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J Dilla

Donuts - Audiophile Edition

Stones Throw

2xLP

£39.99

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STH2126-10LP

Release date
28 Nov '25
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at Fidelity Record Pressing in California. 180g double vinyl cut at 45rpm. Deluxe art printed Stoughton jacket.

Stones Throw Records celebrate 20 years of J Dilla’s ‘Donuts’ with a brand-new anniversary Audiophile Edition.

‘Donuts’ began simply enough as an idea to turn a demo tape into a full-length album. It would end up being one of the defining works of J Dilla’s life.

Completed during the year Dilla spent in and out of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles and released on his birthday, February 7th, 2006, ‘Donuts’ gained particular poignancy when Dilla died three days later on February 10th.

Produced with fans and vinyl collectors in mind, the Audiophile Edition of ‘Donuts’ is a deluxe version of J Dilla’s magnum opus.

‘Donuts’ is widely regarded as one of the most beloved and influential hip-hop records of all time.

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Donuts (Outro)
Workinonit
Waves
Light It
The New
Stop
People
The Diff'rence
Mash
Time: The Donut Of The
Heart
Glazed
Airworks
Lightworks
Stepson Of The Clapper
The Twister (Huh, What)
One Eleven
Two Can Win
Don't Cry
Anti-American Graffiti
Geek Down
Thunder
Gobstopper
One For Ghost
Dilla Says Go
Walkinonit
The Factory
U-Love
Hi.
Bye.
Last Donut Of The Night
Welcome To The Show

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King Most

Dorothy Dilla Phife / Honey Caldwell

GAMM

Debut release on GAMM for San Francisco's edit and reworks maestro King Most.

For this supa funky 7", King Most first takes on Dorothy (Ashby), Dilla (Jay) and Phife (Dog) and puts it all in the blender for a rare groove(ish) hip hop jam...on a slight Detroit tip.

On the AA side King Most hits up Patrice Rushen and blends her with Soul II Soul vocals for a warm and tasteful rework.

Classic old school GAMM material :)

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Matt says: Iconic GAMM 7" here as new school edit legend King Most chucks a whole host of aceness into the blender, conjuring up two of the hottest hip-hop-soul-funk mash-ups we've had all year. Bar DJs THIS IS YOUR JAM!!

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A. Dorothy Dilla Phife
Aa. Honey Caldwell

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J Dilla / The Jimi Entley Sound

Geek Down

Friendly Records

Coloured 7"

£20.00

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Cat Number

FRWC7005

Release date
14 Mar '25
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Ultra limited pink coloured vinyl.

What do we have here? Something that'll make the legion of J Dilla fans dizzy with excitement that's what! For the first time in ages, the original "Charlie's Theme" by The Jimi Entley Sound b/w "Geek Down" - the track Dilla created from "Charlie's Theme".

Included on the legendary "Donuts" LP, "Geek Down" is a tense and rambunctous ride into the breakbeat of "Charlie's Theme"; drawing out that eerie string motif and adding flanged stabs of wah-wah'd organ, guitar and brass.

"Charlie's Theme" was released in 2002 and produced by Portishead's Geoff Barrow and Adrian Utley. The only single they did, its post-millennium release date hides its timeless library breaks / hard funk credentials - and is surely one of the most modern samples used by Dilla for his genre-defining LP.

Artwork by Pete Fowler. Proceeds to the War Child charity. Limited copies.

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J Dilla - Geek Down
The Jimi Entley Sound - Charlie's Theme

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Jordan Ferguson

J Dilla's Donuts - 33 1/3

Bloomsbury Academic USA

From a Los Angeles hospital bed, equipped with little more than a laptop and a stack of records, James “J Dilla” Yancey crafted a set of tracks that would forever change the way beatmakers viewed their artform. The songs on Donuts are not hip hop music as “hip hop music” is typically defined; they careen and crash into each other, in one moment noisy and abrasive, gorgeous and heartbreaking the next. The samples and melodies tell the story of a man coming to terms with his declining health, a final love letter to the family and friends he was leaving behind.

As a prolific producer with a voracious appetite for the history and mechanics of the music he loved, J Dilla knew the records that went into constructing Donuts inside and out. He could have taken them all and made a much different, more accessible album. If the widely accepted view is that his final work is a record about dying, the question becomes why did he make this record about dying?Drawing from philosophy, critical theory and musicology, as well as Dilla’s own musical catalogue, Jordan Ferguson shows that the contradictory, irascible and confrontational music found on Donuts is as much a result of an artist’s declining health as it is an example of what scholars call “late style,” placing the album in a musical tradition that stretches back centuries.

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Dan Charnas

Dilla Time : The Life And Afterlife Of J Dilla, The Hip-Hop Producer Who Reinvented Rhythm

Swift Press

'This book is a must for everyone interested in illuminating the idea of unexplainable genius' - QUESTLOVEEqual parts biography, musicology, and cultural history, Dilla Time chronicles the life and legacy of J Dilla, a musical genius who transformed the sound of popular music for the twenty-first century. He wasn't known to mainstream audiences, and when he died at age thirty-two, he had never had a pop hit. Yet since his death, J Dilla has become a demigod, revered as one of the most important musical figures of the past hundred years.

