Glasgow music lovers are being offered a unique opportunity to get their hands on some of legendary local musician Hudson Mohawke’s personal vinyl collection to mark Record Store Day this Saturday.
The LA based Scottish producer, born Ross Birchard, has worked with everyone from Drake to Bjork. Now, Mohawke has donated a stash of over 500 records to Oxfam’s music shop on Byres Road in Glasgow.
The collection, which includes records by Madlib, Flying Lotus and Dr John and the Wombles, will go on sale on Saturday morning at 10am to coincide with Record Store Day. The records will be priced from £1 to £20.
Andrew McWhinnie, who manages Oxfam’s Byres Road Music Shop, said the sale offered an exciting and rare opportunity for music fans to get their hands on the records that inspired one of Scotland’s best-known producers.
Andrew said: “We’re really grateful to Hudson Mohawke for donating some of the records that first inspired him. His one-of-a-kind donation also has its own one-of-a-kind story: it turns out that Hudson Mohawke actually originally bought a large part of this collection from us back when he was scratching around on student radio and looking for interesting things to sample at an affordable price. Now these records have made their way back to us once more for us to find a new home for.
“We’ve already had lots of enquiries about when the records are going on sale: people are champing at the bit to get their hands on them. We’re looking forward to getting them out on the shop floor and raising as much money as possible for Oxfam’s lifesaving work around the world.”
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For more information please contact: Rebecca Lozza, Oxfam Media and Communications Adviser, Scotland and Wales: rlozza1@oxfam.org.uk / 07917738450