Established in 2010, Record Jungle is widely revered as one of greater Los Angeles’ finest diggers’ spots – a used record emporium in which the amount of dust collected on one’s fingertips while perusing its ever-healthy racks is commensurate with the quality of treasures therein. That shop owner Andy Perez truly understands the funky stuff that DJs and producers covet is apropos given his own history as an underground hip-hop beatsmith. Soul, breaks, beat ballads, Latin covers, jazz and Mexican psych all regularly riddle RJ’s newest arrivals. The Jungle is located in Montebello, off the path of much of the rest of the city’s retail vinyl circuit, but it boasts regulars that not only encompass the cream of LA’s wax-addicted community – Cut Chemist, J-Rocc, Alchemist, et al. – but out-of-town devotees like Floating Points, Large Professor and DJ Spinna.
