Silk Cuts return with its second fresh drop of bootleg maships. Crafted for the hard working bar DJ as well as old school vinyl turntablists, and fighting fit ready for your next scratch battle or cypher - or simply to get the NQ shaking on a Saturday night! Highly recommended and available exclusively as a limited edition vinyl only release, we f-in love this series here at Picc HQ - don't sleep! 

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Matt says: Fast becoming our go-to hip-hop-disco-mash-up label of the year, Silk Cuts drop their second volume with another two killer cuts for the glitterball b-boys to shake their shelltoes to.

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A1: Bad as A Number 1
B1: Jurrassic Chance

Originally released in 1998, 'South Central Thynk Taynk' by Abstract Tribe Unique (Abstract Rude, Fat Jack, Zulu Butterfly Priest, Irie Lion King, and DJ Drez.) captured a pivotal moment in Los Angeles’ underground scene—when young Black artists were reimagining hip-hop from the ground up. Blending jazz-inflected beats, spiritual insight, and fiercely independent production, the
album became an anthem for self-reliance and creative rebellion.

At the cultural core of the record is Project Blowed, a legendary L.A. crew founded by Abstract Rude and Aceyalone, which birthed a lineage of rap innovators whose fingerprints are still felt in global hip-hop. While mainstream rap embraced the West Coast’s G-funk boom, the Blowed crew forged an alternate path—steeped in jazz, radical politics, and Afrocentric futurism. 'South Central Thynk Taynk' stands as a richly layered time capsule from this revolutionary moment, pairing Ab Rude’s deep lyricism with Fat Jack’s genre-melding approach to production, creating a poetic reflection on family, struggle, and artistic purpose.

This new edition includes the 'L.A. Styles Back (Project Blowed Remix)' featuring a cross-generational lineup of heavyweights— Aceyalone, Myka 9, Medusa, Pigeon John, Blu, 2Mex, Ellay Khule, Riddlore, and NGAFSH—underscoring how L.A.’s underground has remained a creative epicenter for decades. 'South Central Thynk Taynk' is more than a cult artifact; it’s a living document of transformation, community, and artistic power.

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1. Explanation
2. Hits Like Hank
3. Renaissance (While We)
4. Them That’s Got
5. Through These Streets
6. A.T.U. Is In The House Tonight
7. L.A. Styles Back
8. Mass Men Baby
9. No Regrets
10. Front Row
11. Just Like Akira
12. They Ryde
13. Showgun
14. Why Oh Why
15. L.A. Styles Back (Project Blowed Remix) [feat. Aceyalone, Myka 9, Medusa, Pigeon John, Blu, 2Mex, Ellay Khule, Riddlore, NGAFSH]

Expanding his artistic influences and repertoire, Blanco continues to dip into an array of international sonic influences, flexing his bars to remind us why he is heralded as one of the UK's most exciting and experimental lyricists emanating from these shores right now.

His recent collaboration with garage and bassline DJ Interplanetary Criminal for 'Races', Blanco continues to tear up the rulebook, a recent trip to Brasil seeing him meet with some of the hottest rappers and producers in the territory incl. El Lif and LEALL as he taps into the South American ties of his Angolan heritage.

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1. This System
2. Soda Lime
3. Misteaks
4. Sombrero
5. Tyla
6. Ponzi Scheme
7. OneEighteen
8. Scars
9. Let Me Go
10. Protagonist
11. Charlie Sloth
12. Trustfall
13. Brilliant Mind II

Brooklyn-based composer, producer and multi-instrumentalist Jerk presents ‘As Night Falls / As Day Breaks’, a two-part project brought together as a single, narrative-driven vinyl release tracing the transition from night into day.

Originally conceived as a dual EP cycle, the project unfolds across two contrasting sonic worlds. ‘as night falls’ explores nocturnal electro-jazz, midnight funk and introspective, groove-led textures, while ‘as day breaks’ shifts toward warmth, clarity and forward motion, capturing the quiet optimism of first light.

Created alongside longtime collaborator and drummer Martin Wade, the music moves fluidly between jazz, soul and electronic influences, forming Jerk’s most cohesive and immersive body of work to date.

Presented as a single LP, the release offers a complete listening experience. Side A journeys through the shadowy, late-night tones of ‘As Night Falls’, while Side B introduces the brighter, more expansive palette of ‘As Day Breaks’. Together, the record forms a continuous arc, a cinematic, emotionally resonant project designed to be experienced in full.

Positioned at the intersection of contemporary jazz, beat culture and vinyl-first listening, the project is designed to connect with both DSP audiences and collector-driven physical markets, with strong potential across tastemaker-led discovery channels and specialist radio.

TRACK LISTING

1. As Night Falls
2. Dance Beneath The Dripping Moon
3. Stealthy, She Moves!
4. Incoming
5. A Divine Wrath
6. Set Adrift
7. Wading
8. Emergence and Reckoning
9. Still Dreaming
10. Alarmed
11. Steppin' Out
12. Wait
13. Picking Flowers
14. Putting It Back Together
15. Lean In
16. As Long As I Breathe

DMV-born rapper and producer kuru is already a veteran among their contemporaries. Spurred by the online renaissance that accompanied the pandemic, they began to foster a cult following while in high school, their Soundcloud releases leading to production work with artists such as Black Kray and Destroy Lonely. Over the past few years, as Kuru began to prioritize their own voice, they prioritized their solo endeavors. Growing up in Maryland, Kuru was inspired as much by the work of Future, Hikaru Utada, Yuyoyuppe, and the sounds of Japanese math rock as he was by his native DMV’s rap scene. He first began making music in 2019, garnering buzz with early tracks like 'Clueless', 'Typo', and 'Atmosphere' — cuts brimming with the catchiness you’d expect out of a mainstream pop hit, but uncharacteristic of the internet rap landscape at the time.