At the core of this adulation is innovation: as the producer behind some of the most influential rap and R&B acts of his day, Dilla created a new kind of musical time-feel, an accomplishment on a par with the revolutions wrought by Louis Armstrong and James Brown. Dilla and his drum machine reinvented the way musicians play. In Dilla Time, Dan Charnas chronicles the life of James DeWitt Yancey, from his gifted Detroit childhood to his rise as a sought-after hip-hop producer to the rare blood disease that caused his premature death.

He follows the people who kept Dilla and his ideas alive. And he rewinds the histories of American rhythms: from the birth of Motown soul to funk, techno, and disco. Here, music is a story of what happens when human and machine times are synthesized into something new.

This is the story of a complicated man and his machines; his family, friends, partners, and celebrity collaborators; and his undeniable legacy. Based on nearly two hundred original interviews, and filled with graphics that teach us to feel and "see" the rhythm of Dilla's beats, Dilla Time is a book as defining and unique as J Dilla's music itself. Financial Times Music Book of the Year 2022

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J Dilla

B.B.E. - Big Booty Express (Remixes By Pépé Bradock & Âme)

BBE

Taken from Dilla's 2001 BBE debut solo album "Welcome 2 Detroit", "Big Booty Express" gets the remix treatment from German duo Âme and Parisian Pépé Bradock.

Contributing two mixes to the EP, Parisian producer Pépé Bradock AKA Julien Auger needs little introduction to house music fans but hip-hop heads need not doubt his musical credentials. A natural guitarist and turntablist, he's provided solos, riffage, scratches, juggles and chops to numerous rappers and bands before turning his hand to the discipline of house music. Two remixes done in his inimitable style grace the twelve. Slightly skewhiff but deliciously musical, there's no-one quite does it like Pépé!

Also providing a remix of "Big Booty Express" is the German production duo of Frank Wiedemann and Kristian Beyer who work together under the name of Âme. After first meeting in Kristian's record shop in their home town of Karlsruhe and bonding over a shared love of Chicago house and Detroit techno the pair started working together and producing records for Sonar Kollektiv in 2003. Perfectly demonstrating their harmonic discord and big room sound, their remix here is a masterclass of wobbly, peaktime tech-house.

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Matt says: House remixes of hip-hop legend J Dilla are bound to be divisive. But I'm surprised how well Ame and Bradock have rose to the occasion here - delivering high quality electronic dancefloor hedonism.

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1. B.B.E. - Big Booty Express (Âme Remix)
2. B.B.E. - Big Booty Express (Moulin Rouge Remix By Pépé Bradock)
3. B.B.E. - Big Booty Express (Memorex Interlude By Pépé Bradock)
4. B.B.E. - Big Booty Express

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J Dilla

The Diary

Mass Appeal

Released on the Mass Appeal label comes the long lost vocal album, 'The Diary' which J Dilla completed for MCA in early 2000s featuring previously unreleased material by the legendary producer. The tracks come straight from multi-track masters found on 2-inch tape shortly after Dilla’s passing in 2006. Many were mixed by Dilla himself. Those that weren't have been mixed by engineer Dave Cooley, who worked extensively with Dilla during his years in Los Angeles. Using Dilla’s original demo mixes as his guide, Cooley attempted to finalize Dilla’s vision for these tracks, while keeping all of the elements that Dilla had in place in his original demos present. 'The Diary' is an album of vocal performances recorded between in the early 2000s over production by the likes of Madlib, Pete Rock, Nottz, House Shoes, Karriem Riggins and others.

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1. The Introduction
2. The Anthem (feat. Frank N Dank)
3. Fight Club (feat. Nottz & Boogie)
4. The Shining Pt. 1 (Diamonds) [feat. Kenny Wray]
5. The Shining Pt. 2 (Ice)
6. Trucks
7. Gangsta Boogie (feat. Snoop Dogg & Kokane)
8. Drive Me Wild
9. Give Them What They Want
10. The Creep (The O)
11. The Ex (feat. Bilal)
12. So Far
13. Fuck The Police
14. The Diary

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J Dilla

Donuts

Stones Throw

2xLP

£28.99
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Cat Number

STH2126LP

Release date
13 Feb '06
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US Stones Throw pressing with cartoon artwork by Quasimoto album artist Jank. Back in stock.

Not a conventional album by any means, Dilla's "Donuts" is a collection of numerous short productions that he kept to himself rather than use on his work with Madlib, Q-Tip, Common and Slum Village. Like a private DJ mixtape, they clock in on average at around nintey seconds, yet this is not merely a beats compilation, but mini sample-manipulations glommed from other funk, soul, disco, rap and rock sources. With awfully coincidental timing, Dilla passed away the week that the album was released, having been suffering from an incurable blood disorder. A fitting epitaph to a unique talent.

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The Dillards

Back Porch Bluegrass & Live!!! Almost !!!

Elektra

Flagbearers in the early 1960s in the roots music revival, the Dillards reintroduced bluegrass into popular conciousness and carrying on the work of Earl Scruggs and Bill Monroe in reintroducing the music of Missouri and the American backwoods. By the time they released "Live!!! Almost!!!" in 1964 they had gone electric and were early progenitors of 'country rock'. They were an influence on the Byrds and many other rock acts of the late 1960s and these two Elektra label reissues are amongst their most definitive recordings.

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