The Other Crate is curated by local DJs, collectors, and diggers to help improve your odds in your quest to unearth dusty nuggets and funky delights. It will feature local crate diggers spinning fine tunes throughout the day.
Interested sellers, please get in touch to reserve a table.
208 Karangahape Rd, Sunday 20th, 12pm - 4pm
“A chance for enthusiasts alike to congregate as a community, share space, converse, and relish in an afternoon of pure vinyl.”
$5 on the door
$25 trader fee
If you have a couple records that you might be interested in trading, please bring them along. Or if it’s a couple of crates you can register a spot via messaging this page. We only have a few places left so get in quick!
Special thought has gone into making sure all genres are covered so there is something for every kind of selector. Tāmaki Makaurau’s finest traders will be present covering bases from dub to disco to garage.
During the fair we will also have the pleasure of being serenaded by some of Tāmaki’s finest DJ’s…
We’re looking for new sellers of quality new and second hand records for The Other Crate Record Fair coming up on the 7th of August.
If you’ve got records covering the funk/soul/jazz, world, hip-hop, rock, house, reggae/dub genres, please complete the form below to get in touch.
KEY INFO:
Date: Saturday 7th August 2021, 9am - 1pm.
Table cost: Full table $40, half table $25
Please note, we will show discretion in approving new sellers to ensure the standard of records on offer at the fair.
The Other Crate is curated by local DJs, collectors, and diggers to help improve your odds in your quest to unearth dusty nuggets and funky delights. It will feature local crate diggers spinning fine tunes throughout the day.
Sellers to be confirmed... vendors get in touch here
Seeing out the year with one more Other Crate Record Fair on Saturday December the 12th. Vendors, please get in touch to book a stall.
The Other Crate is curated by local DJs, collectors and diggers to help improve your odds in your quest to unearth dusty nuggets and funky delights. It will feature local crate diggers spinning fine tunes throughout the day.
Sellers to be confirmed... vendors get in touch here
Here’s 6 records you’ll find in Tina Turntable’s crates for The Other Crate Record Fair this Saturday, get in quick to avoid missing out.
You can catch Tina on 95bFM’s ‘Back On The Good Foot’ Sundays 2 till 4pm.
‘Funk Funk’ indeed… this is pre 80’s leather pants Word Up! era and straight up r&b soul funk from their very first 1977 album on Chocolate City Records
(PHILIPS)
A rare 1962 American pressing with powerhouse belter Ruth Brown
1970 album entirely made of mostly instrumental covers of The Beatles Abby Road, which was only released months before. McLemore Avenue references the address of Stax Studios in Memphis where it was recorded.
Ordered this copy but couldn’t wait to get it, so I bought the first one I saw. So many modern soul r&b classics on here, from one of the best and impressive as f*#^ performers around today.
So good I bought it twice… Withers (RIP) 3rd studio album from ’74 with beauties like The Same Love That Made Me Laugh & Green Grass
(T-NECK)
It’s the 9th album from the Isley’s and after years of being annoyed at rock acts covering their songs they decided to cover some white artists instead. Most notably the searing cover of Neil Young’s anti war song Ohio which blends into Jimi Hendrix’s Machine Gun in a 9minute epic rock funk stunner.
Here’s Stinky Jim’s pick from his crates for The Other Crate Record Fair on Saturday 1st August.
You can catch Stinky Jim on 95bFM’s Stinky Grooves every Tuesday 7 till 10pm or check out his shows on Mixcloud here.
(STUDIO ONE)
Always some Studio 1 bargains to be found and Mean Girl is a long time, bonafide classic that was done over superbly by Xterminator in the 90s. A tenner I tells you.
All killer on solid original Profile double vinyl. Tracksuit optional, lino squares not included.
(SUGAR HILL RECORDS)
Hip hop history with Wonder Mike, Master Gee and Big Bank Hank. Have got some first time out, top shelf hip hop biz lined up but this is the only one with the mighty Tackhead trio of Keith LeBlanc, Skip McDonald & Doug Wimbish bringing the rhythms.
