Home Grown: The dance music collector with an Alpha Recording System isolator

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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].


Name: Aitor Molina.

Location: San Sebastián, Spain

Size of collection (approx.): Last count was about 6,500 12″s, 800 10″s and 350 7″s, but that was 5 years ago so…

How long have you been collecting for?

I started my collection without thinking about collecting, but just buying the records I like… I was 16 years old. That was 19 years ago. My taste hasn’t changed that much.

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

My Alpha Recording System isolator. Passing music through it is fun as hell. I could change the whole setup but not this isolator.

What record(s) are you most proud of?

Many of them… but if I needed to choose two, I’d go for the Maurizio’s M7 and Space Lab Yellow – Phase 1 (Ibadan Records irc041) released on 1st December 2001. I grew up in San Sebastian, a very classic and jazz music related city, but not too electronically minded… So I always needed to have an eye outside and felt attracted to a few special clubs over the world like Robert Jonson in Frankfurt, T-Bar, Corsica Studios or Fabric in London, Sub Club in Glasgow, The Block in Tel Aviv,… and of course, Yellow in Tokyo. This compilation was like being in Yellow for an hour. Lots of the tracks are already classics but some other are very very modern still today.

What does your record collection mean to you?

My collection is something that grew up with me and you can feel the same vibe with almost every single record on it, positivity and fun. I just have something in mind when buying records, they should be beautiful, fun and with a good vibe, it does not matter if it’s house, techno, dub, jazz or whatever. It’s my proof of what has been relevant in the electronic dance music scenario for the last 20 years.