Phase One Disco Shop Darlington

0:00 Tell us, how long has this place been open for?

Tell us, how long has this place been open for? Well, since this morning. We started this business back in 1981. Because it was your dad, wasn't it? It was my dad, because I am not old enough to have been running this since 1981. No. Because in 1981, I was only 11. Yeah, and you still had shorts on there as well, didn't you? Yeah, I did, yeah. Running around like a man. And we were a record shop. Yeah. Phase One Records Limited, also known as DJ and Disco stuff. How can people find you on Facebook or Twitter? If anybody Googles Phase One DJ Star or Phase One DJ... DJandDiscoStuff.com is our website address. Right, and you're based whereabouts? Darlington, which is in the northeast of England, and we are right on the outskirts of Darlington. We decided not to have a town centre shop because we don't think it's necessary to be in the town centre. And it's probably more expensive. Yeah, it's a lot more expensive. Just very near the Stockton Middlesbrough end of the A66, so great access from all of Teesside really. What's your number?

2:12 Yeah, turntable, it's not what I expected Pioneer to come out with

So hardware wise, what does well here? Well, we keep all the Pioneer stuff on display and in stock. As you can see, we have a good selection of that. All the CDJs, all the controllers, all the headphones, monitors. I'd probably say in the north, certainly in the northeast, that would be the biggest display of Pioneer. What do you think of Pioneer's turntable? Well, I'm a bit old school and I do like vinyl, and I do actually own a pair of Technics 1210s. Which I will not part with and I've still got all my rekord collection. Good. That was given to me as a child, that's when it started because obviously we were a rekord shop. Yeah. So I've still got all them by the thousand. So yeah, turntable, it's not what I expected Pioneer to come out with. I know, I know. But I think there is a certain niche market that a turntable is needed. Well they, I think they just saw the gap in the market and thought let's... Oh, the techniques is no longer made.

And they do still sell and sell well on the second hand market. We know that there's loads of Technics 1210s getting sold on the online market, on eBay and stuff like that, second hand. And I think they've just thought, you know, let's... Because it was such a shame, I think last time we were at BPM, that there was all these fantastic DJs showing their great skills, all using a piece of equipment that you can no longer buy. Yeah, so you might as well get one out. I've noticed here, dance floor, portable dance floor. You stood on it. Oh, alright, like it. Do you do LED dance floors as well? No, we can get hold of them but I'll be honest, we've never sold one. But that little product there has sold very well for us. Yeah, because someone could buy that and just hire it out, couldn't they? Oh yeah, easy. You know, you could hire that out, what, £100 a night? That breaks down into real small sections but we always recommend that if you take nine squares...

So imagine if you lay it down in nine squares at a time, you could get a dance floor laid down very, very quickly. Yeah, and it's another avenue for a DJ to earn a few quid, isn't it? Brilliant product. We can get it any size. Basically, it's one of those things you need to give us a ring and we'll get you a quote on because we can get it in any size. We can get it in different finishes. It doesn't have to be black and white. You can get just white. You can get just black. We can get wood finish. You can get real wood finish on it as well. Nice. Awesome products. Monitors, do you rate these? Rockets? The rocket thing is very new to us. I know they've been around a long time but we've not been dealing with the company that distributes them. We used to sell them a long time ago when it was distributed by Lamber and we dealt with Lamber for all of the cam products. And then now it's distributed by a company called Focusrite and we've just opened an account with them.

4:39 We've only just taken these in last week

So we know that product's really, really good and we have sold it in the past but this is fairly new, the new model. We've only just taken these in last week. What's the big thing around here at the moment now? Is it the mobile DJ or is it the bedroom DJ? Because you do have phases of one or the other. Yeah, we do quite well on all counts because we have a split between the bedroom DJ, the club DJ And then also I see you've got quite a bit of stuff here, so for producers, anyone who's into music production. Yeah great, good. Alright, and also, you've got your own sort of YouTube account, haven't you? How can people get hold of you there? Well, we try to do as many product videos of our own. If I like a product, and I think that's great, I'll do one of my Phase One style videos. And we've got quite a few subscribers now, not quite as many as you, Jonathan. Well, nowhere near as many as you, Jonathan.

But I think we're nearly up to about 4,000 odd of subscribers. We've been doing that a long time. We generally just push them out through Facebook and push them out through the website as well. We attach them to the products on the website. Great. Alright, well there you go. Phase one in Darlington. What I'll do, I'll put... We're the best DJ shop in Darlington. You are the only one. You're the best one. We're the best one in town. What I'll do, in the description, I'll put all info out, people can get hold of you, I'll put the address to the shop, I'll put the link to your website, so if you are watching this and you are anywhere around the north of England, go and check them out. And also, you do deliveries, so anyone who buys anything over 50 quid, it's free delivery nationwide, isn't it? UK mainland. UK, does that, presumably that...

Thank you very much.

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