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7" | 2023 | EU | Original (Oonops Drops)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Krafty Kuts and DJ Robert Smith have teamed up to highlight the skills they are best at. Krafty Kuts is known for his unique beats from Hip Hop to Ghetto Funk. DJ Robert Smith on the other hand is famous for his scratches and turntable work. After Krafty passed on a few beats to Djrs about 2 years ago, Smith quickly realized that he wanted to create an EP from these beats with the help of his worldwide connections. The first song to receive rap vocals was "Here I Come" ft. Wildelux, who delivered in no time. The vision was strengthened and more feature requests followed: Supastition, 1773, BambuDeAsiatic and Slimkid3 who took Moonbeam Kelly on board. Within a very short time a masterpiece of first-class artists was created. The "Krafty Smith EP"!

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Krafty Smith

Krafty Smith Ep Part 1

Honestly Nevermind Nachfolge Version

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Drake

CD | 2023 | EU (Universal)

Release: 2023 / EU

Genre: Hip Hop

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Integrated Tech Solutions

Aesop Rock

CD | 2023 | US | Original (Rhymesayers)

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Virgin)

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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A tech company's "senior spirit guide" finally comes to the defense of the "financially unsuccessful" Vincent van Gogh; wonders of the natural world are reimagined as "muster points for brainstorming innovators"; the "artificial char lines" on fast-food burgers are cited as if signs of the apocalypse. For the better part of three decades, Aesop Rock has used the syntax of the moment to pinpoint the fault lines in that moment's supposedly solid foundation. With his tenth album, Integrated Tech Solutions, Aes wields insidious corporatespeak as a tool to pry that parasitic worldview away from the parts of life that truly matter. A concept album about an organization offering "lifestyle- and industry-specific applications designed to curate a desired multi-experience," Integrated Tech Solutions picks apart the charlatan language that hears app inventors put themselves on continuums starting with cavemen and continuing through da Vinci. On "Mindful Solutionism," the wheel evolves seamlessly into modern agriculture - and then into atomic bombs, Agent Orange, cigarettes, and surveillance cameras. In a rare moment of transparency, the engineers Aes give voice to sum up this spiral in just a few words: "We cannot be trusted with the stuff that we come up with." Appropriately, the album sounds like the past and future at once. Largely self-produced, Integrated Tech Solutions catches Aes at his leanest and most innovative, leveraging "SolutionismÖs careening bounce against the wistful "By the River" or the slow creep of "Salt and Pepper Squid." The effect is a record that sounds itself like an organism growing, mutating, hurtling toward profitability - and then destruction. As fans have come to expect, Aes is cuttingly funny and slyly profound at once, whether recounting a childhood restaurant run-in with Mr. T ("100 Feet Tall") or quipping, on "Pigeonometry," that "white dove is a pigeon - you motherfuckers is bigots." At the same time, Integrated Tech Solutions is working on another parallel project: tracing the sprawl of modernity and cutting directly to its core. "I've been doing laps of the lost worlds," he raps on "All City Nerve Map," sounding at once wearied and reinvigorated. "I can draw a map to the raw nerve."

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Studio Murena

Wadirum

37,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Skratch Practice Blood Red Vinyl Edition

DJ T-Kut

7" | 2023 | EU | Reissue (Play With)

10,99 €*

CD | 2023 | EU | Original (Rrc Music)

Release: 2023 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Hip Hop

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The master in scratch Dj T-Kut together Dj Yamal and Cut Sound Brothers have cooked this new battle vinyl ready to be to squeezed to the maximum, “Skratch Practice”. Composed by 2 instrumental tracks and 8 tracks tools, each track is inspired in the classic tracks of the turntable worldwide that converts this record an indispensable piece for the fanatics. The cover is an art of the well-known graffiti artist Mast. Masterized in 126 Productions House. All tracks signed by Dj T-kut. This 2023 comes with a new limited version presented in 7” format with blood red colour to enjoy in both ways of this wonderful 7”.

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Crimeapple

Ydfwc?3

Tape | 2023 | EU | Original (Rrc Music)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Span over the course of 2 years with the fi rst chapter released in March 2021, Crimeapple is back to end the Ydfwc? trilogy with a masterpiece. With production duties handled by Loman, Chairman Chow, Buck Dudley as well as Oh No, and a sole guest appearance by Canadian emcee Daniel Son, the NJ native of Colombian descent goes out with a bang on this 3rd instalment to ask for the last time... YOU Don’t Fuck With Crime?!

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Willie The Kid & V Don

Blue Notes 2

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Melting Pot Music)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Over fi ve years after the release of "Blue Notes", V Don and Willie The Kid are back at it with the 2nd chapter! Willie The Kid keeps delivering fl awless bars over V Don's cinematic and stone cold productions to give you the chills, featuring guest appearances by Flee Lord, Ransom, Ankhle John, Babymaine, TY Da Dale, Whoisbravy and Hobx. "Blue Notes 2" is also available on black vinyl, digipack CD and cassette.

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Koralle

Insomnia

7" | 2023 | EU | Original (Dezi-Belle)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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“Insomnia” is the third solo album from Italian jazz beat maestro Koralle for Melting Pot Music. Without exaggeration, it can be described as the most mature and advanced piece of work by the beatmaker and producer from Bologna. On “Insomnia” Koralle invites some of his favourite artists and musical peers to collaborate and exchange sounds, ideas, beats, melodies and lyrics. The guest list includes fellow producers & musicians FloFilz, Pachakuti, Figub Brazlevic, Kuranes, Phoniks and Brous One as well as rappers and singers Kid Abstrakt, KeepVibeNear, Ryshon Jones.

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Colt74

Anatomy Of Tempo

18,99 €*

Michael HHV GSA Exclusive Amber Vinyl Edition

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Limited to 50 copies.

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Killer Mike

2LP | 2023 | DE | Original (Concord)

38,99 €*

Tape | 2023 | EU | Original (Tuff Kong)

Release: 2023 / DE – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Limited to 300 copies available for Germany, Austria and Switzerland only at HHV.

Killer Mike, known for Run The Jewels, releases with Michael his most personal solo album so far.

Michael is to Killer Mike what Logan is to Wolverine. This album tells the story of Michael Santiago Render, giving us a very personal glimpse into his life, refracted through the black culture of the South. You feel the catharsis of a Sunday morning in church where young Mike first heard a B3 Hammond and gospel singers live. You hear the fast-paced shit-talking that goes on at a backyard BBQ in Adamsville on a hot Friday night. You feel the rattle of an 808 while eating a plate of lemon pepper wings on a Wednesday afternoon at Blue Flame. We've known Killer Mike for his long career as a thought-provoking rapper, but on Michael he tells his story for the first time.

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Boldy James & Cuns

Be That As It May

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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CD | 2023 | EU | Original (Rrc Music)

Willie The Kid & V Don

Blue Notes 2

Sunday Dinner On A Monday

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Speech Debelle

2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Monday Session)

32,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Learn 2 Swim Black Vinyl Edition

Redveil

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Diggers Factory)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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I'm Mad Hol'On Black Vinyl Edition

Monday Night

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Rrc Music)

The Return Of Sasquatch Picture Disc Vinyl Edition

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Through his affiliations with Mutant Academy and Scheme Team, from Pitchfork writeups to co-signs from Alchemist, Evidence and Earl Sweatshirt, Richmond native Monday Night has been making mad waves in the underground, cementing himself as one of the most interesting names out there right now. We are proud to present his first ever vinyl release for one of his latest offerings "i'm MAD Hol'on"

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Your Old Droog

7" | 2022 | US | Original (Nature Sounds)

Yod Wave Colored Vinyl Edition

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Known to keep a low profile and cause pandemonium with each reemergence, rhyme writer extraordinaire Your Old Droog is debuting the appropriately-titled single "The Return Of Sasquatch", a collaboration with legendary producer Madlib. A brash, kinetic masterpiece, the track marks a historic encounter between two of the biggest names in independent hip-hop. This limited pressing on 7" picture disc vinyl also includes an exclusive live rehearsal performance of "The Unknown Comic" on the B-Side, produced by Edan.

