Info on Wonder Land

Wonderland Records started in Lower Hutt's Margaret Street in the early 1970's and changed hands to the present Proprietors in 1994. The store moved into High Street 5 years ago and re-located to the Homedale Village in October 2004. The new location, while offering slightly less floor space than High Street, offers a much needed expanded storage and back office area, both important to the business's growth.

Dealers in new and used records, compact discs, cassette tapes, music videos and dvd's, the store also has a good selection of T-Shirts, posters, badges, postcards and books about pop stars from the 60's to today. While records like Wonderland are rapidly becoming few and far apart due to the compact disc and dvd boom, the Internet has proved Wonderland's life blood. Apart from their own 'Home" Web Site at (http://wonderland_recs.tripod.com), they have On-Line Stores at Gemm, Netsounds and Musicstack. These are the 3 largest Internet "shopping malls" for music and sees Wonderland shipping to many parts of the World.

New Zealand's own "Trade Me" allows Wonderland to reach customers from every corner of New Zealand, making specialist music (like heavy metal) accessible to those living in the far-flung Rural outposts of this Nation.

Wonderland Records has one of the widest ranges of music available. Starting with the pop/rock, rap/hip-hop and reggae genre, they have heavy metal, alternative, punk/prog. rock, easy listening, soundtracks, childrens records, religious, classical, folk, blues, jazz, compilations and NZ artists. They can provide 12" albums, 12" vinyl picture covered Singles, 7" extended plays and 45rpm pop/rock singles, coloured vinyls, picture discs, shaped picture discs, cassette tapes, old 78rpms too and of course the box sets both classical and specialist popular artists like Elvis Presley, Bruce Springsteen, T-Rex and many more.