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Ill Move Sporadic and Joey Menza - Alpha Coda CD £4.99 Add to basket Starch Music Records presents the superb new ILL MOVE SPORADIC & JOEY MENZA album 'ALPHA CODA¹. Alpha Coda includes the track Battle Axes featured on UK Rap Chronicles CD, Anger Management used on the DC Shoes Big Push DVD (Nov Issue of Sidewalk Magazine) and Bar Crushers, featuring Don't Flop/Battle Scars Winner -Tenchoo. |
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Blitz The Ambassador - Native Sun CD (Jakarta) CD £8.99 Add to basket Blitz The Ambasador is back with "Native Sun", bridging the gap in between Hip Hop and timeless Afro Grooves. |
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Boogie Down Productions - Criminal Minded Double Vinyl Album + Poster 2 LP £14.99 Add to basket First 2xLP issue of 1987 debut from KRS-One, D-Nice, and DJ Scott La Rock. |
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Coss - Before I Awoke (Tres Records) CD CD £11.99 Add to basket Finally this epic masterpiece gets the reissue treatment! |
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Deltron 3030 Deltron 3030 LP Vinyl 2 LP £15.99 Add to basket Finally this epic masterpiece gets the reissue treatment! |
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Common - Resurrection (Original Full Length Double Album + Remixes + Liner Notes & Poster) 2LP £16.99 Add to basket Common's classic 1994 sophomore album gets the Traffic resissue treatment. Presented in a gatefold double-LP with a poster featuring the album's cover art work. Features the all-time great songs "I Used to Love H.E.R." and "Resurrection". The 2xLP features the original 15 album tracks (all cuts remastered from the original masters) and three remixes of ³Resurrection². Two of the remixes were produced by the one and only Large Professor of Main Source fame and the third is another track by No I.D. Also includes full sized poster! |
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Jehst - The Dragon Of An Ordinary Family (YNR) Comes with AUTOGRAPHED FLYER !!! CD £8.99 Add to basket 2LP £18.99 Add to basket The drifter returns! After a brief hiatus one UK's finest lyricists, Jehst returns with his fourth full length album 'The Dragon Of An Ordinary Family'. Proving that great music stands the test of time Jehst's words, rhymes and beats are as relevant today as ever before. Refusing to bandwagon, back down or conform, the evolution of Jehst's music and career has been an inspiring and refreshing take on modern music, succeeding where many others have failed, he is a true Hip Hop visionary and torch bearer, living proof that following your heart and making the music you believe in pays off. Despite his UK credentials Jehst is far from a local hero, his name is respected the world over from the Australia to Europe and America to Japan, it's time for this UK Rap legend to collect the props he duly deserves. |
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Pete Rock/Smif-n-Wessun - Monumental (Duck Down) CD
CD £8.99 Add to basket |
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Aloe Blacc - Get Down (Plug) 12" Vinyl
12" £7.99 Add to basket |
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Roxanne Shanté Queen Of Rox 12" Vinyl 12" £6.99 Add to basket A Roxanne Shanté Queen Of Rox B MC Shan Beat Biter |
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Spoonie Gee & Treacherous Three Love Rap / New Rap Language 12" Vinyl 12" £6.99 Add to basket A Spoonie Gee Love Rap B Spoonie Gee & Treacherous Three New Rap Language |
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Roxanne Shante - Def Fresh Crew / Runaway 12" Vinyl 12" £6.99 Add to basket A Roxanne Shanté & Biz Def Fresh Crew B Roxanne Shanté Runaway |
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Kev-E-Kev & AK-B - Keep On Doin' 12" Vinyl 12" £6.99 Add to basket A1 Keep On Doin' B1 Keep On Doin' (AK-Apella Mix) B2 Keep On Doin' (Dope Instrumental Mix) B3 Keep On Doin' (Acapella Mix) |
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M.F. Doom "Operation: Doomsday" 4LP Vinyl Tin - PRE SALE - Out in July
4LP in a Tin w. Lyric Book & Card Set £49.99 Add to basket Ask any true hip-hop fan and he can tell you exactly where and when he first heard DOOM's Operation: Doomsday. Against seeming insurmountable odds, the album - bootlegged mercilessly, floating in and out of print on various labels since it's release in 1999 - gained mythical status amongst music aficionados of all backgrounds as one of the landmark releases of the past decade. At its core? One man, a microphone and the Roland VS 1680 and MPC 2000. By the time of Operation: Doomsday's recording, DOOM was a transformed man: a veteran of hip hop's aging "new school" reinvented as the masked, abstract wordsmith of the NOW. His pointed wit, subtly subversive lyrics and stream-of-consciousness flow over adventurous sample-based production created the measuring stick by which rappers in the coming decade would measure themselves. This summer, DOOM's own Metal Face Records will release Operation: Doomsday as it was intended to be heard: as a special remastered and expanded 4 LP set, featuring a 32-page, 7" x 7" lyric book and a complete collection of alternate versions, b-sides and instrumentals, packaged in a 12.75" round vinyl tin. Stones Throw's Jeff Jank, an often DOOM collaborator, and San Francisco-based artist Jason Jagel, who provided the painting for DOOM's MM... Food album, were enlisted to create both an updated version of the album's iconic comic-book style cover art for the box and a set of 10 Doomsday MCs trading cards (featuring DOOM, Kurious and others) especially for this release. Produced by Stones Throw Records GM and A&R Egon under the watchful eyes of DOOM himself, this is Operation: Doomsday as it was intended to be experienced. |
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MF Doom - Operation: Doomsday (Expanded Edition Boxset) OUT OF STOCK - RESTOCK MID JULY!! Remastered and Expanded 42 Track 2CD Set, Alternate Versions, B-Sides, Rare Originals and Instrumentals, 32-Page Lyric Book, Doomsday MCs Card Set, Unique Limited Metal Box Packaging. Check out the whole content on here: http://www.youtube.com/user/getondowntv Operation: Doomsday has floated in and out of print since its original 1999 pressing on famed New York label Fondle 'Em, attaining mythical status amongst underground fans as one of the landmark releases of the decade, showcasing MF Doom's abstract wordplay, pointed wit, subtly subversive lyrics and alcohol drenched stream-of-consciousness flows over adventurous sample-based production. The album's impact steadily grew to alter the landscape of hip hop as it was then known, and its periodic cycles of unavailabilty seem only to have enhanced its mythical status. This new version presents it as a remastered and expanded double-disc set, featuring a 32-page lyric book plus 23 alternate versions, b-sides, instrumentals and acapellas, packaged in a 7" x 8" x 4" lunchbox tin, with handle and snap-lock clasp. San Francisco-based artist Jason Jagel, who provided the incredible painting for Doom's MMŠFOOD album, was enlisted to create both an updated version of the album's original iconic (copyright-infringing) comic-book artwork to cover the whole box, along with a sealed pack of Doomsday MCs trading cards, featuring MF Doom, Kurious, and others - 10 in total, one for each character featured on the album. Still as bold, creative and villainous as it was 12 years ago, only now it's louder and longer, you won't need a headful of chaos to figure out the lyrics or a bag to carry it home in, and you'll be the envy of your homies every time you get your sandwiches out. |
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Stig Of The Dump - Mood Swings (Lewis Recordings) CD £9.99 Add to basket Newly signed to Lewis Recordings Stig of The Dump releases his second album 'Mood Swings'. From the classic dusty breaks of 'Back' to the celebrity lambasting 'Planet Hollywood' or the tongue in cheek strip club banger 'Give It Up', Stig takes not-giving-a-fuck to a level entirely unfathomed before. However, far from just an album full of boozy attitude, time is taken out between his sardonic observations to show true diversity. Be it the introspective and inspirational 'Whats Up (25/8)', the anthemic anger driven 'Hater' and it's rock addled live version 'Hardcore Hater', the angst fuelled 'Wind The Clock' or the intricately weaved imagery of 'Big City Blues'. The album is consistently fervent, and undeniably passionate throughout. Guest production from one of the country's biggest talents - Jehst - on 'Who's That Muddy Funkster' is the icing on the cake, with cuts from DJ Manipulate, this is a banger of epic proportions and a collabo dreamt up in the mind of home grown fans everywhere. Also included on the LP is the lead single from the album, 'I Got Game' - bringing a computer-game sampling, screw face inducing beast of an entity depicting exactly what the fans demand from the recently crowned, undefeated, 2 X World and UK E.O.W Champion. If all of the above isn't enough, the massive previously released singles 'Intoxicated' and 'Braindead' featuring R.A the Rugged Man are also included on this incredible project. The name alone holds weight enough for this to be in stereo's, iPods and club systems nationwide, but both lyrically and musically, this album stands strong. |
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Nice & Smooth (Greg Nice + Smooth B) - 'Nice & Smooth (Re-Issue) CD £8.99 Add to basket When the team of Greg Nice and Smooth B made their first appearance on Big Daddy Kane's "Pimpin' Ain't Easy" in 1989, they instantly became one of the most recognizable duos in hip-hop. Known for their catchy, lighthearted and humorous tracks, Nice & Smooth combined Greg Nice's lyrical dexterity with Smooth B's slow, talkative flow to create an often imitated, never duplicate style that won admiration from the likes of Kane, Tupac, DJ Premier and many others. Their self-titled 1989 debut proved their initial chemistry was no fluke, to quote their single "Early to Rise," they "kept coming back with more and more hits." Aside from that song, the album also contains "Funky For You" and "Perfect Harmony," tracks that highlighted the pair's unique delivery, sense of humor and ear for catchy beats. The group went on to experience further success in the subsequent years, but their debut remains possibly their best work, and a worthy inclusion on The Source magazine's list of 100 Best Rap Albums of All-Time. In continuing their series of classic hip-hop reissues, Get On Down is proud to present Nice & Smooth's long out-of-print debut album in a special edition, featuring audio remastered from the original master tapes and digipak packaging featuring the original album artwork. |
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Sparky D - This Is Sparky D's World (Extended Re-Issue) CD £9.99 Add to basket Traffic Entertainment Group in partnership with B-Boy records is proud to release this extended version of the album, out of print in any format for over 14 years. Housed in a handsome 6 panel digipak featuring extended artwork and audio including all the 12" cuts, mixes and instrumentals from Sparky's classic "Throwdown" and "I Can't Stop" vinyl singles. |
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D-Nice - Call Me D-Nice (Extended Re-Issue) CD £7.99 Add to basket When Boogie Down Productions' DJ/producer/hypeman D-Nice went solo in 1990, the world wasn't quite sure what to expect. Taking over as KRS-One's DJ after Scott La Rock's murder in 1987, D-Nice was a relative unknown, despite having played a part in the group's classic albums By All Means Necessary and the follow-up Edutainment. Setting out to make his name as an independent artist, he delivered Call Me D-Nice, an album that abandoned BDP's militant political rhetoric in favor of a fun, upbeat attitude that played to his strengths: witty and boastful rhymes backed by funky, sample-based beats. The album yielded a #1 hit with the title track (along with "Crumbs On the Table", which made the Top 20) and proved that D-Nice could do much more than just play the background. Out of print for over 20 years, D-Nice's debut album Call Me D-Nice returns in an expanded edition housed in a 6-panel digipak featuring original and extended artwork with liner notes for the bonus cuts written by Noah Uman. Extended Audio includes 2 non-album cuts (produced by Scott La Rock) as well as 12" mixes and instrumentals previously unavailable on CD format. Also includes the 12" singles "Glory" and "The TR 808 Is Coming." |
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Paten Locke Super Ramen Rocketship (Tres Records) CD £12.99 Add to basket 2 LP £17.99 Add to basket Tres Records presents the debut album from Jacksonville´s very own Emcee/Producer/DJ, Paten Locke. Also known as Therapy, many are aware of his work from groups such as Asamov, The Smile Ray´s, The Alias Brothers and The Perceptionists. Paten´s production may also be heard on tracks of other artists such as Mr. Lif and Akrobatik. But with this debut solo album, many will soon be aware of his "triple threat" skills, which he serves up together all himself, for every fiending hip hop fan out there. |
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Atmosphere (Slug + Ant) - The Family Sign (Rhymesayers)
CD £7.99 Add to basket 2 LP £24.99 Add to basket Atmosphere returns with their 7th official studio album and the newest addition to their unparalleled body of work. The Family Sign comes from a place well refined and firmly planted, from a universal perspective. It's about being okay with losing friends and strengthening your bonds with others, celebrating the person who's been the most positive in your life, your kids, your homies, leaving the people you need to behind, and bringing the ones you love with you. It's about your family, your time and the time you have with them. It's about living and dying. It's the truth about family, that it comes from loyalty as much as biology. It's about breaking down your perceptions of family and really appreciating the people who've made you who you are and continue doing so. The Family Sign is Atmosphere's most personal and intimate album yet; it involves and engages the listener like never before. Slug's signature voice weaves in and out of Ant's ASR-born production, Nate Collis' bluesy guitar riffs and the sound of Erick Anderson's unmistakable keys giving The Family Sign a fresh, unique edge without sacrificing Atmosphere's signature sound. Custom printed heavyweight digi-pak that doubles as a picture frame with stand. Includes 5 silver foil stamped pictures backed with lyrics that can be changed in the frame. |
