An Archive,
Not A Eulogy
Most of what happened at 611 was never written down.
It was flyers, photographs on somebody's camera roll, a shirt in the back of a closet, a mix on a cassette with the tracklist in ballpoint on the sleeve.
If you have any of it, this is where it should live. Photos of the shop or of 612, flyers, receipts, sleeve scans, staff names we have wrong, or your own recollection of a Saturday afternoon at the counter.
Sources & Corrections
Where This
Came From
- Store and label discography, addresses and catalogue numbers: Sixeleven Records (611) on Discogs.
- Sublabel discographies: Society Hill Recordings and 611 DnB on Discogs.
- Founding date, the 612 shop, and the closing: Frankie Bones and Adam X, Discogs forum thread, 2007.
- The 1993 opening and The 611 Lifestyle relaunch: Nigel Richards on Resident Advisor.
- Dieselboy on working at the shop and rooming with Nigel Richards: his own notes to Sixeleven DJ Mixseries Volume 1.
- That DJ Dylema — DeAnn — was hired by the shop as its techno and electro buyer is recorded on the store’s own Discogs account, 611Records, and on her profile there.
- Carl Michaels on becoming the store’s house buyer: Loverboy Magazine interview.
- The staff roster comes from Nigel Richards directly — he owned the shop and did the hiring, so where his account differs from the lists circulating online, his is the source. The “two turntables and a mixer” recollection is from a contemporaneous post the week the store closed, 29 June 2007.
- Ovum Recordings founded 1994 by Josh Wink and King Britt: Wikipedia. That Wink was 611’s first employee, and that Ovum later occupied the office above the shop, is Nigel Richards’ own account.
- Correction: 611 Records is described in a few places online as “Josh Wink’s 611 Records.” It was not. The store and label were founded and owned by Nigel Richards.