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Release: 2015 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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CD | 2017 | EU | Original (Mnrk Music Group)

Chris Webby

Chemically Imbalanced

Release: 2017 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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CD | 2017 | Original (Sony Music/Green Berlin)

Marsimoto

Green Juice

Release: 2017 / Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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CD | 2015 | EU | Original (Sony Music Catalog)

Future

Ds2

Release: 2015 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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CD | 2016 | EU | Reissue (Sony Music Catalog)

Karate Andi

Turbo

Release: 2016 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Hip Hop

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CD | 2016 | EU | Reissue (Sony Music Catalog)

Genetikk

Fukk Genetikk

Release: 2016 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Hip Hop

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CD | 2015 | EU | Reissue (Sony Music Catalog)

Genetikk

Achter Tag

Release: 2015 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Hip Hop

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CD | 2015 | EU | Reissue (Sony Music Catalog)

Favorite

Neues Von Gott

Release: 2015 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Hip Hop

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CD | 2020 | Original (Four Music Local)

Apache 207

Treppenhaus

Release: 2020 / Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Birds In The Trap Sing Mcknight

Travis Scott

CD | 2016 | EU | Original (Sony Music)

Release: 2016 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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12" | 2016 | UK | Original (Ahead Of Our Time)

Coldcut

Only Heaven

12" | 2017 | KR | Original (Ironshop48)

Release: 2016 / UK – Original

Genre: Hip Hop, Electronic & Dance

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG+, Cover: Near Mint

Includes original insert.

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Otakhee

Heavyweight Dancer

12,34 €* 18,99 € -35%

Tape | 2021 | CA | Original (Inner Ocean)

Release: 2017 / KR – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG+, Cover: VG+

Close to NM.

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Zod1ac

Yesterday & Tomorrow

When On High W/ Obi Strip

Release: 2021 / CA – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Yesterday & Tomorrow is more than just a beat tape. It’s the personal story of Val Murray’s gender transition. Evolving beautifully over three acts, each of the 15 songs is a necessary moment in an emotional arc that begins with Murray’s self-revelations at the start of the pandemic, through to her gradual acceptance and self-actualization in the summer of 2021.

The first act, discovery, is about Murray’s first steps into her transition, developing an acute awareness of her own gender dysphoria, or as she describes it: “searching for the keys to your true self and coming up empty handed.” In this act it’s fitting that beats like psilocybin and opal feel foggy and vaporous. trees featuring Floco Torres, asks us to ponder our undeniable inner truth and outer truth, so we can stay in touch with the world around us. Torres’ incisive lyrics on trees are an extension of an hour-long conversation with Murray after the police shooting of Jacob Blake, painting an intense picture of self-discovery in disorienting times. To end the act, Dysphoria sunshine and drown take us deeper into Murray’s 8 to 9 month period of dysphoria before glimmers of hope appear.

In act two, reflection, we are with Murray as she finds herself at the bottom of a proverbial mountain she doesn’t know she can climb. Dealing with new realizations about her true gender identity, a final grad class in theoretical computer science that feels beyond her capabilities, and a late in life autism diagnosis, she has no choice but to push herself further than she’s ever gone before. This is where she ascends, expanding her mind and growing more firm in who she is. Songs like the girl in the mirror and ikigai, show light entering through the clouds, and along with it, a new purpose for Murray: “live as me.” With prism, a track that began before her transition, Murray sees the world through her new self with life-affirming vividness and meaning.

In the final act, we enter the most recent stage of Murray’s transition: actualization. This is a stage on-going today, one full of questioning: what does it means to be oneself? What assumptions are accurate? What’s been an act all along? It’s a period of her life, and on the album, that’s deconstructive and lighter in tone, all while being abstract. Songs like parallel are meant to occupy two realities or timelines: the then and the now (the now being the only timeline that matters.) With the penultimate thank you, Murray creates an ode to close friends who’ve been supportive all along, whose positivity continue to bring comfort. Finally on see u again, Murray leaves us with a peaceful yet dissonant closer about living your truth and everything that comes with it. Including all the bad feelings that can creep in from time to time.

Yesterday & Tomorrow is a beat tape like no other, an intimate epic about Murray’s past and future. Although deeply personal, there’s a message for all of us to internalize: no matter how dark things get, there’s always hope. Even when you think it’s completely out of reach.

