Where Dakin Auret grew up, in Durban, South Africa, people still buy vinyl records to listen to house music.
“The farmers in the middle of nowhere are listening to house,” Auret said. “Construction workers are listening to house. All the beach bars, all the venues, all play house.”
Auret now sells vinyl out of the store he opened last year, Foot Work Records, in Long Beach’s East Village. Through his shop, he hopes to pass along his passion for house music, which he said is “the most universal music.”…