#cratediggers

[anticmiscellaney]

I’ve been working slowly on art for a graphic novel pitch. It’s currently called Cratediggers and it’s about three highschool friends in their first year of university in London in 2012. They’ve spent their teenage years looking for a rumoured bootleg of their favourite band’s final show, and a new lead pops up. Isaac, the main character, has been happily existing in the middle ground between the stronger personalities of his two best friends for years. Julia’s flourishing in university, she knows where she wants to go and she’s loving meeting new people - like Dylan. Tim’s really struggling, both with change and herself. They belong to an online forum for fans of the defunct 80s punk band Undying Spite, where they meet the much older Paul.

It’s about dealing with changes (in yourself, in others, in life), making decisions on where to go next, and music.

I wrote the script a few years ago, it's about 330 pages and full of niche references. I hope I get to draw it - I may never get through all the scripts I've written, but I'll try. I write a lot.

[blindbabybutterfly]

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Music I listen to from my record collection :

Stumo Yamashta - Go Too

[slovenlyrecordings]

Slovenly will be selling on 9-10 November at the Mega Record & CD Fair in Holland. Stall number 923B -- come see us and grab some slabs!

[johntype]

🇯🇵 Tokyo Experience! My vlog from 3 days in Tokyo during my Asia Tour 2025, exploring the city, looking for synths, and crate digging for vinyl gems.

[therecordnerd]

Purging my collection off on Discogs, here's some top dance numbers I used to play at parties in Brooklyn. Going through all the DJ Assault 12", ghetto-tech burning the dancefloors before the plandemic pushed it clean, all the way from D-D-etroit

[cracking-bone]

#bandcamp #bandcampcratedigging #cratedigger #cyberpunk #tokyorose #tokyoroseandalex #godamnihopesheisntai #canttellanymore #musicisgoodeitherway

[ausetkmt]

A New York Times bestseller, Music Is History combines multi-Grammy Award winner Questlove’s deep musical expertise with his curiosity about history, examining America over the past fifty years. Focusing on the years 1971 to the present, Questlove finds the hidden connections in the American tapestry, whether investigating how the blaxploitation era reshaped Black identity or considering the way disco took an assembly line approach to Black genius. And these critical inquiries are complemented by his own memories as a music fan, and the way his appetite for pop culture taught him about America. A history of the last half-century and an intimate conversation with one of music’s most influential and original voices, Music Is History is a singular look at contemporary America. “An entertaining, informative and far-reaching work, meticulously excavating American culture and history with the eye of a seasoned cratedigger.” —The Washington Post

[betterwatchout]

Andy Cirzan

Veteran cratedigger Andy Cirzan shared this track from 1972 on one of his yearly compilations a while back, and when I hear it I'm sort of amazed that Magnus didn't change his name so he could have more of a career. What a set of pipes!

Another keeper Andy shared was this retro dork-banger from "Timmy Christmas", aka Dick Freitas.

Turns out there was more to the story than could be found even on Discogs. Read WFMU's Beware of the Blog for the inside scoop from Mr. Freitas himself. (You can also download the track there.)

Andy's penchant for a goof also brought this timeless gem into my life. Don Cornell is the postwar crooner you never heard till now. Here he is intrepidly covering Liza from a suitably forgotten 1965 TV musical (also check out Eric Burdon and the Animals at 34:00).

[paintersarchive]

behind the scenes

lurking around in didi’s new painting spot

free motives (snake in the book)

cratedigger 4 imagery

the visual equivalent of the nosedripper

uncreative painting!