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Your Old Droog

LP | 2022 | US | Original (Nature Sounds)

63,99 €*

Kool Keith & Real Bad Man

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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YRap virtuoso Your Old Droog is among the most consistent artists in hip-hop today, releasing phenomenal music at an increasingly impressive rate. Now, the Ukrainian emcee is back with the new project YOD Wave. The collection finds Droog levitating over soulful loops, conjuring pure hip-hop euphoria with sophisticated rhymes and an impeccable flow. YOD Wave features appearances by Mach-Hommy and Tha God Fahim, with all beats handled by acclaimed Montreal producer Nicholas Craven.

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Serpent

2LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Rrc Music)

King Errisson / In Search Of Orchestra

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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After teaming up with Boldy James to release Real Bad Boldy (2021) and Killing Nothing (2022) and linking up with rising star Pink Siifu for Real Bad Flights (2022), Real Bad Man returns to announce his fi rst collaborative album of the year with Serpent . Serpent brings Real Bad Man together with the inimitable Kool Keith and is produced in its entirety by Real Bad Man. Serpent features appearances from Slug of Atmosphere, Ice-T, Edan, Cool Calm Pete and Zeelooperz. “My rhymes go where the tracks take me and Serpent took me on a journey through time and space. I channeled Ultra, Ocatgon, Rhythm X, and Black Elvis to make something new and mind-blowing” Kool Keith declares. When the Serpent bites, don’t try to understand it; just enjoy the injection. The sound dynamic crystals mix so proper, my vocals and guest appearances are set in the right spots. “My goal for this album is to capture my favorite parts from Keith’s catalog. I wanted to make beats that got into his (Keith’s) subconscious” Real Bad Man maintains. “I think it worked.”

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Well Have A Nice Day / Phenomena Theme

7" | 2023 | UK (Death Breaks)

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Mellting Pot Music)

Release: 2023 / UK

Genre: Hip Hop

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The legendary Death Breaks makes a welcome return with 2 more classic B-Boy tunes with heavy funky disco breakbeats, cut up and sampled by the greats. First time on 45 for both tracks - doubles are a must for DJs!

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Mr. Käfer & Phlocalyst

Now / Again II

21,99 €*

Young Mc / Intelligent Hoodlum

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Lofi heavyweights Phlocalyst and Mr.Käfer unite again for the second volume of their joint project “Now / Again” on Melting Pot Music. But wait a minute … is it really appropriate to label “Now / Again II” Lofi? If you follow one of the relevant playlists, you have heard some tracks by our two friends for sure and yes they are heavyweights within that scene (check their numbers). But what about the music? “Now / Again II” is far cry from sad piano loops, fake vinyl crackles and played out Sp-404 effects (or whatever the racoon in you associates with Lofi). Let's call “Now / Again II” contemporary smooth Jazz rooted in soulful HipHop instead. Executed with a great ear for strong melodies, sophisticated arrangements and an everlasting love for blue notes. You won't regret it.

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Know How / Arrest The President

7" | 2022 | UK (Dope Jams)

2LP | 2019 | EU | Original (RCA)

Release: 2022 / UK

Genre: Hip Hop

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Classic club bangers on 45 - limited to 300 copies!

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Khalid

Free Spirit

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop, Pop

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Y.A.L.A. - You Always Live Again

Genetikk

LP | 2018 | EU | Original (Outta This World)

23,99 €*

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Everything Is Always A Process

Bluestaeb

LP | 2018 | EU | Original (Jakarta)

18,99 €*

LP | 2015 | EU | Original (Columbia)

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Bluestaeb's evolution from a beatmaker to a producer is his sophmore album “Everything is Always a Process”.

He is one of the key figures of a new generation of up and coming HipHop beatmakers, who have emancipated from genre thinking and instead merge old school aesthetics with a new school attitude and organic instrumentation.

Everything Is Always A Process re-iterates Bluestaeb's overall approach to life (and thinking), but also has direct reference to the making of the album itself, which began with moving from Berlin to Paris in 2015 in the search of new influences and a new creative environment.
Created between 2015 and early 2018, EIAAP embodies the process of this transition - as well as collaboration with instrumentalists and vocalists from all over the world and recording in different studios in Paris, London & Berlin.

"Meeting all those musicians and trying out new ways of producing by using real analogue synths, Rhodes, drums and percussion etc. made it possible to overcome the creative boundaries of a home studio with just a midi keyboard" / Bluestaeb

Influenced by Madlib's "Shades Of Blue" and trained in African drum techniques such as Djembé and Daruka, Bluestaeb had been crafting his own beats since his teenage years and gradually found his sound identity through experimenting with HipHop and Jazz – first to be heard by a broader music community in 2013, when he released his debut album "1991 Extraterrestrial" (Radio Juicy). Since then the prolific young artist has released numerous solo and collaboration projects ("B.L.U.E. Friday" in 2015 and „Sidekicks“ with S. Fidelity in 2016). In 2016, he produced collaborative album "LIT - Lost In Translation“ with rapper JuJu Rogers, a keen manifesto against racism, xenophobia and the rise of anti-heroes such as Donald Trump.
Today, Bluestaeb lives and works in Paris and Berlin and is set to release his third solo album “Everything Is Always a Process”, a smooth Neo Soul-induced epic featuring artists such as Noah Slee, Harleighblu and Melodiesinfonie.

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Earl Sweatshirt

Doris

LP | 2014 | US | Original (Sony)

Release: 2015 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Finally on wax with download code!

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Nas

Illmatic XX

CD | 2024 | EU | Original (Virgin Music Las)

Release: 2014 / US – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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20 years of Illmatic! Remastered original album!

180g vinyl with download card.
Download includes 10 rare remixes, demos and freestyles.

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LL Cool J

The Force

21,99 €*

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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LP | 2024 | WW | Original (Force)

LL Cool J

The Force

LP | 2024 | DE | Original (Upstruct)

Release: 2024 / WW – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Hip-hop legend LL Cool J returns with The FORCE, his first new album in more than a decade. Produced in it's entirety by A Tribe Called Quest's Q-Tip, The FORCE (an acronym for Frequencies Of Real Creative Energy) represents years of intense work. The result is an album that sounds thoroughly modern - full of razor-sharp writing and nimble, elastic vocals - but rooted in a rich tradition.

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Ivo Der Bandit

Räuber & Halunken

25,99 €*

Release: 2024 / DE – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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LP | 2018 | EU | Reissue (Hip Hop Classic)

Polyester The Saint

American Muscle 5.0

45,99 €*

Release: 2018 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Hip Hop

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King Tee & Tha Alkaholiks

Bus Dat Ass / Got It Bad Y'all

7" | 2023 | UK (Boom Bap Classics)

Release: 2023 / UK

Genre: Hip Hop

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Platte Limited Picture Disc Vinyl Edition

Apache 207

LP | 2019 | DE | Reissue (Four Music Local)

Release: 2019 / DE – Reissue

Genre: Hip Hop

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2LP | 2013 | US | Reissue (Sony Legacy)

A$ap Ferg

Trap Lord

Release: 2013 / US – Reissue

Genre: Hip Hop

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (823)

Godblesscomputers

Faded Views

24,99 €*

LP | 2023 | UK | Original (Breakbeat Paradise)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Bologna-based producer, DJ, and sound collector Godblesscomputers (122k Spotify listeners) has returned with the release of his fourth full-length record, "Faded Views." Godblesscomputers's latest LP "The Island" (2020, La Tempesta Dischi) earned him placement on Spotify playlists like "Brain Flood" and "Coffee Club." Since then, his appearance on Willie Peyote's track "La colpa al vento" landed GBC on "Best of Indie Italia 2022." On "Faded Views," it was Godblesscomputers's creative project to explore the sonic potentials of his direct environment, picking up recordings and threads of inspiration from the most commonplace occurrences. A sonic scavenger, Godblesscomputers explored the expanses of his-both digital and physical-soundscapes. "Faded Views" does the work of crafting a unified, yet complex compilation of the noises that mark the experience of being digital natives in ever-expanding dimensions.

