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Day 37 and the board just lit up with a German underground surge. @mono_inc up +19.8%. @tankardofficial up +22.5%. Two Frankfurt acts activating simultaneously — that is not random, that is a wave forming. Sandy Denny appears at +11.5%. @BlackSabbath's Sabotage on purple vinyl is $17.99. Neil Young's Weld 3LP remaster is $24.99. The crates are restless and I hope you have a great start to your week! cratescience.com

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Two genres just hit the demand ceiling AT THE SAME TIME. Electronic and World both at 30x for two straight days. The Folk wave is not slowing down, it is accelerating. Bobbejaan Schoepen went from zero vault score to 30.7 in 24 hours. Oh and the @felakuti Box Set #6 just dropped, curated by Idris Elba himself. This is the catalog event of the year. Day 36 and the data has never looked more alive. cratescience.com

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Day 35 and the algorithm just surfaced Bobbejaan Schoepen, a Belgian folk legend beloved by millions in Europe and almost invisible to the rest of the collecting world, with zero prior signal. The crates are global and the data does not lie. PIG holds #1. Electronic and World are pinned at the 30x demand ceiling. Herbie Hancock's Maiden Voyage is back in collectible print. Pet Sounds just dropped in stereo AND mono on colored vinyl. It is a great day to be a digger. cratescience.com

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May 1 and the folk wave just took over the entire board. @leokottkemusic surged 33.5% overnight to take #1. The Dead at #2. Five folk and world artists in the top 8. World music hit a record 24.9x demand ratio, the highest non-Electronic reading we have ever logged. @Funkadelic_Music's Free Your Mind is getting a remaster in days. @madeon announced Victory for June 26. A 1969 Cannonball Adderley live recording from Stuttgart is surfacing. The Michael Jackson biopic keeps moving catalog. The new month is opening loud. Pick a record today. Play it loud. Let May find you!

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Day 33 and the biggest reshuffle in two weeks. Mdou Moctar AND Con Funk Shun both off the board. @raymondwatts as PIG just took #1, the first time industrial has held the throne. Six folk artists in the top 8 right now. @TheBrothersFour, John Stewart, Mary Black, Peggy Seeger, Ralph McTell, and @CorvusCoraxBand holding the medieval flag. Folk is the new shape of the spring market. The whole board is cooling for the first time in 32 days. That is not a problem, that is a market reset. The next wave is loading. @PearlJam's deep catalog is moving hard, especially Riot Act. Led Zeppelin Live in Japan is on the market. Pink Floyd's 1975 LA Sports Arena 4LP from RSD is surfacing. Soul/Funk just hit 22.1x, a new record. May starts tomorrow. The crates are wide open. Pick one record today. Let it find you!

Today’s pickups. @milesdavis On the Corner is the funkiest, most abstract thing he ever made and it still sounds like the future. The whole album is bounce! William Onyeabor Anything You Sow is an original Nigerian press (and Japanese release), the man surrounded by Moogs and Elkas making synth-funk before the rest of the world caught up. Devendra Banhart to bring it back down to earth. Three records, four continents, all heat! Thanks to The Freakout Spot - Hudson Valley, NY… one of the dopest record stores in NY!

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Day 32 of CrateScience and the board has never been more interesting! @MdouMoctar holds #1. Con Funk Shun holds #2. A Tuareg desert rock guitarist and a 70s Bay Area soul/funk band are the two most consistent artists on the board, which is a sentence we love writing. @JenniferWarnes entered the top 8, almost certainly riding Famous Blue Raincoat heat. The Lovely Eggs +15%. Hip Priests +12.7%. Folk and world music is now structural, five of the top 8 are roots music. The catalyst of the day is Mort Garson's Plantasia turning 50. A 1976 Moog ambient record originally given away with mattresses in LA. Now a cult masterpiece getting its flowers. If you have not heard it, today is the day. Soul/Funk hit 21.17x, virtually tied with World at 21.5x. Two genres locked behind Electronic. The board has never been this evenly distributed. May is going to be a great month for diggers. Pick one record. Play it loud. Let it find you.

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Day 31 of CrateScience and the board just had its biggest refresh of the month. Six new artists overnight. @gratefuldead reclaimed #1, Deadhead activation is real. @raymondwatts as PIG climbed 13.9%. Agoraphobic Nosebleed entered with one of the highest scarcity scores we've ever logged on a grindcore artist. Francesco De Gregori is still riding yesterday's 119% surge. Folk has gone from a wave to the new normal. The Corries, Bobbejaan Schoepen, Mary Black, The Brothers Four all in the top 8. When traditional music holds the board this long, it is no longer a trend. It is a movement. The Michael Jackson biopic just dropped and the catalog is already moving. Paul McCartney's McCartney 2 is back. Bill Evans at the BBC is surfacing. Wu-Tang dropped a live record. Skull Snaps is in the conversation again. Soul/Funk hit 20.3x, the highest non-Electronic reading we have ever recorded. The first week of May is going to be a great one for diggers. Pick one record today. Play it loud. Let it find you!

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30 days of CrateScience. 18,507 artists scored. 1,536 predictions logged. 35 sources. One full month of music intelligence built from scratch! The first true accuracy report drops May 6. That is the day we find out whether the math actually works. Until then, the patterns were real. @MdouMoctar held #1 for 26 days. Detroit electronic surged. Folk woke up hard with @leokottkemusic, Steeleye Span, and The Corries all breaking out. Francesco De Gregori jumped 119% overnight. The reissue calendar was historic. The crates stay open. The signal keeps running. The best month is the one ahead!

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Happy Sunday: @MdouMoctar is back at #1. @TheLovelyEggs surged +154% overnight. Prince Jamo +133%. Florian Dalinger +24%. Buena Vista Social Club hit a major anniversary. @thespecials dropped a 40th half-speed master of Ghost Town. Amy Winehouse Live at the BBC back on triple vinyl. The Fall live from LA 1979. This is the reissue weekend of the spring. The crates are wide open. Pick one record today. Play it loud. Let it find you!