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1983. Malcolm McLaren follows up his highly influential career managing (creating) first the Sex Pistols, then Bow Wow Wow, with his own solo album, Duck Rock. It's world music. It's Americana. It's hip-hop. It's almost too weird to be believed.
East of Underground, Hell Below box set This box set makes joining the Army seem cool. #Crate Digger
Kourosh Yaghmaei's Iranian psyche gets reissued A collection thought to have been destroyed by Islamic fundamentalists. #Crate Digger
Norman Jay MBE is master selector Keep your amateur summer mixes. We're riding with a legend. #Crate Digger
Excepter's 2003-2004 "Streams" surface Back in the day, when Excepter played Lit Lounge on the reg. #Crate Digger
Oh look, Teargas & Plateglass's 2007 Black Triage is now streaming Digging up some ancient rhythms. #Crate Digger
Dylan Baldi's dedication to The Cleve The sonic reducering, the Dave Thomasing, the tomb rocketing. #Crate Digger
Madlib digs up some unreleased Jaylib Salvaged from a fire that nearly destroyed the master tapes. #Crate Digger
Strange Games & Funky Things Vol.5 The series that made Gilles Peterson feel less white. #Crate Digger
Prince Paul unearths unreleased horrorcore Never thought I'd see the day I got nostalgic for horrorcore. #Crate Digger
Bob Blank and Blank Tapes; a NY original Bob Blank is one of New York City's first indie-to-Grammy success stories. #Crate Digger
I miss you Hiretsukan In my opinion, Hiretsukan was one of the best hardcore bands in the history of New York, but undoubtedly they were one of the best of the late 90s, early 00s. #Crate Digger
Blockhead digs up old Aesop Rock Blockhead has a new blog, sorta. He's got a stellar business plan to build his readership: dig up unreleased Aesop Rock demos from the early 00's and ... #Crate Digger
Butthole Surfers live in 1989 Holy shit, indeed. Thanks to Rocket Remnants for pointing us in the right direction to a two hours plus live recording of Butthole Surfers at the peak... #Crate Digger
Parts and Labor's early days Parts and Labor's earliest recordings. #Crate Digger
Strange Breaks & Mr. Thing BBE is a label that sets the funky precedent, so it's no surprise that Strange Breaks & Mr. Thing Vol.II is a fantastic voyage through the the thi... #Crate Digger
Forge Your Own Chains with Damon and The Strangers Considering they're situated in California, it would've been easy for Now & Again to create a psychedelic comp from the 60s and 70s. A quick jaunt... #Crate Digger
When Nate Dorr isn't galloping through the boroughs taking photos, he writes about obscure movies in Sunken Cinematheque.
Great post, a true pioneer and experimentalist!
— Tolerant Traveler on September 10, 2009
These are all the hip hop artists listed who've sampled "Buffalo Gals" 2 Live Crew - "Mr. Mixx on the Mix!" Beastie Boys - "59 Chrystie St." Beatnuts - "Third of the Trio" Beatnuts - "World's Famous" Beatnuts - "World's Famous_ Intro" Beatnuts - "_Street Level_ Intro" Chubb Rock - "The Big Man" Das EFX - "Baknaffek" Das EFX - "They Want EFX" De la Soul - "Baby, Baby, Baby" DJ Honda - "Roc Raida Intro" Dr. Octagon - "Real Raw" Eminem - "Without Me" Hammer - "It's All Good" Jungle Brothers - "Tribe Vibes" Meat Beat Manifesto - "10 X Faster than the Speed of Love" Neneh Cherry - "Buffalo Stance" Poison Clan - "Put Shit Pass No Ho" Skee-lo - "I Wish" Smif-n-Wessun - "Let's Git It On" Sublime - "Doin' Time" Super Cat - "Ghetto Red Hot" The Coup - "Gunsmoke" X-Clan - "Grand Verbalizer, What Time is It?"
— blake on September 10, 2009