MATTHEW REATE / SELECTED COPIES

Selected Copies

Selected Copies

Records I keep coming back to. Some are for sale. Some stay on the shelf.

Pulled from real inventory and the collection.

Rows of seven-inch records in white paper sleeves inside a crate.

The Shelf

What This Is

Records I keep coming back to — rare groove, soul, disco, and the occasional outlier that consistently works in a room full of people who didn't ask for it. The full inventory lives on Discogs.

From the Crate

Notes on Records

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Rare Groove Records That Work in Real Rooms

Collector records that still work on people. Not the ones that sound good at home. The ones that move a room full of strangers who've never heard them before.

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Why Cocktail Hour Should Never Feel Like Background Music

The first thirty minutes set the room's memory of the night. Most DJs treat it as an afterthought.

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