Product Description
Pedro Winter’s personal record collection of Pharrell Williams’ productions. The lot includes 23 vinyls, used and new. The collection includes some of the most iconic works from Pharrell.
Product Year
2023
Product Materials
Aluminium Rimowa Pilot Case customized with vintage stickers filled with records
Product Dimensions
16 17/32 x 19 11/16 x 9 1/16 in. (42 x 50 x 23 cm.)
Product Note
This item could be best represented by a cliché cop show-style corkboard with dozens of photos, and strings connecting them. The board is plastered with thumbtacked images of a variety of people, places, and things … Vinyl records, a legendary French record producer/label owner, Paris, colette, Daft Punk, a prestigious 125+ year-old German luggage brand, Teddy Riley, stickers… lots of revealing stickers. The string crisscrosses the corkboard, connecting the photos like a manic laser bouncing around a hall of mirrors. At the center of the board… a photo of Pharrell Williams. Everything connects to him.
This offering is a collection of 23 vinyl records which Pedro “Busy P” Winter has curated from his personal collection of Pharrell’s greatest hits. The records are housed in a Rimowa travel case that has been plastered with stickers reflecting encounters and moments in Pedro’s life. Follow the string. It’s all connected.
"For more than a quarter of a century, Pharrell Williams has made the world dance. I've been DJing for approximately the same time. We both share the initials PW. My name is Pedro Winter, and this is my record box. This globe-trotter's suitcase filled with some of my favorite Pharrell records is the perfect souvenir of an era that we now all cherish. DJing is a passion, but it's also a commitment. Crate digging in records shops, travelling the world to spread good vibes, carrying our favorite records until we carefully drop the record on them and set the dance floor on fire. This RIMOWA Pilot Case full of Pharrell grooves was my companion in the mid 2000s, just before digital music transformed everything. Back then, we kept records like treasures, eventually trading our heavy record boxes for CD cases, and then to pocket-sized USBs.
The stickers on it are not just stickers... Each represents a moment, an encounter. Logos can say a lot about who you are and where you come from. They're my version of the 'Le Petit Poucet' rocks you drop as you make your way home. They keep me linked with my skateboarder years, my favorite record shops. Music is my passport, those stickers are my way to stamp this record box. I selected key releases, dating back to 1993 when the name Pharrell Williams was written in the credits of a 12" for the first time ever. Of course, I had to put classic club hits from the 2000s too, such as "Drop it like it’s hot", "Frontin" and "Pass the Courvoisier". It also had to be personal. I met Pharrell in 2001, running after him to ask for a remix of Daft Punk. The rest is now history. Like Willy Wonka, I hid a test-pressing of The Neptunes's remix of "Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger" in this box...get lucky!"
- Pedro Winter
