Join The Record Exchange on Saturday, October 24 for Big Crown Day!
Come celebrate Big Crown Records’ 10th anniversary with music from the label playing on the hi-fi throughout the day, free posters and stickers, a drawing for a Big Crown 10 goodie bag and access to these limited edition releases:
Big Crown partnered with the good folks at Wax Poetics to make a limited edition magazine dedicated to the label’s story. A deep dive into the photo archives, interviews with label owners Leon Michels and Danny Akalepse and a ton more. The 40-plus-page magazine comes with a never-before-released 7″ featuring “Oh Medaase!” by El Michels Affair feat. Ahemaa Nwomkro on the A side and “Here Tomorrow, Gone Today” by Dave Guy on the B side.
Big Crown also linked up with the world famous 7” DJ, Japan’s own DJ Koco aka Shimokita, and he runs through 10 years of Big Crown 45s like no one else can. An hour and 10 minutes of the master at work interpreting the BCR 7 catalog through his lens on a limited edition cassette with cover art by J Bonner.
You can also pick up Big Crown’s 2LP compilation “BCR10: Ten Years of Big Crown” a week ahead of the worldwide street date. The double LP is somewhere between a retrospective and a state of affairs, tried-and-true gems from the back catalog mixed with rock-solid tunes from the newest records. Choice tracks by Bacao Rhythm and Steel Band, Lady Wray, Brainstory, Derya Yıldırım and Grup Şimşek, El Michels Affair, Thee Lakesiders, Dave Guy, Les Imprimés, Homer, Thee Marloes, Lee Fields and The Expressions, Bobby Oroza, Marco Benevento, The Shacks, Paul and the Tall Trees, Thee Heart Tones, Surprise Chef, 79.5, Liam Bailey and Holy Hive. A deeper dive into the Big Crown story is told perfectly in the liner notes by the one and only journalist and DJ Jeff Mao and it comes with a killer 8 ½ x 11” sticker sheet.