Home Grown: The collector on a quest to find the records from his childhood

Because every record collection has a story.

Home Grown is our series profiling you lot and your excellent record collections. Taking our cue from the brilliant submissions to the #VFRecordCollections thread on Instagram, we want to share a little of your hard-earned love for vinyl with the world.

Each week, we’ll be profiling a different collector from around the world and finding out what makes them tick. Want in? Send us a pic and a few words about your collection to [email protected]

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Name: Dani Guereñu

Location: Madrid, Spain

# of records (approx.): 400 LPs

How long have you been collecting for?

36 years, with a break in the middle. I started collecting records when I was 16, now I’m 52. In between I moved to London and stopped buying vinyl. When I moved back to Spain, I managed to get back some of my old records from my mum’s house, but part of my collection had disappeared. Now I am trying to find all those records from the ’80s that meant so much to me, as well as new discoveries.

What part of your set-up are you most proud of?

A Technics 1210 MK2 turntable that I bought last year, and the deep sound of my B&W speakers.

What record(s) are you most proud of?

The ones that are the soundtrack of my life: Joe Jackson, Neil Young, Bowie, Bob Marley, and Salto, a new band from Madrid. Also a record from British rapper Blade: The Lion Goes From Strength to Strength, a classic now. I happened to take the photographs for the album cover back in 1989; it was one of my first professional jobs.

What does your record collection mean to you?

It’s my own kind of history, about my friends, my brother, my parents’ house with the Braum stereo record player… Every record I own has a memory attached to it.