Concrete Diggers

WE BUILD BEATS, REVIEW AND SELL RECORDS
The true vinyl-loving deepness. It's all about the grooves!
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You can find reviews of great and rare records at our blog, sometimes listening examples and if possible links to where you'll be able to get those vinyls.
So this is for all the vinyl-enthusiasts, sample-maniacs and groove possessed people out there.
Introduction to the CONCRETE DIGGERS record-reviews (see blog posts):
Due to our name CONCRETE DIGGERS we mainly review rare and groovy stuff from the past. The focus will be on 70's Soul/Funk/Jazz/Rock (incl. soundtracks and library records).
Funky and soulful sounds, great samples/breaks is what it's about.
Diggin' is what lots of guys that are into DJaying, collecting, sampling and/or producing see as a vital part of their work.
Much respect to those who spend a third or more of their lifes to look for the real shit instead of simply using this synth-preset here or downloading that song there.
This is dedicated to the true vinyl-lovers.
There's dudes that think knowledge's gotta be kept in a secret box (e.g. the recordcase) but to quote DJ Format, Chali 2Na and Akil: “We know something you don't know and if we don't share then we don't grow!”.
There's a lot of informative blogs in the depths of the net. So why another?
First - because we might write about some stuff that others didn't mention. Second - of course we have our own subjective view to write about things.
Third - what we found about lots of reviews on many sites was that they were often not detailed enough or not focused on bringing across some important facts about a record.
Fourth – writing reviews is an artform itself. In times of either automated or briefly written reviews we try to focus on a few worthy items to write about a little longer.
Depending on what release we write about it might be possible to come up with more or less background information. We do our best to come up with the important knowledge instead of: “I found this at a store in Wherever and it really rocks the shit and no one ever heard about it before...”
We try to write something about the oustanding tracks on an album not just a generalized impression.
Every now and then you might maybe find a short soundfile as an example of how the reviewed record sounds but that will always be just excerpts at low resolution (cause we mean to inspire digging not kill it through free loads).
Some of the shit might be that rare you..d have to look it up on your own for a long time at recordshops, mailorders, yardsales, flea markets or your dad..s collection. If we find the reviewed album or sell it ourselves we will add a link where you might be able to get the gem.
So read our record review-blog and enjoy!