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"Prolusion Plus" by The Delusionists, CD FREE WITH ALL ORDERS (While Stock Last) Delusionists are a London-based hip hop group made up of Ben Black (vocals/production), DBF (vocals) and Slim Pickens (DJ/production). The groupıs anticipated debut album, Prolusion Plus features production from established names - Kelakovski, John Phonics, Tom Caruana and Ed Strong - and Delusionists themselves. The idea behind the project was to repackage the previous yearıs digital-only free release, The Prolusion, and add to the line up to revamp what was already a highly commended EP. |
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Home Taping Is Killing Music And It's Illegal...T-Shirt S £9.99 Add to basket M £9.99 Add to basket L £9.99 Add to basket XL £9.99 Add to basket Clothing label BTL has exclusively given Rap And Soul their stunning new T-shirt design !! Be down with the Hoxton Hipsters and Retro Tape Heads ! |
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J Dilla - Serato Set - OUT NOW !! 2LP £33.99 Add to basket Serato and Stones Throw have teamed with the J Dilla Estate for the official J Dilla Serato release, Donut Shop. This is 2 discs with six J Dilla tracks, 2 sides with Serato Control Tone (for use with Serato Scratch Live DJ software), and 2 donut slipmats in a package designed by Studio No.1. The J Dilla tracks consist of three previously unreleased instrumentals selected by J.Rocc from the Dilla archives 'Safety Dance', 'Sycamore', 'Bars & Twists' and three unreleased instrumental versions of Dilla's production for Mos Def, Q-Tip and Busta Rhymes, each remastered by Elysian Masters who mixed and mastered J Dilla's Donuts, The Shining and Ruff Draft albums. |
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Jungle Brothers - Straight Out The Jungle 2 x CDs £9.99 Add to basket De La Soul and A Tribe Called Quest may have been more commercially successful, but the afro centric, jazz political rap movement and unfadeable Native Tongue Massive started with the Jungle Brothers. Their debut full length Straight Out the Jungle opened up many doors that are walked through by todayıs artists like Mos Def, Common and even Kanye West. Available for the first time on double CD, this special edition includes 12² versions, remixes and instrumentals (some previously never available on CD), in addition to extensive liner notes by Brian Coleman! |
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Marco Polo - The Stupendous Adventures of Marco Polo! 2 LP £18.99 Add to basket CD £9.99 Add to basket Lacing the world with hard-hitting bangers that maintain the head-nodding traditions of that raw East Coast boom bap, Torontoıs Marco Polo is back with another classic release through Duck Down Music. |
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The Roots - How I Got Over It LP £13.99 Add to basket To call it "long-awaited" or "eagerly anticipated" would be the understatement of the year - as hip-hop's most daring pioneers the Roots release their ninth studio album (and third for Def Jam Recordings), How I Got Over. The album takes its name from Clara Ward's gospel classic (made popular by Mahalia Jackson). |
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MF Grimm - The Downfall of Ibliys: a Ghetto Opera CD £8.99 Add to basket The Downfall Of Ibliys: A Ghetto Opera is the full-length debut album by rapper MF Grimm. Grimm was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2000 for narcotics and conspiracy offences. Paying a one-day bail of $100,000, he recorded The Downfall of Ibliys: A Ghetto Opera in those twenty-four hours. Studying law while incarcerated, Grimm appealed his sentences and filed counter-suits, with the ultimate effect that his sentence was commuted to three years and he was released in 2003. |
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GM Grimm (MF Grimm) aka Superstar Jet Jaguar - Digital Tears: E-Mail from Purgatory CD £8.99 Add to basket "Digital Tears: E-mail from Purgatory is MF Grimm's second album under his Monsta Island Czars moniker Superstar Jet Jaguar. MF Grimm has the alias GM Grimm, for Grand Master Grimm. "Using the new GM Grimm alias, for this one release, Grimm delivers more of his trademark rhetoric supported by a relatively unknown cast, the only two name features being J-Zone and Mr. Voodoo of Natural Elements. Recalling the more peripheral Wu Tang releases, Grimm s barritone verse holds up for the whole second round... Originally released in 2004 on Day By Day Entertainment and out of print for years, this is the official reissue." |
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Afrika Bambaataa - Death Mix Live (Part 1) LP £13.99 Add to basket |
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DJ Spinna - The Boogie Bronx - 12" Serato Control 12" Serato Control £14.99 Add to basket The 80s boogie soul anthem "I'm Your Superman" by Jan Leslie Holmes Re-Freaked by DJ Spinna plus a Keyapella mix pushing the groovy keyboards to the forefront and backed by a Serato Control Tone! "I'm Your Superman" is a real groover, tweaked a bit by Spinna on the main remix "Refreak" and the keys indeed take over the groove on the "Keyapella". The flip features a Serato Control Tone. (Limited edition 12-inch includes a Serato Control Tone for use with the Serato DJ tools software!) |
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Paul White - And The Purple Brain CD £9.99 Add to basket 2 LPs £24.99 Add to basket |
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Klashnekoff - Back To The Sagas CD £8.49 Add to basket |
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Madlib - Medicine Show Vol 6 - The Brain Wreck Show CD £9.99 Add to basket Madlib follows History of the Loop Digga: 1990-2000 with the sixth installment in his Madlib Medicine Show, his psych-prog-avante-freak-out-funk rock mix Brain Wreck Show. |
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Madlib - Medicine Show Vol 2 - Flight to Brazil: Brazilian Funk, Psych, Jazz CD £9.99 Add to basket The second of Madlib's esoteric and eclectic journeys on the 'Medicine Show' series takes us to Brazil for an 80 minute guided tour through three of four decades of Brazilian funk, psychedelic, prog-rock and jazz. |
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The Last Skeptik - Same Day Different Sh*t CD £7.99 Add to basket One of the most talked about upcoming releases is the new album from The Last Skeptik called ³Same Day Different Shit². It features the likes of Eslam Jawaards for a remixed track, along with Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly. |
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Talib Kweli + Hi Tek - Revolutions Per Minute CD £10.99 Add to basket Revolution on wax is usually a tricky affair. But Revolutions Per Minute finds Kweli masterfully marrying the physical with the philosophical atop Hi-Tek's rich palette of headphone music. |
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Marley Marl - In Control Volume 1 2 LP + 2 Slipmats £24.99 Add to basket In Control Volume 1 now sees it's most deluxe vinyl reissue ever. This package includes In Control Volume 1 on double vinyl (and in Cold Chillin' colors at that) with two 16 oz. Cold Chillin' soft-polyester slipmats, bonded, compressed, and crafted to the highest possible standard of quality. These slipmats do not use silk screen printing, rather the fabric is dyed using a dye-sublimation process, leaving the cyan and magenta colors of the Cold Chillin' Logo as vibrant as the original pantone color from whence they came. |
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Big L - Lifestylez Ov Da Poor & Dangerous 2 LP £19.99 Add to basket In 1995, fresh off the success of Nas's landmark debut album Illmatic the year prior, Columbia Records released Lifestylez Ov Da Poor & Dangerouz, the first LP by a relatively unknown Harlem MC named Big L. Few at the time would realize that Lifestylez - which was only a modest commercial success at the time - would go on to be considered a true classic of the era, comparable to Illmatic itself. Armed with a cocky Uptown attitude, a sharp wit and production from the likes of Lord Finesse, Buckwild and Showbiz, Big L established himself as one of New York's Hip Hop heavyweights with an album that balanced radio appeal with uncompromising hardcore lyricism. |