Godblesscomputers's use of musique concrète and found-sound composition melds curiously with his undeniable electronic and techno acumen. Superimposing metallic electronica onto esoteric sound bytes creates the occasion for complex sound collage. "Faded Views" marks a decade since the genesis of the Godblesscomputers project; the entire LP testifies to how time warps perception and sound. Godblesscomputers's music seems to decorate time, both commemorating the moments passed with mind-melting sonic collages and looking forward to the infinitudes of the future with frenetic electronic experimentation.

Themes of impermanence and transience-hence "Faded Views"-pervade the record. Godblesscomputers blurs time as each track seeps into the next in what feels like a seamless transition. He makes these swift passages in genre as well-the record opens on "Colors" with a rich horn section which frictionlessly becomes a lo-fi dance groove. It is this melding of the analog and the electronic that makes sense of his found approach to beat-making: Godblesscomputers marries the found and the synthesized; the creator and the created; the past and the future. The process of sonic dissection and recomposition that drives much of Godblesscomputers's creative process yields not only assertive breakdowns and animated dance tracks, but also complex tapestries of sound that keep the listener ever-intrigued-piano, saxophone, and modular synthesis all find a natural home on tracks like "Hello." In an apt description, the producer's work has been described as "sounding like wood, metal, and microchip."

Godblesscomputers's artistic objective lies in blurring definitive lines, constantly shifting perspectives, genres, and origins of inspiration. On "Faded Views," this design cultivates a folktronica record that truly evades definition.

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Paul Sitter

Hip-Hop Delivery

20,99 €*

7" | 2023 | UK | Original (Jalapeno)

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Breakbeat Paradise Recordings has teamed up with hip-hop legend Paul Sitter who has gather some of dopest MCs on the planet to feature on the epic LP: Hip-Hip Delivery.
The LP is a celebration to the oldskool hiphop vibes that started it all by cutting and scratching up the classic funk record, twisted in a brand-new way with MCs from around the world dropping fire on the mic.

Starting out with the intoxicating Global Chremistry with Craig G and some big funky grooves. Moving on to the Go Move featuring the awesome Andy Cooper on a smooth boom bap joint. The classic Wild Thing gets a oldskool hiphop twist with some big rhymes by Birdapres and cuts by DJ Robert Smith. The breaks are about to get serious as Chromedrops some high paced rhymes on the Who's Nice Kid track. Finally the A-Side finishes up paying some respect to some of the classics beat and breaks from the early hip days on the King Of Rock jam.

The flip side kicks off with more groovy, soulful hip hop featuring Andy Cooper on the catchy Chasing the Funk. Paul Sitter breaks is down nice on another slick hip hop anthem B-Boy Impressions before letting Dr Syntax take it over on the mic on the It's On Like That jam.
The last 3 joints on the album lets Paul Sitter get busy on some funky hip-hop creations showcasing his classic breakbeats and heavy sample techniques.

Breakbeat Paradise Recordings' first full album release since 2019 to drop on 12" vinyl but with an instant classic release like this we felt there was no other way to do it.

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The Allergies

Stanky Funk

Neon Chapter Record Store Day 2023 Edition

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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The Allergies hook up with The Pharcyde's Bootie Brown on their brand-new slab of throwback rap, 'Stanky Funk'. It's a match made in hip-hop heaven, with The Allergies channelling classic early 90's boom bap beat business. Beefed up lo-fi funk loops, neck-snap drums, cuts and rumbling bass lines provide the backbone for a legend to get busy over.
'Never Gonna Let Go' is on the B-side – a funky up-tempo breaks-heavy banger that sees The Allergies twin monster samba samples with roots reggae vocal rips, for full dance-floor destruction.

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Bigyuki

LP | 2023 | JP | Original (Universal)

68,99 €*

Release: 2023 / JP – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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MA_DOOM: Son Of Yvonne Black Vinyl Edition

Masta Ace

2LP | 2012 | US | Reissue (Fat Beats)

El Michels Affair & Black Thought

Release: 2012 / US – Reissue

Genre: Hip Hop

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Masta Ace joins forces with the metal faced MF Doom for Son of Yvonne, a highly personal concept album that celebrates the life and legacy of Ace’s recently departed Mother. Like his 2004 landmark Disposable Arts, Son of Yvonne is meticulously constructed with stories, settings, and characters that resonate with flesh and bone humanity. Interstitial vignettes provide a thematic backbone to the experience, and each track complements and completes the previous to form a narrative whole: a sometimes visceral, sometimes nostalgic slice of Ace’s young life in Brownsville, Brooklyn.

Entirely underscored by MF Doom’s iconic Special Herbs instrumentals, Son of Yvonne features the Juice Crew general Big Daddy Kane, new comers Pav Bundy (The Bundies), Reggie B and even MF Doom on the mic. It’s Masta Ace’s no frills flow, however, that looms largest above the dusty samples and digger loops that define Doom’s production. Ace’s photo-realistic rhymes about stick-up kids, spraycan artists and wack emcees add extra gravity to his already celebrated reputation as “truly an under-appreciated rap veteran and underground luminary” (Allmusic Guide). Like Eminem recalls in his 2008 autobiography The Way I Am, “Masta Ace had amazing storytelling skills. His thoughts were so vivid.”

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Glorious Game Sky High Blue Vinyl Edition

LP | 2023 | US | Original (Big Crown)

A Breukelen Story Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Hip Hop, Organic Grooves

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Includes 60 x 60 cm poster of the album artwork! The poster is only available at HHV!

When Leon Michels and El Michels Affair released their rst record, Sounding Out The City, in 2005, it was hard to guess what was next for Michels and his then-introduced, now-patented "cinematic soul" sound. Now, four EMA studio albums and scores of tribute and remix projects later - all while producing for some of the biggest names in the industry - Michels has trademarked his sound, with each project taking audiences somewhere new and pushing the boundaries of what he is known for. The man is a river, not a lake and this time he takes his golden touch into the realm of hip-hop laying down a musical bed for one of the greatest to ever rhyme into a microphone: Black Thought of The Roots crew. Releasing on Big Crown Records, the LP is called Glorious Game and it is a remarkable debut partnership in more ways than one. Michels provides his bottom-heavy, soul-tinged production for Black Thought who gives us some of the more personal and transparent verses we've ever heard from him. Michels and Black Thought have been in each other's orbit for a while now. The two first met in the 2000s when Thought was first getting familiar with the contemporary soul scene. "Out of that whole world, Menahan Street Band was probably my favorite," recalling the funk and soul group Michels was a founding member of back in 2007. Fast forward a few years and musicians from that collective - Dave Guy on trumpet and Ian Hendrickson-Smith on sax - are now full time players with The Roots. This connection eventually led Leon and Thought to doing a few fundraising events around NYC and Philly together. "Before long, Black Thought was coming around the studio and would jam with us from time to time," Michels explains. "Then, fast forward to 2020 and Covid lockdowns, he just hit me up out of the blue, wanting me to send him stuff to write to. We both were looking to stay busy." Being that Black Thought is the co-founder and emcee for, hands down, the best live-band group in hip-hop. Michels took a decidedly different approach to this project and instead of sending recorded tracks of live compositions, he pulled out the sampler and sampled himself and some records from his collection. "I'm a big fan of soul music," as if Michels has to remind us. "And part of hip-hop's appeal to me has always been the sample-based production" For Glorious Game, Michels would make wholly composed and recorded soul songs in his studio, sample himself, then chop and/or loop up his sounds and create instrumentals for Black Thought. On some tracks he took a more traditional hip-hop approach, starting from samples of other people's music but then adding live instrumentation on top. But for the most part, it's him reinterpreting his own compositions into something new. The result is an organic feel of loop-based tracks that breathe and uctuate enough for Black Thought to ex on. "What I write about is determined by the equation of the producer's energy and my energy," Black Thought says. "It's about where we meet." So armed with Michels sampled and re-sampled soul cinematics, Black Thought rhymes through personal memories.

