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New Release 12"

Percee P - Throwback Rap Attack, Madlib original version, inst/ Cut Chemist lucas flipped a 1-sided tape he found in 1987 into stereo remix/ Oh no throwback rap remix & acapella (Stones Throw)

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Percee P - Watch Your Step, feat Winnie Paz & Guilty Simpson, dirty/clean/inst/acapella produced by Madlib (Stones Throw)/

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Quasimoto - Rappcats/Bus Ride/Greenery (Stones Throw)
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Kid Acne - Eddy Fresh/Gescow Mix/Dub (Lex)
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Wu Tang Clan - My Heart Gently Weeps feat Eryka Bad, Dhani Harrison & John Frusciante/Take It Back (Street Records)
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Lord Finesse - Real Talk Remix feat Grand Puba main/inst/ Something In The Way feat Thelma Gyton extended/main/Do It Yourself (Handcuts)/

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Dr. Syntax - She's Quite Some Picture/Maxmiller (Beer & Rap)
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Ghostface Killah - We Celebrate feat Kid Capri/inst/Clean Edit/Inst Edit (Def Jam)/

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Madlib - Raw - Ground - Wire - Hump (Stones Throw)
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Percee P - Raw Heat (Picture Disc) (Stones Thrown)/

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Tim Dog - Run Run Run (dirty/clean/inst/accca) Hardcore (dirty/clean/inst) (Boot)

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Million Dan - Mic Chek (main/inst) Spektrum Ride (inst) Spektrum (main/remix/inst) (Dappa)

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Jurassic-5 - Hood In The USA (hood/beat/rhymes) prod by Large Professor/Black Eyed Peas - Disco Club (Large Professor Remix) (Let It Fly)

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Stig Of The Dump ft. R.A. The Rugged Man - Braindead/instrumental/acapella Intoxicated/Braindead remix/Intoxicated instrumental (Beer & Rap)

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Skitz ft Orifice, Lethal, Dyanamite MC & Mr Ti2bs - Requiem Of The Gods (Dirty)/Clean/Inst/Aca (Silent Soundz)

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Kid Acne - Sliding Doors (Lex)

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12" Sliding Doors/Fantasy Rap II/Sliding Doors (Jehst Remix)Released 10th September 2007 £4.99 Add to basket

Soul & Funk

Wild Sugar - Messin' Around/Bring It Here (T.S.O.B.)

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Serge Gainsbourg - En Melody/New Delire/Danger/Danger Beats/Premiere Blessure (Smoke)

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Good God! - Heavy Funk Covers of James Brown from all over the world 1968-1974

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Sitar Beat Vol.3 - Kalyanji Anandji - Dharmatma Theme Music/Theme From Don/Ananda Shankar - Sa-Re-Ga-Manchan/Usha Khanna - Hotel Incidental Music/Annu Malik ft Asha & Chorus - Sun O Dilruba Ki

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Patrick Adams - Master of the Masterpiece (P&P)

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Rhythm Machine - Rhythm Machine (Lulu Records)

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Day Break - I Need Love - Everything Man
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Funky Forty Fives - Roger Simard - Mary Mary/Mike Mansfield - Boogaloo/Quincy Jones - Coming & Going
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Funky Forty Fives - Quincy Jones - Soul Bosse Nova/Green onions/ Peggy Lee - The Dock Of The Bay
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Julius Brokington & The Magic Force - This Feeling (Freedom) Part 1/Part 2 (Burma)