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MF Doom - Operation Doomsday 2 LP £13.99 Add to basket THE OFFICIAL RE-ISSUE IS FINALLY HERE!!! Underneath his mysterious metal mask, MF Doom hides the cachet underground legends are made of. After KMD's 1994 sophomore album Bl_ck B_st_rds was turfed by Elektra in 1994 and Subroc (one half of the sibling rhyme duo) passed away, surviving KMD member Zev Love X mutated into the MC Avenger known as MF Doom. The Rap world is better for it. This 19-cut deep album is ridiculously dope, in a bizarro Olı Dirty Bastard kind of way. Doom sounds either high or drunk on most of the tracks, his self-produced beats are gritty, and his rhyme styles are almost indecipherable. |
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MF Grimm - You Only Live Twice (with 16 pages Comic !) CD £8.99 Add to basket MF Grimms eighth studio album, eagerly awaited after a 4- year hiatus! You Only Live Twice: The Audio Graphic Novel features a 16 page comic book with artwork provided by Jim Mahfood, aka Food One! The album brings an engaging blend of powerful production (provided by Twiz the Beat Pro), intelligent lyrics and well-crafted story as youd expect from Grimm, with a new creative voice reflecting his experience in the comic book industry over the past few years, including the success of his Eisner-nominated, Glyph Award winning autobiographical graphic novel, Sentences: The Life of MF Grimm. |
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MC Shan - Born To Be Wild (Cold Chillin' Special Edition) CD £9.99 Add to basket Special edition features bonus 12" versions & remixes previously never available on CD ! Produced and mixed by Marley Marl. Booklet includes never before seen Geroge DuBose photography plus liner notes with contributions by MC Shan. |
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Godfather Don - Diabolique 2 CD £11.99 Add to basket Special Edition 2 x CD, includes full album voal & instrumental versions. Features Kool Keith, Sir Menelik, aka Scaramanga ! |
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Godfather Don - Donnie Brasco CD £9.99 Add to basket Previously unreleased third official album by Godfather Don pulled from the Hydra Vaults ! |
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Madlib - Medicine Show No 5 - The Loop Digga, 1990 - 2000 (Limited Silk Screen Triple Album) 3 LP £34.99 Add to basket This collection of beats showcases the way that Madlibıs early hip-hop demos were filtered out to his crew of friends and associates, providing an opportunity for a unique view into Madlibıs working process. These beats, often freestyled on SP1200 or whatever machine he had at the ready, were picked up by rappers over a period of many years. Trainspotters will find it interesting that beats later destined for the likes of Wildchild and Percee P were made some years before those albums saw release. |
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Meth, Ghost & Rae - Wu Massacre (Def Jam Album) LP £16.99 Add to basket For the first time, three of the legendary Wu-Tang Clan's most dynamic emcees step out together to create a supergroup with a distinctly shaolin sound. Method Man, Ghostface Killah and Raekwon have banded together on their new album of street bangers, Wu Massacre. Joined by fellow Wu-Tang alums Inspectah Deck and Cappadona on several tracks, and featuring production by RZA and Mathematics, Meth, Ghost and Rae's Wu Massacre is guaranteed to satisfy the legions of fans in the "Wu Army." From the soulful street single "Our Dreams," to the thunderous lead-off track "Criminology 2.5," Wu Massacre finds the three hip-hop legends in razor-sharp form. |
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Kut Masta Kurt - The Funky Redneck Visits Japan LP £19.99 Add to basket 10 Instrumental Tracks from the Funky Redneck. Call it Boom Bap Hip-Hop Meets Soba Noodle Soup. |
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RJD2 - Inversions of the Colossus 2 LP £17.99 Add to basket Following upon the success of ³The Colossus,² RJD2 returns with ³Inversions of the Colossus,² a companion piece of its own unique nature. The ³instrumental² album is a time honored tradition in hip-hop. |
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Necro - Die ! CD £14.99 Add to basket DIE! is the new album from underground hip hop legend Necro. The album features many different styles Necro has from death rap, thug joints, a porn track to pimping, war, fighting & a song about relationships with women. This new album is quite different than his last effort Death Rap which featured that style start to finish, this album features a buffet of Necro styles with production that will be loved by all real hip hop heads all over the earth. You already know Necro's style, its brutal, expect nothing less with DIE! and oh yeah, DIE! |
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MF Doom - Doom ! CD £9.99 Add to basket |
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Skitz - Sticksman 2 x CD £7.99 Add to basket 2010 release, the second producer album from the British Hip Hop/Bass DJ. Sticksman is the long-overdue follow up to his critically acclaimed Countryman album. On the project the former BBC 1Xtra DJ has collaborated with the likes of Kardinal Offishall, Masta Ace and the Scratch Perverts plus the cream of the crop of British MCs. |
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Boogie Down Productions - Criminal Minded Picture Disc LP £14.99 Add to basket THE CLASSIC HIP HOP ALBUM JUST GOT A LOT COOLER Traffic Entertainment Group and B-Boy Records are proud to present a beautiful picture disc edition for one of the most influential and original albums in music history: Criminal Minded by Boogie Down Productions. KRS-ONE's combination of street slang and Webster's dictionary knowledge backed by Scott La Rock's hard hitting, minimal beats help set this album apart when it was originally released in 1986. With this untouchable debut album, BDP's hardcore stylings helped to redefine the New York rap music scene. |
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Boogie Down Productions Criminal Minded USB Gun Traffic Entertainment Group and B-Boy Records are proud to present one of the most influential and original albums in music history: ³Criminal Minded² by Boogie Down Productions packaged in a one-of-a-kind USB device shaped like a gun! This 1 GB USB gun contains two folders full of music, original cover art and credit sheet. The first folder features the original ten album tracks, and the second folder contains rare 12 cuts and alternative versions as well as previously unreleased ³Red Alert KISS- Crackhead DJ Dis version of South Bronx. This special edition reissue of this definitive rap album is a must have for any music collector or fan of contemporary American music in general. We invite you to experience Criminal Minded again for the first time. FOLDER 01 01 POETRY 02 SOUTH BRONX 03 9mm GOES BANG 04 WORD FROM OUR SPONSOR 05 ELEMENTARY 06 DOPE BEAT 07 REMIX FOR P IS FREE 08 THE BRIDGE IS OVER 09 SUPER-HOE 10 CRIMINAL MINDED FOLDER 02 01 ADVANCE (Original 12 Vocal Version) 02 SAY NO BROTHER (CRACK ATTACK DONıT DO IT) (Original 12 Vocal Truth Mix) 03 OPERATING ROOM INTERVIEW (A) 04 THE BRIDGE IS OVER (Clean Red Alert 12 Version) 05 OPERATING ROOM INTERVIEW (B) 06 THE P IS FREE (Original 12 Version) 07 SOUTH BRONX (Red Alert KISS- Crackhead DJ Dis Version)* INCLUDES ORIGINAL COVER ARTWORK JPEG, TRACK LISTING AND CREDITS PDF * PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED ALTERNATIVE VERSE EXCLUSIVE TO THIS USB SET USB Gun £14.99 Add to basket |
