune anyway, i just want to see if it's not warped he wouldn't let me touch them.

thanks a lot chewbacca.

 

Haha. Gold!

i remember talking to one of the other guys there and he said that it was by far the d&b heads who had the least respect for the vinyl, chucking it down, slamming sides over etc, so maybe when we asked for vinyl we got suspicious looks?

surprising, i woulda thought it was the try-hard hiphoppers who heard one Tone Loc song and suddenly thought they were turntablists doing the damage but apparently not.




but chris, thats fucked up. i woulda been shitty if someone pulled that shit on me.

fat nazi poo eating record store clerks aside they have a sweet collection of dubstep. 

i abused parrallel the other night when i saw him chucking his vinyl around

its a disgrace i tell ya i treat my collection like children only better

What, puttin little things in their hole and not slappin em around???

is "the tude" some kind of surfie term thats floated through dubstep circles?

haha. dubstep code and etiquette.

Yeah I remember that fat cunt. He used the same antics with me. At first I thought this was discrimination against me being a crustacean land mammal and that my dominant claw was not vinyl handling worthy. But I guess he discriminated against all beings alike.

yeah i haven't been back.

shits me too, they used to have a wicked system that when you spent $200 on vinyl (over time) you got a tune of your choice for free. used to love that so much.

The stamp book? Good idea...I had mine about half full until I stopped going there due to Chem/Redeye and Inbound...

that's the one.

was a really good system.

That fucking cunt once told me off about leaving fingerprints on the records, I told him I was holding it by the edge and the label, and he goes "yeah well I don't want fingerprints on the label either". Fucking knob.

The little stamp thing was cool though.

ha ha ha. Yeah I'd never buy a record with prints on the label!

If he doesn't want prints on the records he should keep a box of disposable rubber gloves at the counter.



Has anyone been down to check out the tunes recently?

Thinks hes from CSI or something! 

Yeah I went in the other day to chat to someone who works there. Selections getting big ger that's for sure. Nice little specials section there as well. Really couldn't turn down The Panacea - Cryptonomicon EP for 20 dollars, even though I barely made it home seeing as that money should have gone to fuel. Fair decent selection though.

they have always been awesome for rare back catalogue and obscure titles from artists who are not dnb specific.

they still have that system, and i havent see DJ Ian there in a loooong time.
Its good cos i used to trade in a lot of old CDs and bits and pieces of vinyl and re-spend it in-store instead of just getting cash. cant say i bought heaps of d&b there, but they have a good selection of loads of other stuff that was hard to find in adelaide.

they pay fuck all for CDs though these days. too many specials, MP3 downloads etc. still, better than collecting dust and taking up space.