Ashley ‘Donga’ Marlowe, the DJ and producer behind Brighton record label Well Rounded, has opened a new record store in Brighton, Well Rounded Vinyl Vendors. 

Well Rounded is probably best known for releasing Deadboy’s debut single – self-released cassette mixtapes aside – before the South London producer signed to Numbers (Well Rounded also housed Deadboy’s remix of Drake’s ‘Fireworks’, which spread like wildfire following its release in 2010) – but the label has released a steady stream of stellar singles and EPs since 2009, including Donga & Blake’s Grown Ups EP, Submerse’s ‘Hold It Down’, Leon Vynehall’s ‘Mauve’ and James Fox’s ‘New Jack Swing’.

As well as running his label, Marlowe has worked as a buyer in record stores – both independent and chain – since his late teens, but Well Rounded Vinyl Vendors marks the first time that he’s in charge of his own store. Speaking to FACT over email, Marlowe confirmed that WRVV will stock both new and second hand material (“house, techno, balearic, electro (real), garage, funky, grime, dubstep and all the current mutations”), and is located on 104 Trafalgar Street, BN1 4ER, on the first floor (the ground floor is dedicated to a seperate independent record store called Rare Kind; on the second floor is another record shop named RK Bass).

For more information, check out the store’s Facebook page: with these types of stores dropping like flies in recent years, it’s great news to have a new one spring up.