Various Artists
Stevie Lennox
, December 10th, 2020 09:52
Gareth Goddard follows his crate-diggers classic, Critical Mass, with a more dancefloor-friendly sequel
The idea of crate-digging contains within it a latent cultural hoarding, and perhaps a little pang of personal altruism in resuscitating forgotten songs and victims of circumstance. For the digger, it’s a noble, unending quest for that perfect lost artefact either of its time – or somehow years ahead of it. Take, for example, Soul Jazz Records and its Irish counterpart Allchival, which in recent years have uncovered all manner of uncommercial yet superlative music that didn’t quite make it into the canon.