Siesta Records

Although the brick and mortar space where Siesta Records once lived has been transformed over the past two years into FeeLit,
Siesta Records has launched their new website.
Visit
for upcoming announcements and info about Siesta music, gear, and events.

Siesta Records — a notable place on the ever-​shrinking list of brick and mortar dance music record stores. And it’s a shop first opened by San Diego house legends The H-​Foundation — Hipp-​E and Halo (I believe they’ve both moved out of town.)
From the outside it looks like a perfect record store. Big glass windows reveal stacks of flyers, walls of records — peppered with the occasional classic LP, listening stations, and funky t-​shirts. It looks like the perfect little record shop. The kind of place where no matter how few people there’s still a thick vibe united by the bond of house music. The kind of place where that makes guys want to stand around on a Saturday afternoon, listening to wax for hours, and lying about the first time they’d ever heard «French Kiss» (and probably about the first time they had a kiss of the same name.)
I’m sure that goes on there but I wouldn’t know. The «Back in 5» sign I encountered today for forty-​five minutes was enough to send me packing. As an Angelo who occasionally works in San Diego I find their hours don’t fit with my schedule well so when I had today afternoon free I jumped at the chance to get there. Too bad I never breached those big glass windows.
*** = For possibility and effort… at least the shop’s standing.
Oh…the address — 909 E Street… that irony is definitely not lost on me.