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Ultramagnetic MCs - Critical Beatdown LP £14.99 Add to basket When discussing albums that helped to redefine rap music inthe late 1980s, it would be impossible not to mention CRITICAL BEATDOWN. The debut album from the Ultramagnetic MC's isone of the pinnacle releases of 1988's "new school" movement. Over frenetic, self-produced tracks that sound like the Bomb Squad beaming down from outer space, rappers Kool Keith and Ced-Gee deliver esoteric and often comical lyrics that somehow manage to retain a street attitude. It is this truly original blend that makes CRITICAL BEATDOWN such a timeless listening experience. |
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Black Moon - Enta Da Stage LP £11.99 Add to basket Enta da Stage is the debut album of American East Coast hip hop group Black Moon, released on October 19, 1993 through Nervous Records. The album was produced by DJ Evil Dee and Mr. Walt of Da Beatminerz. Enta da Stage features the debut of underground hip hop duo Smif-n-Wessun, as well as appearances from Havoc of Mobb Deep and Dru Ha, the co-founder of Duck Down Records. |
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Madlib - Medicine Show 5 : Loop Digga CD (incl Comic) £8.99 Add to basket This collection of beats showcases the way that Madlibıs early hip-hop demos were filtered out to his crew of friends and associates, providing an opportunity for a unique view into Madlibıs working process. These beats, often freestyled on SP1200 or whatever machine he had at the ready, were picked up by rappers over a period of many years. Trainspotters will find it interesting that beats later destined for the likes of Wildchild and Percee P were made some years before those albums saw release. |
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Blacastan The Master Of Reality (Mixtape) CD £8.99 Add to basket This mix, full of 19 all new studio tracks features all original production from the likes of 7L (who also mixes and arranges the entire piece in his signature Bladerunner's cut and paste edit style), Columbeyond, Esoteric, Apathy, DJ Doom, Blacastan himself and more. Vocal contributions come from Apathy, Columbeyond, Krumbsnatcha and Blac's Branch Davidians crew. |
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Madlib - Medicine Show Vol 1 (Stones Throw) CD £9.99 Add to basket This is the first of a one-a-month, twelve-CD series from Madlib on his own imprint, Madlib Invazion. Madlib Medicine Show No. 1: Before The Verdict is a full 17-track hip-hop album with original tracks and "the OJ Simpson remixes" featuring Guilty Simpson. Consider it a prelude to Madlib & Guilty's collab OJ Simpson. |
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Madlib - Medicine Show Vol 3 (Stones Throw) CD £9.99 Add to basket Beat Konducta in Africa is a 37-track instrumental hip-hop album produced & mixed with Madlib, featuring J. Rocc. This album bases itself on the obscure vinyl gems from the afro-beat, funk, psych-rock, garage-rock & soul movements of African countries as diverse as Zambia, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Ghana, Botswana and Ivory Coast. |
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Madlib - Medicine Show Vol 4 (Stones Throw) CD £9.99 Add to basket Madlib follows Beat Konducta In Africa, with the fourth installment of the Medicine Show series, 420 Chalice All Stars: All Jamaican Sounds Anyone familiar with Madlib knows of his deep appreciation of the variety of musical styles to originate from the Carribbean island nation of Jamaica. His run through of the Trojan Records catalog, 2004ıs Blunted In The Bombshelter, served as an interesting amuse-bouche. Now, the entrée or at least the first course: 420 Chalice All Stars: All Jamaican Sounds. |
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Roc Marciano - Marcberg (Fat Beats) EP £10.99 Add to basket With his Fat Beats Records / solo debut and collaborating with some of the new producers in the game (Marco Polo, DJ Babu and The P Brothers) Roc plans to show the world his raw lyricism and production savvy. |
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MC Esoteric Fly Casualties CD £9.99 Add to basket Brand new tracks, remixes, unreleased original versions of songs, and unclassifiable material previously tucked away in the Pterolab vaults will now see the light of day. Fly Casualties will no doubt tide over fans awaiting 1212, 7L & Esoteric's first full-length studio album as a duo since 2006's A New Dope. |
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Blacastan - Blac Sabbath CD £9.99 Add to basket The Blacastan 2010 assault continues with the release of his newest offering, "Black Sabbath"... Blacastan brings some well thought out concepts to the table, Ozzy Osborne interludes, intricate stories, and plenty attitude to create a enjoyable listen. |
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DJ Spinna - Underground Forever CD £9.99 Add to basket The indie hip-hop movement was defined by a handful of key players in the late 90ıs / early 2000ıs, DJ Spinna being one of them. This essential mix collects many of the classic tracks that defined an era of underground hip-hop, with a mouth watering tracklist that showcases forgotten yet definitive tracks of the time. Whether you were a part of this era, or were 12 years old when it happened, grab this mix |
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KENNY DOPE & THE UNDERCOVER BROTHER - DOPEBROTHER STUDIO A CD £8.99 Add to basket Straight from the legendary vaults of Dopebrother Records comes an hour-plus, 18-song collection of heavy funk, sweet soul and neck-snapping disco. While a few of these tracks have previously seen the light of day on ridiculously rare vintage vinyl or severely limited Dopebrother reissues, many have never made it outside the confines of Studio A, the inner sanctum where Kenny ³Dope² Gonzalez and Victor ³The Undercover Brother² Piagneri work their maestroıs touch polishing up dusty master tapes. |
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Guilty Simpson - OJ Simpson (Stones Throw) 2 LP £16.99 Add to basket CD £8.99 Add to basket OJ Simpson. That's the name of the album. No bloody gloves. No Ford Broncos. These are some 12 hard-hitting, straight- from-the-gutter hip-hop tracks featuring Guilty's inimitable baritone, and an equal number of Madlib's signature album-as- soundtrack/radio/sideshow arrangements, where the beat & sequence is as important as the rap. This, with a couple no-nonsense guest appearances, some cuts by J.Rocc, and a whole bunch of attitude, makes up one of our favorite projects in a while. |
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Young Jazz Rebels - Slave Riot (Madlib Yesterdays Universe) (Stones Throw) 2LP £17.99 Add to basket The second of Madlib's 2010 jazz albums is Young Jazz Rebels' Slave Riot. Slave Riot, as you can guess from the title, is a rather chaotic affair. Slave Riot guns to top speed almost immediately and rarely lets up its frenetic pace. To put this in a Sun Ra context, think of this as Madlib's Black Mass, as opposed to Last Electro's Sleeping Beauty. |
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Young Jazz Rebels - Slave Riot (Madlib Yesterdays Universe) (Stones Throw) CD £8.99 Add to basket The second of Madlib's 2010 jazz albums is Young Jazz Rebels' Slave Riot. Slave Riot, as you can guess from the title, is a rather chaotic affair. Slave Riot guns to top speed almost immediately and rarely lets up its frenetic pace. To put this in a Sun Ra context, think of this as Madlib's Black Mass, as opposed to Last Electro's Sleeping Beauty. |
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Inspektah Deck (Wu Tang Clan) - Manifesto CD £8.99 Add to basket As a founding member of Staten Island's Wu-Tang Clan, it's not an overstatement to say this is a man who changed the game. Now straight from the slums of Shaolin Inspectah Deck is back with Manifesto, his best solo effort to date. Long regarded as one of Hip-Hop's most gifted MC's, Deck is joined on Manifesto by Raekwon, Billy Danze of M.O.P, Termanology, Cormega, Kurupt and many more. |
