Citations:cratedigger

English citations of cratedigger and crate-digger

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1. (music, slang) A person who habitually looks through crates of vinyl records at music shops, especially in pursuit of interesting or rare records.
   • 2003, Fiona McAuslan, Matthew Norman, Sarah Lazarus, “Havana and around”, in The Rough Guide to Cuba, 2nd edition, London: Rough Guides, →ISBN, page 154:

     A little crate-diggers’ paradise for collectors of Latin and easy listening music on vinyl.

   • 2005, The Wire, London, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 64, column 2:

     It’s a reminder of how the ‘cratediggers’ and beat-plunderers of contemporary music have deforested black music’s past more for the timber of its rhythms, as opposed to the messages it was attempting to impart, messages which have fallen away from so much modern black music’s discourse, encased as so much of it is in a protective carapace of bling and machismo.

   • 2008, Signal to Noise: The Journal of Improvised and Experimental Music, South Hero, Vt.: Pete Gershon, →OCLC, page 103:

     Long a crate-digger’s grail and never before available on CD, this is one obscurity that really lives up to the hype.

   • 2008, The Wire, Volumes 293-298, page 56:

     North African style interludes (with field recording sound quality and added vinyl crackle, for extra cratedigger cred), Afrobeat workouts featuring impeccably retro organ and horn sounds, and tracks close in spirit to Pete Rock or Jay Dee all appear […]

   • 2010 April 3, David J. Prince, “All that Jazz: Jose James Covers the Classics”, in Craig Marks, editor, Billboard, volume 122, number 13, New York, N.Y.: e5 Global Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 27, column 1:

     But it was a chance encounter with Gilles Peterson, an influential U.K. radio personality and cratedigger with a knack for discovering raw talent, that helped move his [José James's] career into high gear.

   • 2011, Alex Ogg, Paid In Full?: An Introduction to Brit-Hop, Grime and UK Rap, →ISBN, unnumbered page:

     The output of Tricky, aka Adrian Thaws, was possibly the closest approximation of a hip-hop aesthetic within the trip-hop generation – if for no other reason than the diversity of sources drawn upon reflected the mentality of the original hip-hop crate-diggers.

   • 2013 May, Frances Ambler, Emily Bick, Samantha Cook, Nicholas Jones, Lara Kavanagh, “South London”, in Wayne Hemingway, editor, The Rough Guide to Vintage London, London: Rough Guides, →ISBN, part 1 (Shopping, Eating and Drinking), page 94:

     The Beehive is half of a two-room shop that also contains Casbah Records, where cratediggers can flick through stacks of vinyl records while their friends or partners try on clothes next door.

   • 2013, Rob Fitzpatrick, "The 101 strangest records on Spotify: Bobb Trimble – Iron Curtain Innocence", The Guardian, 6 February 2013 (article description):

     Serene psychedelia from the heart of Massachusetts – from a man whose fortunes were revived by cratediggers.

   • 2013, "Better Than Best: People & Places", Philadelphia Weekly, 19 October 2011:

     Located directly below Vox Populi, owner Mark Johnson’s a bona fide cratedigger who understands the value of curation. The small, but well-stocked shop specializes in avant-garde jazz, soul music and R&B.