The Camden High Street basement shop dedicated to goth, industrial and dark-scene music · the London specialist where the form's buyers went for the form specifically, and a gig-ticket node of the dark-scene community, now closed.
Resurrection Records is the dark-scene specialist, and the Bureau files it as the London shop that served the goth-and-industrial community directly. From a basement at 228 Camden High Street it specialised in goth, industrial, EBM and dark-scene music across vinyl and CD, with shirts and merchandise, a dedicated specialist rather than a general independent, remembered by those who used it as a goth and industrial dream shop.
Its setting is the Camden record-shop borough. By the 1980s Camden rivalled Soho and Ladbroke Grove as London's foremost record district: Tower Records and Honest Jon's had Camden branches, and shops including Sister Ray and Soul Jazz began as Camden Market stalls. Resurrection was the dark-scene anchor of that ecology, the shop a goth or industrial buyer in London went to for the form specifically rather than hunting it across the general racks.
Like RRRecords in Lowell, the shop was a community node as much as a retailer: it sold gig tickets for the scene's shows, functioning as a meeting point and noticeboard for the London dark-scene the way the specialist shop always does for its form. The Bureau notes that role because it is the role that distinguishes a specialist from a general shop, the specialist gathers a community, not just stock.
Resurrection has since closed, a casualty of the rent rises that thinned Camden's record-shop borough through the 2000s and after. The Bureau files it at RS·009 as the London dark-scene specialist: the Camden basement that, while it lasted, was where the city's goth, EBM and industrial listeners went for their form, and a community node for the scene it served.