Night Frame No. 07 — Winter 2025
Crate Digging at 3AM: A Record Safari

Sound No. 07

Crate Digging at 3AM: A Record Safari

A photographer's field notes from the all-night record shops where the city's sound history is still for sale.

By Louis Marchand 2025-10-28

The shop opens at midnight on Fridays, and by 1AM the crates are surrounded by the usual suspects: DJs with clipboards, collectors with white gloves, and one woman who has driven three hours for a single Italian pressing.

These rooms are the last archives of nightlife that nobody digitized. Every scratch on every sleeve is a gig, a floor, a city that used to be.

Every record is a gravestone for a good night.

I photographed the diggers, the owners, and the stacks themselves — a portrait of a culture that still insists on the physical, the warm, the crackling.

Night Frame · No. 07