Discogs is expanding, diving into the world of eccentricity and chancing their hand in the the buying and selling of second-hand music production gear with the marketplace launch of its new Gearogs site next month.

The news was revealed by Discogs founder and CEO Kevin Lewandowski in an interview with Thump, and is only the first in a long line of side projects, with Discogs looking at marketplaces for films, books, and comics.

Lewandowski said that he has been focusing on Discogs’ “meta-projects, like applying the Discogs concept to other things.” The reason for starting (a music gear database) Gearogs is because “gear is so close to records”. Lewandowski went further, stating that the marketplace will be launching in April.

Gearogs is already up and running as a database, but users will soon be able to buy and sell their unwanted synths, drum machines and more via the site. The owners are striving for it to be “the largest database of audio equipment on the planet.”

The mission statement of the site is as followed: “With your help we’ll list every turntable, audio recorder, amplifier, effect pedal, microphone, and every other piece of audio gear conceived. Any equipment that records, amplifies, mixes, or reproduces audio, belongs here.”

With over 10,000 turntables, synthesisers, headphones, mixers, sequencers, tape machines etc. listed the sites potential is exponential and has left us salivating for more.