Section 01 / Awesome Place 14 / Mode: Dig
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Candy Records.
Crate digging in Køge: a record shop in a courtyard on Vestergade, under a grapevine, a minute from the square. Original pressings since the late 1980s, wine in the window, and a crate on a pink chair outside — 50 kroner a record, three for 100.
Location: Vestergade 5, in the courtyard · Photo: Candy Records
File: 17-CANDY-SPINES / the crate as shot, the rest printed as record spines
The shop
Original pressings, in a courtyard.
Candy Records is Jan Mellin’s record shop — the record half of Planet Candy, “Music & Wines” — in the courtyard at Vestergade 5, behind a door under a grapevine. It began in Copenhagen in the late 1980s, when the industry was busy replacing vinyl with the CD: Jan took over a small shop there and started Candy with a single idea, to sell only original pressings. He imported them himself, outside the Danish distribution system, and through the 1990s, when vinyl was hard to find, Candy was where the first pressings turned up.
In Køge the shop sells what is left of that stock, takes records on commission from old customers and local people, and keeps some ordinary records too — and wine: Cupedia Wines, from Dr. Crusius and Castello di Verduno, racked in the window. Outside, on a pink folding chair next to a wine barrel, there is a crate to dig through. The rarities and the stock are listed online, and the shop sells on Discogs as Candyrecord. The photograph is printed here as a crate of records seen end-on, every spine its own strip, with the real crate left exactly as it stood.
Where
Vestergade 5, 4600 Køge — in the courtyard (“i gården”), a minute from Torvet on the pedestrian street.
When
Opening hours are not published on planetcandy.dk — phone or write before you make a special trip.
Phone
+45 21 49 87 33 · e-mail planetcandy@mail.dk.
The crate
50 DKK a record, three for 100 — on the chair outside the door, in the photograph.
Records
Original and early pressings, many of them first prints; records on commission from customers and local people; a list of rarities online; Discogs seller Candyrecord.
Wine
Cupedia Wines — Dr. Crusius and Castello di Verduno, with wine lists on planetcandy.dk.
The story
Started in Copenhagen in the late 1980s to sell original pressings only; imported outside the Danish distribution system; the source of first pressings through the vinyl-scarce 1990s.
Same street
Organic Market at Vestergade 11 and Gancio at 19A — Food Experiences 04 and 01; the Irma net at Kvickly, 25A.
Source
planetcandy.dk — About and Contact, read 13 October 2026. The photograph is assumed to be the shop’s, used here for concept demonstration only.
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