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Masta Ace & Marco Polo

2LP | 2018 | US | Reissue (Fat Beats)

Georgia Anne Muldrow & Madlib

Release: 2018 / US – Reissue

Genre: Hip Hop

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On 2007’s “Nostalgia,” a memorable track off Marco Polo’s album, Port Authority, chemistry between Polo and guest MC Masta Ace is easily heard and felt. What was a quick one-off collab was not only a reminder of Masta Ace’s timelessness, but it was also the impetus for a larger, more fleshed out concept between the Toronto beatsmith Polo and the legendary MC. The pair since formed a duo and the result is a powerfully evenhanded project, A Breukelen Story.

In 2018 we find hip-hop’s storied journeyman, Masta Ace, at the helm of another sharp, tightly wrought project. He’s traversed hip-hop’s ever-changing landscape for nearly three decades, navigating different eras while expanding his already extensive catalogue. From his formative work with the legendary Juice Crew, to a bombastically renowned stint with Delicious Vinyl, it’s hard to find a more humble master of ceremony than Ace—even harder is finding another figure whose work is equally embraced on both coasts, East and West, as well as abroad.

Despite amassing 7 solo albums, 5 collaborative projects and countless additional one-offs, Ace is still trying to show and prove, still moving the needle forward for himself, his fans, and his career. Says Ace: “My goal on A Breukelen Story was to do more lyrical stuff. I’ve done a lot of concept songs, and a lot of topical records, but I made a point to put a couple straight rhyming joints on here to remind dudes I can still do this.”

“I met Masta Ace for the first time while interning at Cutting Room studios in Manhattan,” says Marco Polo, longtime Canadian producer whose exploration of samples and boom-bap aesthetics certainly suite his moniker. “Ace came in for a session in the studio years and I introduced myself and gave him a beat CD.” While Polo was a young intern on the rise, he quickly worked the situation to his advantage, eventually producing for giants he grew up admiring— Kool G Rap, Large Professor, Scarface, Sean Price, Black Thought, Talib Kweli, to name a few.

Polo is not new to forming quality collabs with others in the art form, with notable stints on the aforementioned Port Authority as well as it’s follow up, PA2, and others like 2016’s work with young MC, A-F-R-O, fittingly titled A-F-R-O Polo. Yet out of Polo’s previous collaborative efforts, this one stands out and is a bit more special, according to Polo: “Ace does not like to write random songs, its usually conceptual and topical,” he says. “But we do have some straight spitting joints on A Breukelen Story which is what makes this album possibly the most diverse of all of my collaborative albums.”

The random meeting and a beat CD resultantly birthed A Breukelen Story, a collaborative release between the venerable veteran and an incredibly detailed and prolific producer. 14 tracks with pronounced guests (Pharoahe Monch on “The Fight Song” for example) all strewn together through Ace’s signature skits and interludes that frame the music and while telling the story of Polo manifesting his vision of being an NY transplant via Toronto while pursuing his dream of being a renowned record producer. Other guests range from younger MCs like Marlon Craft to spry OGs like Lil Fame (of M.O.P.), to Smif ‘n’ Wessun, to Styles P (of the Lox) Polo’s pastiche style boom-bap is the drum-driven centerpiece that perfectly couches Masta Ace’s thoughtful stanzas and vivid storytelling for this effusive Brooklyn narrative. – David Ma

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Seeds

LP | 2012 | US | Reissue (Someothaship)

David Thompson Sea Blue & Orange Crush Vinyl Edition

Release: 2012 / US – Reissue

Genre: Hip Hop, Organic Grooves

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On Seeds, Georgia Muldrow takes a step back and leaves the beatmaking to Otis Jackson Jr., aka Madlib. As producers, Muldrow and Jackson are not worlds apart, so the switch requires no adjustment on the part of the listener. That said, this is one dense and tight set, barely over half-an-hour in length, and it's definitely in contention for Muldrow's most focused, funkiest, and (somewhat ironically) personal release to date. Throughout the record, the emphasis remains heavily fixated on her family as a unit of salvation and purpose. The most direct track of the lot is "Husfriend," where she honors her relationship with Dudley Perkins (a/k/a Declaime, who appears on “The Few”). Muldrow can't quite divorce the planetary and personal issues, heard vividly on "Best Love," which sounds just like a simple, sweet, straight-ahead love song until she starts asking her other half for money to build water wells on three continents ("We can make a difference if we try now"). Overall, Seeds is another left-field deviation in Muldrow's career: it's one of her most captivating and immediate front-to-back statements of purpose as a singer, but it's also the first album where she's handed over all the production duties to somebody else. In celebration of this album’s decenary run, Someothaship Connect is pleased to reintroduce an anniversary edition repress of this captivating release in partnership with Fat Beats.

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Kooley High

2LP | 2022 | US | Original (Mecca)

36,99 €*

7" | 2022 | EU | Original (Vampisoul)

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Raleigh is still on Kooley High's mind on their sophomore LP named after N.C. State royalty, David Thompson. With over 4 million streams and anthems such as “Dear Raleigh” and “Days Passed Me By,” David Thompson solidified Kooley’s status amongst their peers. Their reach has extended from local acclaims to a worldwide audience. With shout outs to Wolfpack alums Zach Galifianakis and other basketball standouts like Chris Corchiani and Rodney Monroe, Kooley High details how their hometown is much more than just the start of their story. David Thompson also explores theirSiddharthaa journey away from home where Tab-One and Charlie Smarts find their own glow. This 16 track LP features Rapsody, Homeboy Sandman, Skyzoo, Mez, and others, with guest production from DJ Prince, Napoleon Wright II & Teknowledgy. The album becomes available on June 3rd for the first time on vinyl in light of the album’s ten-year anniversary, via M.E.C.C.A. Records in partnership with Fat Beats

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Electric Boogies

Break Mandrake

10,99 €*

7" | 2022 | US | Original (Cold Busted)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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HIGHLIGHTS:1984 Brazilian electro funk/early rap by Sao Paulo crew Electric Boogies, recorded under the influence of New York's B-Boy culture and local artists like Black Juniors, Villa Box_First time vinyl reissue.DETAILS:Following the success of the early Brazilian rap artists Black Juniors, Villa Box, Buffalo Girls_ Electric Boogies emerged out of Sao Paulo, Brazil, as a crew devoted to breakdancing under the influence of New York's B-Boy culture.They would record "Break Mandrake" in 1984, originally released on RGE Records. This single has two fabulous electro-funk tracks, side A is vocal and on the flipside we find the instrumental version with some extra keys that give it a more jazzy touch. DJ Irai Campos would provide the scratches while the arrangements and keyboards were credited to Eduardo Assad, who also worked with Black Juniors, Sasha and others.

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Emapea

Smuggling Town

Frozen Mugs (Maylay Sparks, Clever 1 & K Sluggah)

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Cold Busted and Polish beat-master Emapea come together to deliver a deft slab of seven-inch wax. Four tracks that slip and slide through a sonic village of tough rhythms and captured samples — that's Smuggling Town. Emapea goes 'meta' on the first track as "7 Inch" is a crafty ode to the beloved vinyl format over a boom-bap soundtrack. "True Fam" follows on a jazzier tip, as pianos, horns, and a drum loop march take on a laid-back vibe. Flip the wax for the title cut which feels suitably like a city street at night, covert hijinks in progress. The record closes with "Takeover," carefully raising the beat intensity as keys, flute hits, and an ominous atmosphere raid the stereo field.

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Frozen Mugs

CD | 2022 | EU | Original (Hip Hop Enterprise)

20,99 €*

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Atlantic)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Frozen Mugs started out back in 2020 as a soon to be classic hip hop collaboration between "Maylay Sparks", Swedish producer “K Sluggah” and “Clever 1” (one half of “Da Buze Bruvaz”). You will experience an uncanny chemistry between these 2 high caliber emcees who are providing you with the traditional sharp, tenacious, aggressive & grimey wordplay over K Sluggah's cinematic, soulful and psychedelic beats giving the listeners a vivid picture of what goes on in these dangerous times. The hard delivery and complex word patterns are descriptive gestures of loose women, action in the streets, cocktails & cold beer guzzling. Sonically this album is honed to be a masterpiece, with owner of the newly formed label “Blacbird Recs”, and revered studio engineer Joe “The Butcher” Nicolo (Ruffhouse Recs. Ceo) behind the mixing board. This is hip hop with an attitude, authentic and with no compromises!