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The Soul Sounds Symphony - Dance The Kung-Fu/Jungle Boogie (Dynamite Soul)
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De La Soul - Respect/You Got It
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DR Dre - Let Me Ride/Extended Club Mix/LP Version (Death Row)
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MC Shan - Jane! Stop This Crazy Thing!(Marley Marl prod.)
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Ultimate Force - Girls/I'm In Effect/Supreme Diamond D
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Prodigy (Mobb Deep) - Stuck On You/Return Of The Mac
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Ras Kass - Bars Up/Deformed Pretty Boyz/Caution (Rick Rock prod.) (Brick)
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Masta Ace Incorporated/Pharcyde - Saturday Nite Live/Horny Mix/L.A. Jay Remix/Passin' Me By/Fly As Pie Mix
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Master Jay and Michael Dee - T.S.O.B
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Harlem World Crew - Let's Rock/Love Rap (Tay-Ster)
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J.V.C. Force - Strong Island (The Blue Mix)/Take It Away/Accapella (B-Boy Records)
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Ed O.G & Da Bulldogs - I Gotta Have It clean/hard/bonus beats/Life Of A Kid In The Ghetto (PWL)
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Frank N Dank - Nice 2 Meet U/MCA (Chisel)
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Andrew Thompson -  We're In Business/ Go Bananas (Lewis Recordings)
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Andrew Thompson -  There Must Be Some Kind Of Misunderstanding/Idiot (Lewis Recordings)
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Dooley O -  I Wish/ Over You/ Aahhaa (Lewis Recordings)
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Dooley O -  Soaps/ What You Know About Hip Hop?/Monday Night (Lewis Recordings)
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Dooley O - I Don't Want To Lose You/New Mix/I Gotcha/After You (Lewis Picture Sleeve)
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Cinnamon - Cakes And Pies/Remix/Spike Initiating Zone/Feels So Good (US Lewis Recordings)
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Cormega ft Ghostface - Tony/Montana/Clean/Inst/Tha Machine/Clean/Inst
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Masta Ace Incorporated/The Wascals -  The B Side/ Class Clown Remix (Delicious Vinyl)
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New Release Albums (Vinyl And CD)

Season's Beatings - Vol 1
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Season's Beatings - Vol 3
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Little Brother - Get Back
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J rock - Street Wize (Ghetto Groovz)
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Show & AG - Full Scale (Fat Beats)
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Kurious - A Constipated Monkey (Amalgam)
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Ill Bill - Black Metal (Uncle Howie)
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Metaphysical - Metaphysical (Associated Minds)
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Wu-Tang Clan - 8 Diagrams + bonus DVD, Wu-Tang Clan "8 Diagrams Official Mix" (presented by Mathematics)'!!! (Street Records)
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Apathy - Hell's Lost & Found, It's The Bootleg, Muthafu@kas (Demi Godz)
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Wildchild - Jack Of All Trades (Fatbeats)

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Ghostface Killah - The Big Doe Rehab (Def Jam)

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Jay-Z - American Gangster (Roc-A-Fella)

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Badd Santa - Peanut Butter Wolf presents A Stonesthrow Xmas feat. James Brown, 69 Boys, James Pants etc (Stones Throw)

In 2005 and again in 2006, Stones Throw's Peanut Butter Wolf posted holiday mixes on www.stonesthrow.com. This year, they are taking things a step further with their first officially licensed holiday album, combining obscure vinyl archaeology - the weird, the strange, the funky - with old fashion Happy Holidays style for Chrismtmas. From the funky rap free-for-all that is "Cold Chillin' Christmas" to the snow-free Miami booty bass of "What You Want For Christmas" by the 69 Boyz & Quad City DJs, Wolf has got your vintage hip-hop bases covered. For the funk lovers, there's the slept-on classic "Go Power At Christmas Time" by James Brown and a little-known Soul Saints Orchestra tune from the Poets of Rhythm archives called "Santa's Got a Bag of Soul."

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G & D (Georgia Anne Muldrow & Dudley Perkins) - The Message + free poster (Look)

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Conspicuous The Coroner - The Family Photo Album (Sit Tight)

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DJ. Format & Mr. Thing - Holy Shit (Paintshop)

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Suspect Files Volume 4 - ft. Brotherman, Ill Technicians, Loudmouth, Deep Rooted, Pentalk, Sonnyjim, Pat D & Lady Paradox (Class A)

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MF Grimm - The Hunt For The Gingerbread Man (Class A)

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MF Grimm - The Order Of The Baker/Gingerbread Man Mixtape (Class A)

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7L & Esoteric - Egoclapper - AUTOGRAPHED with FREE bonus Esoteric vs. Gary Numan CD! (Fly Casual)

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Peanut Butter Wolf - 2K8 (Stones Throw) feat Q-Tip, Talib Kweli, MF Doom, J Dilla, Madlib, Quasimoto.

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Percee P - Perseverance (Stones Throw) feat Aesop Rock, Diamond D, Chali 2na, Produced by Madlib.

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Havoc of Mobb Deep - The Kush (Nature Sounds)

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Strong Arm Steady - Deep Harted (Nature Sound) feat Xzibit, Talib Kweli, Chamillionaire, Juvenile.

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DJ IQ - Live From The Sofa (Mancan) feat Jehst, Verb T, Asaviour, Braintax, Dubbledge and many more.

