Gramaphone Records
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Gramaphone Records is a DJ-based vinyl record store in Chicago
, Illinois
. The store has been featured in the documentary Better Living Through Circuitry
and is generally regarded as the best DJ store in the Chicago area. The store was the first of its kind in the Chicago area, focusing on vinyl exclusively for DJs, and since has become a destination point for traveling DJs. The store has been important in the promotion of Chicago house
music.
Chicago
Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...
, Illinois
Illinois
Illinois is the fifth-most populous state of the United States of America, and is often noted for being a microcosm of the entire country. With Chicago in the northeast, small industrial cities and great agricultural productivity in central and northern Illinois, and natural resources like coal,...
. The store has been featured in the documentary Better Living Through Circuitry
Better Living Through Circuitry
Better Living Through Circuitry is a 1999 documentary directed by Jon Reiss about the Electronic Dance movement of the 90's. The documentary is considered the first full-length film that goes behind the Electronic Dance scene and uncovers the culture it has spawned...
and is generally regarded as the best DJ store in the Chicago area. The store was the first of its kind in the Chicago area, focusing on vinyl exclusively for DJs, and since has become a destination point for traveling DJs. The store has been important in the promotion of Chicago house
Chicago house
Chicago house is a style of house music, a genre of electronic dance music which emerged in Chicago in the mid-1980s. Stylistically, Chicago house has no widely accepted definition, but generally includes the first house music productions by Chicago-based artists throughout the 1980s, and any later...
music.