Stories

Aloha friends and fans! We'll be at the Made in Hawaii Festival this weekend from Friday through Sunday. Come find us at booth 505, located at the Ala Moana Center.  We're super excited to participate in our first ever Made in Hawaii Festival! We couldn't have done it without the help of Central Pacific Bank, who sponsored our booth this year. Big mahalo to CPB.  Swing by for new merchandise and plenty of vinyl records! We'll also have T-shirts for sale including our official Kalapana band merchandise. 

Sometime in early 2021, Kyoto-based musician and producer HALFBY reached out with a new track he'd been working on, entitled "Beach Baby Be Mine". To our surprise, the vocalist was Richard Natto and the song a new, original composition with music by Halfby and lyrics by Natto. We listened over and over to that demo version and fell. in. love. It was hard not to get the catchy riff and verses out of our heads! Then, Halfby asked if Roger would be willing to make a remix. Sure, why not? It's been years since he'd made any music of his own, but the opportunity was...

AGS label boss Roger Bong recently flew across the Pacific and The Pond to bring the sunny sounds of Hawaii to the UK. He recorded his monthly NTS show, Home Grown, live from the NTS London studios, and later in the month popped into Gilles Peterson's Brownswood Basement for a special one-off broadcast on Worldwide FM (much love to the station — they're pausing their regular programming at the end of this month for a restructure).   Roger will also be joining Be With Records's Rob Butler in Manchester for a Sunday evening all-vinyl b2b session at NAM. Free and open to the public, 7pm...

This Sunday: hang at the shop, drink free Kona Brewing, and vibe to vinyl records played by friends and collectors. We're hosting these casual hangs at the shop every 3rd Sunday of the month.  Join us for the first one on Sunday, October 16th from 5pm ~ 8pm.  It's our way of saying "thank you" for being a part of our record collecting, music loving community. A few of our good friends will be spinning their favorite records for the earlier part of the evening and then for the rest of the night, the decks will be open from 7-8pm for anyone to play some tunes....

Seoul's calling, let's go!  We met DJ Spray in Honolulu earlier this spring. He and his wife walked through the doors of our shop on the recommendation of Kompakt Record Bar's owner, Jinmoo. We found out that not only is Spray a talented DJ and producer, he curates a record-centered series on YouTube called Vinyl Sessions.   When AGS headed to Japan in August for some DJ gigs, Jinmoo invited label owner Roger Bong to come to Seoul and spin at Kompakt. Not wanting to miss out on the opportunity, we went for it! (The flight from Tokyo is just two hours). Hearing the...