(BBC RECORDS & TAPES)
There are a LOT of BBC Radiophonic Workshop albums and this is one of the best. Spacey, suspenseful elemental and magical these wonks, blonks, boinks & plump passages come c/o legends like Delia Derbyshire, Paddy Kingsland & John Baker (no not that John Baker!)
(SHANACHIE)
Meditational dubwise sounds with enough pungent potency to relax and inspire even in these fraught times. King Tubby and Prince Jammy are on mix control as Pablo blows up a quiet storm.
A record fair seems like a good chance to come back to Auckland and catch up with my music mates. I've left the 45s at home this time (sorry Dubhead!) so it's overflow 12s and LPs covering soul, afro, sample fodder and balearic beats.
Rare NZ new-wave jazz funk. Is that a genre?
Amazing ambient, synth dub, pop tart from Japan. A recent reissue that somehow I ended up with 2 copies.
Her first record has a couple of great slow jams (think Rising To The Top). Cheap!
NM copy of this afro gem. Recorded in Nigeria feat Orlando Julius.
Essential dub disco-not-disco with Nile Rogers on production duties. OG with extended mix and intro.
A classic turntable begging for some love and attention. A few upgrades and this will be amazing - I just got too many other projects on the go.
The Other Crate is curated by local DJs, collectors and diggers to help improve your odds in your quest to unearth dusty nuggets and funky delights. It will feature local crate diggers spinning fine tunes throughout the day.
Sellers to be confirmed... any interested vendors, get in touch.
1st August 2020, 9am - 1pm
Allpress Studio, 8 Drake St, Freemans Bay, Auckland CBD
An afternoon of yacht rock and funky AOR miscellany, on the green at the Balmoral Bowling Club.
Yacht rock is a genre that loved to ride like the wind, to keep it smooth and melodic, ensure there was a wine-cooler on ice in the 48 track studio, and blended elements of pop, jazz and disco production to make music magic. No static at all.
We break out the lawn bowls at 3, continuing until 7, with DJs Dusty Crates, Apera (BaseFM’s the Boil Up), Kirk James and Jubt (95bFM’s the Swap Meet), and special guests Alan Perrot (the House of Bamboo), and Liam Dann.
Saturday 18th January 2020, 3pm - 7pm
Balmoral Bowls Club, 14 Mont Le Grand Road, Mount Eden.
DJs Dusty Crates, Apera (BaseFM’s the Boil Up), Kirk James and Jubt (95bFM’s the Swap Meet), and special guests Alan Perrot (the House of Bamboo), and Liam Dann.
Featuring:
Jeremy Morris (Rain&Shine Records)
Campbell Ngata (Aotearoa Soul Alldayer, TRG)
Dustin (The Boil Up, BaseFM, AK / Dusty Crates)
Apera Te Hemara (The Boil Up, BaseFM, AK)
Jubt (The Swap Meet, 95bFM, AK)
A last minute Top 5 from Dustin of Dusty Crates to give you a teaser of what to expect in the crates tomorrow.
My crates are unashamedly filled with my taste in music. So if you like Funk/Soul/Jazz/Disco, lots of Afro and Latin, bits of Hip-Hop, some House and Reggae , then you’re likely to find something in my crates at The Other Crate Fair.
So here are my picks for what to check out in the Dusty Crates:
Okyerema Asante - Sabi (Get Down) LP (KALITA)
2 x 15 minute plus afro-disco stompers here. Reissued and repressed twice by Kalita Records it is so good.
Okyerema toured and recorded with Hugh Masekela and Oneness Of Juju.
Q - The Voice Of Q 12” (ISLE OF JURA)
Australian label Isle Of Jura is producing some excellent reissues with the 2LP Jura Soundsystem compilation and the forthcoming Mister Wong 12”
This one is my favourite, with it’s electro-disco flavour, it always gets people asking what it is when I’ve played it out.
I was put onto this record by hearing it at Benji B’s first Turnaround gig back in 2008. I almost went and paid far too much for the rare original press, so I was glad to see it pop up on reissue for the much more reasonable regular 12” price.