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J Rawls - Hip-Hop Affect CD £9.99 Add to basket J Rawls helped launch the independent Hip-Hop explosion of the late 90s by producing Brown Skin Lady and Yo Yeah from Mos Def and Talib Kweli s seminal debut album as Black Star. He went on to anchor Lone Catalysts, one of the most acclaimed early independent rap groups, and release a successful solo album through Groove Attack in 2001. Now, more than a decade after his last solo Hip-Hop album, J Rawls is proud to present The Hip-Hop Affect. Rawls delved into neo-soul and jazz with The Essence Of Soul and The Liquid Crystal Project, but now he s ready to make a full return to Hip-Hop. We birthed it, created it, and reared it, he explains. We may not like every change, but we stick with Hip-Hop because we love it. |
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Grieves - Together/Apart (Rhymesayers) CD £7.99 Add to basket Together/Apart is the highly anticipated Rhymesayers debut album from Grieves. Teaming up with longtime friend and producer Budo, Together/Apart is an album infused with soulful horns, keys, and guitar. Lyrically, the album encompasses both the difficulties and joys of maintaining professional and personal relationships when on the road and back at home. |
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Random Axe (Sean Price, Black Milk & Guilty Simpson) - Random Axe (Duck Down Records) CD £10.99 Add to basket Random Axe is the super-group comprised of Sean Price, Black Milk & Guilty Simpson. All songs are produced by Black Milk. |
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Styly Cee & Cappo - The Fallout (Son Records) 2 LP £22.49 Add to basket An old-fashioned hip-hop album of funk drums against tough rhymes, one mouthpiece versus one on the decks. And that's where the sentimentality ends. The Fallout took root from Styly Cee and Cappo's Nottingham knockout H-Bomb EP from '08. To commemorate Son's not-to-be-sniffed-at achievement of reaching a half century, the pair display a hunger, like label debutants eager to secure long-lasting props. Either that or they're smashing up the place as if they know their time is up, but something tells you these boys are gonna run and run. Recorded at Stylz House Of Hits, Notts, Mixed at Gamble Studios, Notts, Mastered at Metropolis, London, Pressed at the Vinyl Factory, Hayes. Limited to 200 copies Sealed and Numbered double LP, Signed with individually spray painted sleeves in plastic sleeve |
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Styly Cee & Cappo - The Fallout (Son Records) CD £4.99 Add to basket An old-fashioned hip-hop album of funk drums against tough rhymes, one mouthpiece versus one on the decks. And that's where the sentimentality ends. The Fallout took root from Styly Cee and Cappo's Nottingham knockout H-Bomb EP from '08. To commemorate Son's not-to-be-sniffed-at achievement of reaching a half century, the pair display a hunger, like label debutants eager to secure long-lasting props. Either that or they're smashing up the place as if they know their time is up, but something tells you these boys are gonna run and run. |
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Victor Vaughn (MF Doom) - Vaudeville Villain - GOLD EDITION 3LP & GOLD BONUS RECORD 3 LPs £34.99 Add to basket Doom's classic 2004 album finally back in print. Limited edition, triple gold vinyl pressing, with an extra bonus disc of instrumentals and accapellas, including the very rare "Saliva" instrumental produced by RJD2, and previous CD-only tracks "Open Mic Night" and "Change the Beat". |
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DJ Vadim presents The Electric - Toot Toot (Organically Grown Sounds) 12" £5.99 Add to basket Daddy Vad 12" Edit/fLako Remix/Zeds Dead Remix/J Star's MonstaKrunkstep Mash) / So Now You Know / Toot Toot (ft Knaledge and Vokab Kompany) Daddy Vad Remix |
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Ramelzee & K Rob - Beat Bop 12" WHITE VINYL £15.99 Add to basket Back in stock! 1983's epic 'Beat Bop' by Rammelzee and K-Rob is best known as the magnificent theme for the film, 'Style Wars'. Rammellzee's old school flow perfectly encapsulates the film's energy, rapping about The Son of Sam and other noteworthy elements of NYC pop culture as The Rock Steady Crew break dance against Dynamic Rockers. It is a stunning ten minutes of psychedelic instruments and stunning old school anthem lyrics. 'Beat Bop' came about when Fab 5 Freddy took Rammellzee to meet the up and coming (and now legendary) Warhol protege, Jean-Michel Basquiat. |
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Whodini - Escape (Expanded & Remastered) CD Boxset £8.99 Add to basket Having been out of print for years, Traffic Entertainment Group is proud to present Whodini's landmark album in a special edition, packaged in a deluxe slip case box, featuring audio remastered from the original analog tapes and additional instrumentals, a capellas and 12"-only mixes never before released on CD, plus poster with artwork based on the original 12" single design. |
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Showbiz & KRS-One - Godsville (DITC) CD £12.99 Add to basket "Godsville" brings together two Bronx Hip Hop legends; KRS-ONE and Showbiz. Showcasing a production style that is currently featured on projects by Joe Budden, Fabolous, Royce Da 5'9", Lloyd Banks and others, Showbiz (producer of classic Hip Hop hits such as "Soul Clap" and "Sound of the Police") provides a classic yet fresh Bronx production style while KRS-ONE takes it back to the essence of Hip Hop with lyrical contributions equal to those on classic KRS-ONE albums. Recent album reviews are calling this project a "modern classic" and "what Hip Hop has been missing." |
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Planet Patrol - Planet Patrol CD £7.99 Add to basket Extended Edition, includes 3 bonus tracks. Out of print for 10 years. Classic 80's B Boy street funk anthems. Produced by Arthur Baker & Tom Silverman. Remix by Lil' Jon. |
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Madlib Medicine Show #9: Channel 85 Presents Nittyville CD £9.99 Add to basket The collab with MC Frank Nitt, 14-track hip-hop album. |
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Kool Moe Dee - Kool Moe Dee CD £7.99 Add to basket Out of print for over 25 years, classic debut album from original member of The Treacherous Three Grammy Award winner & battle rap pioneer. |
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King Sun - XL (Re-Issue/Profile/Zakia) CD Boxset £7.99 Add to basket Every King needs his crown, and they don't get much bigger than this. Originally released by Profile Records, King Sun's 1989 debut album XL introduced the world to the Bronx rapper's explosive style, a combination of smooth, party-rocking rhymes and intelligent lyrics inspired by the teachings of the Five Percent Nation. Emerging from an era of legends like Rakim and Big Daddy Kane, King Sun proved with songs like "On the Club Tip" and "Hey Love" that he could hold his own alongside the biggest names in hip-hop. Out of print for over 20 years, Traffic Entertainment Group, in partnership with Profile and Zakia Records, is proud to present the definitive version of King Sun's acclaimed first album, featuring audio remastered from the original analog tapes, deluxe packaging and two bonus tracks ("Mythological Rapper" and "Christmas in the City") available for the first time ever on CD. |
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Hail Mary Mallon - Are You Gonna Eat That? (Rhymesayers) CD + FREE POSTER & STICKERS £7.99 Add to basket After years of performing live together and appearing on each other's solo albums, critically acclaimed MCs/producers Aesop Rock and Rob Sonic, along with DJ Big Wiz, come together as Hail Mary Mallon and deliver their Rhymesayers debut Are You Gonna Eat That? The album is full of powerful dense production and witty word play courtesy of Aesop Rock and Rob Sonic. Add some turntable wizardry from DJ Big Wiz and this trio is destined to be as infectious as Typhoid Mary herself. |
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Face Candy - Waste Age Teen Land (Rhymesayers) CD + FREE POSTER £8.49 Add to basket Face Candy is Eyedea (R.I.P.), Kristoff Krane, Jt Bates (drummer), and Casey O'Brien (bassist). WATL is the final album that Eyedea was able to completely finish before passing away in October 2010. It follows the group on a 3-day recording excursion that took place in March 2009. |
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Edo G - A Face In the Crowd CD £8.49 Add to basket With A Face in the Crowd, Edo G shows why he can still get in a mic booth and spit more worthy bars than many competitors who are more than a decade younger. |
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Count Bass D & Insight - The Risk Takers CD £9.99 Add to basket "The Risk Takers" celebrates the style of two MC's & Producers, in a mood of positive emulation. "The Risk Takers" doesn't care about mainstream as much as underground. So, exit the classic formulas, Count Bass D & Insight have favoured a more subtle universe. The tracks are mixed and self-sufficients, showing on different strokes various atmospheres and moods. We can find here what made us thrill on the first Pharcyde or Deltron 3030. An innocence and a certain Hip-Hop classicism which paradoxically get the agreement of all and overtake the divides of the genre. Maybe this is what means having style and brio. |
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Blueprint - Adventures in Counter-Culture (Rhymesayers) CD £7.99 Add to basket Like his partner RJD2, Blueprint has gifts that transcend traditional Hip Hop. A lover of concept and message, Blueprint's sophomore Rhymesayers solo, Adventures in Counter-Culture is one of the best examples to date of a talented emcee looking for a call to action and walls to tear down. |
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Celph Titled & Buckwild - Nineteen Ninety Now CD £9.99 Add to basket 2LP £17.99 Add to basket Nineteen Ninety Now is finally here and a hip-hop renaissance is about to begin! The art form is brought full-circle through this groundbreaking collaboration between underground giant Celph Titled and production legend Buckwild (D.I.T.C.)! Showing that the lessons from the past can be combined with the innovations of the present, these two heavyweight artists have joined forces to create a neo-classic. By having uninhibited access to Buckwild's original mid-90's production, Celph Titled was able to select and record to over 16 unreleased D.I.T.C. bangers; bringing his charismatic flow and lyrical prowess to each one. |
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James Pants - James Pants (Stones Throw) 2LP £18.99 Add to basket James Pants' third album is appropriately self-titled, as it is the first album that sees him avoiding gimmicks and coming into his own as an original entity. Released in 2008, Welcome found the Spokane local appropriating electro-funk, and 2009's Seven Seals was a spooky, psychedelic concept album about forming a cult. James Pants is a personal record, but it's still out there. Like most Stones Throw artists, Pants is never content unless he's pushing boundaries and evolving. Here, to use his own words, he's influenced by Twin Peaks and `50s diner songs. He uses crazy amounts of slapback echo and a wall of `90s synths to get this sort of ominous, retro-cool sound. |
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James Pants - James Pants (Stones Throw) CD £7.99 Add to basket James Pants' third album is appropriately self-titled, as it is the first album that sees him avoiding gimmicks and coming into his own as an original entity. Released in 2008, Welcome found the Spokane local appropriating electro-funk, and 2009's Seven Seals was a spooky, psychedelic concept album about forming a cult. James Pants is a personal record, but it's still out there. Like most Stones Throw artists, Pants is never content unless he's pushing boundaries and evolving. Here, to use his own words, he's influenced by Twin Peaks and `50s diner songs. He uses crazy amounts of slapback echo and a wall of `90s synths to get this sort of ominous, retro-cool sound. |
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RJD2 presents The Insane Warrior - We Are The Doorways CD £9.99 Add to basket Not all records are created with the same goal in mind. Following in the footsteps of MF Doom, Prefuse 73, and Damon Albarn, RJD2 has created a side project/alter ego of sorts: The Insane Warioor. A strictly instrumental affair, the album "We are the Doorways" was loosely inspired by horror and sci-fi film scores of the 70s and early 80s. While heavily leaning on big, espansive analog synth sounds, angular rhythms, and blissful ambient passages, the record still maintains the attention to groove that RJD2 is well known for. At times jazzy, psychedelic, and introspecive, The Insane Warrior is yet another unique trademark in the catalog of an ever changing and growing artist. |
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Strong Arm Steady - Arms & Hammers (Element 9) CD £10.49 Add to basket The long awaited project from Strong Arm Steady, Arms & Hammers, finally sees the light of day! The MC trio from California present the album on executive producer Talib Kweli's imprint, Blacksmith Music, after being in development for nearly five years (and beginning as a major label project through Warner Brothers). On Arms & Hammers, Krondon, Mitchy Slick and Phil Da Agony are joined by rap heavy hitters Game, Too Short (yes. . .), KRS-One and Kurupt, among others. Arms & Hammers follows 2010's In Search of Stoney Jackson, produced by Madlib. |
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Kool Keith - The Legend Of Tashan Dorrsett CD £10.99 Add to basket 12 Kool Keith tracks get the remix treatment by Marley Marl, Domingo & others ... 8 instrumentals are included as well! |