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Pat D and Lady Paradox - Kind Of Peace (A Bridge too Far)

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Wild Style - 25th Anniversary (Mr Bongo)

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Beastie Boys - The Mix Up (Capitol) Their first-ever full album of all-new intrumental material

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Necro - Death Rap (Psycho Logical)

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Death Rap is the latest offering from hip-hop's indisputable king of gore and features the tracks Mutilate The Beat, Technician of Execution, Forensic Pathologist and Portrait of A Death Rapper. Named after the title given to him by British newspapers following his sold-out live dates in the UK earlier this year, Death Rap takes the collaborations with premier metal bands to the next level in metal-rap collaboration.
Kid Acne - Romance Ain't Dead (Lex)

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Strip three down to one, move from Manhattan to Sheffield, turn studied New York cool into self-deprecating Yorkshire wit and you're halfway there. Kid Acne inhabits the Beastie Boys' spirit far better than the originals these days, his third mini-album being a wild ride of serrated guitar breaks, old-skool beats and lacerating humour. Short, sharp and spiky, Romance Ain't Dead is a hip-hop flame that will never go out.

Aesop Rock - None Shall Pass (Def Jux)

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IRS -The World Is Theirs (Merciless)

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Madlib The Beat Konducta - Volume 3-4: India (Stones Throw)

More Hip-Hop Instrumentals and beats from the master of the MPC.

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Shape Of Broad Minds - Craft Of The Lost Art (Lex)

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Verb T And The Last Skeptik - Broken Window (Silent Soundz)

A True 5 star album!


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Sincere - So Sincere

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Jay Dee - Jay Deelicious (Delicious Double CD)

Jay Deelicious documents Jay Dilla's early production on Delicious Vinyl. In addition to original productions and remixes for 'Labcabin', Dilla skillfully worked with the label on incredible mixes for the Brand New Heavies, as well as unreleased remixes for former BNH singer, N'Dea Davenport. From the jazzed out Rhodes syncopation of 'Sometimes' ft Q-Tip, to the crazy cutting up of 'Got To Give It Up' or 'Saturday Night' ft Mos Def, Jay Dee shows there's no tempo he can't freak on some otherworldly jazzed up funk tip.

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Camp Lo - Black Hollywood (Good Hands)

The Sonny Cheeba and Geechie Suede duo return with their highly anticipated album called 'Black Hollywood', produced exclusively by the legendary Ski Beatz. Fans of Camp Lo's 1996 debut classic 'Uptown Saturday Night' will surely be satisfied by the group's return with an updated version of their infectious Bronx soul that the group is known for and their lyrics that consist partly of Blaxploitation-style Dadaist slang.

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MF Doom - MM...Food (Rhymesayers) w FREE 9 track "MM..More Food" CD

This release includes a BONUS DVD with over an hour of live footage, a limited edition sticker, and a poster by Burlesque Design. Originally released November 2004 MM..FOOD has been out of print for close to two years. With over an hour of live performances and behind the scenes footage this special edition of MM..FOOD provides a rare look at the mysterious metal fingers super villain.

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Now Again - Now-Again Re:Sounds Vol. 1 (Now Again)

Stones Throw Record's sister label presents a host of rare and exclusive reworkings of funk & soul cuts from the likes of Kenny Dope, Cut Chemist, Todd Terry, Edan, Guilty Simpson and many more.

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Master Ace - Take A Look Around (Cold Chillin')

Available for the first time as a double disc set, including the original album, and a plethora of substantial bonus material, from artwork to audio. With all the songs being digitally re-mastered, and all the additional photography being supplied by the man who took the photos (George DuBose).


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Dr Syntax - Self Taught (Beer And Rap)

Guest verbals come courtesy of Stig Of The Dump, Orifice Vulgatron, Wordsmith, Enlish, Koaste and Mole, each adding their own distinct style and voice to proceedings. Production duties fall to Brighton's finest crate diggers Ido and The Evil Sun, as well as Foreign Beggars' heavyweight Dag Nabbit, and are no less diverse: ranging from laid back, lo-fi head nodders such as 'Seaside Postcard', to all-out, raucous b-boy anthems like 'Pack Mentality'.

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Special Offer Albums (Vinyl And CD) See All Special Offers Here...

Just Ice - Back To The Old School (Fresh)

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Leaders Of The New School - A Future Without A Past (Traffic)

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Del Tha Funky Homosapiens - No Need for Alarm (Cold Chillin')

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Genius (GZA) - Words From The Genius (Cold Chillin')

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Rhythm Machine - Rhythm Machine (Traffic)

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Patrick Adams - The Master Of Masterpiece (Traffic)

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Blaq Poet - Rewind Deja Screw (Traffic)

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Good God! - Heavy Funk Covers of James Brown, from All Over The World (Guerilla)

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Nicole Willis & The Soul Investigators - Keep Reachin' Up (Above The Clouds)

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Frank N Dank - Xtended Play Version 3.13 (Chisel)

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Sharon Jones - Naturally (Daptone)

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Sitar Beat! - Indian Style Heavy Funk Vol 1 (Guerilla)

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Apathy - Where's Your Album?!!