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Little Brother - Left Back (Hall Of Justice) CD £8.99 Add to basket With influences that range from the expressive boom bap of A Tribe Called Quest to the rugged back and forth chemistry of EPMD, Little Brother's members, Phonte and Rapper Big Pooh, have become essential names in hip-hop circles worldwide. After a three year haitus, Little Brother returns with their 4th and final album, Leftback. Featuring guest appearances by fellow Hall Of Justus members, Chaundon, Darien Brockington, and Jozeemo, as well as Trunk North and Median. Production credits include Denaun Porter, Symbolyc One, Jbizness, Zo!, with a bulk of the production by longtime collaborator Khrysis. Hall Of Justus is the movement! |
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De La Soul - Impossible Mission / Operaion Japan CD £6.99 Add to basket Now long deleted De La Soul's 'Impossible Mission' was one of Traffic's best selling albums when it was originally released back in 2006. This version of the release, called 'The Impossible Mission: Operation Japan' features unique packaging, and new cover art. |
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Fashawn - Boy Meets World (High Water Music) 2 LP £15.99 Add to basket With all the talk that hip-hop is dead, there's no better example than Fashawn to prove that it's certainly alive, well and being fed to a hungry new generation of hip-hop fans. And after listening to just 16 bars it's evident that Fashawn is one of the hungriest. He's a prodigal son, part of a new generation of emcees lucky enough to grow up in hip-hop's golden era. He's not an 80s baby; he's a 90s baby. Think about that for a second. Then think about his potential. |
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Royce Da 5'9" - Street Hop (Produced by DJ Premier) LP £17.99 Add to basket CD £10.99 Add to basket |
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Dimlite - Prismic Tops (Now Again) CD £6.99 Add to basket Now Again presents the leftside-genius beatsmithıs vocal stylings ! |
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Mos Def - The Ecstatic 2LP £16.99 Add to basket CD £10.99 Add to basket |
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Souls Of Mischief - 93' Til Infinity (Jive Records) 2 LP £15.99 Add to basket In 1998, the album was selected as one of The Source's 100 Best Rap Albums of All Time. Considered by many to be a text book "slept-on" classic Rap record, 93 'Til Infinity has only grown better with age. The album simply defines the Hiero golden age with a sound that would later be fine tuned with strong releases from MCs Del The Funkee Homosapien, Casual and Pep Love. |
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Sadat X - Wild Cowboys II (Fat Beats) CD £14.99 Add to basket Few artists in hip-hop have afforded the longevity that Sadat X has. Unmoved by an inevitable changing of the guard in Rap, the X-Man remains a beacon of true, un-facsimiled artistry. In so many words, he sits atop the lists of your favorite rappers favorite rapper. Where so many of his peers have faded into obscurity, Sadat somehow continues to write innovative songs, deliver relevant contemporary commentary, and effortlessly staying tuned to trends of the day. |
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Oh No VS Now Again - Now Again Music Library Vol. 1 CD £14.99 Add to basket Cali-based producer Oh No delves into the funk and soul of the Now-Again Records and Soul-Cal Records catalogs, bringing a modern meaning to the concept of library music. This CD, presented in an edition of 500 pieces, will be the only commercial release of the Oh No vs. Now-Again Music Library. |
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Cappo - Genghis (Son Records) 2LP £19.99 Add to basket The immortal second LP from the Notts hard rhymer is here! |
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Madlib - Medicine Show Vol 3 (Stones Throw) 2LP £18.99 Add to basket Madlib's third episode of the Medicine Show doubles up as the fourth chapter in his Beat Konducta series, following 'Movie Scenes', 'Beat Konducta In India' and 'Dil Cosby & Dil Withers Suites'. |
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P Brothers - The Gas EP Vol 2 (Heavy Bronx) EP £9.99 Add to basket This is the part 2 of the vinyl EP taken from the P Brothers smash album The Gas. The 9 track EP contains the remaining tracks from the album that weren't previously available on vinyl. It also contains Instrumentals and 2 brand new unreleased tracks . ..The Gas LP was number 2 in HHC's top 100 Hip Hop albums of the year.. |
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DJ Babu - The Beat Tape Vol 2 (Nature Sounds) CD £8.99 Add to basket 2LP £16.99 Add to basket A world famous DJ, with active memberships in Dilated Peoples and Beat Junkies among his most notable accomplishments, DJ Babu has made a noteworthy evolution. The Los Angeles based turntablist also stands as one of undergroud rap's fastest-rising producers. "There was no holding back with this album, I wanted to get the beats out no matter what. I wanted to give my fans a fresh body of music." explains DJ Babu. "My mission with these instrumentals is to put some doubters to rest." |
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Souls Of Mischief - Montezuma's Revenge 2CD £10.99 Add to basket 2009 release from the indie Hip Hop crew (part of the Hieroglyphics collective), produced by Prince Paul. Montezuma's Revenge features 18 tracks of the quality Hip Hop you've come to expect from Hieroglyphics, with cover art by esteemed illustrator Steve Lopez (famous for his illustrations of Erykah Badu and others). |
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100 X Posse - Rare & Unreleased 1992 - 1996 CD £10.99 Add to basket This is a continuous mix CD, but you can skip through tracks and it isn't offensive on the ears at all. It's actually pretty well mixed by DJ Nickybutters (aka Bang Bang Poet 24/7). There are some straight underground Philly bangers on here and the ones labeled 'Commercial' are actually dope little radio promos. |
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Statik Selektah - 100 Proof The Hangover (Show Off/Brick) + FREE POSTER CD £8.99 Add to basket Though the title might indicate otherwise, Statik Selektahıs third album, 100 Proof: The Hangover, is about more than just poppin' bottles. Instead, the producer/DJ uses his latest project to give a collection of MCs he frequently collaborates with the opportunity to rap about things they go through everyday when the party stops. Coupled with Statik's solid sample-laden production efforts, those ordinary things often produce extraordinary results. |
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Ace & Edo (Masta Ace & Edo G) - Arts & Entertainment CD £7.99 Add to basket 2LP £14.99 Add to basket |
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Oh No - Ethiopium CD £8.99 Add to basket Announced only a few weeks ago, Oh No follows up Dr. No's Oxperiment by diving again into Egon's record collection for a region-based instrumental beat album. This time he's offered up and album inspired-by and sampled-from rare 60s and 70s Ethiopian funk, jazz, folk, soul and psychedelic rock. Even if you've never heard an instrument tuned to qenet modes before, even if you're more into ballads than you are tezetas, Oh No's transformative effect on his source material will blow you away in its otherworldy funkiness. |
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The Last Electro-Acoustic Space Jazz Percussion Ensemble - Miles Away (Produced by MADLIB, Stones Throw Rec) CD £7.99 Add to basket Miles Away is the latest in releases to evolve from producer & arranger Madlib's first jazz releases with the group Yesterdays New Quintet. As Yesterdays New Quintet dissolved in 2007 the collective was expanded under the name ³Yesterdays Universe,² out which The Last Electro-Acoustic Space Jazz & Percussion Ensemble became the first to release music with Summer Suite (Stones Throw, 2007). Miles Away is a jazz fusion album which has been tweaked and revised for over two years when it was first announced. It will be released in Spring 2010. Produced & arranged by Madlib. Cover painting by Radek Drutis. |