In the midst of recording this project we experienced a severe tragedy as we lost the incomparable Malik B formerly from the Roots. The last days before his passing he recorded the verses for the album and he was supposed to record a few more as there were talks of him becoming a full fledged "Frozen Mugs" member. Sadly the talks of doing an album with Malik B on HHE never came to fruition. This project is dedicated to one of the most legendary emcees Philly ever bread and he will always be remembered as a lyrical giant. R.I.P.

IN Loving Memory OF Malik B (november 14th, 1972 – July 29th, 2020)

The CD version will be limited to only 200 copies and once these are gone that's it. The vinyl version will come in early 2022 and will be extended with extra instrumentals and acapellas.

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Jack Harlow

Thats What They All Say

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Decade Of Doom: Dome Of Doom Records 10 Year Anniversary Compilation

V.A.

LP | 2022 | US | Original (Dome Of Doom)

40,99 €*

2LP | 2011 | US | Reissue (Rhymesayers)

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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September 2021 marks the 10th anniversary of Dome of Doom. Collecting 30 tracks spanning from 2011-2021, label founder Wylie Cable put together Decade of Doom as a reflection of the first pillar in a long and continuing story—and the many phases the label has experienced thus far. Decade of Doom comprehensively serves as a homage to many of the artists, people and experiences that tell the label’s story, splintering outward toward an abundance of communities that continue to nourish one another. These tentacles all leading back to the hand-selection of releases Cable has diligently been at the heart of since the first vinyl and cassettes were pressed.

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Atmosphere

The Family Sign

33,99 €*

LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Hipnott)

Release: 2011 / US – Reissue

Genre: Hip Hop

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Repackaged And Repressed On 2xlp Vinyl, Just In Time For Its10th Anniversary, The Album Features Two Bonus Tracks, "Millenium Dodo 2" And "Cut You Down", Not Available On The Original Version, Plus An Exclusive 7-Inch Vinyl Inside, Featuring Two Additional Tracks From The Same Recording Sessions, "By Your Side" And "Bar Food".Atmosphere Have Distinguished Themselves From Their Peers By Creating Albums Encompassing The Entire Spectrum Of Human Emotion While Tethering Each Piece To A Central Aural Aesthetic. The Family Sign Took This Philosophy To New Realms Of Solidarity With Slug Metaphorically Touching On Themes Of Fatherhood, Loss, Love, Disappointment And Jubilation, And Tailoring Them To An Instrumental Framework That Draws Emotion Out Of The Listener, Skillfully Composed By Producer Ant. The Family Sign Was Evidence That Hip-Hop Wields The Ultimatepotential To Address And Convey Life's Vir Tues And Short Comings. Following Their Acclaimed 2008 Release, When Life Gives You Lemons, You Paint That Shit Gold, The Subsequent Decision To Add Live Guitar And Keys Into Their Recording Process Gave The Family Sign A Warmer, Bluesier Feel. The Resulting Humanity They Brought Out Of These Songs Created Some Of The Most Powerful Moments Atmosphere Had Ever Put To Record. The Weeping Guitars And Twinkling Piano Keys On "The Last Tosay" Amplify Slug's Pleas For The Song's Protagonist _ A Victim Of Domestic Abuse _ To Leave Their Abusive Relationship, While On "Something So", The Light Guitars And Delicate But Precise Drums Paint The Vivid Image Of A New Dawn Breaking As Slug Recounts The Final Moments Of Expectant Fatherhood Before His Child Was Born, And Passionately Contextualizes The Journey Of Life. The Family Sign Ventured Further Inward, Becomingatmosphere's Most Personal And Intimate Album To That Point, Engaging Their Fans Like Never Before. It Isn't All Tear-Jerkers Though, As More Upbeat Songs Like "She's Enough", "Ain't Nobody", And "My Notes" Beckon You To Bop Along And Deliver Enough Optimism T...

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Von Pea (Tanya Morgan)

City For Sale

LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Radio Juicy)

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Whats up, its Von Pea

"City For Sale" is a breakup album. A relationship album. Instead of a woman its about my hometown...YOUR hometown...your old way of living. Growing apart from a place, from people, from who you once were, because I'm from a currently gentrifying city that theme is on the surface of the album but the overall narrative is for any person that feels unfamiliar in a space that was familiar to them. This album is me finding my new comfort zone because I have to.

This "City For Sale" album is the first time I've produced an entire album on my own including making every beat. Even Donwill's "One Word No Spaces" LP (which I'm credited as the producer) was co produced and co arranged by Donwill, (thats something we always wanted to do). City For Sale is another personal goal for me. I've been afraid to do an entire album alone until now....if this shit is wack its all my fault. With that said this is my calling card album. This is the one I will hopefully be known for when its all said and done.

City For Sale features additional vocals by Homeboy Sandman, Donwill, Fresh Daily, and Moses Rockwell, with additional instrumentation by Classicbeatz, Greg F. and Brizzo.

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Slowya.Roll

Rain Check

15,39 €* 21,99 € -30%

CD | 2019 | EU | Original (Below System)

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Fresh and upcoming artist Slowya.roll is ready to impress with his full length debut album "Rain Check". Taking inspiration from Flying Lotus, Stevie Wonder, Monte Booker and Thundercat, “Rain Check” features a fluid blend of hip hop, electronic, jazz, funk and house music, all without the use of samples. Fusing snappy drums, engaging rhythms, pulsing synth chords and smooth textures, slowya.roll brings a refreshing new voice to the ever evolving beat scene.

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Eto & Superior

Long Story Short

11,99 €*

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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2LP | 2019 | CZ | Original (Young Money)

Lil Wayne

Tha Carter V

41,99 €*

Release: 2019 / CZ – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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LP | 2018 | US | Original (Grilchy Party)

Da Buze Bruvaz

Ni&$@Tivity

CD | 2018 | US | Original (Slice Of Spice)

Release: 2018 / US – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Da Buze Bruvaz have created a modern Blaxploitation epic in hip-hop form. Known for their raw and unapologetic over the top lyrics, they have built a strong cult following. They now present Ni$&@tivity, their official follow up to 2017’s Adebesi Hat LP. This project is even more over the top and sounds like Richard Pryor having a hardcore battle with Redd Foxx. The Philadelphia duo have taken it up a degree and should offend pretty much any and everyone fairly. Aside from rhymes they are also longtime members of the legendary NY posse the LoLifes, founded by Thirstin Howl 3rd and are heavily regarded in that movement.

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Marco Polo

Port Authority 2

Release: 2018 / US – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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7" | 2018 | US | Original (Loveturl)

V.A.

The Unseen Breaks

11,99 €*

2LP | 2012 | US | Original (Ingrooves)

Release: 2018 / US – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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The Unseen Breaks is a Limited press, 7 inch vinyl experience of Gus Sutherland's "The Unseen - A Detroit Beat Tape", chopped and edited into a classic Detroit break record. Includes bonus production from the producers featured on the soundtrack and in the documentary (Amp Fiddler, Quelle Chris, J Dilla, Dakim, House Shoes, Slautah, Ahk, Hugh Whitaker, & Rafael Statin) curated by TaRaach. From the 1st clip of "Start Recording" to the blaring of the J Dilla Anthem "Ghetto Wish", this 7 inch serves its purpose for any DJ needing to improve their collection.

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Mac Miller

Blue Slide Park

37,99 €*

The Elmatic Instrumentals

Release: 2012 / US – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Produced by Clams Casino, IDLabs, Mansions On The Moon & Ritz Reynold!

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Will Sessions

LP | 2011 | US | Original (Fat Beats)

CD | 2011 | EU | Original (XL)

Release: 2011 / US – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Instrumental versions to Elzhi's (Slum Village) tribute to Nas "Illmatic" performed by Chicago funk band Will Sessions. Limited edition vinyl with free mp3 download card.