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Brick records Various Artists - X: A Decade Of Independence (Brick)

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Kashmere - In The Hour Of Chaos (Receptor)

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Just Ice - The Desolate One (Fresh)

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Breakin Bread Various Artists - Dirtybeatbreakinfunkandhiphop (Breakin Bread)

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Ric Branson - No Pressure (Grand Vision)

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Kyza - Experience (Pepa)

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DJ IQ - Brainfood (Mancan)

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Cash Money - Kickin Flava (Boombox)

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The Skinny Boys - Weightless

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grand Daddy U - The Smooth Assassin (Cold Chillin')

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Raydar Ellis - Late Pass (Brick)

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De La Soul - The Impossible Mission

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Cold Crush Brothers - Troopers (B-Boy records)

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Termanology - Hood Politics IV show and prove (Brick)

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Ghost - Seldom Sen Often Heard (Breakin Bread)

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7L & Esoteric - Speaking Real Words (Traffic)

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Edan - Sprain Your Tapedeck (Lewis Recordings)

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Dooley-O - I Gotcha (Lewis Recordings)

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Mighty Casey - Original Rudebwoy (Lewis Recordings)

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Krown Rulers (Tuff Crew) - Paper Chase (Warlock)

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Just Ice - Kool & Deadly (Fresh Records)

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Masters Of Ceremony - Dynamite (Strong City)

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The Big Break Rapper Party - Various (Super-Jay, Margo's Kool Out Crew, Master Jay, Family)

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Cinnamon - Pony Up! (Lewis Recordings)

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The Best Of Lewis Recordings - Various features Edan, Dooley-O, Andrew Thompson, Mighty Casey, Cinnamon, Dagha plus Exclusive Edan Tracks! (Lewis Recordings)
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Truth Enola - Ten Past 6 (Solid)

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7L & Esoteric - The Soul Purpose (Traffic)

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The Marxmen (M.O.P) - Marxmen Cinema (Traffic)

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Styles P - The Ghost Sessions (Streetcore)

features AZ, J-Hood, Kool G Rap, Jay Rush, Joel Ortiz, Cormega, & Ill Bill, production from Street Radio, Large Professor, Fizzy Womack (Lil' Fame of M.O.P.) plus 3 bonus Rock Remixes produced by Ill Will Fulton

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Other Stuff

Madvillain Figure

Kidrobot has teamed up with Stones Throw Records to create one of the biggest toys of the year! Straight out of the smash-hit video 'All Caps' comes the trench coat and fedora clad powerhouse that is Madvillain.
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Originators "Just Hip Hop" T-shirt

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Originators "4 Stars" T-shirt

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Originators "Bronx" T-shirt

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Originators "Breaker" T-shirt

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Deep Crates 2

Deep Crates 2 documents the history behind diggin' for samples & creating hip op beats> The second DVD installment takes you back to the origins of sampling records with the cultures founding pioneers. Worlwide diggin' spots from the USA, Canada, & Japan are ex[osed and record knowledge is dropped from some of hip hop's most elite DJs/producers.

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Kool Keith In High Definition

2 Disc set full lenght DVD & CD featuring Kutmasta Kurt & Motion Man
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Beat Kings History Of Hip Hop

Beat Kings is an in depth documentary about hip hop producers spear-headed by longtime Wu-Tang Clan Producer/DJ Mathematics. Beat Kings chronicles the history of beatmaking from the days of Afrika Bambatta to Marley Marl to modern day greats like Kanye West. Tapping a who's who in hip hop music, Beat Kings get the first hand accounts of the equipment they use, how they learned to make beats, and anything else a budding producer or hip hop fan would want to know. The DVD features in the studio interviews with Kanye West, Just Blaze, Havoc (Mobb Deep), Trackmasters, Swiss Beats, RZA, Premier, Pete Rock, Marley Marl, Alchemist, Easy Moe Bee, Prince Paul and more. These producers are the architects behind the rhymes of superstars like Jay-Z, Notorious BIG, 50 Cent, Nas, The Wu-Tang Clan and now anyone can learn how they do it.

