Up Close & Personal With Your Favorite Record Store!
interview with DJ Icy Ice

• Store Name?
  STACKS - The Vinyl Authority
  STACKSVINYL.com
  
  
• Owner's Name?
  DJ Icy Ice of the Beat Junkies
  
  
• What is your role?
  Oversee everything.
  
  
• What style of music do you carry?
  Hip Hop, Classics, Reggae/Dancehall, R&B, Breaks, Rare hard to find vinyl, and Downtempo
  
  
• When was your store established?
  STACKS was established in summer of 2001, and opening STACKS SD this June
  
  
• How many stores?
  2
  
  
• Where are the locations?
  Cerritos (suburb of Los Angeles)
  Mira Mesa (suburb of San Diego)
  
  
• Are You A DJ?
  Yes
  
  
• Where Do You Play?
  Anywhere I get gigs or performances. Special mixes for the Wake Up Show,
  90.7 KPFK Divine Forces Radio, Syndicated on Superadio, XM Satellite.
  
  
• Website?
  stacksvinyl.com
  djicyice.com
  
  
• What makes your store unique?
  Our store is more than a retail store - we're a Hip Hop Community Center. Our mission is to educate and build on our foundation in Hip Hop...."The DJ".
  
  
• Any hot local 12" you would like to tell the rest of he world about?
  Don't sleep on independent artist....example: Stonesthrow camp or ABB fam.
  
  
• Any dj’s that we might know shop at your store?
  Every major turntablist: QBert, Beat Junkies, Allies, Grand Wizard Theodore to all the local LA radio DJs: King Tech, DJ Revolution, EMan, Choc, KSly, etc.
  But don't sleep on these kids.... there are some kids with incredible skill that come by the store on a regular!
  
  
• What’s the wildest thing that has happened at the store while you have worked there?
  Having litterally 1000 people show up for Jurrasic 5 - when the store only holds 200 people. It was wild! Also, when we had RZA from Wu Tang here...he did everything from Freestyle to busting on our turntables.
  
  
• Does store have turntables for costumer use?
  
  Yes we do.....and we have tables for open scratch sessions.
  
  
• What type of music are you into?
  Pretty much everything except country music.
  
  
• What records are hot for you right now?
  Wildchild - Secondary Protocall Album, Akrobatik - Remind My Soul, Community Service - Authentic, Procussions - We gotta (get up), I'm really feeling the Egyptian, Mi Nah Know & Escalade Riddims in Dancehall
  
  
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