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Tyler The Creator

Goblin

13,99 €*

7" | 2024 | UK (Boom Bap Classics)

Release: 2011 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Wolfgang or Odd Future or OFWGKTA or whateveryoumightcallem come up with their first proper release: Tyler, The Creator's Goblin on XL Recordings … includes the 4 million-youtube-surprise 'Yonkers'!

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Ultramagnetic Mcs

A Chorus Line

Kinder Der Nacht Purple Vinyl Edition

Release: 2024 / UK

Genre: Hip Hop

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Another Boom Bap Classic sureshot lining up a legendary b-boy anthem "A Chorus Line" from Kool Keith and Co, splitting the epic track up over 2 sides of one 7". Limited to only 300 copies!

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01099

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Bamboo Artists & Label Service)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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7" | 2024 | UK | Original (Battle Weapons)

V.A.

Battle Weapons Vol 5

12,99 €*

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Scratch Roulette 1 & 2 Colored Vinyl Edition

DJ JS-1

2LP | 2024 | US | Original (Ground Original)

36,99 €*

Perpaura Black / White Vinyl Ediiton

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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The definitive scratch tool! Available for the first time as a deluxe double-vinyl edition, DJ Js-1 has compiled both volumes of his best-selling series “Scratch Roulette.” These records contain several hundred sound fx, phrases, hits, drums, and tones. No redundant looped beats--only scratch sounds and phrases. Over 60 minutes of scratch-friendly material: from the typical “kaaa” and “fresh” to new and never before used sounds and phrases, these 12”s cover them all. The inside of the gatefold jacket features an exclusive original illustration from the legendary Queens graffiti artist Jerms of the Rail Killas.

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Privot Miller

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Babygroove)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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The Raw Factor Purple Vinyl Edition

Omniscence

LP | 2024 | UK | Original (Below System)

43,99 €*

The Raw Factor Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Originally scheduled for release way back in March 1996, "The Raw Factor" by North Carolina native Omniscence is one of the last of the unreleased mid-90's albums to see the light of day. Despite being awarded The Source's coveted "Hip Hop Quotable" and dropping two well-received singles ("Amazin" and "Touch Y'all"), record label politics meant the full-length "The Raw Factor" album was never released and fans were left wondering what might have been.

28 years later, "The Raw Factor" is finally being released on vinyl, CD and digital stores. Featuring punchline-driven lyrics from Omniscence delivered in his unmistakable cadence, and backed by head-nodding production from Fanatic, the album is a must-own for fans of 90's Hip Hop.

Omniscence haunted the same early 90's cyphers and stages that many lyrical greats from the era had to cross. With a gruff delivery and equal adeptness with punchlines and metaphors, his high finish at the 1994 edition Battle For World Supremacy at the New Music Seminar assured heads across the culture were watching. After this, Omniscence locked in with producer Fanatic (who also laced tracks for Notorious B.I.G., Ma$e and Michael Jackson). The result was "The Raw Factor" album, fifteen plus tracks of jazzed out boom-bap, replete with crackin' drums.

Now Below System Records has not only given the album its first deluxe physical release (including 2xLP, CD and digital) as well as a slew of bonus/unreleased tracks.

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Omniscence

LP | 2024 | UK | Original (Below System)

2LP | 2024 | DE | Original (Indie Neue Welt)

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Curse

Unzerstörbarer Sommer

Release: 2024 / DE – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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The Never Story Limited Orange Vinyl Edition

Jid

2LP | 2023 | Original (Interscope)

41,99 €*

Release: 2023 / Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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CD | 2024 | US | Original (Merge)

Previous Industries

Service Merchandise

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Negro Deluxe Red W/ Black Splatter Vinyl Edition

Pink Siifu

3LP | 2024 | US | Original (Pink Siifu)

42,99 €*

Standing On Giant Shoulders Cream & Orange Splatter Vinyl Edition

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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On his album Negro Deluxe Siifu trades in soulful rap for punk, fueled by the Black experience in America followed by spiritual jazz and poetry. A beautiful chaotic collage of sounds that reflect the black man’s thoughts on the day-to-day. It doesn’t take long to reach the heart of Negro, Pink Siifu’s new album. It’s an aggressive collection of hardcore punk and free jazz, with bold lyrics that encourage shooting back at trigger-happy law enforcement. This album profoundly communicated the anger of an African-American community beset by police violence a month before the murder of George Floyd lit the streets on fire. In April 2021, he revisited the project with Negro Deluxe, which doubled the length of the original. Pink Siifu tells Bomb Magazine “after we were done mastering and mixing, Zeroh was like, “Yo,Negrois like fire, andNegro Deluxeis like smoke….So I would characterizeNegro Deluxeas, like, after you’re angry, after you’ve punched a wall, after you beat somebody up, whatever, how do I channel that into something else? How do I just let it go? I feel likeNegro Deluxeis that, for real, in a nutshell. It’s like the chaos calmed down after all the fire’s gone and the smoke is in the air.” It isn’t anything like ensley, Siifu’s breakthrough 2018 LP. Where that record used mid-tempo soul and hip-hop to score his upbringing, Negro is a riotous mix calling for Black revolution. It’s also the most fearless project in his growing discography. Negro harkens back to 1992, to Ice-T’s thrash metal band Body Count,song “Cop Killer”. This album is meant to remind us of Rodney King, Racist Cops, The Black Panther Party, and Christopher Dorner, the ex-L.A. police officer who, in 2013, went on a violent shooting spree against his former colleagues and their family members due to seeing his own policeman violate the people there supposed to be protecting. “It’s about America, It’s about the trauma that comes from the flag. It’s about understanding that it’s okay to be angry.”

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Seafood Sam

LP | 2024 | US | Original (Drink Sum Wtr)

32,99 €*

LP | 2024 | US | Original (Cold Busted)

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Seafood Sam is a futuristic artifact. If that description might sound confusing at first, it matches the eclectic dualities found in true originals. With his effortless cool and timeless style, the North Long Beach native defies convention and exact comparison. He’s a virtuosic rapper, a stop-you-in-your tracks singer, and a symphonic producer. Welcome to the lavish life of a laid-back transcontinental man of mystery, rolling in old school Cadillacs, eating caviar with a blade in his pocket, and making plays in vintage Pelle Pelle gear. A blaxploitation icon for the Instagram age, blessed with the bars of a ‘90s legend and 23rd century swagger. Seafood Sam is a true hero of modernity. On his full-length album debut for up-and-coming label drink sum wtr (Kari Faux,Deem Spencer, Aja Monet) debut, Standing on Giant Shoulders, Sam splits the difference between Snoop Dogg and D’ Angelo, Curren$y and David Ruffin. The songs reveal a forward-thinking sensibility rooted in ancestral soul. He creates spiritual hymns for the streets that tap into universal ideals and irrepresible groove. In an era plagued by short-term thinking, his ambitions reveal a crate-digging depth of music history and a meticulous ear for detail. The giant shoulders in the album’s title refer to James Brown, Bobby Brown, and Miles Davis – the holy trinity who inspired Sam’s process. From the Godfather of Soul, Sam took a perfectionist’s rigor and focus. The example of Bobby Brown lent an unshakeable confidence and self-belief. While the constant artistic left turns of the trumpeter that birthed Cool offered an aspirational archetype. Standing on Giant Shoulders is the evidence of a master, a young sensei in the model of Quincy Jones. All rhymes, singing, production, and arrangements were handled by Sam – with an assist from his close Long Beach kinsman Tom Kendall from the group Soular System. It’s hard-edged and lyrical enough for disciples of Larry June and Roc Marciano, but orchestral and melodic enough for fans of Anderson .Paak and H.E.R.