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Raekwon - Only Built For Cuban Linx II (Purple Vinyl) 2LP £14.99 Add to basket |
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Whitefield Brothers - Earthology feat Edan, Mr Lif, Quantic, Percee P & more (Now Again) CD £7.99 Add to basket 2LP £16.99 Add to basket |
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Strong Arm Steady - In Search Of Stoney Jackson (Stones Throw) CD £9.99 Add to basket 2LP £14.99 Add to basket |
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Various - The Minimal Wave Tapes Volume One (Stones Throw) CD £7.99 Add to basket |
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Peanut Butter Wolf - 45 Live Box Set 7" Boxset £39.99 Ten 7-inch singles - 18 hip hop classic songs re-edited by PBW and available on 45 for the first time Add to basket |
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Peanut Butter Wolf - 45 Live A Classic Rap Mix (Five Day Weekend) CD £8.99 Add to basket |
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Rakim - The Seventh Seal CD £14.99 Add to basket LP £16.99 Add to basket |
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Felt (Slug & Murs) - Felt 3: A Tribute To Rosie Perez CD £13.99 Add to basket |
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CL Smooth - The Outsider CD £6.99 Add to basket |
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Mr Chop - For Pete's Sake (Now Again/Five Day Weekend) CD £8.99 Add to basket |
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DOOM presents - Unexpected Guests A Collection of non-album tracks, guest features & great exclusives selected and sequenced by the Super Villain himself CD £12.99 Add to basket |
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Dam Funk - Toeachizown CD £9.99 Add to basket |
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Spin Doctor - Doctorin' Detroit 50 Years Of The Motown Sound 2xCD £8.99 Add to basket |
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Ghostface Killah - Ghostdini (Feat John Legend, Fabolous, Estelle) 2LP £14.99 Add to basket |
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Freestyle Professors - Gryme Tyme CD £14.99 Add to basket LP £15.99 Add to basket |
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O.C & A.G. - Oasis CD £10.49 Add to basket 2 LP £15.99 Add to basket |
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Camp Lo - Another Heist CD £9.49 Add to basket |
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People Under The Stairs - Carried Away CD £8.99 Add to basket |
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DJ Q Bert - Super Seal - Dirt Style LP £11.99 Add to basket |
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DJ Q Bert - Battle Breaks - Dirt Style LP £11.99 Add to basket |
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J Dilla - You Know What Love Is - Tribute Double Mix CD by Spin Doctor CD £8.99 Add to basket |
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Edan - Beauty & The Beat (Lewis Recordings) with Free Stickers CD £7.99 Add to basket 2LP £14.99 Add to basket |
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Edan - Echo Party VINYL + Echo Party Poster (Five Day Weekend)
YES!!! That's right VINYL! Limited to 1,000 copies worldwide so snooze and you'll lose! LP £39.99 Add to basket |
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Please note - The Echo Paty Vinyl covers are all done by hand by Edan himself and are therefore ALL DIFFERENT. Some will look like this!
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Black Moon - F**k It Up / Who Got The Props 12" £6.99 Add to basket |
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Biz Markie - Make Music With Your Mouth, Biz / Big Daddy Kane - Just Rhymin' With Biz 7" £6.99 Add to basket |
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Timeless 3 X DVDs Boxset £23.99 Add to basket The set if a tribute to three of the greatest arrangers/composers our times have witnessed: legendary hip-hop producer J Dilla, Ethiopian jazz great Mulatu Astatke and Rio de Janieroıs own funk pioneer Arthur Verocai. Eager collecters will of course be greated by extensive liner notes, posters, exclusive music and much more. |
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Ricky Powell - Rappin' With The Rickster 2 x DVD £10.99 Add to basket Oh snap! Heavily bootlegged for years on VHS, Ricky Powell's early 90s Rappin' With The Rickster cable access show gave insight into the world of the foulmouthed, trouble-making New York City scenester. But this ain't your cousin's bootlegs - What you hold in your hand are carefully selected "best of" moments from the series, lifted straight off of Ricky's vintage analog masters and delivered right to your brain stem courtesy of the fine folks at Five Day Weekend. In addition to this incredible slice of vintage NYC street culture, the Rickster wanted to take it a step further with this release. We brought him back in the studio to get his Dean Martin on, hosting commentary over a virtual slideshow of his favorite pics from his ziploc bag full of slides. If that isn't the icing on the cake... we also laced him with a new camera, got him feeling nice, and turned him loose on Greenwich Village on some 2010 Rickster steez. So we got the new... and we got the old. And yeah yeah... it's real cool to be retro these days... but for every thousand emulators there's only one innovator... Ricky Powell is the mandingus general... The lazy hustler supreme. So don't be a jerkoff. Cop the DVD or keep it moving. |
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Waxpoectics - Issue 41 - The West Coast Issue ft Ice Cube / Ice T £8.99 Add to basket Also Includes: EPMD, DJ Disco Whiz, Supreme Photo Essay, Grandmixer DXT, Latin Freestyle, Easy Mo Bee Record Rundown, DJ Amir Record Spot Rundown, Peanut Butter Wolf Video Rundown, Souls of Mischief, Jimmy Spicer, Vicious Beat Posse, Just-Ice, Mixmaster Gee and the Turntable Orchestra, and Spyder D RE:Discovered, Guru, Malcolm McLaren, and Chilly B remembered |
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Waxpoectics - Issue 41 - The East Coast Issue ft KRS ONE / EPMD £8.99 Add to basket Also Includes: EPMD, DJ Disco Whiz, Supreme Photo Essay, Grandmixer DXT, Latin Freestyle, Easy Mo Bee Record Rundown, DJ Amir Record Spot Rundown, Peanut Butter Wolf Video Rundown, Souls of Mischief, Jimmy Spicer, Vicious Beat Posse, Just-Ice, Mixmaster Gee and the Turntable Orchestra, and Spyder D RE:Discovered, Guru, Malcolm McLaren, and Chilly B remembered |
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London Burners - Jete Swami Deluxe Paperback Book £13.99 Add to basket Some of the most outrageous graffiti art in the world barrels through the city of London in a blur of colour. These moving canvases and the people who create the dubs or burners are the subject of an electrifying collection of images by photographer Jete Swami. As a teenager, he hung out in sidings and soon learned to paint trains, all the while taking photos and filming his friends which he continues to do today. In revealing interviews with the photographer, these artists speak out about the joys and dangers of bombing and burning their tags, throw-ups and pieces on to London transport. In addition to vibrant reproductions of the works themselves are shots of the artists as they work under cover of night or scramble to avoid arrest. A unique collection of London's most dazzling high-speed train art, London Burners captures the intensity of this most urban of artistic expressions. |
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How To Wreck A Nice Beach - Dave Tompkins (The Vocoder From World War II to Hip Hop, The Machine Speaks Hardback Book £16.99 Add to basket The history of the vocoder: how popular music hijacked the Pentagon's speech scrambling weapon This is the story of how a military device became the robot voice of hip-hop and pop music. Though the vocoder, invented by Bell Labs in 1928, was designed to guard phones from eavesdroppers, it expanded beyond its original purpose and has since become widely used as a voice-altering tool for musicians. It has served both the Pentagon and the roller rink, a double agent of pop and espionage. |