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Hip Hop Waxpoetics Issue 26
Percee P, Alchemist, 9th Wonder, Bobby Bird and more!
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 Born In The Bronx (hardback book) A Visual Record of the Early Days of Hip Hop £24.99 Add to basket

For years there was nothing: a handful of amateur snapshots had been culled together for books like Rap Attack, Yes Yes Y'All and Steven Hager's Hip Hop. Back In The Days, Jamal Shabazz' tome, made a huge and well deserved splash, but we are talking early-mid '80s. Where were the photos of the 'old' old school? They were at Joe Conzo's house. Joe Conzo was the official snapper for the Cold Crush Brothers, and an aspiring documentary photographer, who shot a lot of hip-hop shows circa 1979-1981. Then Joe was hit hard by life, became a junkie and homeless. He cleaned up in 1990 and became an Emergency Paramedic, driving an ambulance in the very Bronx neighbourhoods that he'd spent years down and out in. He's now active in his Union, and in Narcotics Anonymous. Joe's Eye is fantastic: the drama and dynamics of early hip-hop are captures in his photographs, a small selection of which are shown below. FACT teamed up with Johan Kugelberg and Freewheelin' Media to produce a show entitled Born In The Bronx, wherein a larger selection of original photos and handmade flyers were shown.
 Waxpoetics - Cover Story Album Cover Story £14.99 Add to basket

This is the second book by esteemed music journal Wax Poetics, it graphically narrates the vibrant subculture of record collecting through the art of the album cover. It's a must-have for record connoisseurs and art aficionados alike. Illustrated as a visual essay, Cover Story exhibits the diverse art forms and design styles of the record cover, each telling its own story.

 Wax Poetics Anthology Vol. 1 Hard Back Book (Wax Poetics) £27.99 Add to basket

Anthologies are uneven by nature, and in the case of the first Wax Poetics collection, it's especially understandable. Wax Poetics Anthology: Volume 1 collects 31 pieces from the first five issues of the well-loved Brooklyn-based music fanzine, which is devoted to funk, soul, hip-hop, jazz, Latin, and other DJ-beloved styles.
Still, the fandom driving the magazine is infectious, and the best pieces are simply essential. Andrew Mason wisely presents his interview with hip-hop producer Prince Paul in as-told-to first-person, and Paul's clear-eyed reminiscences jump off the page. Equally entertaining are the Q&As with former James Brown bassist Sweet Charles Sherrell (capped with a wild tale of the sideman hijacking the Godfather Of Soul's equipment) and pioneering graffiti artist Tracy 168, plus a gripping roundtable on the 1983 graffiti documentary Style Wars, with directors Henry Chalfant and Tony Silver.
A large part of Anthology's draw, as with Wax Poetics the magazine, is how gorgeous it looks: Many pieces come with lovingly reproduced album covers and 45 labels, arrayed neatly like so much record-collector porn. Even for those who don't particularly care about obscure Texas funk entrepreneurs like Timothy McNealy, who gets a brief Q&A here, the Wax Poetics crew take such care in presenting them alongside the bigger names that it's easy to get drawn in.


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In 1982, Charlie Ahearn wrote, directed, and produced a small, independent movie that released a year later, taking the world by storm as it screened in Cannes, Tokyo, and Times Square. Wild Style, the first film to unite the underground urban art forms of nascent hip hop culture - DJing, MCing, b-boying, and graff writing was filmed on location in the South Bronx without permits or pretensions. Some twenty five years after it's release, Wild Style is truly a classic, having inspired countless artists, musicians, and writers with unforgettable scenes starring the era's most memorable personalities. To celebrate the film's silver anniversary, Wild Style The Sampler provides an inside look at the making of the film, its release, and the reverberations it caused around the world. Curated by Ahearn, this exhibition and accompanying book of the same name introduces us to a cast of characters and outrageous adventures through a collection of photographs, original artwork, production stills, and archival materials and includes the work of Ahearn. Martha Cooper, and Cathy Campbell, as well as animators Zephyr and Dr. Revolt. Featuring iconic images of legends and pioneers including the Chief Rocker Busy Bee, Lee Quinones, Fab 5 Freddy, Dondi White, Zephyr, Smiley 149, DJ AJ, Grandmaster Caz, GrandMaster Flash and the Furious Five, Melle Mel, the Fantastic Five, The Funky Four, Sha Rock, Double Trouble, Rammellzee, Debbie Harry, Patti Astor, and Frosty Freeze, among others. Recounting the film's influence over the past quarter century, Wild Style The Sampler offers incomparable insight into hip hop's most indelible film.


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