Thatz-It did not start as a distributor. It started as two people with far too many records and a suspicion that other people wanted them.
The first version of Thatz-It was an online shop for second-hand vinyl, run out of Rotterdam. It grew one crate at a time until the crates outnumbered the room. By the time two enthusiastic music lovers and collectors opened an actual shop on the Zwaanshals there were fourteen thousand records on the floor, and another hundred and seventy thousand sitting in the wholesale behind it.
The shop leaned hard into dance. Every bin along the left wall was house, the full run of it, from the late eighties through trance and techno, with jazz, soul and pop holding the right-hand side. That came down to what the people behind the counter listened to themselves, and it is why our electronic and dance catalogue still runs deeper than most distributors'.
The wholesale side kept outgrowing the retail side. Málaga solved several problems at once: space, and a position on the shipping routes between northern Europe, North Africa and the Atlantic. Today NSC Thatz It Distribution SL runs four warehouses, three on the Polígono Industrial El Viso and one in Casarabonela, with over a million records in stock.
We still buy like collectors, and every order still leaves here properly packed. The catalogue is wider now and the pallets are bigger, but the reason a shop calls us twice is the same reason it called us the first time: somebody at this end knows what the record is.
“We have just about every strand of house from 1987 to now. That is a piece of culture.”
Three warehouses on the Polígono Industrial El Viso in Málaga and a fourth in Casarabonela, together holding over a million records. Storage is climate-controlled, so what leaves the dock is in the condition it arrived in.
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