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Q Bert - Wave Twisters - Visual Brain Cartridge DVD £12.99 Add to basket An eye-popping, hip-hop-meets-Hanna-Barbera animated adventure synched skratch for skratch with DJ QBert's turtable masterpiece of the same name, this sci-fi-/kung fu epic seamlessly integrates dazzling visuals to original musical compositions. The Inner Space Dental Commander must fulfill his destiny by reviving the "Lost Arts" (breakdancing, rapping, graffiti and skratching), so he and his posse (mischievouc droid Rubbish, lovely assistant Honey, and B-Boy Grandpa) battle their way through an increasingly surreal collection of villains, pratfalls, and boobytraps. Sampling from a wide variety of techniques from traditional cell animation to 3D to photo collage, Wave Twisters takes the Fantasia concept to the next, dizzying level! |
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J Dilla - Serato Set - Out June 26th - PRE ORDER to avoid disappointment - 2LP £33.99 Add to basket Serato and Stones Throw have teamed with the J Dilla Estate for the official J Dilla Serato release, Donut Shop. This is 2 discs with six J Dilla tracks, 2 sides with Serato Control Tone (for use with Serato Scratch Live DJ software), and 2 donut slipmats in a package designed by Studio No.1. The J Dilla tracks consist of three previously unreleased instrumentals selected by J.Rocc from the Dilla archives 'Safety Dance', 'Sycamore', 'Bars & Twists' and three unreleased instrumental versions of Dilla's production for Mos Def, Q-Tip and Busta Rhymes, each remastered by Elysian Masters who mixed and mastered J Dilla's Donuts, The Shining and Ruff Draft albums. |
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Stones Throw 2 X LP + Serato Disc & Slipmat Set LP £33.99 Add to basket |
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Q Bert - Trip Mats Set of 2 £19.99 Add to basket |
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A Time Before Crack by Jamel Shabazz (152 pages Hardback Book)
£19.99 Add to basket Every graffiti writer began his or her writing career with a tag. For those who learn to read tags, a world of aesthetic expression and communication opens up. Tags are a universal language - the jazz of lettering. The photos in Tag Town, dating back to the 1960s, introduce us to the origins of New York style graffiti, containing rare photos of work on the street by Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring and Kenny Scharf. Accompanying text is based on interviews with New York graffiti pioneers Blade, Part I and Snake I. |
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Tag Town: The Origins of Writing by Martha Cooper (107 pages Paperback Book)
£12.99 Add to basket Every graffiti writer began his or her writing career with a tag. For those who learn to read tags, a world of aesthetic expression and communication opens up. Tags are a universal language - the jazz of lettering. The photos in Tag Town, dating back to the 1960s, introduce us to the origins of New York style graffiti, containing rare photos of work on the street by Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring and Kenny Scharf. Accompanying text is based on interviews with New York graffiti pioneers Blade, Part I and Snake I. |
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Ego Trip's Book of Rap Lists (346 pages Paperback Book)
£15.99 Add to basket Flipping through the 350 pages, you are reminded time and time again of how far rap has changed from its days as a way for Bronx kids to pass the time. For example, reading Kool Herc's list of top old school DJs or the roll call of acts that used two DJs makes you yearn for the moment when DJs were an essential, integrated part of the hip hop experience, and not isolated into the snobbish turntablist set. It's not just the DJ memorials that give you cause for reflection. Reliving classic emcee battles seems quaint compared to the significantly hotter water rappers find themselves in today. And perusing milestones such as the first acts signed to major labels or early examples of hip-hop cinema are a valuable lesson for a generation that has grown up with rap as the cultural norm as its influence has spread into nearly facet of global pop culture. |
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Classic Material - The Hip Hop Album Guide (175 pages Paperback Book)
£13.99 Add to basket This rich, diverse, and intelligent collection of hip-hop and rap album reviews includes pieces from some of the country's most talented critics on hip-hop music, drawing on a range of expertise from writers at such magazines as Spin, Rolling Stone, The Source, and Vibe. With over 40 entries covering more than 60 classic albums, it disproves the idea that there is a dearth of intelligent commentary and criticism on rap music. Essays and reviews include observations on the music and meaning of the Beastie Boys, Cypress Hill, Eminem, Ice-T, Public Enemy, and Run DMC. Tupac's legacy, Jay-Z's pop allure, and Pharcyde's black masculinity issues are also explored. |
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Getting Up - Subway Graffiti in New York (190 pages Paperback Book)
£16.99 Add to basket Castleman gives a good historical introduction to graffiti and it's beginnings, his interviews are with the main writers of the time, such as Lee, and so this is a strong review of how it all started. |
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Can't Stop Won't Stop by Jeff Chang (546 pages Paperback book)
£7.99 Add to basket "Don't be misled; this is not just another rap book. Can't Stop Won't Stop is a potent political treatise, a glance at the 20th century through the social lens of hip-hop. Inflammatory, illuminating, and anything but myopic, the scope of Chang's work is awe-inspiring." - DJ Shadow |
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KRS ONE - The Gospel Of Hip Hop (Hardback book)
£16.99 Add to basket The Gospel of Hip Hop: First Instrument, the first book from the I Am Hip Hop imprint set for launch in the fall of 2009, is the philosophical masterwork of KRS ONE. Set in the format of a self-help holy book, this 800-plus-page opus is a spiritual manual for citizens of Hip Hop Kulture that combines classic philosophy with faith and practical knowledge, for a fascinating, in-depth exploration of Hip Hop as a life path. Known as "the Teacha," KRS ONE developed his unique outlook as a homeless teen in Brooklyn, New York, engaging his philosophy of self-creation to become one of the most respected emcees in Hip Hop history. As Hip Hop's true steward, KRS ONE painstakingly details the development of the culture and the ways in which we, as "Hiphoppas," can and should preserve its future. |
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The Nasty - Terrible T-Kid 170 (Hardback book)
£29.99 Add to basket The life story of graffiti writer T-Kid 170 from gang member to style mentor for urban youth. At the age of 16, Julius Cavero was shot three times in a gang shoot out in a park. He only just survived, and while lying in hospital with little else to do he began to draw, and it was there that he chose to become T-Kid 170. He grew up in the golden age of hip hop and became one of the leading figures in the emerging New York graffiti scene. His work was also reproduced in the seminal Subway Art and he was soon an international star. This is the uncensored Bronx hip hop story. |
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Check The Technique by Brian Coleman (509 pages book)
£14.99 Add to basket This is a really great read for all hip-hop fans, and essential hip-hop history is documented in here. It also gives you a lot more of an appreciation for some of hip-hop's classics and lets you delve deeper into the work of the golden age artists. Highly recommended. |
