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Record Store Day UK Pushes Vinyl Album Sales Up 60%

Record Store Day 2013 in the UK broke the album sales record previously set last year. For those of you who bought new albums for Record Store Day last weekend, you’ve just helped break a record. The guys behind RSD announced today the final results from this year’s event held on 20th April, with indie …

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SATURDAY MATINÉE: Scratch DVD - Digging In The Crates

Check out this clip from Scratch featuring Jazzy Jay, Cut Chemist and DJ Shadow, amongst others, going through their crate digging exploits. This is only 9 minutes long, but it should entice you to get the whole documentary. In 2002, a documentary called Scratch was released all about DJing, vinyl and digging, some of the …

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VIDEO: HBS Music Archaeology - Show 45

The boys at HBS Music Archaeology are back with Show 45 of their series. Nothing beats a bit of vinyl in the morning (we mean the music kind ahem). If you’ve not seen their series before, HBS Music Archaeology are a couple of guys (Chris and Brad) from North West London who dig out rare …

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SATURDAY MATINÉE: Beat Digging With Waajeed

Waajeed discusses hip hop, beats, PPP, the ladies and the Detroit sound while crate digging in this week’s Saturday Matinée. Before Waajeed was shedding light onto the mystery behind Dilla beats, he was (and still is) a hip hop producer and what do hip hop producers like to do best? Crate dig. In 2006, Waajeed …

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Crate Digging - A Crate Digger's Guide

Ever needed tips on crate digging? This might come in handy. Crate digging is one of my favourite pasttimes. If you’re unfamiliar with the term or the concept, it’s basically vinyl record shopping. As vinyl is traditionally collected in “crates”, those who seek out the music are known as “diggers”. Nine times out of ten, …