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Talib Kweli - Gutter Rainbows CD £8.99 Add to basket 2LP on Color Vinyl £24.99 Add to basket The album features Mos Def, Sean Price, Outasight, Jean Grae, Nigel Hall, Chace Infinite, Iron Solomon & Ed Lover. Production is by 88-Keys, Ski Beatz, S-1, E. Jones, KHRYSIS!, Shuko, M-Phazes, Marco Polo, Nick Speed, 6th sense, Maurice Brown, Ty Neg & Blaq Toven. |
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Roc Marciano - Marcberg (The Album!) 2LP £15.99 (includes 2 bonus tracks!) Add to basket Formerly known for being a member of The UN & Flipmode Squad ... now on the solo tip! Great Album! |
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Alchemist + Oh No (Gangrene) - Gutter Water (Decon) CD £9.99 Add to basket A couple years back The Alchemist and Stones Throw's Oh No announced they would be working on their own Jaylib-style hip-hop collab under the name Gangrene. Defying the list of announced hip-hop collabs that never see the light of day, Gangrene has just emerged. The album is called Gutter Water and it is being released on the Decon label. Starting from the album title, there's no mistaking the style of Gutter Water: drums smothered that go-jump-off-a-bridge, rusty-nail-in-the-eye, nasty toilet bowl rawness, the kind of grimy music both of these producers have spent a decade perfecting. |
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Frank Nitt - Jewels In My Backpack (Delicious Vinyl) CD (includes Free Mixtape Download Card!) £13.99 Add to basket 2LP £19.99 Add to basket Having released four albums as the Detroit-based duo Frank-n-Dank with Dankery Harv, Frank Nitt is no stranger to the rap game. His previous works boast the production mastery of hip-hop legend J. Dilla, and command attention and respect across the globe. |
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Neek The Exotic & Large Professor - Still On The Hustle (Fat Beats) CD £11.99 Add to basket Though their career paths have always intertwined, Neek the Exotic and Large Professor's 'Still On The Hustle' marks the first true collaboration in both legends' long, eclectic oeuvre. Large Professor earned his place in the pantheon of hip-hop heavyweights by founding Main Source and producing songs for Nas' Illmatic and Kool G Rap's Wanted Dead or Alive. It wasn't until he joined forces with Neek on 1992's White Men Can't Jump soundtrack that both artists were launched into the global spotlight. The remainder of the 90's and 2000's saw the two producer/MC's cementing their legacy in collaborations with equally big name artists, such as Pete Rock, Busta Rhymes, The X-Ecutioners, and Mobb Deep. 'Still On The Hustle', a culmination of ten years in utero, stands testament to the rich history, personal battles, and against-all-odds accomplishments that mark both mens' road to recording this soon-to-be classic album. |
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Beastie Boys - Hot Sauce Committee Part Two (Capitol) CD £8.99 Add to basket 3LP £16.99 (Released In June Date TBC) Add to basket The wait is over, again: Hot Sauce Committee Part Two, Beastie Boys' long anticipated eighth album is out through Parlophone in the UK. Hot Sauce Committee Part Two was produced by Beastie Boys and mixed by Philippe Zdar. The new record will mark Mike "Mike D" Diamond, Adam "Ad Rock" Horovitz and Adam "MCA" Yauch's first full length effort since 2007's Grammy-winning all-instrumental The Mix-Up. |
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Tyler The Creator - Goblin (XL) Limited Edition CD £8.49 Add to basket Tyler, The Creator is the 20 year old rapper, producer, writer, video director, visual artist, skater, cultural lightning rod and leader of LA's acclaimed Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All (OFWGKTA). OFWGKTA are an eleven strong hip hop collective from Los Angeles who have self-released twelve solo albums over the last three years, including Tyler's solo album Bastard. Tyler, The Creator is now set to release his second album Goblin worldwide on XL Recordings. The 15 track album features the track Yonkers, whose Tyler-directed video has already racked up nearly five million hits on Youtube. |
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Tyler The Creator - Goblin (XL) 2xLP £13.99 Add to basket Tyler, The Creator is the 20 year old rapper, producer, writer, video director, visual artist, skater, cultural lightning rod and leader of LA's acclaimed Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All (OFWGKTA). OFWGKTA are an eleven strong hip hop collective from Los Angeles who have self-released twelve solo albums over the last three years, including Tyler's solo album Bastard. Tyler, The Creator is now set to release his second album Goblin worldwide on XL Recordings. The 15 track album features the track Yonkers, whose Tyler-directed video has already racked up nearly five million hits on Youtube. |
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J Rocc - Some Cold Rock Stuf (Stones Throw) - Restock On The Way ! 3xLP + Poster £35.99 Add to basket VINYL: 3/LP (album and mystery disc), double sided poster, sticker sheet Everything about this album will make you lose your mind. Not a mix tape. Not a DJ album. Not a beats album. It's the album. The CD & LP each contain a Mystery Disc produced by J Rocc. There are three mystery discs in rotation, only one per album. No track list will be published. |
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J Rocc - Some Cold Rock Stuf (Stones Throw) 2 x CD £7.99 (was £9.99) Add to basket Everything about this album will make you lose your mind. Not a mix tape. Not a DJ album. Not a beats album. It's the album. The CD & LP each contain a Mystery Disc produced by J Rocc. There are three mystery discs in rotation, only one per album. No track list will be published. |
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Madlib - Medicine Show Vol 11 - Low Budget High-Fi Music (Stones Throw)
2 LP £19.99 Add to basket A 28-track hip-hop album of exclusive Madlib collabos w/ A.G., Guilty Simpson, MED, Oh No, Strong Arm Steady and others. Karriem Riggins pops in for a Supreme Team session, Madlib & Oh No debut The Professionals, and we hear a Jaylib-era track from their never-realized second album. Low Budget High Fi also contains several Loop Digga instrumentals and of course interludes, outerludes and probably quaaludes. |
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Madlib - Medicine Show No. 11 - Low Budget High Fi Music CD £9.99 Add to basket Madlib collabos w/ A.G., Guilty Simpson, MED, Oh No, Strong Arm Steady and others. Karriem Riggins pops in for a Supreme Team session, Madlib & Oh No debut The Professionals, and we hear a Jaylib-era track from their never-realized second album. Low Budget High Fi also contains several Loop Digga instrumentals and of course interludes, outerludes and probably quaaludes. CD 28-track album with 12-page booklet |
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Ill Bill (of Non Phixion) & Vinnie Paz (of Jedi Mind Tricks) - Heavy Metal Kings CD £8.99 Add to basket 2 x LPs £17.99 Add to basket Take two of the most respected and visceral MCs in the independent hip hop scene and put them together for one full albums worth of brutal hip hop and what you've got is both an easy candidate for some kind of album of the year award and an exercise in the fundamental passion that is unique to Hip Hop. Thats exactly the kind of thinking that led to the historic teaming of Vinnie Paz and ILL Bill for their highly anticipated endeavor: Heavy Metal Kings. For years fans have been clamoring for an albums worth of material from these two lyrical beasts, and now it is finally here. Like its name, Heavy Metal Kings displays all the slick, rhythmical timings of Hip Hop while incorporating the adrenaline and utter desecration of Metal with everything from artwork (created by long-time Volvod drummer Away) to arrangement to lyrical structure and imagery. Heavy Metal Kings also features a solid cast of supporting artists, with guest spots from Reef the Lost Cauze, Crypt the Warchild, Slaine, Sabac Red, and Q-Unique. Production on Heavy Metal Kings is handled by DJ Muggs, ILL Bill, Shuko, Sicknature, C-Lance, Grand Finale, Jack of All Trades, Junior Makhno, Vherbal, and DJ Premier protege Gem Crates. |
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Pharoahe Monch - W.A.R. (We Are Renegades) CD £12.99 Add to basket 2 x LPs £17.99 Add to basket W.A.R (We Are Renegades) features Jill Scott, Styles P, Phonte of Little Brother,Jean Grae, Royce Da 5'9," Idris Elba, Dr. Cornel West (professor from Princeton) & Vernon Reid (guitarist & band-leader for metal group, Living Colour - named #66 on Rolling Stone Magazine's 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time). Production by Exile, M-Phazes, Marco Polo, Diamond D, Mike Low, Samiyam, Fatin, Lee Stone as well as Pharoahe Monch himself. |
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Just Ice - Masterpiece (Fresh Records)
CD £9.99 Add to basket As the final release of his storied tenure on iconic New York rap label Fresh/Sleeping Bag Records, Just-Ice's Masterpiece brings the rapper full-circle with an album that lives up to its title. Having shocked the hip-hop world with the release of his landmark debut Back to the Old Schoolin 1986, the Bronx-based rapper shot to fame with an aggressive, tough-talking style and high-profile co-signs from KRS-One, Chuck D and Kurtis Mantronik, among others. By 1990, Just-Ice was a veteran of the rap game, having survived clashes with the police and fellow rappers (Run-DMC), and he poured all of his experiences into Masterpiece. With production duties handled exclusively by the legendary Grandmaster Flash, Just-Ice crafts an album that brings his brash style and rugged street stories to life with flawless precision. Now, for the first time ever on CD, Just-Ice's Masterpiece is presented with a new, high-quality digital transfer from the original analog tapes, packaged in a digipak based on the original LP sleeve design. |
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Big L - Return Of The Devils Son (Flamboyant)
2 LP £19.99 Add to basket Return Of The Devils Son is rare songs that have only appeared on bootlegs, unreleased material and a handful of freestyles. |
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Edan - Beauty & The Beat (Lewis Recordings) with Free Stickers LP £14.99 Add to basket |
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Souls Of Mischief - 93 Til Infinity 2 x LPs £15.99 Add to basket |
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Pete Rock & CL Smooth - The Main Ingredient
2 LP £15.99 Add to basket Marley Marl disciple Pete Rock is rightly hailed as one of the greatest producers around. Jazzy and soulful, his productions are some of the smoothest, funkiest, most innovative, and listenable on record. Though he's produced a crate-full of hits, it's his work with front man C.L. Smooth that's most fondly remembered, and The Main Ingredient--the duo's second album, after Mecca and the Soul Brother--lives up to the hype. Smooth's proficiency on the mic doesn't match his partner's studio wizardry, but not many do, and Smooth's easygoing, free-flowing delivery complements the grooves to good effect (and more importantly, keeps Rock from taking on too many vocal duties). Great for parties or a lazy weekend afternoon, The Main Ingredient is fondly remembered for all the right reasons. |
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Pete Rock & CL Smooth - Mecca And The Soul Brother
2 LP £15.99 Add to basket Pete Rock loves horns the way other DJs and producers love drums. It's this obsession with funky horn breaks that sets Pete Rock and C.L. Smooth apart from regular hip-hop bassheads. With its crucial James Brown breaks layered between trumpet and sax loops, coupled with the laid-back vocals of Smooth and Rock, Mecca and the Soul Brother--their first full-length--struts back and forth on that line between rap and soul. Rock's production style is peerless, funky on "If It Ain't Rough, It Ain't Right" and sexy on "Lots of Lovin'." |
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Tom Scott - The Honeysuckle Breeze: Remastered CD £7.99 Add to basket |
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Faze-O - Riding High CD £7.99 Add to basket |
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Breakwater - Splashdown CD £7.99 Add to basket |
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Breakwater - Breakwater CD £7.99 Add to basket |
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Khemistry - Khemistry CD £7.99 Add to basket |
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Kleer - Intimate Connection CD £7.99 Add to basket |
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Slave - Just a Touch of Love CD £7.99 Add to basket |
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Lee 'Scratch' Perry / The Upsetters - Blackboard Jungle Dub: Remastered CD £7.99 Add to basket |
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Lee 'Scratch' Perry / The Upsetters - Scratch & Company Chapter 1 CD £7.99 Add to basket |
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Cappo - Genghis USB Limited Edition (Son)
USB Stick with MP3s £24.99 Add to basket As a U.K Hip-Hop fan you'll already be aware that Nottingham based rapper Cappo has recently released his new album ³Genghis². Now there is also a limited USB edition which is now available to fans. This version includes lots of exclusive bonus content and is definitely worth purchasing for the collectors. |
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Dudley Perkins - A Lil' Light (Stones Throw)
CD £8.99 Add to basket Essential first album from Dudley Perkins (Declaime). Produced by Madlib |
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Cappo - Genghis (Son Records) CD £5.99 Add to basket Undoubtably one of the finest to ever grace the mic from the UK, Cappo returns with his incredible second lp 'Genghis'. This self-produced classic is available now. This is proper Hip Hop as it should be.... |