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Skwirl

Legs Akimbo

Iko (Never Felt This Way) / Tell Me What To Do

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Legs Akimbo, the latest offering from the eclectic producer and DJ, Skwirl, released by Cold Busted, is a vibrant tapestry of sound that dances boldly across genres, much like its title suggests a stance of uninhibited exuberance. The album is a playground of audacious sounds and rhythms, each track splayed out with a creative audacity that's both refreshing and exhilarating. From the space-age funk of "Ur M8's Jetta," with its electrified beats and wisps of harp, to the orchestral cut-ups and synthetic soul of "Inside," Skwirl crafts a soundscape that is as diverse as it is cohesive. The album is an open invitation to experience the world through Skwirl's genre-agnostic squiggles, blips, and booms, where musical conventions are playfully disregarded. "We'll Be Here" encapsulates this ethos perfectly, blending a snazzy rhythm with snatches of jazz-infused flute, creating an ambiance akin to a midnight fog enveloping city streets. The music, much like the artist himself, is an amalgamation of varied influences and experiences, from teenage roots in the Atlanta suburbs to transformative encounters in Berlin's vibrant music scene. Each track on Legs Akimbo is a testament to Skwirl's unique approach to music-making, where disparate musical universes don't just meet; they dance together in perfect harmony.

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Double A / Jim Sharp

7" | 2024 | UK (Mountain 45s)

LP | 2024 | US | Original (Fat Beats)

Release: 2024 / UK

Genre: Hip Hop

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Side A / Double A / Iko (Never Felt This Way) Back once again with his signature big breaks sound, Double A dips into a multitude of sample genres for this party sure-shot. A building intro pays off with a drop of bangin’ drums and funky horns, and features a nod to his D&B / hardcore breaks origins with a sneaky vocal sample throwback around the halfway mark. If you’re looking for a sure-fire set-starter, you found it! Side AA / Jim Sharp / Tell Me What To Do The man who needs absolutely no introduction in the 45s world returns for his second release with Mountain 45s. Jim takes a classic funk sample and with his usual polished touch, pays his respects to its earliest iteration as a New York party breaks mainstay. Piano stabs, funky guitars and horns, mixed with call and response vocals alongside the originals make this one yet another can’t miss from the maestro. Don’t sleep

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Mista Sinista

Reborn

Richmond Hill Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Mista Sinista officially started DJing in 1986 and joined the X-Men in 1992. They later became the X-ecutioners and released two albums. Mista Sinista toured the world several times with the X-ecutioners and was a tour DJ for Common, Beatnuts, Joe Fatal and Lauryn Hill just to name a few. Some of his album credits include The Beatnuts Street Level LP and Common’s Resurrection LP. His work was also highlighted on Fat Joe’s sophomore release, Jealous One’s Envy. He continues to perform worldwide and is featured on The Rewind with DJ Safire which airs weekly on Beatminerz Radio. Mista Sinista’s debut LP is a mix of well-produced tracks along with live turntablism. The project features emcees Mr. VooDoo, Ill Bill, Vinnie Paz, The One Chadio, U.G. & The former MC Jean Grae to name a few. This album also features Rugged One, Q-Bert, The Cut Lieutenant, Ace & Rob Swift. Production credits on the project include Mista Sinista, Steve Dee, Nick Wiz, Statick, Eitan Noyze, Cee da Cuban & DJ Safire.

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Masta Ace & Marco Polo

2LP | 2024 | US | Original (Fat Beats)

LP | 2024 | US | Original (Deathbomb Arc)

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Richmond Hill, the highly anticipated follow up to Masta Ace and Marco Polo's Breukelen Story, is inspired by Marco's childhood in the titular neighborhood, a small town in Ontario, just outside of Toronto. Between interstitials about Marco's passion for hip-hop and cartoons, his struggle with addiction, and the support of his parents, Marco Polo and Masta Ace tackle the issues of the day head-on with clarity, the rapper using his decades-worth of rapping experience to slice through the producer's warm soul samples and crisp percussion. A cinematic journey that explores how the past echoes through the present, the album welcomes guest appearances from notable names from all eras of rap history, including Inspectah Deck, Coast Contra, Blu, Che Noir, Speech of Arrested Development, Masta Ace's longtime collaborators Stricklin and Wordsworth, and many more.

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Angry Blackmen

The Legend Of Abm

Sail Out Fruit Punch Colored Vinyl Edition

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Chicago hip-hop outfit Angry Blackmen made up of Quentin Branch & Brian Warren (abm) have been stretching their arms and tapping into different sounds since they smashed onto the scene with their debut single “OK!” in 2017. A prime introduction starring two emcees showing they deserve to wield the microphone and do so with good cause. Then barely a month later ABM released sophomore single ‘Riot!’ a complete shift in sound that still housed the foundation set in ‘OK!’ A few years later the duo would drop their debut project ‘Talkshit!’ which saw them amass the following they have today. ‘The Legend of Abm’ immediately smacks the listener in the eardrum leaving no second wasted and jumping straight to the point. The 11-track adventure truly presents an expression of hip-hop that we haven’t seen before, infusing multiple sounds with the 50-year old genre. To go even deeper, Quentin Branch & Brian Warren are teaching a masterclass in top-notch poetic lyricism, creating both accessible and mind-bending music. “Stanley Kubrick” has both heroes shattering the beat with their braggadocio for what is just the appetizer to prepare the listener for what’s to come in the next ten tracks. ‘Sabotage’ tells the story of two Black men hustling through the trenches of capitalism and the effect that this journey has on them. While the album exudes catchy wordplay and spine-splitting production, if you lift up the hood, ABM is spinning a tale of depression, existentialism and self-reflection that isn’t always pretty. “Dead Men Tell No Lies” is another mutation in sound for the duo, where the industrial sounds clash, violently yet perfectly together with a blistering hook harkening to the end of time. Warren & Branch’s raw poetry educates the listener of the pre-apocalyptic world we’re already living in throughout this project. ‘The Legend of Abm’ is not an excursion for the weak, the production is meant to snap your spine in half, the lyrics from Quentin & Brian are pathos infused and relatable to anyone simply trying to survive.

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Jhené Aiko

LP | 2023 | CZ | Reissue (Def Jam)

28,99 €*

Release: 2023 / CZ – Reissue

Genre: Hip Hop

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2LP | 2015 | US | Reissue (Cold Busted)

Esbe

Bloomsday

40,99 €*

All Of The Above Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2015 / US – Reissue

Genre: Hip Hop

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Esbe is a multi-genre music producer from Los Angeles, California. He is known for his atmospheric instrumental production which incorporates sound elements from extensive use of jazz and soul samples. His latest release, Bloomsday, is a collection of 19 essential instrumentals. "If you were to grab tracks at random from Bloomsday, you might not have guessed that those songs came from the same album. However, when you listen to the album in the way that it was arranged, it will all start to make sense, and you can start to hear how Esbe connects the dots from one song to the next. Esbe draws from a lot of different styles and influences, whether it be soul, hard bop, cool jazz, bossa nova, boom bap, down tempo, jungle, house, or drum and bass, just to name a few. This might sound like he’s unfocused or trying to do too much with his music, but Esbe has a good sense for not overcrowding his individual tracks. Each song might bring in a couple of different elements, but he keeps his arrangements clean, with just the right amount of interesting samples to build from, and the patience to let them unfold at a steady pace, without forcing anything. There are plenty of obscure samples that you won’t place, but he also manages to pick a few key spots to drop some well-known samples, but then re-purposes them in interesting ways in which to give them new life. Bloomsday will take more than one listen to really sink in, but it will eventually sneak up on you and reveal its cleverness in really subtle and interesting ways. Esbe has a large musical vocabulary, but he also knows when to pick his spots, piling it on thick at key moments, and backing away at others, giving the listener space to breathe and soak in all the different musical ideas floating around here." - scratchedvinyl.com

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J-Live

2LP | 2019 | CA | Reissue (Mortier Music)

CD | 2023 | UK | Original (Forever Living Originals)

Release: 2019 / CA – Reissue

Genre: Hip Hop

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Brooklyn-bred J-Live is a triple threat veteran in the indie Hip Hop scene, as a revered emcee, producer, & DJ. Features production from DJ Spinna, along with J-Live himself. Available on vinyl for first time in 16 years

J-Live’s sophomore effort All Of The Above continues the high quality form of his debut The Best Part. Once again, J showcases his thoughtful and intellectual lyricism coupled with his adept production skills on nearly half of the album, but also enlists the assistance of the legendary DJ Spinna to help round out the majority of production duties. Confident and consistent like his debut, All Of the Above is finally re-issued for the first time on wax. This time, pressed on blue vinyl and packaged in a wide spine jacket.

