I decided to look into journals and found this one on digital crates, interesting as I first discovered digging in the digital domain before the analogue, youtube has been a huge archive for me to discover music to flip and sample.
“Digging the crates” generally refers to a practice where hip hop and electronic dance music DJs and record collectors search through bins of vinyl and compact disc recordings for rare music often obscured by time and limited availability
This is a great description
the practice of crate digging is appropriated as a metaphor for sifting through extensive quantities of information artifacts of expressive culture capturing the experiences of diverse cultures and communities
I think crate digging as a metaphor for sifting through extensive information is really interesting. I agree completely, digging through cultures, communities and artefacts, discovering how I will use them or just listening.