Cratery 19: feat. Frank Dukes

19 07 2010

photo credit: Dave Yan

This month for Cratery, we’ve enlisted the help of none other than homie/digger/producer extraordinaire Frank Dukes.

For those unfamiliar with his stellar production work, get familiar. This is how it went down: we went 3-for-3 with a wide array of joints from psych to soul, west-Indian funk to Bollywood brainmelters.

You’ll notice that there’s no tracklisting for this Cratery. The information is classified. However, we did give you an eBay-esque description that may help you decode the secrets contained within our crates. Just kidding, the descriptions won’t help you at all.

Regardless of all of that, we present to you:

1. Fantastic Soul *Horn Stabs* SAMPLES-*cue burn,surface noise. Plays fine*
2. MONSTER FUZZ SOUL!! 45 RARITY
3. “Ain’t no sunshine” HIP HOP BREAKZ
4. Shady Brook LP Hard-to-Find Soul!
5. Barbados 1977 WIRL Disco Funk
6. Funky 45 Plays Great!
7. Great Grits and Gravy Soul
8. 45 RPM Mid-tempo Soulful Rock – SERIOUS INQUIRIES ONLY
9. Groovy Funk – Great for Teenagers!
10. DOO WOP Surprisingly Hard Drums (No Break-sorry)
11. Detroit Soul 45 *surface noise*
12. Hot Wax LABEL Great Soul!
13. HIP HOP DRUM BRAEKZ! 45 RPM
14. Indian Psych –FUNKY— SAMPLES
15. Disco/Rock MONTREAL LP
16. Rare Tropical Funk COVER Gwen McCrae
17. Cuban RARE RARE RARE
18. Library INSTRUMENTAL FUNK –BREAKZ-

CRATERY 19 feat. FRANK DUKES


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Cratery 18: The Vangover

21 06 2010

“Both the hommie Kaewonder and I recently spent some time on the left coast.  This month’s Cratery represents the fruits of our visit. I love shopping for records in a different town. Especially when that town is Vancouver. I was fortunate enough to stumble across a copy of J.R. Bailey’s “Just me and you”, Nina Simone’s “Is it Finished” LP, Bad Medicine’s “Trespasser” 45 and a copy of Marlena Shaw’s Spice of Life LP to name a few. There are definitely some records in Vancouver. And no one knows that better than the big hommie Sipreano, record guru extraordinaire. Thank you sir. For your hospitality. And your record collection. And so, in the aftermath of 2 weeks spent binging on records, alcohol and herb, we present to you, Cratery 18: The Vangover. Enjoy. ” - ARCEE

Track list and download after the cut.

TRACK LIST:

1. Galt McDermot “Let the Sun Shine In”
2. George Shearing “Aquarius”
3. Groove Holmes “No Trouble on the Mountain”
4. Strutt “Said you didn’t love her (instrumental)”
5. Bob Williams “I’m Alright (part 1)”
6. Grupo Irakere “Bacalao Con Pan”
7. Nina Simone “Funkier than a Mosquito’s tweeter”
8. Rotary Connection “Memory Band”
9. The Poppy Family “Beyond the Clouds”
10. The National Gallery “Pond with Swans”
11. Marlena Shaw “Where can I go?”
12. Mavis Staples “What happened to the real me?”
13. Bad Medicine “Trespasser (part 2)”
14. UNLISTED
15. Soul Hustlers “Super Party (part 1)”
16. Au Pairs “Headache for Michelle”
17. Marva Josie “He does it better”

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Cratery 17 *late pass*

21 06 2010

“So. I grew a beard for four months.  Then I cut it off. But not without having some fun with a few of the hommies first.  Gotta shout my mans Clif, Darren G and my man Joe Cruz for lining me up nicely at the official De-Bearding. And my man Serious aka David Yan for trekking down to take some crazy flicks. Mad appreciated fellas. But I would be positively heartless if I neglected to mention my partner in crime, Kaewonder, with whom I share the distinction of rocking my first clean shaven Cratery. Turns out I haven’t been clean-shaven in 17 years. That almost makes Cratery 17 somewhat significant. If you’re me. Enjoy.” - ARCEE

Track list and download after the jump.

