Soul, funk, groove, R&B, and city pop — one continuous thread, sourced record by record from the households, market stalls, and shops that actually kept it. Curated, not stocked.
Bangkok kept its soul. Tokyo kept its groove. Somewhere between them, it's still the same thread — we just follow where it landed. We preserve what's about to be thrown out, we challenge the idea that "vintage" is just a mood, and we dig room by room before we dig genre by genre.
"A record isn't a prop for ambience. It's someone's specific Tuesday nights, forty years running."
A single record, shot considered, with a note on why it's here and where it sits in the lineage. Not "in stock" — closer to a review.
Concrete, wood, plants, warm light. Atmosphere over inventory — this is what the shop feels like to stand in.
A record found in Pak Nam, tied to the person who owned it. The one thread no one else can copy.
Events, DJ nights, the weekly flyer on the wall. Evidence people actually gather here.
Soul and funk traveled from the US to Japan and came back reinterpreted. That same thread kept moving through disco, boogie, and groove — and it's still moving, through the neo-soul and bedroom-R&B being made right now. We follow the whole line, not one trending node of it.
The first batch is being sourced directly, then priced and graded honestly — no comps chased blindly, no common titles overpriced on nostalgia. Fieldwork in Pak Nam starts once the shelves do. Follow along as it comes together.