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Hip Hop Files by Martha Cooper (Hardback Edition)
£26.99 Add to basket Martha Cooper has a reputation of being the first and foremost photographer of emerging Hip Hop culture in New York City. This book documents the beginning of the phenomenon now known as Hip Hop. Along with the photos are quotes and statements from the people appearing in them. Insightful commentary from over 70 Hip Hop icons also accompany the shots. Cooper's willingness to travel into risky areas placed her at the centre of the Hip Hop movement and allowed unprecedented access. Hip Hop Files is the definitive record of the most influential youth culture on earth. |
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Breakdance The Movie aka BREAKIN' - DVD
£9.99 Add to basket BREAKIN' is quite simply the best dance movie to come out of the wonderous 1980's. |
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Breakdance 2 - Electric Boogaloo - DVD
£9.99 Add to basket This is the follow up to Breakin' (Breakdance The Movie). If you liked the 1st film, you won't be disappointed! |
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Scratch DVD - A film by Doug Pray
£9.99 Add to basket Director Doug Pray (HYPE!) pays tribute to the innovative art of deejaying in the electrifying documentary SCRATCH. Featuring the most legendary figures in the deejay scene, Pray's film is at once a deeply insightful historical document and a highly entertaining glimpse into the world of underground hip-hop. Modern luminaries such as DJ Shadow, MixMasterMike (of the Beastie Boys), DJ Qbert, Rob Swift, and DJ Swamp are interviewed alongside living legends like Afrika Bambaataa, Jazzy Jay, and Grand Mixer DXT, in order to paint a broad, comprehensive picture of how deejaying has evolved over the years. |
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Wild Style DVD - 25th Anniversary Edition
£9.99 Add to basket A movie whose influence cannot be under-estimated and hailed as the most inspirational hip-hop of movie of all time, Wild Style captures the birth of an underground hip-hop scene about to explode around the world changing the face of music, fashion, art and a way of life forever. Following street artist Zorro (played by legendary subway artist Lee Quinones) and his crew as they journey through the streets, projects and train yards of New York, keeping one step ahead of the cops and their rivals, the film climaxes in one of the most famous hip-hop concerts in history. Featuring the pioneers at the forefront of a cultural revolution including DJs, rappers and breakers such as Grand Master Flash, The Chief Rocker Busy Bee, Fab Five Freddy, The Rock Steady Crew, and The Cold Crush Bros., Wild Style is the greatest hip-hop movie of all time. |
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Yes Yes Y'All - Oral History of Hip Hop's First Decade by Jim Fricke & Charlie Ahearn (350 pages Book)
£14.99 Add to basket An essential book for all hip hop fans. Possibly the best read on the early days of hip hop from the people that were actually involved. This take you deeper than the average story of the birth of hip hop. |
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Ricky Powell - Oh Snap ! (160 pages Book)
£19.99 Add to basket Known around the world as 'the fourth Beastie Boy,' Ricky Powell has photographed rap and hip hop artists. From old school rappers Public Enemy, Run DMC, and LL Cool J to Cypress Hill, Method Man of the Wu Tang Clan. "Ricky is one of those rare individuals who has the uncanny ability to always find himself in the right place at the right time, and he has the pictures to prove it...Whatever function, show, party, or moment in time was occurring, Ricky would be there, camera round his neck, going for his shot in his old-school, Kevin McHale, off-balance, get-the-shot-then-bust-his-ass style."--Mike D "Ricky Powell is one of the best photographers of our time."--Run of Run-D.M.C. "This book is the wham-bango!"--Cypress Hill "Whether it was the birth of the Beastie Boys or Run-D.M.C. or Public Enemy, Ricky was there...I could go on and on, but in short, Ricky's the bomb!"--Fab 5 Freddy "Ricky is one of the best photographers I've ever worked with-- and I've worked with a lot."--LL Cool J |
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Dondi White - Style Master General (Hardcover Book)
£19.99 Add to basket The Life of Graffiti Artist Dondi White: The dominance of the graffiti aesthetic in contemporary culture is undeniable. But how did an art form spawned in the train yards of 1970s New York achieve the dominance it now enjoys in rap videos, TV commercials, fashion, and print ads around the world? There are many answers to the question, but one factor is indisputable: DONDI WHITE. Coming of age in hardscrabble East New York in the early 1970s, Dondi began the process of introducing a whole new artistic dialect into the cacophony of the American art scene. His work on subway trains remain classic benchmarks throughout the worldwide graffiti community today. In the 80s, Dondi's contributions were recognised by the art world at large. His death in the autumn of 1998 was mourned in graffiti and high art communities alike. Dondi's work maintains a rabid, worldwide following, and here for the first time, his full story is told. DONDI will also feature early sketches, rare paintings, and many images of Dondi's work on the subway trains of New York that have never been viewed before - anywhere |
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Beat Street DVD
£7.99 Add to basket Rapper Kenny (Guy Davis) and his breakdancing brother Lee (Robert Taylor) are up-and-coming talents. They only need a few good connections and one big break to make it. When they meet a beautiful college music professor (Rae Dawn Chong) who can help them expand their horizons, everything starts to fall into place. BEAT STREET features many influential rap stars and a legendary showdown between the Rock Steady Crew and the New York City Breakers. |
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Bonafide - Issue 03
£4.00 Add to basket Bonafide magazine continues itıs ongoing exploration into the art & design of music promotion, speaking to Village Green, the team behind Fabricıs distinct art direction and Stones Throw art director Jeff Jank, who designs the magazines first guest cover. Inside thereıs features on the most exciting MCs of the last 20 years including Mr Lif, renaissance man Raekwon the Chef, avant-garde sound sorcerers Anti-Pop Consortium, native tongue pioneers De La Soul and Task Force. As well as revealing insights from two of the finest purveyors of modern funk, Malcolm Catto and Dam Funk. |
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Secondhand Sureshots DVD + CD
£9.99 Add to basket DVD Secondhand Sureshots the film + CD Original music by Daedelus, J-Rocc, Nobody and Ras G, plus a megamix by Kutmah |
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Waxpoetics - Issue 40
Ohio Players £7.99 Add to basket - LEROY SUGARFOOT BONNER bares the pleasures and pains of the OHIO PLAYERS. - Motown cofounder and hitmaker SMOKEY ROBINSON ascended souls limitations. - Detroit collective TRIBE employed jazz to empower the people. - JOE CUBA and his Sextet reinvented Latin music many times over. - The auspicious apprenticeship of Atlantic Records engineer GENE PAUL. - Jazz vibist JOHNNY LYTLE relentlessly went the distance. Plus: TORTOISE, RECORD RUNDOWN WITH MILES TACKET OF BREAKESTRA, JAVELIN, GILLES PETERSON IN HAVANA ,TEDDY PENDERGRASS AND WILLIE MITCHELL REMEMBERED |
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Rakim Told Me: Hip-Hop Wax Facts, Straight from the Original Artists The 80's (Paperback)
£13.99 Add to basket Not many books have fully explored hip hop album history, fewer still have got the words from the horses mouth about how these works of wonder came about. Key albums covered here include BDP's 'Criminal Minded' (KRS-One tells his life story, amazing insights), EPMD's 'Strictly Business' |
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SHOOK Magazine - Issue 7