TRACKLIST:

1. Starfire “Make The Most Of It”
2. Hidden Strength”All we need Is Time”
3. Linda Tillery “Markin’ Time”
4. Dr.Music “In My Life”
5. Sugarloaf “Mother Nature’s Wine”
6. Isis-”April Fool”
7. Ruby Andrews “My Love Is Comin Down”
8. Maxine Brown “See And Dont See”
9. Julie Driscoll & Brian Auger “Indian Rope Man”
10. Zoo “If You Lose Your Woman”
11. Don Covay “If There’s A Will, There’s A Way”
12. Assagai “Cocoa”
13. Ramsey Lewis “Uhuru”
14. Gary Burton Trio “Vibrafinger”
15. Phillip Upchurch “As you said”
16. John Payne Band “New Spaces”

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CRATERY 16

26 04 2010

[photo credit: Dave Yan]

Cratery 16. As per usual we’ve put together a wide variety of dope music (but sorry folks, no African disco)  for you and yours to enjoy. For free. Simple. You download it. You listen to it. you comment and give us props and/or criticize us for our non VG+++ records and generally lax attitude towards mixing and audiophile sound quality of said Cratery.

ENJOY

Don’t forget to comment if you’ve DL’ed this shit. Speak the fuck up.

tracklist:

1. Boris Gardiner/Melting Pot
2. The Gaylords of Dominica/Wicked World Outside
3. Johnny Clarke/Declaration of Rights
4. Soul Explosion Band/Captivity
5. Billy Stewart/Cross my Heart
6. Shades of Brown/Garbage Man
7. Freddie Robinson/Smoking
8. Blue Mitchell/Collision in Black
9. Earth Wind and Fire/Bad Tune
10. Doug Carn/Higher Ground
11. Roy Ayers Ubiquity/A Tear to a Smile
12. Volker Kriegel/Mindwell
13. Pete Jolly/Springs
14. Pride/A Home*
15. Glass Prism/Extention 68
16. *Unlisted*
17. Funkadelic/I’ll Stay

*for the big homie Sipreano!


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CRATERY 15 *late pass*

26 04 2010

The arrival of Cratery 15 signals two things: 1. An official Cratery logo + design. 2. A brand new format for this month.

First off, a big thank you to Sean Davison (Creative Director, Maclaren McCann) for helping us bring our monthly dig diary to life with its own logo + look.  Hope y’all like it. Just the first of more new Cratery related newness to come.  And special thanks to this month’s official Cratery photog, DJ Serious – who was nice enough to join us on the first of many dig days this March.

This month, we’ve traded our traditional “1 for 1” format for two 30 minute sets from myself and the hommie Kaeweezy. I end up somewhere in the African/Latin/Rock space (Mandingo, Chakachas, Fever Tree), leaving Kae to mess around in the Jazz/Soul/Oddball realm (Cleveland Eaton, Julius Brockington, Synthesis).  In simple terms, another hour of ill shit – on us.  Cratery 15. A to the motherf****n’ Kae, homeboy. A to the motherf****n’ Kae. - ARCEE”

TRACKLIST:

ARCEE’S SET:
Mandingo/Watching and Waiting
Chakachas/El Canyon Rojo
Manu Dibango/Pepe Soup
Monomono/Find Out
Exile One/You have lost the battle
Ginger Baker/The Winner
Fever Tree/Don’t come crying to me girl
Hugo Montenegro/Undun
Joe Thomas/Chitlins and Chuchifritos
Mandrill/Coelho

KAEWONDER’S SET:

Cleveland Eaton/All your lover, all day, all night
The Fatback Band/Love
Roy Ayers/Baby you give me a feeling
Synthesis/City Song
Marie Rottrova/Time is a rogue
Harnell/For a brief time
Herb Geller/Space a la Mode
Streetdancer/Journey into the night
Julius Brockington/Got to be there

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The Savittarians.