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Br00tal Productions

CD | 2020 | US | Original (Cocareef)

Pack Of Ports W/ Obi Strip

Release: 2020 / US – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Limited edition of 25

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DJ M80

CD | 2020 | US | Original (Cocareef)

CD | 2015 | EU | Reissue (X-Ray)

Release: 2020 / US – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Limited edition of 25

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Degiheugi

Endless Smile

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Release: 2015 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Hip Hop, Electronic & Dance

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Presents: Running Plays V.1

Coach Bombay

CD | 2021 | US (Next)

Release: 2021 / US

Genre: Hip Hop

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Baby Driver (Music From The Motion Picture)

V.A.

2CD | 2017 | US | Original (30th Century)

Release: 2017 / US – Original

Genre: Hip Hop, Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie, Soundtracks

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Used Vinyl

Medium: Near Mint, Cover: VG+

7" | 2021 | EU | Original

Dexter X Yosa Peit

Sugar: Water

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CD | 2020 | US | Original (Stones Throw)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Produced by Dexter & Yosa Peit.
Lyrics/ Vocals by Yosa Peit.
Artwork by Amelie Goeppel.

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Knxwledge

1988

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Let's Start II Dance Again / Let's Start The Dance (Remix) / Let's Start The Dance III

Release: 2020 / US – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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1988 is the follow up to Knxwledge’s official debut album Hud Dreems (Stones Throw, 2015). The same year Hud Dreems was released Knx worked with Kendrick Lamar on To Pimp a Butterfly, earning the producer his first Grammy. A duo with Anderson .Paak called NxWorries was formed around the same time. Their single “Suede” became a viral hit, vaulting the singer to R&B stardom, and their album Yes Lawd! followed through on that song’s immense promise. Knx and Paak have quietly continued collaborating, and some of the new work is heard on 1988.

A prolific artist in the extreme sense of the word, Knxwledge continues to redefine instrumental hip-hop almost in real-time with a stream of beat tapes numbering in the hundreds on Bandcamp, and video remixes on Instagram.

This prolific output began early. 1988 takes its name from the fact that much of the new record was created that very year, when Knx was an infant. As the story is told, little baby Knx was left alone by his mother for just a few moments and crawled to a family member’s vintage SP–12 sampler. When his mother returned he had already produced his first beats and nearly mastered the machine. These tracks, all produced before nap time while rocking a Nike diaper, were stored over the years on floppy discs, then brought to his studio in recent months where they were finished up, mixed, and mastered.

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Hamilton Bohannon

12" | 2021 | CA | Reissue (Unidisc)

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LP | 2017 | US | Original (Paxico)

Release: 2021 / CA – Reissue

Genre: Hip Hop, Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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Used Vinyl

Medium: Sealed, Cover: VG

Sealed copy with a bent corner!

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Swarvy

Bop

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Foundation & Rezidue / G-Depp

Release: 2017 / US – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Swarvy presents his new album “Bop” on Paxico Records

"Songs of love sung by robots."

From the moment this machine is booted BOP begins buzzing with kinetic warmth. This is something characteristic of Swarvy's sound, the LA-by-way-of-Philly musical polymath with a vast catalog including sun-soaked live instrumentals, jazz-infused loops and lo-fi gems. With BOP, he is musical mad scientist, flaunting his technical finesse as he plunges into the realm of abstraction.

Swarvy makes his mark in BOP even while grappling with its colder, industrial elements. With broken rhythms and jagged textures, he pieces together tunes of emotive beauty. The result is undeniably playful and delightfully odd, something like songs of love sung by robots.

Through its wavy ambience runs a current of aural ephemera - bits of speech samples, bossa riffs, and R&B with opaque origins. BOP's genre-bending tracks will take you to ten compelling dimensions, forming an archeology of cyberspace and musical artifacts that'll leave your cold robotic heart melting in the LA sun..

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Boogie Down's Got The Flavor / Head Over Wheels

7" | 2020 | US | Original (Dondi U.S.)

Release: 2020 / US – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Diggin' Shin-Ski's Vaults Ep Black Vinyl Edition

Shin-Ski

7" | 2021 | EU | Original (Oonops Drops)

Redman & Method Man Vs Stevie Wonder

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Oonops's first encounter with Japanese producer Shin-Ski dates back six years when he asked him for an exclusive guest mix for his show on Brooklyn Radio. He became aware of him years ago through his group ShinSight Trio with Insight and DJ Ryow a.k.a. Smooth Current. After one more mix and two collaborations on his Resense-series plus »Oonops Drops - Vol.1« compilation via Agogo Records they started working together on a whole album of instrumentals.

For this 45 Oonops had the chance to dig through an amount of unreleased tracks and selected some of the essential essences with different influences from Jazz, Soul, Funk and much more.