This is one of my go to soul/funk records. My picks from the record are ‘Save Our Souls’ and ‘Singing A Song For My Mother’. Recorded in 1973, this LP shows off his more mellow soul sound as opposed to the disco sound of his later years.
Another reissue for Isle Of Jura setting the bootleg versions right. I was put onto this record by Kayne West of all people. ‘Solstice’ was sampled for a G.O.O.D. Friday release back in 2010. As the title suggests, it’s sci-fi funk oddness.
Jubt is co-host of The Swap Meet, 4-7pm Sundays on 95bFM, focusing the crystal set on grandaddy beats of a dusty persuasion, and as such, is a regular attendee of Apera's Other Crate Record fair to hunt out new finds, as well as lugging a couple of crates to keep his bedroom floor visible.
In aid of this he has ruthlessly attacked the shelves to find some goodness to clear out including:
Featuring the mighty pipes of Bennydale's finest Leo de Castro (full name Kiwi Leo de Castro Kino), this was an AusFunk classic with several hot tracks.
Rodger Fox is an unsung hero of funky music in NZ and this is an early one from him and really sets out his stand of big band, horny funk!
Another Rodger Fox-related project, and featured on the seminal "Heed The Call" NZ funk compilation, this one's on quite a few wants lists.
More RFBB featuring his version of "Open Sesame", "Star Wars" and groover "Nemesis".
Featuring "Full-Tilt Boogie" say no more.
Catch Jubt alongside co-host Kirk James on The Swap Meet, every Sunday 4pm - 7pm on 95 bFM
Kia Ora! I’m Sandy Mill, self-confessed vinyl junkie, Vocalist, Songwriter & Female DJ/Selector. I play in Sandy Mill band, New Telepathics, SJD band and The Bellbirds. I enjoy listening to all sorts of musical goodness and I will have some interesting & eclectic records in my crate this Saturday, here are my top 5…
I probably need to check my head getting rid of this rarity. No introduction necessary, its everything you’d expect from the boys and more; taken from ‘Inside the Dub Plates’
This is limited edition 4 track album sampler. 200 copies worldwide. Has printed 45rpm but it plays at 33.
Track list:
Tha Bromley East Roller
Gospel According to Mant
Platetectonics (fartyboom)
Tui Dub
Rockers Hi-Fi - DJ Kicks – The Black Album- 3 LP – Studio! K7 1997.
It’s a compilation but not as we know it. Working with master of ceremonies -Frada P, The Black Album contains DJ Dick’s seamless collage of obscure listening music, avant-garde drum n Bass and chunky deep dub together with far-out sound manipulation from Glyn Bush using a customised effects box. It’s definitely one for the collection if you sway this way…
A beautiful offering from this hip-hop visionary; The collabs on this album are phenomenal.
DJ Hi-Tek, The Neptunes, Jazze Pha, Just Blaze, Kanye…. guest vocals include John Legend, Faith Evans, Mary J Blige, Res, Common & Anthony Hamilton.
Don’t snooze, this album is shit hot.
One of the true pioneers of British hip hop, Rodney Smith aka Roots Manuva never fails to deliver. This single comes laden with Instrumental and Acapella on the A side & B side has sweet remixes by Sa-Ra Creative Partners, Nightmares on Wax & The Go! Team. Strong.
San Francisco DIY Punk rock at its finest on transparent yellow vinyl. This split 7” is difficult to come by these days. I’m not sure how many were pressed but let’s just say its probably under 500 copies. A rare find for appreciators of the Bay Area Punk scene. Includes 2 original All you can Eat stickers, play at 33rpm.
Track list:
All You Can Eat 1. Gaffers tape & Super Glue 2. They Won’t Stay Dead.
Hickey 1. Make Sure there aren’t any squares at my funeral 2. El Farolito.
Host of 95 bFM’s ‘The Rhythm Selection’ since 1990, DJ Dubhead has a wealth of musical knowledge. With musical styles covering Ska, Rocksteady, Roots Reggae, Dub, Dancehall, Funk, Downbeat & Hip-Hop, you can be sure to find some nuggets in his crates at The Other Crate Fair.