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Little Simz

NO THANK YOU

Panzaknacka Limited Edition

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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The incredible follow-up to an magnificent predecessor.

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AK Ausserkontrolle

2LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Aufkeinenfall)

30,99 €*

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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2LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Aufkeinenfall)

AK Ausserkontrolle

A.S.S.N. Limited Edition

30,99 €*

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Blockchain Blue Seaglass Wave Vinyl Edition

Money Man

LP | 2022 | US | Original (Black Circle / Empire)

LP | 2019 | EU | Reissue (Atlantic)

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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After making waves and receiving coverage from a wide range of outlets such as Complex and Coindesk for being the first artist in history to accept a $1M advance in Bitcoin, Money Man drops off the aptly titled crypto-inspired album, Blockchain. The album coincides with the release of his first NFT which saw fans clamoring to snatch up the limited amount of tokens available to mint within a matter of days. Money Man flexes his knowledge of cryptocurrency and financial gains across 13 tracks, enlisting help from Moneybagg Yo, Jackboy, & Yung Bleu as we see his star power headed to the moon.

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Lizzo

Cuz I Love You

18,99 €*

Release: 2019 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Hip Hop, Organic Grooves, Pop

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Skratch Practice Vol. 2 Neon Magenta Vinyl Edition

DJ T-Kut

7" | 2019 | EU | Original (Play With)

10,99 €*

LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Mello Music Group)

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Dj T-Kut presents Volume 2 of SKRATCH PRACTICE, a
very complete vinyl for scratch practices, two vinyl will
come out one of 12 "and another of 7", in the 12" you can
find several Skip Proofs at 133 BPM to be able to play
with the ultrapich of the plate, very used right now in
scratch practices, 2 beats perfect for practicing scratch,
drum kits and bass line and on the B side you will find
several skip proof at 100 BPM, 1 beat for practice scratch
and 2 powerful basses perfect for playing with them.

Also from this version will be a 7" vinyl for portables in
which you can find 6 skip proof of 133 BPM for Side A and
6 skip proof of 100 BPM for Face B.
These vinyls are designed so that you can flow as soon as
you put them on the plate!

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Chris Orrick & The Lasso

I Read That I Was Dead

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Wax Cutters White Vinyl Edition

DJ T-Kut & DJ Player

7" | 2019 | EU | Original (Play With)

9,99 €*

Undun Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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DJ T-Kut & DJ Player proudly present an essential tool for beginners and advanced deejay players. You can practice skratches endless. 12 Loop tracks. You can find 2 different speeds 100 BPM and 133 BPM for UltraPitch use, optimizing at maximum the use of the vinyl. This 2019 comes with a new limited version presented in 7” format in colour solid white vinyl to enjoy in both ways of this wonderful LP. Great release for the veteran guys in the house.

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The Roots

LP | 2018 | EU | Original (Def Jam)

LP | 2016 | US | Original (Mello Music Group)

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Official and limited reissue on Def Jam. ‘undun‘ is the 10th studio album from legendary hip-hop band The Roots originally released on 2nd December, 2011. The Grammy® nominated album (best rap album) incorporates neo soul and indie music elements. It is an existential concept album about the short, tragic life of fictional character Redford Stevens, set in urban poverty, and is told through a reverse-chronological narrative. undun received widespread acclaim from critics, who praised its existential subject matter, production quality, and the band’s musicianship. It was included on several critics’ year-end lists of best albums. Previously released as a 2LP set, this version has now been converted to 1LP, in addition to a limited edition CE color vinyl version.

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Mr.Lif

Don't Look Down

2LP | 2015 | EU (Cutting Deep)

Release: 2016 / US – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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10 tracks feat. Blacastan & Del The Funky Homosapien!

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Beastie Boys

Instrumentals

20,99 €*

12" | 2012 | US | Reissue (Sound Signature)

Release: 2015 / EU

Genre: Hip Hop

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Beastie Boys Instrumentals - Make Some Noise, BBoys!

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Theo Parrish

The Baby Steps EP

F-1 Trillion Green Vinyl Edition

Release: 2012 / US – Reissue

Genre: Hip Hop, Electronic & Dance

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This rare, early EP from Theo, transforms Donald Byrd's classic jazz funk piece, 'Lansana's Priestess', into the sweet, chugging groove of 'Early Byrd'. Also includes the original version of 'Walking Thru the Sky' and 'Lake Shore Drive', originally released on KDJ.

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Post Malone

2LP | 2024 | WW | Original (Republic)

38,99 €*

Release: 2024 / WW – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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7" | 2024 | UK | Original (Unsettled Scores)

Brim

Bombin'

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (L.I.E.S.)

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Unsettled Scores Records is thrilled to announce the long-awaited release of Bombin’ by Brim, available for the first time ever on 7” vinyl and digital download. Bombin’ is the iconic title track from Dick Fontaine’s acclaimed graffiti documentary that originally aired on UK’s Channel 4 in early 1988. The documentary follows the journey of graffiti artist Brim in 1985, as he travels from The Bronx, New York to various locations across the UK, encountering legendary figures including a young Goldie (mbe) and 3D (Massive Attack / The Wild Bunch). The track became legendary to a generation of graffiti artists and Hip Hop lovers who grew up with the documentary. Remastered from a recently discovered cassette tape in the collection of Bombin’ composer David Toop Unsettled Scores Records is proud to finally release the full length recording, including previously unheard verses by Brim.

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Vinny & Charlie

The Repo Code

Collection Of Sounds Vol.1 Opaque Green Vinyl Edition

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Following in the steps of last year's mysterious "Beyond the Garage" 12 inch, L.I.E.S. throws another curveball with a 30 track continuous LP from veteran West Coast producers, Vinny+Charlie. Each side running 20 minutes, this can best be described as a smoked out, haze filled afterparty beat tape on wax. Obscure samples, dusty sp-12 crushed beats, head nodding loops, sweet low rider soul..chopped, sped up, slowed down and ready to wreck your system. Limited edition white label housed in a lp jacket with custom art by LA artist SOB Story. 300 copies worldwide.

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Ant of Atmosphere

LP | 2024 | US | Original (Rhymesayers Entertainment)

35,99 €*

El Michels Affair & Black Thought

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Limited Opaque Green Vinyl.Anthony "Ant" Davis is a distinguished hip-hop producer, one-half of the renowned duo Atmosphere, and a founding member of independent record label Rhymesayers Entertainment. His decades-long career of beat-making has also included works for MF DOOM, Brother Ali, Murs, Rav, Sage Francis and a dozen others. Raised in a military family, his nomadic upbringing exposed him to many diverse influences and, coupled with his father's love for collecting records, laid the groundwork for his deep appreciation for all sorts of music. Ant's latest endeavor, Collection of Sounds, is a four-volume series of instrumental works showcasing the breadth and depth of his musical expertise.The Collection of Sounds series offers a window into Ant's creative journey, reflecting his evolution as an artist over the years. Drawing from a vast vault of unreleased material, he's exhumed cross sections of his catalog with surgical precision, organizing songs by sound rather than mere chronology. Volume 1 is at times so intimate as to border on claustrophobia, like the creeping "Bar One" or the haunted twinkling of "I Was Always A Collector" while other tracks are expansive enough to fill entire venues, like the forebodingly airy "4-Track Beyond Beat 1996."Many of the beats on Collection of Sounds: Volume 1 have pockets that are practically begging for rappers to explore. When he first pondered releasing an instrumental series, Ant figured he might want to make the songs more intricate than the ones gave to his rapper collaborators, filling up the space in the mix that would normally be given over to their vocals. "But then it would be jazz, right?" he says with a loud laugh. "And I'm not that." Fitting, as Collection of Sounds is not about forgetting who you are-it's about remembering, reconfiguring and reimagining, all at once; a testament to Ant's artistic integrity.

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Glorious Game (Instrumentals) Blood Smoke Vinyl Edition

LP | 2024 | US | Original (Big Crown)