#crate diggers

I love my job but it is backbreaking (hurt my back today), redundant, dirty, dusty, filled with scary dark moldy places, spiders, cut up fingers, early mornings, late nights, long hours, psychological ups and downs scoring a collection or missing out on a collection, and lots of heavy lifting. Make sure to thank your local record store/dealer/online seller for all the hard work they put into finding, sorting, cleaning, and pricing records for everyone. Seeing people walk out the door stoked on the Records they got makes it all worthwhile! Thank you for all your support over the last 23 years of selling vinyl records! Wouldn’t trade my trade for the world, maybe a different planet ruled by cats but not the world!

                                                        Madlib

             The Loop Digga. Madlib is easily one of the most important and influential producers in my life. Through his amazing and obscure samples I have found my way to so much music that I love. Music that i may have never encountered without him. Gentle Giant, Marcos Valle, Cortex, and Melvin Van Peebles are just a few I can think of off the top. His ability to take these sources and turn them into something new and beautiful is astounding. He also taught me the beauty in finding the perfect loop. He showed me that if you find a loop beautiful enough to stand completely on it’s own, then leave it be. The best example of this in my opinion is the track he produced for MF DOOM titled “One Beer”. On this track he sampled “Huit Octobre 1971″ by Cortex. He lets one short loop from the song play through essentially the whole track with absolutely nothing added to it. No added drums. No added Bassline. Nothing. And the result is amazing. One of my favorite all time beats. Before Madlib I probably would have never considered doing something like this. That is only one of many things i learned from this extremely talented producer. 

                                                                                                     Favorite Tracks

“One Beer”

“Fallin”

“Robes”

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