Sought-after limited edition promo copy of essential Ragga-Jungle.
Classic NYC Ragga-Hip Hop and Jeep Beats produced by K.R.S. ONE and Commissioner Gordon.
The best of Bobby Digital's Roots productions featuring; Garnett Silk, Capleton, Sizzla, Cocoa Tea, Shabba Ranks, Yami Bolo and more.
Genre-defining Trip-Hop masterpiece from Vienna.
Jay-Z's second album from 1997, this UK 2LP version also includes a special bonus 12" single of "Wishing On A Star" ft Rose Royce.
Tony Pill of Record Roundabout is a regular at The Other Crate Fair bringing a selection of his extensive stock covering a variety of genres.
Expect releases from Soul Jazz, Limited Edition Picture Discs and Coloured, new and used vinyl as well as RSD records.
First released in 1999, Rave features collaborations with Eve, Chuck D and Gwen Stefani plus simmering jams like “The Greatest Romance Ever Sold” and “Man ‘O’ War.”
"The Guitar World According To Frank Zappa" - the 1987 guitar compilation by Frank Zappa was originally available on cassette only through Guitar World magazine and Barfko-Swill mail order, was reissued for Record Store Day on 180g clear audiophile vinyl.
In the early 1980s, Fashion Records captured the rise of the emerging British dancehall scene in its ascendency. The large roster of first generation British-born artists and MCs on the label – including General Levy, Papa Face, Smiley Culture, Bionic Rhona, Asher Senator, Laurel & Hardy, Top Cat and many more – often gave a unique and sometimes humorous British lyrical perspective to Fashion releases, discussing everyday subjects, from police harassment to road safety!
The Northern Soul Scene brings together 25 remarkable tracks, virtually all of them much sought after on original Decca/Deram 45. Save yourself £££s and buy this loving compiled 2LP set in heavyweight 180 gm vinyl. Contains 4-sided information sheet, replicating original album CD package notes. This collection of Northern Soul stompers includes cuts from Clyde McPhatter, Tom Jones, David Essex, the Amen Corner, Dave Berry and many others
Featuring groundbreaking artists such as Gil Scott-Heron, Roy Ayers, Don Cherry, Oneness of Juju, Sarah Webster Fabio, Horace Tapscott, Phil Ranelin and many others, Soul of A Nation shows how political themes led to the rise of ‘conscious’ black music as new afro-centric styles combined the musical radicalism and spirituality of John Coltrane and radical avant-garde jazz music alongside the intense funk and soul of James Brown and Aretha Franklin and the urban poetry and proto-rap of the streets.
The Other Crate Fair is by far one of the less crusty, dad rock orientated record fairs i've been lucky to be involved with in Aotearoa. Always a top bunch of diggers, from fresh faced beat junkies to jaded, balding stalwarts. A great way for me to catch up in one fowl swoop with old mates and like minded characters.
As usual i'll be sticking predominantly with classic 'reissued' black orientated albums from the 1960/70/80's and Jamaican 7's from the Dub Store in Japan.
Big up's to Apera & Dustin for doing what they do best........
Always amazes me the albums that you think will move quickly and the one’s that sit there gathering dust awaiting their right owner – this falls in the latter category.
One of the harder titles to find original copies of from the Groove Merchant label. Classic jazz-funk from tenorman Ramon Morris recorded in 1972. Great balance of fierce grooves balancing between mainstream and experimental leanings. As sampled by The Beatnuts on Buggin’ and also by DJ Day.
Every home should have this. One of favourite cut’s from the wide selection of Jamaican 7’s we’ll have available from the mighty Dub Store label/shop/distributor over in Japan. 1970’s mod/skinhead reggae of the highest order from reggae trombonist Vin Gordon in a rock steady fashion. Designed to shake down the walls of Babylon!!
