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On his collaborative album with Four Tet’s Kieran Hebden, the producer, multi-instrumentalist, DJ, and archivist remains masterful by simply turning what he hears into something new and revelatory.
When Ruff Draft released in 2003, J Dilla possessed production skills on par with anyone in hip-hop. This definitive reissue of Ruff Draft takes Dilla’s recently discovered mixes of the album and restores his vision for the project.
A lovingly re-issued version of this sought after & seminal hip-hop record, with all beats by J Dilla, featuring Common, Talib Kweli, Posdnuos, T-3 & Guilty Simpson, and the first time re-issued on vinyl since 2013
On his sole album as a leader, bassist Melvin Jackson - a veteran of the Eddie Harris band- plays with a bow, plucks and plugs his upright bass into a Maestro G-2 filter box, a Boomerang, an Echoplex, and an Ampeg amp.
2024 marks the 50th anniversary of Cymande’s Promised Heights -- an album that solidified Cymande’s place in music history and contains some of their most-beloved tracks. Limited Edition Pink LP.
Struck for circulation after 63 years in hock within the Lou-Mood Pictures vault, this previously unissued soundtrack traffics in the high-tone timbre and highball-sipping swoon of pop's post-war years.