Vinylspot
Not everything valuable is visible.
Every culture has its shadows. Music is no exception.
The most daring, most intimate, most forward-looking records rarely sit in plain sight. They linger in crates, attics, forgotten collections. Until someone listens.
And everything shifts.
We exist for that moment. For discovery that matters. For depth over surface.
For jazz in its widest form. Modal. Spiritual. Free. Fusion. Field. For rare records with grit and soul.
Outsider funk, experimental ambient, library scores, strange archives of human sound.
We believe listening is knowledge.
That music is both archive and future.
That a true record does more than play.
It teaches.
It opens.
It lingers.
Vinylspot.
Digg Deeper.
Behind every record
Owner, Buyer
André
Raised amid Rotterdam’s mix of cultures and baptized by ’90s hip-hop, jazz, and global sounds, he’s a creative director by trade and a lifelong digger at heart who sees music as a continuum. Today he carries that spirit into Vinylspot, keeping the shop’s deep-listening culture alive.
Founder, Buyer
Lex
Born and raised in Rotterdam, Lex has been digging records since he was a kid, from Beatles to Blue Note. He founded Vinylspot to turn that obsession into a space for discovery and still steers its selection as the shop’s main buyer, keeping the focus on depth, quality, rarity, and listening.
Buyer
Ara
Raised in Tokyo and immersed in records from an early age, Ara is a DJ, collector, and owner of Jazz Kissa Silencio, now also sharing their obsession with rare and immersive music as a buyer for Vinylspot.
Junior Selector
Ace
Growing up in a household where music is always playing, Ace is already finding his own lane. Drawn to hip-hop (with Westside Gunn on heavy rotation) he balances music with a serious love for basketball. At Vinylspot, he represents the next generation.
stories
Out Of This World: The Myth, Music, And Magic Of Sun Ra
In the smoky clubs of Chicago’s South Side, a man in gold robes told his band he was from Saturn. The world laughed, until his music made them believe it. This was Sun Ra: the cosmic philosopher who turned jazz into an interplanetary language.
Herman Poole Blount arrived on this planet in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1914 and departed in 1993. Between those two coordinates, he reinvented what music could mean. The rest, as with all celestial myths, is open to interpretation. He called himself Le Sony’r Ra, a name drawn from the Egyptian sun god and numerologically tuned to lu...