£4.50 Add to basket The Funk Factory Special issue of Shook Magazine -- with focus feature on the modern funk flag wavers that keep the scene fresh and amazing, including The Daptone Records gang, Breakestra, Whitefield Brothers, Lefties Soul Connection and more -- plus articles on Roughneck MC, Jazzie B, Moondog, Max Romeo, Tribe Records, Terence Blanchard and more -- plus Fela on Broadway, the Akwaaba label and more! Lucky number 7 in the UK-based journal of global music & culture -- and the best yet! |
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Waxpoetics - Issue 39
Africa Issue: Fela / Tony Allen £7.99 Add to basket - An excerpt from Fela: This Bitch of a Life by Carlos Moore. - Drummer Tony Allen helped Fela create a musical phenomenon that shook a continent. - Singer Vincent Ahehehinnou brought the funk to Beninıs Orchestre Poly-Rythmo. - Pax Nicholas broke free from Felaıs grip to create his own hard-hitting Afrobeat masterpiece. - Artist Ghariokwu Lemi handcrafted classic Fela album covers. - The Rail Band shot to stardom by fusing modernism with Maliıs rich folkloric tradition Orchestra Baobab embraced Cuban rhythms but shines in many styles. |
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Waxpoetics - Issue 38
Curtis Mayfield/Ralph Bakshi £7.99 Add to basket * Re:Discovery Melvin Van Peebles, Manfred Krug, Marvin Gaye, Judgment Night OST, John Carpenter * Roc Raida The Grand Master * Shadows and Phonographs This sinister role of the turntable in Hollywood classics * Brotherman Blaxploitation soundtrack for a film that wasnt meant to be * Adrian Younge Black Dynamite composer refuses to cut corners with his authentic old soul * Gangs On Film The South Bronx of 1979 documented in 80 Blocks from Tiffanys * Night Life Photographer Michael Abramson captured the magic of 1970s South Side Chicago * The Rhythm of Film DJ/producer David Holmes approaches soundtrack composition with a less-is-more philosophy * Mood Music European libraries created soulful instrumentals for 70s film and television * The Next Hustle Ex-pimp Robert Beck transformed into writer Iceberg Slim, introducing a new genre for literature, film and music * Comic Truth Animation and indie film pioneer Ralph Bakshi drew attention to race and culture * Gangster Boogie Curtis Mayfield injected his own cultural commentary into the Super Fly legacy * The Provocateur Director Spike Lee continues to tell personal stories by any means necessary * Playing It Straight Black Dynamite director Scott Sanders crafts high-caliber blaxploitation homage * Analog Out Cybernetics, Louis and Bebe Barron, and the sonic life-forms of Forbidden Planet |
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Fredy Fresh presents The Rap Records 2nd Edition, The Ultimate Vinyl Ressource Book £24.99 Add to basket
The new expanded 2nd Revised edition of the famed reference book, Freddy Fresh Presents The Rap Records is available, as a special limited edition pressing, This brand new edition features: UK Rap scene Introduction by Record Collector Magazine, Contributor Dudley Jaynes, 1990's Introduction by Classic MC, 6X9 Paperback 740 Pages in length, Over 2,500 Full Color Photo's, Section on Bootlegs and Mastermixes, Updated British and foreign Labels throughout book, Now Listing Records to 1994 and beyond, Photo's of Rare Old New York Area Records Stores, Extensive Comprehensive Index, Highest Price Paid Auction Guide, Interviews With Famous Collectors and Auctioneers, Section on distinguishing Bootlegs from Originals |
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Graffiti Kings Jack Stewart £19.99 Add to basket
This rare, first-hand account of the birth of the New York subway graffiti movement during the 1970s is the first and only graffiti book to reveal what happened behind the scenes when writers put their lives on the line to grab a scrap of fame from a faceless urban landscape. Through personal interviews and over 275 full-color, unpublished photographs, the colourful origins of subway graffiti are brought to life.Legends such as Taki 183, Bama 1, Phase 2, and CoCo 144 - as well as the city officials who saw the writers as public menaces and their art as vandalism - give accounts of every-day struggles, each full of new advancements, excitement and risk. Alongside archival photographs of everything from vibrant bubble-letter and 3-D pieces to the Holy Grail, are maps, images and ephemera that help fill out this story. A celebration in words and pictures of graffiti's Golden Age, "Graffiti Kings" is a book sure to be coveted by those fascinated and inspired by this uniquely American urban art form. |
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Boogie Down Productions Criminal Minded USB Gun Traffic Entertainment Group and B-Boy Records are proud to present one of the most influential and original albums in music history: ³Criminal Minded² by Boogie Down Productions packaged in a one-of-a-kind USB device shaped like a gun! This 1 GB USB gun contains two folders full of music, original cover art and credit sheet. The first folder features the original ten album tracks, and the second folder contains rare 12 cuts and alternative versions as well as previously unreleased ³Red Alert KISS- Crackhead DJ Dis version of South Bronx. This special edition reissue of this definitive rap album is a must have for any music collector or fan of contemporary American music in general. We invite you to experience Criminal Minded again for the first time. FOLDER 01 01 POETRY 02 SOUTH BRONX 03 9mm GOES BANG 04 WORD FROM OUR SPONSOR 05 ELEMENTARY 06 DOPE BEAT 07 REMIX FOR P IS FREE 08 THE BRIDGE IS OVER 09 SUPER-HOE 10 CRIMINAL MINDED FOLDER 02 01 ADVANCE (Original 12 Vocal Version) 02 SAY NO BROTHER (CRACK ATTACK DONıT DO IT) (Original 12 Vocal Truth Mix) 03 OPERATING ROOM INTERVIEW (A) 04 THE BRIDGE IS OVER (Clean Red Alert 12 Version) 05 OPERATING ROOM INTERVIEW (B) 06 THE P IS FREE (Original 12 Version) 07 SOUTH BRONX (Red Alert KISS- Crackhead DJ Dis Version)* INCLUDES ORIGINAL COVER ARTWORK JPEG, TRACK LISTING AND CREDITS PDF * PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED ALTERNATIVE VERSE EXCLUSIVE TO THIS USB SET USB Gun £14.99 Add to basket |
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F What U Heard UK Hip Hop DVD £11.99 Add to basket
with Interviews, Cyphers, Music Videos. With Manage, Stig, Reain, MC MEllo, Chester P, Logic and many more! |
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The 73 Funsgine Book by Jason Jagel & Madlib (Stones Throw) £44.99 Add to basket
This large-format, full-color monograph by contemporary artist Jason Jagel features over 200 images from Jagelıs career, largely focusing on his current practice. His sometimes-loose, sometimes-tight narrative gouache paintings populate this oversize publication. Music references, family life, and the humming buzz of the street are often found in a single, sprawling image. His work includes fictional and actual album cover paintings, records made of paper, narrative vinyl ³grooves² made of pencil and paintings inspired by specific songs, albums and artists. Jagellıs connection to music has been strengthened by the use of his paintings as record cover designs for the LA-based hip-hop label Stones Throw, among others. Stones Throwıs major artist, Madlib, has three exclusive tracks that appear on a companion 10-inch vinyl record with its own full-color sleeve designed by Jagel. Contributors include Madlib, Jeff Jank, Nate Denver. |
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Kings Magazine Issue 1 High & Mighty, Mr Complex, Technics 1200, Free Old School Poster was £2.50 now 10p Add to basket |
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Andrew Thompson - There Must Be Some Kind Of misunderstanding/Idiot (Lewis Recordings) CD Single Add to basket |
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The Pharcyde -
Otha Fish 7"
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Diplo & Don Rimini present RMXXS -
Young MC Bust A Move
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