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How Superstitious / Instrumental White Vinyl Edition

7" | 2020 | UK | Original (Soopastole)

Release: 2020 / UK – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Popcorn / Pieces Will Align

Chrome (Deftex)

7" | 2021 | UK | Original (Ae Records)

Release: 2021 / UK – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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CD | 2021 | DE | Original (360 Grad)

DJ Haitian Star (Torch)

Klassik Breaks & Beats

Release: 2021 / DE – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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7" | 2021 | EU | Original (Boot)

Juga-Naut & Jazz T

Marble & Granite

7" | 2021 | UK | Original (Chopped Herring)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Juga-Naut, a multi-talented artist, emcee, producer and chef with an international following. He creates every aspect of his music himself from concept to final product. He has gained major recognition with a prolific plethora of solid self released projects. 'Marble & Granite' is a gargantuan collaboration between Jugz & Jazz T. The sound is two mountains colliding with the classic Hip-Hop ethos and a modern flyness. The core of the track is sculpting beautiful art from the hardest materials, starting from scratch with raw talent, never stopping, constantly honing your craft to create a solid lasting legacy. Available on 7" vinyl with full colour artwork by Jugz and digital!

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Da Steez Brothaz

Ghetto Spread EP

12" | 2015 | EU | Reissue (On And On)

Release: 2021 / UK – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Oooh shiiiii – Los Herrings Records and Da Steez Brothaz are back in E.F.F.E.C.T. with this dope new 7″ EP Ghetto Spread. Straight outta Colombia with that fly fish, Da Steez Brothaz drop 4 tracks of South American flava for the heads. Check out this crack!!!!

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20Syl

Motifs II

Soopastole Edits Volume 17

Release: 2015 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Hip Hop

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Reprint of this classic hip-hop / beats EP by 20Syl, beatmaker maestro, former member of Hocus Pocus & C2C.

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DJ Soopasoul

7" | 2020 | EU | Original (Soopastole)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop, Organic Grooves

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7" | 2017 | UK | Original (Chopped Herring)

Junclassic

Better Than Fiction EP

AABA: All-Amerikkkan Badass

Release: 2017 / UK – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Limited edition 4-track sampler for the first time on vinyl!

Junclassic is a Hip Hop MC, member of the Monsta Island Czars and Dynamix, and founder and CEO of Classified Recordings.

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Joey Bada$$

CD | 2017 | US | Original (Cinematic Music)

Free Improvisation (A Compilation)

Release: 2017 / US – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Joey Badass is back as All-Amerikkkan Badass with an album that features the singles Devestated and Land Of The Free plus a bunch of more face hitting titles.

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V.A.

Tape | 2021 | EU | Original (Onda Tapes)

Tape | 2016 | DE | Original (360 Grad)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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We are very proud to finally present you the long awaited debut compilation "Free Improvisation" with some of the most talented and cool cats around Greece!

The concept of the album is the improvisation, as the title reviles. We wanted all artists to express their passion freely without any filter!

Spread love!

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DJ Haitian Star (Torch)

German 80ies Hip Hop 2

Release: 2016 / DE – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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CD | 2020 | EU | Original (Lab'Oratoire)

Wax Tailor

Hope And Sorrow

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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CD | 2015 | DE | Original (WSP)

Fatoni & Dexter

Yo, Picasso

Release: 2015 / DE – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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7" | 2021 | UK | Original (Ae Records)

Sir Beans Obe

Part Of It

Release: 2021 / UK – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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CD | 2021 | UK | Original (High Focus)

Pitch 92

Intervals

CD | 2021 | US | Original (Mello Music Group)

Release: 2021 / UK – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Pitch 92 is back with his brand new album Intervals.

Available to order on all formats now, 'Intervals' is due for release on 27/08/21.

'Intervals' is available on limited edition 12" vinyl. Very limited pressing of only 250 units.

Vinyl comes with a digital download of the album upon fulfilment of your order.

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Solemn Brigham (Marlowe)

South Sinner Street

Tape | 2021 | EU | Original (Future Times)

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Solemn Brigham is 1/2 of the group Marlowe. His music has been featured on Gatorade's G is for Greatness ad campaign, 7-Eleven's Harmony Korine (Kids, Gummo, Spring Breakers) directed low rider bike campaign, and NBA2K22. South Sinner Street is his debut solo album coming Sept 24th.

About the Album:
It is no secret that things are getting worse. By virtually any metric––economic or medical, or ones more abstract and spiritual––American society is in decay. The feeling permeates daily life in innumerable ways, giving the present a gnawing, ambient dread.

