The Edit
Threads, textures, and tempos. Stories about how we dress to the beat — the fabric of sound culture told through style, movement, and mood.
The Edit
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Four Clicks, A Quiet Signal
A quiet reflection on sending a weekly email, sharing a book, and learning to trust the unseen paths that words take once they leave your hands.
Four Clicks, A Quiet Signal
A quiet reflection on sending a weekly email, sharing a book, and learning to trust the unseen paths that words take once they leave your hands.
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Packing for Marrakech
Amelia Fairfax packs for Marrakech with Rafi Mercer — reflecting on sound, style, and the slow art of travel, before staying behind for rest, retail, and the city’s colour.
Packing for Marrakech
Amelia Fairfax packs for Marrakech with Rafi Mercer — reflecting on sound, style, and the slow art of travel, before staying behind for rest, retail, and the city’s colour.
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One Day, Hermès
Amelia Fairfax reflects on Hermès and the luxury of waiting — linking the patience of owning a Birkin to the slow rhythm of listening bars and pre-loved style.
One Day, Hermès
Amelia Fairfax reflects on Hermès and the luxury of waiting — linking the patience of owning a Birkin to the slow rhythm of listening bars and pre-loved style.
Time for some travel
Discover and book listening bars selected by the TRACKS & TALES Guide
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B-Side — Alta Badia, Dolomites — Alpine Fidelit...
Rafi MercerYou imagine arriving after dark. Snow outside. Warm glass in hand. Records turning slowly while the mountains disappear into blackness beyond the windows. Not silence exactly — but a different...
B-Side — Alta Badia, Dolomites — Alpine Fidelit...
Rafi MercerYou imagine arriving after dark. Snow outside. Warm glass in hand. Records turning slowly while the mountains disappear into blackness beyond the windows. Not silence exactly — but a different...
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Side A — San Francisco / Vinyl Warmth & Neighbo...
Rafi MercerThere is a certain kind of place that only really works in cities that still understand neighbourhood culture. Not nightlife. Not hospitality designed for algorithms. But places built around rhythm.
Side A — San Francisco / Vinyl Warmth & Neighbo...
Rafi MercerThere is a certain kind of place that only really works in cities that still understand neighbourhood culture. Not nightlife. Not hospitality designed for algorithms. But places built around rhythm.
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Solar Myth — Philadelphia / Coffee · Records · ...
Rafi MercerThere are some places where music arrives as entertainment. It sits in the room like wallpaper, filling silence while glasses touch and conversations move around it. Then there are places...
Solar Myth — Philadelphia / Coffee · Records · ...
Rafi MercerThere are some places where music arrives as entertainment. It sits in the room like wallpaper, filling silence while glasses touch and conversations move around it. Then there are places...
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Idle Hour Baltimore — The Vinyl Bar Federal Hil...
Rafi MercerDiscover Idle Hour Baltimore — a vinyl-led neighbourhood bar shaping the city's emerging listening culture through records, warmth, and late-night intent. Saved. Every future venue page will follow that format...
Idle Hour Baltimore — The Vinyl Bar Federal Hil...
Rafi MercerDiscover Idle Hour Baltimore — a vinyl-led neighbourhood bar shaping the city's emerging listening culture through records, warmth, and late-night intent. Saved. Every future venue page will follow that format...
The Daily Read
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4,000 visits away from 50,000 readers
Rafi MercerWhen I began, it was just a blank page, a few thoughts about listening culture, and a feeling that maybe people still wanted slower, more meaningful experiences around music.
4,000 visits away from 50,000 readers
Rafi MercerWhen I began, it was just a blank page, a few thoughts about listening culture, and a feeling that maybe people still wanted slower, more meaningful experiences around music.
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The Map Starts To Speak
Rafi MercerSmall blue markers scattered across the world like signals in the dark. Seattle. Montréal. Austin. Vancouver. Miami. London. Melbourne. Calgary. New York. Tiny towns I've never heard of. Cities I've...
The Map Starts To Speak
Rafi MercerSmall blue markers scattered across the world like signals in the dark. Seattle. Montréal. Austin. Vancouver. Miami. London. Melbourne. Calgary. New York. Tiny towns I've never heard of. Cities I've...
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Texas on the Mind — The Places You Hear About B...
Rafi MercerThere are some places that arrive in your imagination long before you arrive in person. Texas has always been one of them — not because I know it well, but...
Texas on the Mind — The Places You Hear About B...
Rafi MercerThere are some places that arrive in your imagination long before you arrive in person. Texas has always been one of them — not because I know it well, but...
Notes on Listening Culture
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How to Set Up a Vinyl Listening Room
Rafi MercerA vinyl listening room does not begin with the turntable. It begins with the room itself — and three decisions, made in the right order, that change the pace of...
How to Set Up a Vinyl Listening Room
Rafi MercerA vinyl listening room does not begin with the turntable. It begins with the room itself — and three decisions, made in the right order, that change the pace of...
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Anthony Bourdain and the Quiet Rebellion of Sta...
Rafi MercerUnderneath the food, the travel, the cigarettes and the searching, Bourdain was documenting something most people could feel but not name. A meditation on attention, ritual and why back is...
Anthony Bourdain and the Quiet Rebellion of Sta...
Rafi MercerUnderneath the food, the travel, the cigarettes and the searching, Bourdain was documenting something most people could feel but not name. A meditation on attention, ritual and why back is...
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The New Luxury of Listening
Rafi MercerDiscover why listening culture is quietly becoming one of modern life's new luxuries — from Paul Desmond and Andy Warhol to listening bars, attention, rhythm and the emotional architecture of...
The New Luxury of Listening
Rafi MercerDiscover why listening culture is quietly becoming one of modern life's new luxuries — from Paul Desmond and Andy Warhol to listening bars, attention, rhythm and the emotional architecture of...
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Finding Your Way Back
Rafi MercerOn waking at 4am, putting on Serge Gainsbourg's No. 4, and finding your way back to the things you didn't know you'd left behind — a personal essay by Rafi...
Finding Your Way Back
Rafi MercerOn waking at 4am, putting on Serge Gainsbourg's No. 4, and finding your way back to the things you didn't know you'd left behind — a personal essay by Rafi...