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[reggae-vibes-com]

Double 12" Spin #41 = Desi Roots & Bunny Lie Lie =

Double 12" Spin #41 | Check the artists Desi Roots & Bunny Lie Lie, both with small discographies but significant impact, deserving wider recognition. Desi brings the roots classic Go Deh Right while Bunny offers two wicked tunes #DesiRoots #BunnyLieLie #LinvalThompson #LordKoos #Revolutionaries #Double12Spin #vintagereggae #VinylOnly #12InchSingle #CrateDiggers #Vinyl #ReggaeHistory Read the full article

[blindbabybutterfly]

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Music I Listen To from my record collection :

Art Tatum - Art Tatum

[devilledee]

#dustyfinger #cratediggers #12inchvinyl

[priokskfm]

#FREEDOWNLOADS #FREEPROMO #RADIOCHART MFSB - Groove Is The Message (Pimpin Willie DISKO Jamstrumental) REMIXED & REPRODUCED BY The Disco Police Bootplates / Edits / Remixes / Waxes / Revibes / Re-Cuts / Acetates / Test Pressings / Regrooves cratedigger: 2) A type of music that uses large numbers of obscure samples and breaks from old recordings. FINELY CHOPPED, RECONSTRUCTED & DECONSTRUCTED JAMS TAILORED TO GROOVE THE BODY & SOUL SELECTED 12 INCHED UNDERGROUND SECRET WEAPON CUTS Скачать: https://ift.tt/NexCzTf https://ift.tt/YhxpJ74

[trascapades]

🎶 #ArtIsAWeapon

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[mywifeleftme]

257: Canto Mallia // Canto Mallia

Canto Mallia Canto Mallia 1980s, Kinck Sound Productions

Virtually no information online about this private pressed Toronto Italo-disco/synth pop LP online, recorded by a pair of young Italian-Canadian musicians named Angelo Mallia and Joe Canto alongside ethnically-ambiguous pal Alex King. The record was tracked at Kinck Sound Productions in Scarborough, Ontario and published on the studio’s in-house label, but the trail runs a bit cold there—Kinck Sound operated well into the internet age, but their former website currently displays a bunch of flashing Japanese porn ads that put me in mind of an Angelfire page. King’s name is generic enough to be practically search-proof past some ambiguous Discogs credits, and Canto’s doesn’t lead very far either, though there are a pair of treacly adult contemporary songs on YouTube uploaded in the 2000s that are both Italian and Canadian. Mallia on the other hand released the very cool “Attrato da una lacrima” b/w “Hideaway” 7” sometime in the mid-‘80s, which has developed a microscopic reputation among synth-pop cratediggers for its grey lo-fi grooves (and a correspondingly macroscopic price). Less attention has been paid to the Canto Mallia LP, which isn’t even on YouTube and has only been sold once through Discogs. Short of going down to the Danforth and asking random Italians in their ‘60s if they remember these guys, that’s as far as my research is likely to take me.

So, what do we have here anyway? Well, Canto Mallia isn’t exactly exactly wall-to-wall bangers, but the best of it is of similar quality to the 7” (albeit with more professional production) and the A-side in particular has some real sweet nectar for Italo-disco hummingbirds. “La Liberta” is a strutting funk with burbling keyboard trills and some fun hand-drummed percussion—it has real 12” edit energy, rolling through a series of groovy breakdowns like it’s got all night. Follow up “Sister Music” goes real yacht jazz with a long alto sax solo from the powerfully bemonikered Howierd “Butch” Zephyr, but the gem of Canto Mallia is the two-part “L’incubo,” one of the sickest unknown ‘80s dance tracks I’ve heard in ages, scored with echoing shrieks, elegant piano hits, and an attractively vague vocal from Angelo Mallia (he kinda sounds like Buck Dharma from Blue Öyster Cult?). The flip focuses more on Canto’s compositions, which are in a synth-pop vein, the best of which is the faintly Billy Joel-ish “Maria Rosa dove sei.” But it’s Mallia’s ear for the dancefloor, and the uniformly excellent performances supplied by a cast of local session guys, that make Canto Mallia a hidden gem should you happen to come across it (I scored mine at Toronto’s small but mighty Grasshopper Records at Dundas & Ossington).

257/365

[thevinyldigest]

I Love Records. by The Vinyl Digest I love records. They're the perfect way to procrastinate. Even though you have a lot of work to do. #cratedigger #nowspinning #vinyladdict #vinylcollector #vinylcollection #vinylcollectionpost #vinyloftheday #record #recordcollection #recordplayer #lp #33rpm  #audiophile #onmyturntable #vinyl #vinyljunkie #instavinyl via YouTube https://youtu.be/JDYm6He2IrI