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Nottz - You Need This Music CD £9.99 Add to basket 2 x LPs £14.99 Add to basket Grammy-winning producer Nottz is among the most successful beat-makers to emerge from the Virginia hotbed of production talent that exposed The Neptunes and Timbaland. On You Need This Music, Nottz pulls no punches, charging out of the gate over a cavalcade of snares hammered out by Travis Barker, and doesn't bat an eye before jumping into the next number. He handles the entire production workload, extracting the emotive instrumental elements from vinyl clips with an ASR-10 sampler and adding his own lyrics. So goes the 14 track marathon, the pace kept by energetic verses by Black Milk, Little Brother, Asher Roth and Joel Ortiz and tempered by soulful hooks from Dwele, Mayer Hawthorne, Bilal and Colin Munroe. You Need This Music is unlike most producer-centric albums in that it isn't merely a collection of songs, but a cohesive album of essential Hip Hop gems. |
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Lupe Fiasco - Lasers CD £8.99 Add to basket 2 x LPs GATEFOLD £16.99 Add to basket |
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DC The Midi Alien (East Coast Avengers Present) feat. Big Shug, Esoteric, Reks, Slaine, Vinnie Paz - Avengers Airwaves (Brick) CD £11.99 Add to basket The group East Coast Avengers was created in 2008 by MCs Esoteric, trademarc and DJ/producer DC The MIDI Alien. Having dealt with almost 8 politically corrupt years of the Bush regime, the three banded together and the result was the controversial yet socially aware 'Prison Planet' album full of gritty production and razor sharp lyricism. The lead single and video, "Kill Bill O'Reilly" sparked a national outrage, getting the group's visuals banned from myspace and youtube and even gaining them notoriety on Keith Olberman's "Countdown" on MSNBC. The album was met with stellar reviews, landing on many "Top Albums of the Year 2009" lists; including a feature in NME magazine, a blog response from the right's prissy lap dog Michelle Malkin, live debates on conservative radio talk shows and numerous actual death threats for the artists themselves. Fast forward a couple years and we have a new president in office, various 'natural disasters', chaos at the border and poverty and unemployment at alarming levels nationwide. Naturally the Avengers are called back into action. This time around they are armed with hip hop royalty from across the country. Joining the efforts of Esoteric and trademarc over DC's matured, apocalyptic sonic onslaughts are Slaine (La Coka Nostra), Vinnie Paz (Jedi Mind Tricks), Sabac Red (Non-Phixion), Outerspace, Termanology, Reks, Singapore Kane, Big Shug, Reef The Lost Cauze, Blaq Poet, Boycott Blues, Main Flow, King Magnetic, Blacastan, Akir, Revolution Of The Mind and many many more... Each bringing a particular injustice or rally call to the fore front of their social conscience, politically contesting diatribes. Theme music for the revolution comrades...Open your ears and raise your fists!!! |
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Dj Nu-Mark Take Me With You (Mochilla) CD £10.99 Add to basket DJ Nu-Mark best known for his work as part of the Jurassic 5 crew drops a quality new mix via Vtech and Mochilla: 'Take Me With You' is a mix inspired by Nu-Mark's travels around the world. Expect samba, calypso, afro-beat and more blended and mixed in his own inimitable style. |
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DJ Vadim presents The Electric - Life Is Moving CD £7.99 Add to basket Double LP £12.99 Add to basket DJ Vadim presents his new, truly international group called the Electric, which consists of not only the London-bred, Berlin-based beatmaker, but UK vocalist Sabira Jade, and Chicago emcee Pugs Atomz. Life is Moving, a hybrid of hip hop, soul and electronica vibes, is the group's first project on the Ninja Tune label. |
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LLoyd Banks (of G Unit) - H.F.M. 2 (The Hunger For More) CD £7.99 Add to basket For almost a decade, Southside Queens native Lloyd Banks has been revered as line-for-line one of the most preeminent emcees in hip hop. Banks - aka "The Punch Line King" - returns with H.M.F. 2 (The Hunger for More 2), a sequel to his 2004 classic debut. The original Hunger for More came on the wave of the unprecedented amount of success G-Unit basked in during their initial run at the start of the decade. Guest features on volume two include: Kanye West, Akon, Fabolous, Ryan Leslie, Jeremih, Raekwon, Pusha T, Styles P, 50 Cent and Tony Yayo. |
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Ghostface Killah - The Pretty Tony Collection Chapter 2 CD £8.99 Add to basket |
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N.O.R.E. - Iron Liver CD £8.99 Add to basket Victor Santiago aka Noreaga aka N.O.R.E. and is one half of the hip hop duo Capone-n-Noreaga, along with Capone. The Iron Liver features: Big Pun, Mariah Carey, Styles P, Nas, Nature, Kool G Rap, Screwball, Pete Rock, MOP and more. |
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Rakim - Lyrical Legend CD £8.99 Add to basket |
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Run Dmc - Royal Crown CD £8.99 Add to basket With the release of Royal Crown, J-Love puts together an incredible collection of Rare B-Sides, lost classics and greatest hits with the masters Run DMC. |
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Asaviour & DJ IQ - The A Loop Theory (Saving Grace Music) CD £8.99 Add to basket Welcome to The A Loop Theory: the mammoth collaborative project between talents Asaviour & DJ IQ, fusing their undeniable productions skills to create an album of epic proportions. With the pair sharing producing duties, they fluently dabble in an eclectic soundscape rooted in hip-hop but incorporating soul, electronica, rock, jazz, blues, and grime. |
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Krs One & True Master - Meta-Historical (Fat Beats) CD £12.99 Add to basket KRS-One and True Master, both legends in their own right, have come together for the first time on their joint album Meta-Historical. KRS-One, for anyone who has been paying attention to Hip Hop for the past two decades, is one of the most respected MCs of all time. True Master, along with The RZA, is responsible for creating the soundscape that has come to be associated with the Wu-Tang Clan. |
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El Da Sensei & The Returners - GT2: Nu World (Coalmine) CD £13.99 Add to basket To hold you over until their next official album Atmosphere just released this CD full of brand new material titled To All My Friends, Blood Makes The Blade Holy: The Atmosphere EPs. |
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Lyrics Born - As U Were (Decon) CD £11.99 Add to basket Lyrics Born has built his career on steadily providing colorful West Coast underground hip-hop along with a diverse musical taste that's quickly become his pride. After dealing with traces of funk, blues and dancehall on his previous releases, Lyrics Born looks to keep the eclecticism going with his third studio album, with tracks such as the cabaret-esque "Lies X 3," the electro-tinged "Pushed Aside, Pulled Apart" and the old-school clap of "Funky Hit Records." The list of collaborators should be to familiar to Lyrics Born fans. Lateef The Truthspeaker and Joyo Velarde guest on the album, along with production from Jake One and Trackademicks, all who have worked with with the Bay Area MC in the past. |
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Foreign Exchange - Authenticity CD £10.99 Add to basket "Authenticity" is the 3rd full-length from indie-soul duo The Foreign Exchange. Picking up where their 2008 Grammy-nominated "Leave It All Behind" set left off, "Authenticity" is the group's most diverse work to date, with a tight, 11-track song cycle spanning the duo's trademark brand of lush electronic soul, to stripped down acoustic pieces that recall the heyday of 70's singer-songwriter driven folk. |
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D.I.T.C. - The Movement CD £11.99 Add to basket produced by Show(biz), Lord Finesse, Amed, Buckwild, Drawzilla & E Zilla with vocals by AG, OC, D-Flow, Party Arty, Joell Ortiz & Boss Money ... first DITC studio album in years! |
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Buckshot - The Common Knowledge of the Entertainment Industry CD/Book (Duckdown) CD/Book £12.99 Add to basket A Beautiful 80 Page, Hardcover Book that is the same size as a standard CD digipak. The inside, back cover includes a CD insert with original audio from Buckshot. 2010 marked the 15-year anniversary of Duck Down Music. Buckshot has taken his 15-year experience and has crafted a hard-cover book entitled The Common Knowledgy Of The Entertainment Industry. The book is comprised of three stages. Buckshot first educates readers on the 'Basics' of the entertainment industry providing his definitions for terms associated within the business. Buckshot then transitions to the 'Framework,' or inner-workings of a music label and answers commonly posed questions that he receives from fans & interviewers. In the final stage, Buckshot unveils 'How It All Works,' and illustrates the process of putting the knowledge to use & executing proposed goals. Accompanying the book is a 16-track CD album. The album features original Buckshot music based on the concepts from within the chapters. |
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Ruthless Rap Assassins - Killer Album - 20th Anniversary Edition CD £9.99 Add to basket Digitally remastered and expanded 20th Anniversary edition of the UK Rap trio's 1990 release containing three bonus tracks. Ruthless Rap Assassins broke the mould. For a brief moment in 1990 they shifted the nucleus of UK Rap away from the capital to their native Manchester, offering a thinking man's alternative to the indie-dance of Happy Mondays and Stone Roses. Killer Album reflected the black British experience in a unique, often poignant way. |
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Madlib - Madlib Medicine Show No. 7: High Jazz - No 490 2 x LP + 12" £34.99 Add to basket Limited edition. 3rd disc contains 32 minutes of music not available on the CD or digital release. LP covers silk-screened by Hit+Run. Running time: 93 min. |
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Madlib - Madlib Medicine Show No. 7: High Jazz - No 165 2 x LP + 12" £34.99 Add to basket Limited edition. 3rd disc contains 32 minutes of music not available on the CD or digital release. LP covers silk-screened by Hit+Run. Running time: 93 min. |
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J-Rocc (Beat Junkie) - J-Rocc V J-Man (Jazzman Records) CD £10.99 Add to basket Digging Deep Into The 200+ Catalogue Of Tunes That Is Jazzman And Funk 45, The Beat Junkie Seamlessly Flips Up His Own Personal Selection From The Reissues That Established The Jazzman Labels As The Lead. |
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Rakaa of Dilated Peoples - Crown Of Thorns (Decon) CD £14.99 Add to basket 2xLP £16.99 Add to basket Rakaas 1st solo joint! Supported by an All-Star-Cast of producers & guests: The Alchemist, DJ Honda, Evidence, DJ Babu, Exile, Krs One, Mad Lion, Aloe Blacc ... the whole shebang! |
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AZ - Doe Or Die - 15th Anniversary Edition (Quiet Money) CD £7.99 Add to basket The classic album revisited with remixes and all new tracks !! |
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Ghostface Killah - Supreme Clientele 2LP £18.99 Add to basket SUPREME CLIENTELE,the sophomore album from the Wally-wearing Ghostface Killah, is one of those rare Wu solo efforts to fall into the latter class. With the RZA as the overseer, this album is a triumphant reminder of the influence that the Staten Island-based crew has had on the rap game. Ghost drops jewels of criminology and street ethics over basement-flavoured production. And with its various Wu-appearances, SUPREME CLIENTELE is also a glimpse of what the Wu promises to bring in the 21st century. |
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Beatnuts - Street Level (2LP remastered edition with bonus track) 2LP £16.99 Add to basket The first full length Beatnuts LP remastered and reissued as a double LP for the first time ever raw NYC hip hop at it's early-to-mid 90s finest! Raw, funky and jazzy beatcraft that's pretty much a blueprint for some of our east coast hip hop of the era, with sharp, on point rhymes. A pure classic! Titles "Props Over Here", "Psycho Dwarf", "Hellraiser", "Ya Don't Stop", "Are You Ready" featuring Grand Puba, "Hit Me With That", "2-3 Break" and more. This newly remastered set lays it out nicely on double vinyl, and includes the bonus "Yeah You Get Props Rough Mix", from the ;'94's great Props Over Here 12-inch. |
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Madlib - Medicine Show - No 10 - Black Soul CD £11.99 Add to basket 80-minute DISCO set from Madlib, the 10th of the MADLIB Medicine Show series. CD contains a 12-page booklet with some previously undisclosed listener warnings about the Medicine Show series... |
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Rah Digga - Classic (Prod By Nottz) CD £9.99 Add to basket A decade after her revered debut album Dirty Harriet dropped, ex-Flipmode Squad "first lady" Rah Digga returns with her new album Classic. Her sophomore release is rife with the ambidextrous vernacular that has earned her a place amongst the best female MCs of all time. Produced exclusively by Nottz, Classic is an unrelenting demonstration of Digga's impeccable delivery and cadence. After 10 years of label politics and concentric side-projects that landed her appearances on notable records by the likes of The Fugees (on their 1996 multi platinum album The Score, which hit #1 on the Billboard charts and is one of best-selling Hip Hop albums of all time) and numerous Busta Rhymes releases, along with mentions in Time, XXL and Rolling Stone, Rah Digga returns with the focus and tenacity of a hungry rookie. |
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DJ Shadow - The 4 Track Era - Limited Edition Vinyl LP £18.99 Add to basket Very limited nine-track single LP revealing the very beginnings of DJ Shadow's experiments in original song production, pressed up by the man himself from his own tape archive. |
