Daptone Records: A Brooklyn Soul Institution | BK Stories

Daptone Records has been a beacon of Brooklyn soul music for nearly two decades, with artists like Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings and Charles Bradley building a worldwide following. Their reputation has lead to collaborations with superstars like Amy Winehouse & Booker T. Jones.

Its founder, Grammy-winning musician/producer/songwriter Gabe Roth speaks about the label's origin, the key to their award winning sound & the how the label plans to adjust to the passing of Sharon Jones.

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[SpasiboRecords]

Daptone is Top Label for our sub-culture! Many thanks for this video!

[outernational]

Great profile. Especially appreciated the insight of Gabe about the fetishizing of equipment or gear (or a floor!) and people grabbing a hold of that instead of eh essence and substance and performance of what the artist was conveying.... Also, was an absolute joy and feel very lucky to have recorded “The Disappeared” and “Across The Borderline” at Daptone Studio. (Both can be found on the Outernational album, “Todos Somos Ilegales”.

[TLCReference]

There's a reason why this has 0 dislikes

[arnoldp]

I like how Gabe's business model is focused on weeding out the best tunes. It took me a while to build a playlist for motown and soul from the 50s-70s, as not all of them will of course woud be palatable to my taste, but with Dapatone, man. I just have to open their channel and put every playlist they have on autoplay.

Wishing more success to Bosco and Neal, my 2 favorite jews in the world... and more success to their artists (hope they are paid well :p)

... also kudos with getting Penrose onboard. Nobody knows their souldies better than the latinos.

[JacksonTaylorandTheSinners]

I love everything about these people. I’d love to record there one day.

[aclarkedesign]

Gabe and Neal built a great label with some of the best musicians around. Losing Sharon and Charles is huge loss.

[smoothie]

"Fear is very bad for music." GR

[DETROITBULLET]

ii have a lead on a Sharon Jones fill in . if your interested ?