If you were around in the late 90s to late 2000s in Central-Eastern Europe, one of the best places to get underground and genuinely inventive music was Tekkrekords.
For most of their short tenure, they mostly specialized in obscure, really heavy EDM and metal albums that you couldn't really get anywhere else, and only started selling records from more established bands and artists during their later years.
At their peak, they had around 50 locations
A lot of EDM producers got their start in Tekkrekords, as they had a specialized record label that was dedicated to their genres of choice. The label had very small fees, which made it appealing to artists who were just getting started,
however the fees were low at the expense of the royalties.
The downfall of Tekkrekords was mostly caused by them changing their audience to a more general one (they never really carried "accesible" music, but there was a clear shift when they went from mostly carrying raw underground extreme metal EPs to more commercially friendly bands like Suicide Silence)
Unfortunately, most of the albums and EPs released under the Tekkrekords label have been lost to time, and most traces of the store have been wiped off of the internet, although we still have an archive from 2009.
The broken album covers were replaced with images off of Sonemic
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