There’s a ton of these videos on Youtube all showing footage behind the actual process of pressing a record from beginning to end. From lacquer to finished record. All pretty much showing the same process give or take. But I found this video a little more interesting than the rest since it’s an actual tour [...]

To Have & To Hold - Taster Tape from Jony Lyle on Vimeo.

There’s truly something special about vinyl in general and the way it feels and sounds. And to me MP3’s are like Corn Syrup while vinyl is pure cane sugar. Or kind of like vinyl being the equivalent to Rocky’s grassroots training regiment compared [...]

Stones Throw has teamed up with Pay Jay Productions and Serato to release this special edition vinyl set. The release is designed after those famous pink donut boxes you get with your pastries-you know the ones. Also comes with two slip mats, and two discs featuring six unreleased Dilla beats with Serato control tones on [...]

I’m really looking forward to this new release by Damu The Fudgemunk. Can’t wait. Two volumes of beautiful beats on vinyl and CD due out April 2010. I’m on it!
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How It Should Sound (Due out April 2010)

DJ Shadow has released a number of these exclusive LP’s from his Handmade series through his website at www.djshadow.com. All the records you’ll find there feature exclusive material from DJ Shadow like live mixes and instrumentals. I was meaning to purchase the instrumentals to, “The Outsider” LP but I completely forgot about these records until [...]

I’ve been meaning to post Mitsu’s latest album, but just haven’t gotten around to it until today. It’s a 3 disc LP featuring singers and Hip Hop artists like Grap Luva, Elzhi, Maspyke, Kev Brown, Cy Young, and WildChild. Mitsu’s beats on this one revolve around the sounds of Jazz and Latin rhythms and draw [...]

Here’s one of those records I’m beginning to think most people don’t realize what they have and tend to dismiss it as the clean version. All too often I see listings on Ebay for this record as “Clean” or “Censored” version next to bootleg versions of the instrumentals for “Aquemini”. Yes, there is a clean [...]

Can I get a late pass!? My brother put me up on this record recently and soon after I was fortunate enough to find a copy for myself. It’s one of those albums that carries a theme behind the production, like those Oh No albums with the Middle Eastern samples. Instead of Middle Eastern Funk [...]

I picked up this 12″ single recently on the strength or Madlib’s production and Phonte’s vocal abilities-I’m a big fan of Phonte from Little Brother. And not to take away from the other MC’s on this record, but I can’t help to think how much more amazing this song would’ve been if it were just [...]

Let’s face it. It’s gonna be really tough for Sadat X to top or even match the quality of the first Wild Cowboys LP. It was a classic! So for that, I’m still a little bit iffy on the Idea of a Wild Cowboys part II. And new EP does offer a couple of really [...]