Urban Junkies London
Thursday, October 2 2003
Music and Passion, Always in Fashion
Mellow down the sticker shock with some loony tunes

Blimey, what has happened to the world of retailing?

In the old days you would be quite happy to enter a clothes shop, get sneered at by sales assistants, be crowbarred into something hideous and hand over your plastic.

Now this simple process is long gone as shops get multifaceted, multimedia'd, and multi-functional.
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This month sees the launch of a revolutionary way of buying the coolest CDs, courtesy of 49 Recordings. Two of the UK's most cutting-edge fashion stores, Oki-ni and Koh Samui (also known as the St Martins College tuck shop), are the launch pads for a series of concessions that make a selection of well thought-out, suitably stylish music, easy to reach.

Offering a witch's brew of cutting-edge sounds, both stores sell a constantly revolving selection of 49 CDs covering electronica, house, hip-hop, alt country, reggae, world music, soundtracks, or anything without a Simon Cowell connection.

What's more, you can listen to every CD on sale via the latest, ultra-tiny Panasonic SV-SD80 listening devices, which you wear as a pendant whilst browsing rails of fashion of the high variety. Technology. Who knew?

49 Recordings
Available at oki-ni, 25 Savile Row, W1 and Koh Samui, 28 Lowndes St, W1

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