Got ‘turned’ onto this album while living in San Francisco and playing at one of my local bars in the latino Mission district. Some of the weirdest sounds ever cut into latin music from this golden which resulted in setting this album apart. Four brothers born and raised in Puerto Rico and living in Brooklyn delivering bugaloos and shingalings on an electronic tip. As the sleeve notes state on the back……….”You have just purchased a psychedelic album and now we are going to turn on and share a trip”…….
‘True Fact’ – This record has not left my record bag since I purchased it at Honest Jons back in the day. Groundbreaking and essential production from the disco genius Peter Brown that paid homage to actress/singer/activist ‘Patty Duke’ (probably best known for her character in the cult movie ‘Valley Of The Dolls’).
104bpm stripped back funk/disco instrumental monster that also accompanied a popular dance move in the proto hip-hop scene called the ‘Patty Duke’ in 1979. Even Spoonie Gee got onboard and used it as the backing for his ‘Spoonin’ Rap’. A staple cut at every Turnaround and one of Conch’s most re-ordered records. ESSENTIAL!!
Bringing us up to date with one of our current favourites from the last couple of months. Dexter Story dips and dives between the deep well of East African music and the sounds of his hometown Los Angeles.
Fusing Ethiopian jazz, Tuareg grooves, Somalian soul with American soul, funk and jazz this album has been on high rotation in our shop ULO here in Raglan. Produced by Carlos Nino and featuring Sudan Archives, Miguel Atwood-Ferguson & Jimetta Rose amounst others, this is another sure shot release from Soundway Records. Big up’s Mark de Clive-Lowe for hipping me to this guy.
The next featured seller is the main man and The Other Crate Fair founder, Apera Tehemara. Apera started The Other Crate Fair 6 years ago with the aim of curating a better class of record digging. Quality not quantity, curated by some of the country’s top DJs, selectors, and collectors.
You can be sure to find some absolute gems in Apera’s crates at ridiculously fair prices. Here are a snapshot selection of what to expect from his crate’s.
You can catch Apera on The Boil Up Radio show, every Thursday night from 8am - 10pm on Base FM
‘Follow the Rainbow’, released via Epic Records, is the thirteenth studio album by American keyboardist and record producer George Duke.
From Allmusic.com, “Follow the Rainbow is, in fact, a creative album, and it's an album that has very little to do with jazz. The LP includes a few fusion instrumentals, including the Brazilian-flavored "Festival." But 90% of Follow the Rainbow is devoted to R&B, and anyone who judges it by those standards instead of jazz standards will have to agree that Duke is triumphant on sweaty funk tunes ("Party Down," "I Am for Real") as well as mellow soul ballads and slow jams like "Say That You Will," "Straight From the Heart," and the Earth, Wind & Fire-influenced "Sunrise." This album is consistently excellent, but it isn't recommended to jazz snobs -- only those with a healthy appreciation of 1970s soul and funk will enjoy this album.”
Business As Usual is the 3rd studio album from Hip-Hop duo EPMD, released in 1990 on Def Jam. Classic era Hip-Hop production from Erick Sermon and Parish Smith.
From The Source:
“Although the project is titled Business as Usual, the sound of the album was largely different than what had made EPMD famous on earlier releases. The production on their first two projects consisted mostly of samples and simple drum patterns. On Business as Usual the sound is more complex and the drum patterns are more involved. Erick and Parrish stepped the game up and ventured away from the tradition sample-heavy beats that were prominent in New York during this era.”
“The three singles from this project, “Gold Digger”, “Rampage” featuring LL Cool J, and “Give the People”, had high reception in the Hip Hop community; two of them claimed spots on the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles chart. “Gold Digger” peaked at #14 and “Rampage” at #30. After this project, EPMD went on to release four more successful studio LPs.”
Nigerian Afro-funk/soul from Segun Bucknor from 1969 - 1975. From ParisDJs.com:
“Working around Nigeria during the ‘70s in the shadow of the great Fela Kuti, Bucknor’s approach was intelligent and understated, varying between hard blasts of funk and extended, Afro jazz-based moods reflecting on Nigerian society with his bands the Assembly (1968 to 1970) and the Revolution (1970 to 1974).”
