cratedigging-magazine-project :P
pookeyblow
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Hello everyone!We have this magazine-project in my school where we have to write an article and do the design for a magazine in indesign (with some help from illustrator and photoshop of course).I thought about writing an article about crate digging, and I thought maybe you guys here could help me out with ideas, info, links, sites with scans, other articles, the history of cratedigging, and other useful information.I hope some of you have time to help me out and I am thankful for every reply!peace from Oslo, Norway-pookey 
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Do that stuff on your own. Do some pistures of your local record stores and make sure to write a lot. You could use some label logos or cover art from records and do some collage or patchwork, but I'd never steal or take pictures from other people who were writing about record digging. Do not use the same photos over and over again. I've seen some photos online a thousand times before they were being used for print versions of magazines. Even in Wax Poetics...
Some kids from my hometown stole artwork from a Soulstrut member for a magazine article once... that was totally wack and disrespectful. Look at the Waxpoetics magazine. My graphic designing friend says that their magazine is totally nice from a magazine design perpective... personally, I don't know... but take pictures and do artwork on your own...
I know how to do artwork and how to take photos because thats some of my hobbies..
but I dont have all original classic breaks and records and I think I need some photos of them beacuse thats a part of the digging-history..
get it?
Maybe you should find some fellow Norge heads...
Track down Tommy Tee or The Nutsons. Hit up the fellas at Kingsize.no
I know that most Norwegian hip hop has gone more towards the keyboard stuff these days, but there must be some hip hop producers/djs in your city still sampling.
Does CityCon still exist?
Be nicer to have a Scando slant to it all. Maybe fellow countrymen Teddy Rosso & Brops could help you out.
Just write down what crate digging means to you or what other people say about it. Don't try to tell a story about sampling in hip hop though. I usually notice how old folks are getting bored once you start to talk about sampling only. Your teacher or other people wouldn't care. Most record collectors and crate diggers are weird people. Record store owners too. You could interview a record shop owner and ask about his customers or what strange and rare records he has seen in his life as a seller/dealer. He might come up with an address or phone number of a true collector in your area.
It would be most fun to write an own story. There are millions of articles about the digging culture in hip hop. I'd focus on a story about record digging in general.
Hope I could still help. I just think that there are way too many interviews with hip hop producers that dig for records. And way to many pictures of the same stores and records over and over...
Also, of course, the first thing to do is to track down that danish beat diggin' documentary, and maybe watch Deep Crates. It's not much, but it's something to begin with. Also go talk to Bj??rn Ringstr??m at his shop. He's a cool dude and know all about records. That would be a good way to see this in a non-hip hop perspective.
The HipHop digging starts even earlyer, look for some Afrika Baambaata and Grandmaster Flash interveiws on the web. They allways tell the story of battling each other by having the newest unheared records in the 70s.
Also a giant step in awaking the virus of digging in a lot of people was the Ultimate Beats, Break compilation. Read something about the history of that compilation which is heavily used on the end 80s rap records.
Peace
Hawkeye
i think what would be dope is go on a couple digging misiions yourself. one could be just finding the name of a couple flea markets/shops in the boonies and go visit, documenting everything...conversations, directions, photos of weird stores along the way, sun rising, etc. To me, thats what digging is about...getting all up in the cut. the other digging trip could be similarly documented but more investigated...try to track down an artist or old dj or radio station manager and get up in those crates. even if it doesnt pan out, you could recount the rituals of a dig and give people an idea of how it works.
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That's what I was trying to say. My English skills sometimes bar me from writing what I think or want to tell others. Really, I'm sorry if I ever sounded harsh. Talk to your local people. It would be a cool way to introduce yourself to some record guys properly too. Worked out fine for me.
http://soulstrut.com/ubbthreads/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=crates&Number=412757&Forum=All_Forums&Words=hip%20hop%20books&Match=Entire%20Phrase&Searchpage=0&Limit=25&Old=6months&Main=412757&Search=true#Post412757
If you need pics, look up mowtown67's thread callled "record porn".
follow the links to his personal archives of all his hot shit.
there's tons of images there.
I think I'll take a few to look at this, too.
I will also try to set up an interview with The Nutsons, DJ Dust or Lasarus (Maiden/Arien Voyage comps..). Tommy Tee and Kingsize/Pass It are hooked on the synth beats
peace!
flunk
Good luck with your cratedigging-magazine-project, pookeyblow. With the help of the impressive Soulstrut knowledge pool as your guide, everything will be fine.
what's the difference between "hip-hop digging" and "record collecting?
i think the main difference between great collectros and hiphop diggers is that the great collectro wouldnt buy a shite record just because it has a 2 bar break/loop