22 03 2010

Cratery in full-effect mode. We be some savvy individuals.


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cratery live BTS

10 03 2010


cratery live BTS, originally uploaded by sizzled.

whole lotta records in this holy trinity of records.
serious
arcee
kaewonder


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CRATERY 14: O.S.T Edition w/ Murr

24 02 2010

O.S.T: Original Sound Track. For most people, those words conjure up some mundane image of a women jaunting through fields of grass while a lush string arrangement plays, or it may just remind you of that god-awful People Under The Stairs record. Luckily, the good people at Cratery (read: myself & the hommie Arcee) know better than that. We know that soundtracks offer a wide range of heatery, from blaxploitation chase-scene wah-wah and percussion, to the fuzz and flanged fury offered up in grindhouse (or “psychsploitation”) films, sheeit even throw in the oft-sampled oddness of the La Planete Sauvage. Soundtracks are the shit. I can’t think of anyone who has informed my decision to shop in the Soundtrack section of the record shop more than Nick Murray AKA Mr. Murray of the Grassroots AKA Murr of LAL. Dude is a talented producer who’s beats and soundscapes have a very soundtrack-esque quality, so it’s only right that he joins us on the 14th (!) Cratery. For every dope movie there’s a dope soundtrack, but let’s be honest here,Even some of the movies whose soundtracks we’ve coveted SUCK, but there’s  a certain aesthetic to the way that the music sounds and feels that’s unlike any other genre of music, while still being indebted to previous musical forms.

In this edition, we don’t give out the name of the artist, but we give you the name of the soundtrack, so go out there, get them fingers dusty and thank us later.  And oh yeah, don’t forget to comment, y’all- good or bad. It’s appreciated.

Cratery 14: OST Edition feat. Murr

Bonus Session

TRACKLIST

1. Psych-Out
2. Up Tight [interlude]
3. An Unmarried Woman
4. L’Initiation [interlude]
5. Shaft
6. Cool Breeze
7. T.R. Baskin
8. The Final Comedown
9. R.P.M
10. Enter The Dragon
11. The Thief Who Came To Dinner
12. La Planete Sauvage
13. The Adventurer
14. Theme from “Stavisky”
15. Hair
16. Shaft In Africa
17. Coffy  [interlude]
18. L’Aube
19. Short Eyes [interlude/outro]


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Cratery 13

15 01 2010

Cratery thirteen. As is quite often the case with Cratery, we go all over the map with a variety of heat . Starting off with the straight boom bap of Cuba Instrumentals face-scruncher “Quema”, to Barbara & Ernie’s blissed-out “For You”. From Common (People) records, to Saverage White Band (no, that is not a typo)  we don’t sleep, nor do we hate or discriminate. We just play full-length songs from our respective record collections and hope you guys enjoy it.

Cratery 13

TRACKLIST:

1-Cuba Instrumental-”Quema”
2-Stereo Discotheque-”Malaria Fever”
3-Brian Auger’s Oblivion Express-”voices of other Times”
4-Pink Panther-”Here’s Lookin at you, kid”
5-Jim & Dale-”Past The State Mind”
6-Osmosis-”Adrift”
7-The Common People-”I have been alone”
8-Jean-Pierre-Ferland-Le Chat du cafe des Artistes”
9-Madelaine Bell” I Wanna be Around”
10-Betty Wright-”I Love The Way You Love”
11-Jerry Butler-”never gonna give you up”
12-Roy Ayers “Giving Love”
13-Barbara & Ernie-”For You”
14-Womb-”Evil People”
15-Sunshine On-”Mañana”
17-Saverage White Band-”A star in the ghetto”


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cratery b.t.s.

11 12 2009


cratery, originally uploaded by sizzled.

a little outtake from the cratery 10 dig day.

don’t mind the orange tint, my camera was on colour accent mode.


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