Top notch series for any jazz/funk lover. Compiled by German DJ collective, Jazzanova, includes tracks from Horace Silver, Bobbi Humphrey, Herbie Hancock, Freddie Hubbarb and more.
Third instalment of Hip-Hop label Rawkus’s Soundbombing series. Released in 2002 it features tracks from Mos Def, Q-Tip, Pharoahe Monch, Talib Kweli and more.
I’ve worked in record shops in Leamington, London, Melbourne and even Auckland but I reckon selling off the personal stash, super slow at these Allpress Gallery gigs, amongst sweaty palmed selectors and frenzied diggerators, is the best of the bunch. As always will have plenty that has never been for sale before and will be dropping prices on some of the older shizz, get in where you fit in. All killer, no spiller……
I’ve just started to broach the 80s/90s hip hop shelves and there are so many classics from a time when things were so much less generic and pop orientated. If there’s one Jeru record this is it with DJ Premier gifting one of his finest productions. Can’t lie this copy was sampled for a track on a Unitone HiFi 12” back in the day but before that happened Joost & myself saw Jeru at a Gang Starr Foundation gig in Manhattan. Things all went a bit Pete Tong at that when a gun was pulled and the place cleared out in quick time. In those pre-mobile days it was somehow comforting to see Jeru, shouting the house down on a public phone outside the venue, looking and sounding every bit as freaked out as we all were. Come Clean indeed!
Sampled repeatedly by everyone from Public Enemy to Andrew Weatherall/Primal Scream this show, often categorised as the black Woodstock,is classic business. Featuring an insanely stacked line-up including Isaac Hayes, The Staples Singers, The Bar-Kays and Albert King mostly wearing trousers that could have doubled as parachutes - this double LP gatefold edition is up there in the very very few live albums that stands on its own two feet and then some. If anyone can spot where I’ve pinched a bit of this in my dubious recording career they can have it for nix.
Often quoted as being THE first reggae record in as much as it’s offbeat delights predated ska, Easy Snappin is a boogie woogie belter recorded in 1956 and released in 1959. This is obviously a 90’s repress. Theo Beckford was an alumni of the Alpha Boys School, where many of Jamaica’s greatest musicians were trained up and steered down the right path. This was his biggest tune #1 in JA, large in the UK and afterwards he went on to playing on hundreds if not thousands of sessions including laying down the evocative piano on Junior Byles Fade Away. A cornerstone foundation block in reggae’s architecture this is cheap at twice the price (says me!).
There’s a fair few pearlers in the late Salah Rageb’s canon but this one is the undeniable joint basically. Funky a.f. and grooving like a possessed chippie’s chisel this Jazzman pressing is plump and prepped for playing out palaver. The only reason you wouldn’t want this is if you have the Egyptian Jazz album on Art Yard, and even then this 45 sounds way way better on a big rig. Having written all that I’m not even sure if I can sell it!
I’m very unscientific in my approach to record floggery, its generally just hit a random shelf and save the ones I really might want to play of a Sunday arvo or suchlike - the rest go. So I seem to have a bunch of high quality 90s tackle this time round including a heap of Massive Attack, aforementioned hip hoppery gems and niceness from forgotten folk like Mighty Bop, Lion Rock, Noiseshaper etc These Massive Attack 12s are the best value, so many good, varied and different mixes with usually at least one from the Mad Prof when he still had something deep and dubwise going on. This one got singled out because most of them are black on black or white on white and that photographs shite.
Cop these and plenty more at The Other Crate Fair on 11th of May at the Allpress Studio
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The Other Crates returns after an extended hiatus on Saturday 11th of May at the Allpress Studio Auckland
The Other Crate is an Auckland record fair bringing a better class of record digging: Quality not quantity, curated by some of the country’s top DJs, selectors, and collectors.
Sellers for the day to be confirmed.
Genres covering: Soul, Funk, Jazz, Hip-Hop, Drum&Bass, Latin, Afro-Beat, Rock, Reggae & more
Soundtrack for the day provided by the sellers with coffee from Allpress.