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Timeless - Malatu Astatke (Mochilla) CD + DVD £9.99 Add to basket 2xLP £13.99 Add to basket Ethiopian, Mulatu Astatke is a giant in African music. He is the inventor of Ethio-jazz. His work has inspired many imitations, many admirers and a whole new generation of fans. On February 1st he blessed the sold out Luckmann Theatre with an amazing show. He shared the stage with veterans of the L.A. jazz scene Bennie Maupin, Azar Lawrence and Phil Ranelin. The performance is beautiful, showcasing many classics as well as some new material. |
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Timeless - Arthur Verocai (Mochilla) CD + DVD £9.99 Add to basket 2xLP £13.99 Add to basket In 1972 Verocai recorded a self-titled solo LP. Following its re-issue in 2003 the album has become a highly influential sampled classic. The performance of this seminal 1972 record in its entirety brought the capacity Luckmann crowd to a stand still. His delight at the opportunity to play this music 37 years later can be seen on the DVD. The music has been mixed by Verocai himself in Rio. History turned on its head and musical justice served. |
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Timeless - Suite For Ma Dukes (Mochilla) CD + DVD £9.99 Add to basket 2xLP £13.99 Add to basket Finally the music from 'Suite For Ma Dukes' gets a CD release...with a bonus DVD! James Yancey, better known as J Dilla was born in Detroit. His work as a producer has a defining role in Hip-Hop. He produced hits for A Tribe Called Quest, De La Soul, Common, Erykah Badu and Janet Jackson. At 32 he passed away in Los Angeles in the care of his Mother, Maureen "Ma Dukes" Yancey of a lupus related Illness. Miguel Atwood-Ferguson pays tribute to Dilla by Interpreting his music for a 60-piece orchestra featuring Special guests Bilal, Dwele, Posdnuos, Talib Kweli, Karriem Riggins and more. This premiere performance left many in the sold out crowd in tears. |
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Aloe Blacc - Shine Through (Stones Throw) CD £7.99 Add to basket Shine Through is the debut album by American soul singer Aloe Blacc. The album, released on Stones Throw, is mostly produced by Aloe himself, but also features production from Oh No and Madlib. |
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Q Bert - Needle Thrashers 'Alpha' (Dirtsytle) LP £11.99 Add to basket Now all those funky beats you've been practicing to and more on Dj Qbert's "Do It Yourself Skratching" DVD are finally on vinyl for your skratching and listening pleasure! Famous for it's ultra funky beats, NTA will be the first record you pull out when you want to show off your kuts! It even makes beginning skratchers sound dope! |
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Q Bert - Needle Thrashers 'Gamma' (Dirtsytle) LP £11.99 Add to basket Part 4 of the NT series and part 2 of Mr. Henshaw's production made especially for DJ Qbert's upcoming world tour and Turntable TV DVD! It contains more of the ill space funk beats found on NT Delta but this one has a whole side of wicked skratch samples to make the other djs jealous! |
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Q Bert - 100 mph Back Sliding Turkey Kuts (Dirtsytle) LP £11.99 Add to basket This is a record for the hard-core skratchers! With a 3 minute skratch sentence which includes nothing but everyone's favorite "ooh's," "aah's," drums, tones, and phrases. There's also a section dedicated to dozens of 80's video game sounds and robotic noises. Complimenting the collection of sounds are 7 classic beats strategically looped for optimal skratching. |
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Q Bert - Sealed Breaks (Dirtsytle) LP £11.99 Add to basket Skratchy Seal's first record! Side A features 4 dirtystyle beats to skratch to. But what makes the Seals Breaks record stand out form the rest ist aht it is designed for skratch drummers! Side 2 features hundres of kick, snare, and hi hat sample combinations in an intentional skip formation. Even if the needle skips, it will land on a differnt sounding but same type sample. For example, if you are skratching a kick, it will land on a differnt type of kick. There is also a bonus skipless ahh and fresh track as the last track. Enables you to never miss a beat! A first and one of a kind record which launched the birth of the multiple skipless track series bu Skratchy Seal. |
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Q Bert - Super Seal II (Dirtsytle) LP £11.99 Add to basket Skratchy beats off space suckas! |
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Q Bert - Secret Of The "Y" Formula (Dirtsytle) LP £11.99 Add to basket |
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Q Bert - Skratchy Seal's - Training Wheels (Dirtsytle) LP £11.99 Add to basket New from Dirtstyle! The long awaited release from Skratchy Seal who's been in the lab concocting another formula to rock the b-girls, b-boys and b-animals! His greatest tools for the complete turntable freak! Use a copy on each deck, mark a cue point on the first beat and you'll see how all the tracks match up, even when you lift the needle onto another track! Designed to continually increase your juggling skills with different types of beat configurations from toy to king! Plus all the breaks are compatible with the "Breaktionary" lps! Just play "Breaktionary" on +8 and mix Training Wheels on -8! |
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El-P - Weareallgoingtoburninhellmegamixxx3 CD £14.99 Add to basket As the album title implies, El-P creates a dark, dystopian sonic universe filled with ominous basslines and thumping, punishing drums. Comprised of original instrumentals as well as remix instrumentals to Kidz in the Hall's "Driving Down The Block" and Young Jeezy's "I Got This," Weareallgoingtoburninhellmegamixxx3 represents songs that were meticulously crafted yet never found a home on a proper release. While sonically different from J Dilla's instrumental masterpiece Donuts, that album would prove inspirational to El-P. "Like Donuts, I wanted to keep things short and to the point. I think that's an aspect of instrumental music that so many more people can relate to. I didn't want anyone to listen to this record and at any point get bored." |
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Mr Chop - For Pete's Sake (Now Again) 2xLP £15.99 Add to basket Space funk specialist Mr Chop takes on the beatcraft genius of Pete Rock on For Pete's Sake blueprint Pete Rock singles and benchmark beats refashioned as fuzzed out psychedelic funk instrumentals! It works out masterfully, and very much in the mold of some of our other favorite material by Mr Chop and fellow travellers The Heliocentrics in recent years. Heavy drums & percussion, killer bass rhythms, fuzzy funk rock guitars, cosmic keys and synths galore. |
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Big L - 139 & Lenox (Flamboyant) LP £14.99 Add to basket Rare & unreleased tracks from the late great Big L including Buckwild, Roc Raida & other remixes, largely unheard alternate or early mixes of classic tracks, and other rare gems. Titles include "Now Or Never", "On The Mic (Roc Raida Turntablist Mix)", "Still Here (Hi-Tek's Original Mix)" feat C-Town, "Devil's Son (Live In Amsterdam)", "We Got This", "Furious Anger" feat Shyheim, "Universal Freestyle" and more. 12 tracks in all. |
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Ultramagnetic Foundation - Ultra Laboratory Stories CD £11.99 Add to basket 2xLP £15.99 Add to basket Kool Keith, CED Gee, Moe Love & TR Love are Ultramagnetic Foundation. The legendary Bronx crew adds another classic to their catalogue with "Ultra Laboratory Stories", an album delving deep into the Ultra lab vaults of unreleased vintage and current tracks produced solely by TR and Moe Luv. The music ranges from their early years during "Critical Beatdown" all the way up to "The Four Horsemen". The more current tracks stay the course and continue the New York rap sound that started heavy in the Bronx. Kool Keith, in Rhythm X mode, Ced Gee, Tim Dog plus new affiliate Fred Beanz deliver clever wordplay over hard, grimy beats programmed on the SP1200. The distinctive sound will not disappoint true Ultramagnetic MCs fans as this does not stray from their legacy and is consistent with their high calibre of releases. |
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Main Source - Breaks The Atom 2xLP £18.99 Add to basket This isn't exactly the lost classic Breaking Atoms LP but it is the Actual Records version, and it's classic Main Source hip hop all the same! Vocals by Large Professor, turntables by Sir Scratch & K-Cut, featuring appearances by Pete Rock, Nas, Akinyele, Neek The Exotic and others. "Snake Eyes", "Just Hanging Out", "Looking Out The Front Door", "Large Professor", "Just A Friendly Game Of Baseball", "Live At The Barbeque", "Watch Roger Do His Thing" and more. |
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Slum Village - Villa Manifesto 2LP £18.99 Add to basket Feat. Jay Dee (aka J. Dilla), Little Brother, Phife, Posdnous. Villa Manifesto, the latest installment, showcases all past, present and future members at their lyrical best. Judging from the Buzz that was createdfrom the digital EP release in late 2009, this LP will take its place as a classic in the realm of authentic hip hop. |
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Roc Marciano - Marcberg (Fat Beats) LP £14.99 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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Slum Village - Villa Manifesto European Edition - (Ne´astra Music Group) CD £12.99 Add to basket Detroit rap collective Slum Village seized the underground hip hop scene in the 90's with their first album Fantastic Volume 1. The trio, which then consisted of Baatin, T3, and Jay Dee, united with some of hip hop's supreme MC's such as Busta Rhymes, A Tribe Called Quest, and Pete Rock. In 2001, Jay Dee, also known as J Dilla, left the group to pursue a solo career, and Elzhi was introduced. A couple of years later, Baatin fell ill while touring in France and departed. T3 and Elzhi went on to record music together under the reputable moniker Slum Village, before tragedy struck. Now this is the Manifesto, with contributions by Babu, J Dilla, De La Soul, Phife of A Tribe Called Quest, ?uestlove & Little Brother plus producion by Young RJ, J Dilla, Mr. Porter, Hi Tek, Dave West, T3, Craig Lane & Krhysis! |
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MF Doom - Expektoration ... Live feat. Big Benn Klingon (Gold Dust) CD £10.99 Add to basket For over 20 years, MF DOOM has existed on his own planet in the hip-hop universe, entertaining and confounding listeners with his unique mix of playful samples, outrageous showmanship, and esoteric lyrical references. Gold Dust is proud to present Expektoration feat. Big Benn Klingon, the new live album that documents a show in the life of the most mysterious rapper in hip-hop and gives an ultra-rare glimpse into this enigmatic figure. While nothing can replace the live experience, Expektoration feat. Big Benn Klingon offers the best mix of DOOM's intense and sustained energy with joyful absurdity. Mercurial shaman. Brilliant recluse. Prolific madman. |
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Ghostface Killah - Ironman Gatefold Double LP £13.99 Add to basket Here's the official reissue of the debut solo album from Wu-Tang Clans's Ghostface Killah. Released in 1996 on Epic Records, Ironman earned immediate mainstream success, debuting at number two on the Billboard 200 chart, and number one on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. Though a solo album, Ironman is filled with Wu-Tang collabos, prominently featuring Raekwon and Cappadonna, with a handful of tracks featuring Ghost performing companionless. The album earned gold status in sales a year after its release and platinum by 2004, a true testament to its staying power. |
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Cut Chemist - Sound Of The Police CD £10.99 Add to basket LP £11.99 Add to basket Digital Diggers... here is a somewhat rare and [almost] classic exercise in 'needle to groove' turntablism in the digital age. Utilising some hella dusty 45's, a turntable/mixer, some looping/echo pedals, and a shit load of imagination, one of the planets Disc Jockey luminaires Mr McFadden drops two 20 minute 'practice sessions' recorded live pre his Mulatu opening slot in L.A. earlier this year. Now if you've heard the genius that is 'Addidas to Addis' then you know what to expect... |
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Statik Selektah & Termanology - 1982 (Show Off/Brick) CD £9.99 Add to basket Since late in 2009, Emcee/Producer tandem Statik Selektah and Termanology have been hard at work on their landmark collaborative album 1982. Now New York transplants, Statik and Termonology are Massachusetts natives and have worked together frequently throughout the last five years‹yet 1982 marks their first full-length project together. |
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Cap D - PolyMath (All Natural) CD £8.99 Add to basket Since late in 2009, Emcee/Producer tandem Statik Selektah and Termanology have been hard at work on their landmark collaborative album 1982. Now New York transplants, Statik and Termonology are Massachusetts natives and have worked together frequently throughout the last five years‹yet 1982 marks their first full-length project together. |
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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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Black Milk - Album Of The Year (Fat Beats / Decon) Double Vinyl LP + Digital Download Code £18.99 Add to basket As the buzz of many of hip hop's young leaders-to-be evolves from loud commotion into hushed whispers, Black Milk has stayed relevant by remaining focused on creating music that endures. He's achieved recognition from fans, critics, and his peers as one of the best producers around, and when coupling that talent with his sharp lyricism and stylish delivery as an emcee, Black has proven to be one of the most vital hip hop artists of his generation. Far from a melancholic work, Album of the Year once again sees Black Milk working to break new ground in hip hop production, and to both refine and redefine his sound. While continuing to construct the skeletons of the tracks on his same trusted AKAI MPC-2000 XL that he's been using for years, he now employs a team of studio musicians and session players to add new layers of fat and muscle to his songs, with most of the players' parts composed by the artist himself.. A broad range of influence shines through in the tracks, with tinges of rock, reggae, and afrobeat joining his trademark hip hop bangers. |
