Home Grown: “I see my collection as a growing treasure”

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: Jaime Frias Amadori

Instagram: @jaimefrias

Location: Amsterdam

# of records (approx.): c.2,200

How long have you been collecting for?

I’ve been collecting music for 14 years now and vinyl for almost 10 years. At home there was always music playing. My father played a lot of merengue, cumbia and salsa and my mother more classical music. I don’t know if it infected me, but late in my teens I started collecting files to play on my CD players (thanks to Abel Minnee). I was really bored at some point, so I bought two Technics turntables. Collecting vinyl opened up access to so many nice labels and artists I could not have reached without.

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

I’m very proud of the design of my record shelf, which is not the most common one, built by the amazing Jilles Floor and designed by my girlfriend.

What record(s) are you most proud of?

I could say a very rare Japanese pressing of Bla Bla. But actually there are many records which mean a lot to me. My Language – In The Lab EP 12″ means a lot to me, because I have so many nice memories playing this one out for audiences. It has that early ’90s touch, dreamy synthwork and a subtle 303 baseline, which does the trick for me.

What does your record collection mean to you?

I have an obsessive kind of drive for searching records. It happened many times I couldn’t pay the rent because I bought too many records that month. I see my collection as a growing treasure that keeps evaluating all the time, which some day will be available for my children and future generations to pass along through the love for good music.

Photographer: Ninke Jansen