The forthcoming sophomore album is a summation of all of Kuru’s work in both electronic and hip-hop. It’s the artist’s most focused effort to date, and touts credits from Lucy Bedroque, frequent collaborator xaviersobased, and a rolodex of Soundcloud’s most cutting-edge producers. 'Backstage Hologram' ties together a mosaic of the current internet underground’s landscape with a veneer of dusky futurism, and panoramic wide post-production.

TRACK LISTING

1. I can live w that
2. U wld never do it
3. Gracious
4. Don’t get stuck
5. End of spring (ft. Lucy Bedroque)
6. Noir kei
7. Pray for
8. Good game
9. Like glue (ft. katmoji)
10. Glass (ft. xaviersobased)
11. Let the keys cry
12. FW19
13. Tofu
14. Shibuya transfer
15. Three worlds apart

'Vanisher, Horizon Scraper' is the highly anticipated follow-up to Quadeca’s 2024 critically acclaimed mixtape 'Scrapyard', which received a coveted score of 9/10 from Anthony Fantano (The Needle Drop) and currently sits as the #28 highest-rated mixtape of all time on RateYourMusic.

'Vanisher, Horizon Scraper' is a concept album—a modern apocalyptic folklore about a man who sails into the ocean alone in pursuit of freedom and cosmic understanding, subconsciously driven by his own self-destruction.

With a runtime of nearly 70 minutes, the album takes listeners on a transformative sonic journey, blending genres such as world music, ambient, hip hop, bossa nova, folk, rock, and other experimental styles. 

TRACK LISTING

1. NO QUESTIONS ASKED
2. WAGING WAR (feat. Olēka)
3. RUIN MY LIFE
4. GODSTAINED
5. AT A TIME LIKE THIS
6. MONDAY
7. DANCING WITHOUT MOVING
8. THATS WHY
9. I DREAM ABOUT SINKING
10. NATURAL CAUSES
11. THUNDRRR
12. THE GREAT BAKUNAWA (with Danny Brown)
13. FORGONE
14. CASPER (with Maruja) 

Run The Jewels, the super dynamic duo of El-P and Killer Mike, two of the most distinctive and celebrated names and voices in rap.

The immensely anticipated album includes guest collaborators RATM frontman Zack de la Rocha, Blink 182's Travis Barker, Foxygens Diane Coffee and Beyonce producer, Boots, but the duo maintains that the album is first and foremost about the creative partnership between the MCs themselves. Abrasive and in your face, the duo appear limitless in their vocal capacity, whether working as a tag team, storytellers, or engaging in braggadocio battles of one-upmanship. This is not an album for the faint hearted!

TRACK LISTING

1. Jeopardy
2. Oh My Darling Don't Cry
3. Blockbuster Night Part 1
4. Close Your Eyes And Count To Fuck (feat. Zack De La Rocha)
5. All My Life
6. Lie, Cheat, Steal
7. Early (feat. Boots)
8. All Due Respect (feat. Travis Barker)
9. Love Again (Akinyele Back)
10. Crown (feat. Diane Coffee)
11. Angel Duster
12. Blockbuster Night Part 2 (feat. Despot & Wiki)

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Gimme my gun (Single Version)
Gimme my gun (Demo)
Gimme my gun (Take 20)

Vince Staples is one of the most revered voices of his generation. Though he's a celebrated multi-hyphenate, making an impact in TV, film, & contemporary culture, music is where he most naturally pushes boundaries as an artist, storyteller, & creative force. Following a string of acclaimed introspective projects, 'Ramona Park' (a melancholic tribute to his hometown) & 'Dark Times' (deeper, more personal themes), 'Cry Baby' is a more outwardly facing artistic statement and piece of social commentary.

TRACK LISTING

1. Blackberry Marmalade
2. Go! Go! Gorilla
3. White Flag
4. The Running Man
5. TV Guide
6. The Big Bad Wolf
7. Only In America
8. Do You Know The Devil
9. Cotton
10. 7 In The Morning
11. Tulsa, OK - LP Only

A follow-up to The Still Brothers’ 2023 self-titled debut EP on Lewis Recordings and Vermin the Villain’s Power of Two EP, the project expands their textured, genre-bending sound with sharp, reflective lyricism. The trio first connected in London through fellow Lewis Recordings artist Shoshy, bonding over a mutual love of alternative hip-hop icons like MF DOOM and J Dilla. Recorded over the course of a year, Radiovision took shape across four cities — from NYC and Texas to Florida and London. The album blends soulful production on tape, wild solos on guitar and synth, scratching, gritty bars, and a standout guest appearance from Slug of Atmosphere.

TRACK LISTING

Side A
1. This is a Test
2. Spell it Out!
3. Alright
4. You Can’t Stop the Rock ft Slug of Atmosphere
5. Let’s Build A Rhythm
6. Only Time Will Tell

Side B
1. Winter / Summer
2. Still Theme (Dedicated)
3. Radiovision
4. Ghost
5. The Knowledge
6. 95A