Mid-Town Records

It all started back in 1987, when two radio-fanatics and music-freaks Hans Tieleman and René Bakker decided to start their own record store due to lack of service they got in the stores every time they bought records for their radio-show called "Free Radio Rotterdam". They experienced a "customer-unfriendly" atmosphere, and felt you had to be a close friend of the owner or a famous DJ for that matter to get the good records. They decided they could do a better job running a record store themselves by putting the customers needs at first place, either the customer being the boy next door or that famous DJ. So they did.
Their very first store in the south of Rotterdam which had a big collection of Italo music, dance classics and early house records, soon proved to be a success, and a second store in the center of Rotterdam was started. Not long after that, Mid-Town developed record labels such as Rotterdam Records (run by Paul Elstak), Interdance (run by the guys who are nowadays better known as Klubbheads and Hi_Tack) and Mid-Town Records. After three releases on Rotterdam Records, on which Paul Elstak introduced the "gabber-sound" to the world, the instant global hit "Poing" was released. The sales of this record helped Mid-Town to be the fastest growing independent record company in the Benelux territory. A warehouse was bought, and Mid-Town Distribution was born, along with a third store.
Nowadays, Mid-Town owns 6 record stores which can be found in Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague, Utrecht and Eindhoven, employing over 45 music-fanatics. Six different stores, but all with the same "living-room atmosphere" and same approach: "Customer first!". At Mid-Town Distribution headquarters, an extra 27 people are working on a daily basis divided over an export department, domestic sales, import department for our distribution, physical stores and our online e-shop, A&R / promotion and licensing, special products, financial department, design & multimedia, a fully equipped audio studio, a video-editing department, an event department, logistics department and the immense warehouse.
Mid-Town Distribution not only distributes over 20 labels of her own roster but is also the exclusive distributor of more than 60 exclusive record labels varying from trance, techno, electro, house, hardcore, hardstyle and jumpstyle, from different record companies all over the world. Besides the distribution of vinyl, CD albums, CD compilations and DVD’s, Mid-Town carries a wide range of merchandising items such as all types of DJ gear (mixers, turntables, CD players, Headphones, cartridges etc.), party wear, record cases and record bags, caps, energy drinks, various party gadgets and lots and lots more. Mid-Town Records proves to handle both the "emotional part of the business" (A&R, product management, marketing and promotion) as well as the "rational part of the business" (warehousing, distribution, logistics) perfectly under one roof!
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