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Aloe Blacc - Good Things (Stones Throw) CD £7.99 Add to basket Double Vinyl LP £19.99 Add to basket Deluxe Triple Vinyl LP - Includes Instrumentals £29.99 Add to basket Following his worldwide hit I Need A Dollar , Aloe Blacc presents his second album: Good Things . Produced by Leon El Michels and Jeff Silverman, aka producers/label owners Truth & Soul, Good Things sees Aloe Blacc unite with the backing band best known as The Expressions or El Michels Affair. Powered by plinking piano, a tumbledown bassline and pristine horns, I Need A Dollar is flavoured with funk, informed by hip hop and dripping with vintage cool. In short: it s a major tune, and a hint at Good Thing s sound; best described as Bill Wither s darkest moments with a splash of Bobby Womack whimsy and a pinch of Gnarls Barkley. The album is packed with highlights: the feel-good Green Lights, the emotive ballad So Hard and the compelling and atmospheric Take Me Back, which has already found favour with Thom Yorke. This rapper-turned-singer s sophomore LP is set to define soul music in 2010, and follows hot on the heels of his labelmate Mayer Hawthorne, whose 2009 debut gained the ears of soul fans everywhere. |
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Seu Jorge and Almaz - Seu Jorge and Almaz CD £8.49 Add to basket 2 x LPs £13.99 Add to basket Listening to this remarkable album for the first time you'll surely be struck first by the deep, soul-piercing voice of that great Brazilian singer, Seu Jorge. He s a Brazilian singer who speaks the truth through samba, to paraphrase a well-known Seu Jorge quote. But this project is about a band: Almaz. Drummer Pupillo and guitarist Lucio Maia from the stalwart Nação Zumbi; bassist and composer Antonio Pinto from the soundstages of movies starring Seu Jorge. Songs famous within the Brazilian diaspora (Tim Maia, Jorge Ben) mesh with classic American (Roy Ayers, Michael Jackson) and European (Kraftwerk, Cane and Abel) soul songs begging for a bit of psychedelic samba. |
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The Whitefield Brothers - In The Raw (Now Again) CD £7.99 Add to basket Poets of Rhythm founding members first crucial piece of the funk spectrum recorded as The Whitefield Brothers. A wear-your heart-on-your-sleeve, hypnotic, defiantly psychedelic funk album that is as modern as it is grounded in the great musical traditions from both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. |
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Big Boi - Sir Luscious Leftfoot: The Son Of Chico Dusty 2 x LPs £15.99 Add to basket Big Boi has no shortage of friends, so it's only right that on his new solo album, Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty, the Big Boi is joined by a slew of guests. On the production side, Scott Storch (who helmed "Shutterbug"), Salaam Remi (Nas, Fugees), Organize Noise, the rapper's own Boom Boom Room producers and Boi-1da (perhaps best known for his work on Drake's "Best I Ever Had") contribute to the set. |
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Strong Arm Steady - In Search Of Stoney Jackson (Stones Throw) 2 x LPs £16.99 Add to basket Produced by Madlib. Guest appearances include Talib Kweli, Guilty Simpson, Little Brother's Phonte, Planet Asia, Fashawn and a host of underground Los Angeles's emerging rap talent. |
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RjD2 - The Colossus 2 x LPs £16.99 Add to basket RJD2 returns with the highly anticipated 4th solo LP The Colossus. Marking the 10th year of his career, the album showcases the myriad of styles RJD2 has spanned as a maverick, respected producer for himself, and others. Collaborating with MC's, vocalists, and various instrumentalists, it displays an urgency and sophistication rarely seen. Weaving together his trademark rock solid drums, soulful vibes and horns, samples and anything else available, the album is a kaleidoscopic look both forward and back. Part Impressions, part Daft Punk, and part Thin Lizzy. He is helped along by vocalists Kenna (Star Trak), Phonte Coleman (Little Brother), Aaron Livingston (The Roots 'Guns Are Drawn), as well as several underground MC's and horns, woodwind, and strings. A sound to behold. |
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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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Bilal - Airtight's Revenge CD £7.99 Add to basket 2 x LPs £14.99 Add to basket Grammy-nominated artist Bilal returns with his third studio album Airtight s Revenge featuring production from Bilal, Nottz, Shafiq Husayn, 88 Keys, Steve Mckie, and Conley Tone Whitfield. A provocative genre-bending album that dissects love, politics and relationships, Airtight s Revenge demonstrates the Philly-bred singer s growth as an artist. It s a mix of jazz, hip-hop, soul, blues, and experimental free music, says Bilal. |
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KMD - Mr. Hood 2xLPs £16.99 Add to basket Official US import reissue and remastered edition. Classic tracks include 'Peachfuzz', 'Nitty Gritty', 'Who Me' and my personal fave's 'Hard Wit No Hoe', '808 Man' & 'Figure Of Speech'. This reissue differs from the original single vinyl issue by including 'Gasface Refill' but was originally the b-side to the classic debut 12" 'Peachfuzz'. |
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Moe Pope - Life After God (Brick) CD £10.99 Add to basket 2010 finds Moe Pope with a new production partner and a new label for his latest and most mature work to date, Life After God. Produced (almost entirely - Headnodic does supply the last beat as a bridge to the next Megaphone project) by upstart beat smith Rain (who has laid tracks for Masta Ace, Blacastan, Day Laborers and others), Life After God is what contemporary Hip Hop should sound like; not scarred to take chances sonically but with it's roots firmly planted in traditional Boom Bap and Rock. The duo enlists the vocals of fellow Beantown legends Edo. G and Reks, Punk crooner/hypeman Chris Talkin and live instrumentation from Crown City Rockers alum. Brick Records is pleased to release this collective vision of Moe Pope and Rain, packaged in a 6 panel CD wallet and including full lyric sheets. |
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Whodini - Whodini: Remastered & Expanded CD £7.99 Add to basket In the pantheon of rap royalty that includes the likes of Run-DMC, The Beastie Boys and Public Enemy, Whodini is often mistakingly overlooked. Embodying the essence of a Hip Hop group, the trio simultaneously managed to appeal to a wide variety of music listeners and act as the poster children representing a new sound and attitude in urban music. Now, their debut album is finally remastered and expanded for the digital age. Packaged in a mini paste-on style jacket replicating its original vinyl release, Whodini's self-titled debut includes the hits "The Haunted House of Rock," "Yours For A Night," "Rap Machine" and the Thomas Dolby (of "She Blinded Me With Science" fame) produced "Magic's Wand," all of which are dance floor classics, propelled by their synthesizer and drum machine heavy beats. |
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Ultimate Force - I'm Not Playing (Strong City) 2 x CDs £9.99 Add to basket Special Edition Extended Play Double Disc |
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Sadat X - Brand New Bein' (Cold Heat/DJ JS-1 Ground Original) CD £9.99 Add to basket One wishes legendary Brand Nubian MC Sadat X would steer clear of lines like, "Y'all don't make sense like homosexuals", but elsewhere in the title track (which reunites all threeNubian members), he also reminds that he's not "quittin' the game", so BRAND NEW BEIN' requires something of a "take him as he comes" appreciation. Fortunately, there's enough vitality left in Sadat's game, thanks to the inventive hypno-funk production of DJ JS-1, and JW. Guests CL Smooth ("Nuthin'") and KRS-One ("Blow Up Da Spot") also add extra heavyweight gravitas to X's sixth solo LP, which succeeds in sounding nostalgic without being dated. |
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Pete Rock & CL Smooth - Mecca and the Soul Brother Box Set (Traffic) 2 x CDs £22.99 Add to basket Deluxe edition remastered box set includes the original full length album, bonus versions & exclusives, 20 pages book with liner notes by Brian Coleman with contributions from Dante Ross and Pete Rock & CL Smooth. |
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Mayer Hawthorne - A Strange Arrangement - LImited Edition with a 4 inch vinyl record (Stones Throw) CD £10.99 Add to basket Taking influence from the likes of Isaac Hayes and Barry White, Mayer Hawthorne is one of the most refreshing sounding talents to arise from soul music this side of 2000. Born andraised just outside Detroit, Hawthorne has a vocal range that is able to mix fun, catchy hooks with heartfelt numbers. 'A Strange Arrangement', his debut record, is a must for fans of both soul and modern pop music. Includes the single 'Maybe So, Maybe No'. |
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Madlib - Medicine Show No. 8 - Advanced Jazz CD £9.99 Add to basket Madlib has always called himself a DJ first, producer second, with jazz music as his first love and inspiration. With that in mind you might say this is what he does best. The title card of Madlib Medicine Show No. 8 reads: Imagine an 80-minute music history course talking place in a dusty, hazy studio with wall-to-wall jazz vinyl - records from the past 40 years jazz, fusion, funky, obscure. This course will not be graded. There will be no lecture. Madlib's at the turntable. Class is now in session. The front & back cover is the painting Jazzcats Crossing the Hudson. CD contains an 8-page booklet. |
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Madlib - Medicine Show No. 7 - High Jazz CD £9.99 Add to basket Another Madlib invasion this, the 7th in his unbeatably diverse Medicine Show series. It's no secret that 'lib harbours a serious love for the Jazz, evidenced in his brilliant Yesterdays New Quintet releases and the more Latin inflections of the Jackson Conti records. This time he splits himself between at least six different aliases, some solo, some in collaboration with jazz/HipHop drummer Karriem Riggins -as Jahari Masamba Unit - and another with celebrated songwriter James Poyser. |
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Common - Resurrection Double CD Boxset 2 x CDs £14.99 Add to basket Deluxe edition remastered Box Set includes the original full length album, the 12" singles, 24 pages book with liner notes by Brian Coleman with Common and NO I.D. and a full sized poster. |
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Boogie Down Productions - Criminal Minded Elite Edition/Remastered Box Set w. Poster and 42 Pages Booklet! (B Boy Records) 3 x CDs £15.99 Add to basket The first disc features the original ten album tracks; all cuts remastered from the original masters. The second disc contains rare 12" cuts and alternative versions as well as exclusive and previously unreleased radio spots and audio footage. Disc three offers all 10 album instrumentals plus 3 early 12" instrumentals available for the first time on CD. All three discs come housed in individual 'paste on' style sleeves with a full color printed dust sleeves sporting the original B-Boy Records graffiti logo. A 44-page book boasts never before seen artwork and is packed with original illustrations by KRS-ONE himself, vintage BDP promotional flyers, unreleased photography, full lyric sheets, and in depth liner notes written by Brian Coleman with KRS-ONE. All this plus a full sized poster to boot. This 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. |
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Big L - 139 & Lenox (Flamboyant Records) CD £11.99 Add to basket Ever since his untimely death in 1999, Lamont "Big L" Coleman has cast a long shadow over the New York Hip Hop scene that remains to this very day. His untouchable reputation as a solo artist and member of the legendary D.I.T.C. crew has cemented his legacy as one of the greatest MCs of all-time, respected by old and new generations of fans around the world. In keeping with the high demand for Big L material, we proudly present 139 & Lenox, a 12-song collection of rare and unreleased recordings from the undisputed "Most Valuable Poet on the M-I-C." These tracks capture Big L at the height of his powers, showcasing his flawless rhyme technique, sharp wit and Harlem swagger over classic East Coast production from the likes of Buckwild, Hi-Tek and the late Roc Raida (of the X-Ecutioners). 139 & Lenox is a testament to Big L's enduring appeal and an essential volume for any fan's Hip Hop collection. |
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Camu Tao - King Of Hearts (Def Jux/Fat Possum) CD £10.99 Add to basket Def Jux and Fat Possum Records have teamed up to bring you Camu Tao's King of Hearts. A talent beyond words, Camu Tao passed away from cancer two years ago before finishing his solo debut. El-P helped bring this unfinished gem to completion and we are very proud to bring this groundbreaking record to his fans worldwide. |
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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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Marco Polo - The Stupendous Adventures of Marco Polo! 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, Toronto's Marco Polo is back with another classic release through Duck Down Music. |
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 90's / early 2000's, 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 maestro's 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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Royce Da 5'9" - Street Hop (Produced by DJ Premier) 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 beatsmith's 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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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 Selektah's 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 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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Raekwon - Only Built For Cuban Linx II (Purple Vinyl) 2LP £16.99 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 |
