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The best known of Amsterdam's listening rooms: a hotel basement running vinyl sessions on a system built for it.
Not yet verifiedAmsterdam's listening rooms are open rather than hushed: conversation carries, and the systems are tuned to cut through it cleanly. Several grew out of record shops, and it shows in the programming.
None of these has been checked in person or confirmed by the venue yet. Each was written from what the venue publishes about itself, and every page says so.
The best known of Amsterdam's listening rooms: a hotel basement running vinyl sessions on a system built for it.
Not yet verifiedProgramming that runs from global grooves to electronic experiments, alongside a kitchen and an exhibition space.
Not yet verifiedOne of Europe's better-known record shops, with in-store sessions that blur into something closer to a bar.
Not yet verifiedWe have written up 3 in Amsterdam. None of these has been checked in person or confirmed by the venue yet. Each was written from what the venue publishes about itself, and every page says so.
Kanaal40. The rest are set up for drinking and listening rather than eating.
Nothing on our Amsterdam list is open for coffee. Listening rooms here are evening places.
A bar built around a stereo, where the music is put on from vinyl, tape or a disc rather than played live, and the room is arranged to face the speakers. It is the descendant of the Japanese jazz kissa, with a bar tab and later hours.