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Really, though, anyone can become a crate digger. All it takes is a burning passion for vinyl, an extensive and detailed knowledge of music (or just one or two particular styles of music) and the dedication to spend most of your spare time flicking through the contents of dusty boxes of old records.
Serious crate diggers are always looking for opportunities to find records. That means countless visits to yard sales, car boot sales, flea markets, charity shops and thrift stores, as well as trips to other towns and cities.
This is, of course, dedication beyond the call of duty. Those who take this approach tend to be those who intend to make a living out of it; either music producers who are searching for weird and wonderful records to sample when making their own records, or dealers on the lookout for releases that they can clean up and sell on for a tidy profit.
"You'll laugh and you'll hurt with Suren all the way...While the records are the initial guide, they're only a brief intro into life intertwined with the tunes that give this book its edge."
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"This book certainly succeeds....[it's a] journey of discovery for the uninitiated it is best as an entertaining yet cautionary note to us true believers."
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"It is this very same obsession with hardcore records that drives the personal narrative [in Crate Digger]...without giving away any spoilers, Suren depicts in a brutally honest fashion the price we sometimes pay for our obsessions."
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"Crate Digger highlights the International nature of punk... [painting] a realistic picture of both the positive and negative elements of an obsession with collecting things, and of the redemption one can find in being part of a bigger scene."
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"In Bob Suren's Crate Digger, record collecting equates to far more than stockpiling choice cuts for turntable...[it is] more than a work of non-fiction."
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"Crate Digger gives a great look at the power of punk rock and more than that, about how a life becomes enriched when you define success on your terms- not societies."
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"This book is for the person who always has a song playing in their head, who are happy to tell you at-length why this record or that was important to them, what it means to them. That's what Bob is able to accomplish with Crate Digger. "
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"The book will likely make you think of your own collections and connections, and lead you to revisit some of those moments of your own life. Plus, you might learn a thing or two about certain records and bands"
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"Really brings to life the early days of the American punk scene as it spread slowly across the country, through turntables, fanzines, and word of mouth. His vivid vinyl recollections illustrate how good record stores and adventurous college radio stations were so essential in bringing startling new music into the lives of many previously isolated kids. It follows the trajectory of a kid-turned-concert-promoter as his passion for music became all-consuming."
If you are wondering what crate digging is look no further than the Urban Dictionary.Urban Dictionary defined Crate digging as a hip-hop term for when one goes to a record store to look for records to sample.
Crate digging originally became popular because DJs and hip-hop producers wanted to find new, previously unheard sounds they coulduse in their mixes and tracks. Instead of booking studio time to record new beats or melodies, these early samplers realized therewas a vast untapped reservoir of sounds out there that virtually no one had heard or remembered.
But the trends of the late 90s and early 00s brought a new audience into crate digging for a surprising reason:vinyl was cheap and available if you knew where to look. Record shops like Amoeba in Los Angeles and Princeton Record Exchangein New Jersey had tens of thousands of records that had, for many years, been mostly overlooked by the CD buying public.But then record players became cool again, and there was a whole new generation of record collectors in no time.
We know what crate digging is, but how do you know when your casual hobby has become a full-blown obsession?Does the guy who works at the record store know you by name? Does he give you hints about the new, rare records that just came in?If so, you may be addicted to crate digging.
If you still want to search the stacks at your local record shop, try forging a relationship with the people who work thereand follow the shop on social media. Shops specializing in vinyl rely on regular people selling an LP here and there, but theirbread and butter come from buying extensive collections, often at estate sales. So knowing when a new, big shipment is coming inis key to finding those obscure gems.
Part of the key to successful crate digging is finding treasures that casual record collectors have overlooked.This is where knowing your stuff comes into play and will inform what kind of crate digger you are.
As we previously mentioned, early crate diggers were looking for records they could use for sampling and not have to pay royalties.Other crate diggers simply want the most impressive record collection in the world. This means tracking down hard-to-find singles andearly pressings of famous records.
The easiest way to make sure you are getting a good deal is to go to eBay and search for completed sales for the record you are looking for.Then, taking into account rarity and condition, you can get a pretty good idea of what actual collectors are paying for the record.
AJ:Yes, especially in the social sense that people looking through records with youwill connect you with stuff you might not otherwise notice and seeing record afterrecord next to each other you get a sense of how much music circulates through theworld. I think that all made it very rich for me.
This is another of those terms that has taken on special relevance in the last few years as more and more fans of a certain genre of music have become more hip to hop of the lingo. In this sense, it can certainly feel like a more recent trend or even a coinage from the last decade or so, though crate digging has in fact been around about as long as vinyl records themselves.
As this is such a democratised art form, you can go crate digging just about anywhere that you can find records. The traditional idea of crate digging is that you take it back to how it used to be. Since records were initially presented in such crates, a crate digger will want to get down and dirty with these kinds of records, typically in the bargain bin section of a store selling records, or in cheap plastic crates beneath the display of newer records.
This is an area still ripe for the democracy and agency of the consumer, so there is no one holistic way to go crate digging. However, there are a few things you can do to clue yourself up enough that you might improve your chances of stumbling across some hidden gold.
Via Alison Cuddy: Patrick Feaster, a sound-recording historian at Indiana University, has pushed back the history of sound recording back even further than his previous discovery. Feaster stumbled across a magazine printing of a late-1800s recording by self-educated German immigrant Emile Berliner, whose work can be found in the development of the telephone, acoustic tiles, and helicopters. (Appropriate to the holiday, Berliner was inspired by a centennial-year demonstration by Alexander Graham Bell.) Feaster actually scanned the print of the recording, which preserved its grooves, and turned it back into sound:
He's not the only crate digger to come out of IU; the owners of the great Urbana-based label Archeophone developed their interest in early wax-cylinder music by traveling the same Indiana backroads to find early examples of American popular music, and built a self-sustaining label out of it. They're like the Numero Group, but resurrecting stuff many decades older:
It makes sense, in a way, that Indiana would be home to such early vinyl obsessives. The first great indie label, Gennett Records, originated in Richmond, Indiana; without the budget of Victor and Columbia, Gennett cast its net wide, from exercise recordings to William Jennings Bryan speeches. In that net fell an unimaginable cast of future legends:
If eastern Indiana seems like a curious place for the great geniuses of jazz to cut records, that's not the half of it. Indiana had the highest Klan membership in the country as Gennett was at its peak, and Gennett did contract pressings for the KKK label (the labels themselves look as creepy as you'd expect). Fortunately and unsurprisingly, the Klan's musical stars were not nearly the talents that Ellington and Armstrong were:
"Mystic City" (attributed to "100% Americans with Orchestral Accompaniment") does, indeed, sound like third-rate Sousa mangled into musical theater, with more than a passing resemblance to Monty Python's Spam song and MST3K's Gamera song. It's the old, weird, racist America distilled to a point: race records and racist records, sharing a studio.
Michael Shakib Bhatch does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.
A few brave broadcasters knew that the archives with their more than half a century of Somali music had to be preserved. Thousands of cassettes and reels were quickly removed. They took them to neighbouring Djibouti and Ethiopia and buried them deep under the ground to withstand even the most powerful airstrikes.
These audio artefacts were excavated from their shelters only very recently. Some are now kept in the 10,000-strong cassette tape archive of the Red Sea Foundation in Hargeisa. A team from Ostinato Records, a New York-based label that documents music from the African continent and diaspora, digitised a large portion of the archive.
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