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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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Killah Priest - Elizabeth CD £7.99 Add to basket |
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Dubbledge - One Inch Punch CD £6.99 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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KRS-ONE & Buckshot - Survival Skills 2LP £14.99 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 - Super Seal 3D - 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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El Michels Affair - Enter The 37th Chamber CD £12.99 Add to basket |
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Andrew Thompson - I'm Not Likely To Change CD £9.99 Add to basket |
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Edan - Beauty & The Beat (Lewis Recordings) with Free Stickers CD £7.99 Add to basket |
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Edan - Primitive Plus (Lewis Recordings) + Free Poster & Stickers CD £8.99 Add to basket 2LP £14.99 Add to basket |
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Edan The DJ - Fast Rap (Lewis Recordings) - AUTOGRAPHED!! CD £14.99 Add to basket |
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Edan - Echo Party Mix CD SILVER EDITION + Echo Party Poster (Five Day Weekend) CD £8.99 Add to basket |
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Edan - Echo Party Mix WHITE COVER CD + Echo Party Poster (Five Day Weekend) CD £8.99 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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Styly Cee - Notts Vintage EP (Son) 12" £9.99 Add to basket This new 6 track 12" on Son Records from Nottingham's Styly Cee contains some previously unreleased gems from the archives that were recorded between 2000 and 2003. Featured on Styly's beats are fellow Nottingham legends Cappo, Scorzayzee, Lee Ramsey & Midnyte. |
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Nottz feat. Mayer Hawthorne - 'I Still Love You' 7" £6.99 Add to basket "I Still Love You" features the retro soul music of Mayer Hawthorne, Stones Throw Records' multi-talented gem. The pair's chemistry, forged from their long friendship, clearly shines through. Together, Nottz and Hawthorne create a track with an airy, upbeat rhythm blended with a touch of nostalgia that comes alive when played on this exclusive 7" record, which includes the instrumental on the B-Side. |
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DJ VADIM presents THE ELECTRIC - Beautiful (Feat Yarah Bravo) (LP Nix/Memory 9 Mix/Benji Boko Remix) / Runnin (LP Mix/H3ADphOn3Z Remix) / Never B4 (Organically Grown Sounds) 12 inch £5.99 Add to basket |
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Skitz - Struggla b/w Born Inna System (Dragon Drop) £4.99 Add to basket |
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J-Live - "No Time To Waste" B/W "Home Or Away" £6.99 Add to basket |
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Mayer Hawthorne - I Need You - 1-sided etched 12" (Stones Throw) £13.99 Add to basket This is a limited edition item with an exlclusive track "I Need You" on the A side, and a detailed etching on the B side. Accompanying the Nottz produced cut is the instrumental version. |
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Cut Chemist - Adidas To Addis/Beats/Povo De Santo/Inst 12" £7.99 Add to basket |
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Aloe Blacc - I Need A Dollar / Take Me Back (Stones Throw) 12" £8.99 Add to basket |
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Black Milk - Welcome (dirty/clean/inst) / Soul Glow / Warning (dirty/clean/inst) / How Dare U (Fat Beats) 12" £7.99 Add to basket |
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Tony Cook feat. Dãm-Funk* - What's On Your Mind 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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Boogie Down Productions - The Bridge Is Over / JVC Force - Strong Island 7" £6.99 Add to basket |
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The Jungle Brothers ft Red Alert - Jimbrowski / Tuff Crew - My Part Of Town 7" £6.99 Add to basket |
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Mantronix - Hardcore Hip Hop / Cash Money & Marvelous - The Mighty Hard Rocker 7" £6.99 Add to basket |
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Mr Chop and CL Smooth - T.R.O.Y. The Resurrection (Main/Inst) 7" £7.99 Add to basket |
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Mr Chop and CL Smooth - Straighten It Out (Main/Inst) 7" £7.99 Add to basket |
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The Fearless Four - Rockin' It / Spoonie Gee and the Treacherous Three - Love Rap 7" £6.99 Add to basket |
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Super Coper And Clarence Breakers - This Is The Way You Do The Breakdance / Universal Two - Dancing Heart 7" £6.99 Add to basket |
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Stezo - It's My Turn / Just Ice - Cold Gettin' Dumb 7" £6.99 Add to basket |
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T La Rock & Jazzy Jay - It's Yours / Dimples D - Sucker DJs (I Will Survive) 7" £6.99 Add to basket |
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Troy Rainey - Tricky Tee Rap / Mr. Sweety G - At The Place To Be 7" £6.99 Add to basket |
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Jay Dee - Fuck The Police (Street/Clean/Inst) / Move (Street/Clean/Inst) (Up Above) 12" £7.99 Add to basket |
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Sage Francis - Best Of Times (Main/Inst) / Love The Lie (Main/Inst) (Antirecords) 12" £6.99 Add to basket |
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Edan - Sagittarius Rapp / Timothy McNealy - Sagittarius Black (Now Again) 7" £9.99 Add to basket |
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Mos Def - Body Rock / Manifesto (Rawkus) 12" £6.99 Add to basket |
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Double Dee & Steinski - Lesson Two (Part 1 & 2) 7" £5.99 Add to basket |
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Strong Arm Steady - Best Of Times 12" (Stones Throw) £6.99 Add to basket |
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Doom - Gazillion Ear 12" (Lex Records) £6.99 Add to basket |
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The Whitefield Brothers - The Gift feat EDAN & Mr Lif (Now Again) £6.99 Add to basket |
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Arabian Prince - Let's Hit The Beach Remixes (Stones Throw) £6.49 Add to basket |
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Mayer Hawthorne - Green Eyed Love (Limited Green Vinyl) (Stones Throw) £6.99 Add to basket |
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Kool Moe Dee - Christmas Rap / The Down Beat 12" (Sugar Hill) £5.99 Add to basket |
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Cut Master D.C. - Santa's Beat Box / Brooklyn Rocks The Best 12" (Zakia) £5.99 Add to basket |
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J Dilla - The Shining EP: So Far To Go (Radio/Inst/Album) / Baby (Dirty/Clean/Inst) (BBE) 12" PICTURE DISC! £14.99 Add to basket |
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Ultramagnetics MC'S - Watch Me Now (Vocal/Inst) / Feelin' It (Vocal/Inst) (Next Plateau Rec) 12" £6.99 Add to basket |
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A Tribe Called Quest - Jazz (We've Got) (LP/Re-Recording/Buggin Out/Re-Recording Inst) (Jive) 12" £6.99 Add to basket |
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Special Ed - I Got It Made (Orig/Businesslike Vers./LP) / Hoedown (Profile) 12" £6.99 Add to basket |
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Slick Rick - Mona Lisa (Def Jam) 12" £6.99 Add to basket |
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Run-DMC - Hard Times (Vocal/Inst) / Jam-Master Jay (Vocal/Inst) (Profile) 12" £6.99 Add to basket |
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N.W.A - 100 Miles And Runnin' (Ruthless) 12" £6.99 Add to basket |
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Jungle Brothers - Doin' Our Own Dang (JB's Mix/Richie Fermie Mix/JS's Edit/Album Edit) 12" £6.99 Add to basket |
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Eric B. Feat Rakim - Eric B. Is President / My Melody 12" (Zakia Rec) £6.99 Add to basket |
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Hashim - Al-Naafiysh (The Soul) 12" (Cutting Records) £6.99 Add to basket |
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Mr Magic with Cuzz Band - Magic Life Coast To Coast 7" Edited by EDAN (Stones Throw) £8.99 Add to basket |
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Kool Moe Dee - Christmas Rap / The Down Beat 12" (Sugar Hill) £5.99 Add to basket |
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Cut Master D.C. - Santa's Beat Box / Brooklyn Rocks The Best 12" (Zakia) £5.99 Add to basket |
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Edan - Funky Voltron feat Insight / Making Planets feat Mr Lif 7" (Mic Life) £9.99 Add to basket |
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Ugly Duckling - Left Behind (Wichita Mix) (Handcuts) 12" £5.99 Add to basket |
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Roots Manuva - Too Cold Limited 7" (Radio/Dub) (Big Dada) £4.99 Add to basket |
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Savath & Savalas - Masia / Jose's Instrumental (Stones Throw 7") £4.99 Add to basket |
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Percee P - The Hand That Leads You (Stones Throw 7") £4.99 Add to basket |
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James Pants - Future Delight/She's Out Of My Way (Dub) (Stones Throw 7") £4.99 Add to basket |
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Baron Zen - The Right Stuff/Broke Christmas In Brooklyn (Stones Throw 7") £4.99 Add to basket |
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Dubbledge - One Inch Punch £2.99 Add to basket |
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Dooley O - I Gotcha £1.99 Add to basket |
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J Dillla - Deelicious £2.99 Add to basket |
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Cage - The Best & Worst Of Cage £2.99 Add to basket |
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De La Soul - The Impossible Mission £1.99 Add to basket |
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Master Jay & Michael Dee - TSOB 12" £1.99 Add to basket |
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Jungle Brothers - Jimbrowski/Bragging and Boasting 12" £2.99 Add to basket |
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Dr Dre - Deep Cover 12" £2.99 Add to basket |
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Snoop Doggy Dogg - Ain't No Fun (If The Homies Can't Have None) 12" £2.99 Add to basket |
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Dooley O - I Don't Wanna Lose You 12" £0.99 Add to basket |
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De La Soul - Respect/You Got It 12" £2.99 Add to basket |
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Dr Dre - Let Me Ride 12" £1.99 Add to basket |
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MC Shan - Jane! Stop This Crazy Thing! 12" £2.99 Add to basket |
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Home Taping Is Killing Music And It's Illegal...T-Shirt SALE !! Was £9.99 NOW £4.99 !!! S £4.99 Add to basket M £4.99 Add to basket L £4.99 Add to basket XL £4.99 Add to basket Clothing label BLT 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 - Donuts Tribute T Shirt Black (Comes w. a FREE DILLA POSTER!) XXL was £19.99 NOW £14.99 Add to basket |
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J Dilla - Donuts Tribute T Shirt Black (Comes w. a FREE DILLA POSTER!) XXXL was £19.99 NOW £9.99 Add to basket |
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Freddy Fresh Presents The Rap Records 1st Edition £29.99 Add to basket This is the first book in the world that deals with the uncharted mysteries of every conceivable RAP 12" single released between 1979 and 1988. This book catalogues the complete discography of almost 1,400 independent and major label rap record labels from this era. Taken from 20 years of Freddy's personal research and cataloguing from his famous record collection and the collections of over 80 famous DJ's and record producers from all over the globe. |
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Edan - Echo Party DVD £9.99 Add to basket Comes with free Edan Knitting Factory flyer, Echo Party Poster & Lewis Recordings sticker ! As if it were possible, Edan adds even further color to his newest release, Echo Party, with Edan's Echo Party Movie, an energetic visual expression of his music. Produced/directed by Tom Fitzger- ald, Cut Chemist's go-to video man who works also for Cinefamily in L.A., Edan's Echo Party Movie is a fast-paced, retro conglomeration of unrelated and interesting video clips from the 60's, 70's and 80's that prove to be like a Sour Patch Kid for the eye. Cut in perfect harmony with Edan's music, the movie is an ideal synch for Echo Party's multi-elemental vibe where, using Traffic's extensive back catalogue of old school hip-hop, Edan mixes, reworks, and adds layers of his own instrumentation to create an eclectic blend of psychedlia and beats. The movie cuts in and out of old Indian/Bollywood films, spray painting graffiti artists, children operating computers, vintage ads, risqué cartoons, and everything in between. Set to debut officially at the WFMU Record Fair this October, Edan's Echo Party Movie is a trip you don't want to miss. Like the LP, each DVD cover is hand-stamped by the artist himself in one of five unique designs adding further to the artistic flair that could only be Edan's. Offered exclusively from the good folks here at Five Day Weekend, Edan's Echo Party Movie is a piece of musical artistry that should grace every music lover's collection. |
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BONAFIDE #05 - OLD SCHOOL X NEW SCHOOL SPECIAL (with Free Limited Ricky Powell Postcard!!) £3.99 Add to basket Bonafide set out with the aim to celebrate 'old-school, mid-school and new-school creativity', five issues on we're proud to present the old school x new school issue. In hip-hop chronological order we speak to the Godfather of it all, Grandmaster Flash, profile EPMD, the funky Long Island duo from the golden age of rap and get crazy with 'the lazy hustler' and fourth Beastie Boy, Ricky Powell. Still in NYC, we speak to a leading voice for alternative hip-hop, EL-P, who, nearly 15 years on from the release of the Funcrusher Plus (as part of Company Flow), reveals that there's plenty of drive left in the tank. From the West Coast we catch up with the revered turntablist and Beat Junkie, J Rocc. In the new-school side of the magazine, we break bread with those responsible for some of the most exhilarating new sounds in British urban music. We have exclusives with DELS and Ghostpoet as they launch their careers with original and nuanced albums. For this issue's roundtable we speak with the men behind Numbers, the Glasgow based record label that has rewritten the rulebook on how techno, electronic, R'n'B, house and hip-hop music should sound. And the resulting mutant strain of bass music is destroying dance floors the world over. On the visual side, we delve deep into the Brainfeeder psyche, speaking with designer and artist Charles Munka about his contribution to the label's distinct art direction. |
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Waxpoectics - Issue 46 - Jazz's Mad Men £8.99 Add to basket Jazz's Mad Men get the full issue treatment from our friends at Wax Poetics with a suave shot of George Benson on the front cover and funk era George Duke on the back with pieces on Billy Cobham, Norman Connors, Tom Brown, Bernard Wright, Don Blackman, Lenny White, Marcus Miller, Weldon Irvine and Phil Cohran! That is one heck of an amazing issue if we were to put together a list of legendary and overlooked jazz figures we'd want Wax Po to take a look at or revisit, it might look a whole lot like this issue! Plus, you get the always great Re:Discovery and Record Rundown, looks at Coltrane's Lost Recordings, Nostalgia 77 and more. |
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Waxpoectics - Issue 45 - The Dance Issue £8.99 Add to basket The dance issue includes the myths and messages of Detroit techno, Bohannon set the stage for modern dance music by keeping four on the floor, Tom Moulton's extended disco remix forever changed recorded music, Wally Badarou's genre-defying synth work united worlds of sound, Ron Hardy's radical Music Box mixes and edits defined a new sound in dance music, Konk shook up New York's downtown scene with rhythm for the clubs, Chief Rocker: The Soul of Frankie Crocker and the Battle for the FM Dial plus Underground Resistance protects the high-tech heartbeat of Detroit! |
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Waxpoectics - Issue 44 £8.99 Add to basket Highlights & main features : War's tight core of prolific players fused worldwide rhythms with all-day authority Š War keyboardist Lonnie Jordan soldiers on Š Syl Johnson put the blues in R&B Š Al Kooper gave his soul for rock and roll Š Johnny Colon embraced R&B to fortify Latin music in the '60s Š also includes Budos Band, Bill Withers, United States Navy Port Authority Soul Band, Bennie Maupin rediscovered, and DJ Muggs record rundown. |
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Waxpoectics - Issue 43 - The Reggae Issue £8.99 Add to basket Cover stars Augustus Pablo and Gregory Isaacs are both the subject of extensive in-depth features, plus essays on Chris Blackwell & Island records, Sugar Minott, and Bob Andy. Also includes Beres Hammond, Alton Ellis, David Rodigan's record rundown, UK dub photo-feature, early Greensleeves artwork reproduced, Panamanian dancehall, and an explanation of tape delay techniques and the Roland Space Echo device. |
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Fat Lace Magazine Issue 2 £9.99 Add to basket |
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Wax Poectics Number 8 £29.99 Add to basket |
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J Dilla Poster £14.99 Add to basket All the profits of this poster go to the Dilla Foundation ! |
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Beautiful Losers DVD £5.99 Add to basket Beautiful Losers celebrates the spirit behind one of the most influential cultural movements of a generation. In the early 1990s a loose-knit group of like-minded outsiders found common ground at a little NYC storefront gallery. Rooted in the DIY (do-it-yourself) subcultures of skateboarding, surf, punk, hip-hop & graffiti, they made art that reflected the lifestyles they led. Developing their craft with almost no influence from the "establishment" art world, this group, and the subcultures they sprang from, have now become a movement that has been transforming pop culture. |
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Catch the Beat: The Best of Soul Underground 1987-91 (Hardcover) £15.99 Add to basket |
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New York: Graffiti 1970-1995 by Marcus Wiese £11.99 Add to basket |
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Spraycan Art Henry Chalfant & James Prigoff £9.99 Add to basket Absolutely essential !! Like Subway Art but with a global scope of the phenomonon as it spread to the subways and streets of Europe and beyond. Features the young Mode 2, 3D (Massive Attack) , Goldie , Bando and all the U.S. legends of the day. Incredible to this day !! |
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The Holy Book Of Hip Hop - All Samples Cleared Vol. 1 £29.99 Add to basket From Afrika Bambaataa to Marley Marl to YZ. The Holy Book of Hip Hop is a collection of information containing the most up to date sampled Soul/Jazz recordings your ears can find. Through sampling yesterday's music emerged a style known as Hip Hop. Gathering secret information from the greatest producers and Dee Jays from around the world, we are able to provide you with this dictionary of historic samples. Now it is up to you to apply your creativity to the (sample) sound of music. And the rest will be history, Homeboyyee!! |
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The Boombox Project: The Machines, the Music, and the Urban Underground (Hardback Book) £13.99 Add to basket On the heels of the graffiti renaissance comes a vibrant look at an old-school icon that figured prominently in the hip-hop, rock & roll, and punk movements of the 1970s and 80s. The Boombox Project features contemporary fine art portraits of an array of vintage boomboxes, as well as scores of documentary photographs of the people who brought the boombox movement to life back in the day. The book is more than just a collection of images, though; it's also an oral history of the early days of hip-hop, featuring memories from Fab 5 Freddy, Bob Gruen, Rosie Perez, Kool Moe Dee, LL Cool J, Lisa Lisa, DJ Spooky, and Adam Yauch of the Beastie Boys, among others, on the role this once ubiquitous machine played. |
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Dmc Technics 15-inch Air Mix Laptop Notebook Sleeve - Black £16.99 Add to basket Brand New Black Neoprene Laptop Skin With The Technics AirMix Design In White. Holds widescreen laptop or 15" notebook (dimensions: 400mm x 270 x 30) Lightweight, durable, soft. Made from water resistant Neoprene. Abrasive/chemical resistant. Protects from various hazards ie. dust, spills & bangs etc... Extra-strong zipper closure for quick access. Can be used as a stand alone case or placed inside a backpack or bag. |
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Graffiti New York book by Eric 'DEAL CIA' Felisbret (Hardback Book) £14.99 Add to basket "Graffiti New York" is the comprehensive history of New York City graffiti from the late 1960s up until present day. In a fashion that strikes a balance between strong visuals and brief but substantive text and interviews, it presents the big picture of the city that gave birth to a global visual/social revolution. Decades after the movement globalized, New York is still the Mecca of graffiti culture. Painting there is a badge of honor, with graffiti artists from around the globe making pilgrimages to New York for that purpose. This is the city where it all began, yet few know the back story. "Graffiti New York" fills that gap, detailing the concepts, aesthetics, ideals and social structures that have served as a cultural blueprint for graffiti movements across the world. The book features approximately 1,000 images, complemented by texts by the authors and other relevant players in the movement, as well as descriptive graphics and sidebars. Spanning the birth of simple signature tags to today's vibrant murals, covering the movement's growth, its social framework and values, the various forms of graffiti and significant artists and crews, "Graffiti New York" presents the big picture like no other. |
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Coconut Unlimited by Nikesh Shukla (Paperback Book) £10.00 Add to basket Synopsis: It's Harrow in the 1990s, and Amit, Anand and Nishant are stuck. Their peers think they're a bunch of try-hard 'darkies', acting street and pretending to be cool, while their community thinks they're rich toffs, a long way from the 'real' Asians in Southall. So, to keep it real, they form legendary hip-hop band 'Coconut Unlimited'. Pity they can't rap. From struggling to find records in the suburbs and rehearsing on rubbish equipment, to evading the clutches of disapproving parents and real life drug-dealing gangsters, Coconut Unlimited documents every teenage boy's dream and the motivations behind it: being in a band to look pretty cool - oh, and get girls... |
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I'm Rick James - The Definitive DVD £8.99 Add to basket This DVD highlights the illustrious career of this award-winning producer, artist & songwriter with 18 exceptional performance clips from popular television shows, including DON KIRSHNER'S ROCK CONCERT, SOUL ALIVE, ROCKPALAST, DINAH! and DICK CLARK'S NEW YEAR'S ROCKIN' EVE. Sprinkled throughout are rare interviews--and all eight of his promotional music videos with Motown legend Smokey Robinson, plus three previously unreleased music videos. |
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Bonafide Issue 4 - UK Special £4.00 Add to basket Issue 04 celebrates our very own local originators. Peep the roll call of exclusives. On the music tip we've got exclusive features with the bedrock of UK hip-hop. From the grey High Plains of Huddersfield, Jehst and the YNR crew, cover star Klashnekoff reloading for his next saga, the cerebral thoughts of Ty, electronic pioneers Coldcut/Ninja Tune and Daddy Skitz. Also in the mix is the un-definable Jamie Lidell, floating vocals from Fatima, the relentless underground warrior Cappo and Radio 1xtra DJs Benji B, Mista Jam and DJ Target. |
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Frosted Butter Rugs by DJ Q BERT £19.99 Add to basket |
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80 Blocks From Tiffany's £10.99 Add to basket Inspired by journalist Jon Bradshaw's Esquire Magazine article, "Savage Skulls," Gary Weis, a filmmaker for Saturday Night Live, convinced SNL creator Lorne Michaels to help turn the concept into a feature-length documentary. Documenting the everyday activities of two South Bronx street gangs, the Savage Nomads and the Savage Skulls, the film is a glimpse into a different time, when the South Bronx was considered 'a land of nowhere.' The 80 Blocks from Tiffany's DVD is beautifully packaged, housed in a 40-page hard cover book within a slip case. DVD bonus materials include brand new never-before-seen interviews with Weis and director of photography Joan Churchill, while the accompanying book contains all new liner notes and Jon Bradshaw's "Savage Skulls" article in its entirety. |
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Hater T Shirt by Stig Of The Dump - White XXL £14.99 Add to basket XL £9.99 Add to basket L £9.99 Add to basket M £9.99 Add to basket |
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Hater T Shirt by Stig Of The Dump - Black XXL £14.99 Add to basket XL £9.99 Add to basket L £9.99 Add to basket M £9.99 Add to basket |
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Waxpoectics - Issue 42 - The R'n'B Issue ft Barry White / D'Angelo £8.99 Add to basket Also Includes Melvin Bliss, Ernie Hines, The Wah-wah Pedal, Bilal, Spree Wilson, The Bamboos, Kings Go Forth, Record Rundown: Five fine artists let the vinyl speak, Analog Out: How Guitar Amps and Pedals Became Virtual, Tito Ramos, Curtis Mayfield, Joi, Jeff Redd, and D.J. Rogers Re:Discovered. |
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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 Janiero's 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 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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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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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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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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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 it's ongoing exploration into the art & design of music promotion, speaking to Village Green, the team behind Fabric's distinct art direction and Stones Throw art director Jeff Jank, who designs the magazines first guest cover. Inside there's 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)
£17.99 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 Benin's Orchestre Poly-Rythmo. - Pax Nicholas broke free from Fela's 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 Mali's rich folkloric tradition Orchestra Baobab embraced Cuban rhythms but shines in many styles. |
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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 Jagel's 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. Jagell's 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 Throw's 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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