Solemn Brigham is not content to leave this at a low hum. On his dazzling new album, South Sinner Street, Solemn examines this decay through the prism of his hometown: Albemarle, North Carolina, where the blocks he grew up on are crumbling like everything else. “What was once a vibrant area now survives as a reminder that the only thing eternal is change,” Solemn says when describing the project’s genesis. “Trash and debris flood the streets, relics of the many lives lived––each piece with a story to tell.” South Sinner Street not only traces the degradation of the world around us, but documents the way communities can come together to stave off that slow death, lifting its members up in the process.

Solemn is uniquely equipped to animate the relics of a once-thriving neighborhood with the specificity they deserve. The rapper, whose work with his fellow North Carolinian, L’Orange, as the duo Marlowe has been critically acclaimed, is one of the most vocally acrobatic working today, able to contort himself into a dizzying array of different flows and inflections, accomplishing alone the sort of musical variety that sprawling collectives try and fail to achieve. Take “Couple Towns,” where Solemn moves from a seesaw pocket into a flow that cascades over the ends of bars; contrast this with the bonus track “Relax,” where each bar sounds as if it’s the final thought spilling out of his mind at the end of an impassioned phrase. The end of “Vice North” even recalls the technically stunning runs of One Be Lo, the Michigan rapper who in the 2000s became one of the genre’s chief chroniclers of a similar country-wide disintegration.

But this is not merely a showcase for verbal acrobatics. South Sinner Street is deeply personal, juxtaposing personal growth with the decay that surrounds it. “This is no rags to riches story,” Solemn warns. Of course––it’s more complicated than that. When, on “Vantablack,” of a toddler cradled in his mother’s arms while that mother nurses a cigarette, he is not asking the listener to imagine a tragic end or a harrowing origin story. The point is that we are all, perpetually, the child and the mother: doing our best to cope, even against our better judgment; persevering despite the circumstances that surround us.

And yet South Sinner Street is buoyed by a sense of playfulness that lights up even the pitch-black corners of Albemarle. “Nothing Left” succeeds in turning end-of-your-rope sorry into something like an in joke. When, on “Vice North,” Solemn raps about putting his hands together in prayer only to find “the line still busy,” his voice bakes something amusing in the complaint––maybe the sense that a young man in a small city is irked at God the way he might be at a flaky friend from the gym. And then, speaking of gyms, comes the laugh-out-loud moment on “Dirty Whip,” when Solemn concedes that he didn’t make the basketball team “‘cause I’m me-first.’”

Across its 14 songs, South Sinner Street argues for Solemn Brigham as one of the most exciting artists in underground hip-hop, a technical virtuoso who also happens to be one of the genre’s most surprising, most deeply personal songwriters. The album evokes the feeling of climbing onto a house’s roof to survey the nearly-burning city around you, with all the peril that entails––but also all the possibility.

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Sir E.U + Tooth Choir

Bop 3

Das Kate Schellenbach Experiment

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Future Times is elated to announce our next release, the album Bop 3 from Sir E.U + Tooth Choir. Sir E.U is one of the best. He has modes aplenty, ranging from classic rap music to collaborations with DC’s dance and electronic music producers. This album finds him in duo mode, every beat by the formidable Tooth Choir, for a new classic entry. Bop 3 is a scuzzed-out rap masterpiece. Tooth Choir’s beats range from the acid house bang of “Turn It Up! (ft. Cal Rips)” to the piano dream state of the closer “Can’t Stop Thinking Bout My Baby,” in which E.U goes galactic for 20 minutes of purely-bared soul. “End Of Time” sounds like Jungle Wonz with the ions reversed, some sort of Chicago House-indebted nightmare funk. “Hey Mom” and “Untitled (2 Much)” dig into a post-punk and wave angle, evocative of everything from Robert Hood and Sleeparchive to Joy Division and other reverb scroungers. Sir E.U compliments this fully, with a surprising range of melody and bizarro hooks, as in the demented pop highlights “mua” and “How Much Longer (Until We Go Get Em).” The sheer sonics of his voice and breadth of his expression, which he is manipulating and re-inventing constantly throughout Bop 3, are wonderful on their own, but Sir E.U is also straight up one of the greatest rappers doing it today; his styles and flows are constantly stunning, and each EP or track release via his own channels becomes a fountain of inspiration for anybody rapping right now. You can hear E.U in many rappers today, well beyond his local Washington DC. Bop 3 is a full-length exploration of the potent duo of Sir E.U + Tooth Choir, in sync to a serious degree, making some of the wildest rap music imaginable.

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Yummy EP

7" | 2021 | EU | Original (HHV)

CD | 2021 | UK | Original (Real Life Drama)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Limited edition of 300 copies of the "Yummy EP" by Das Kate Schellenbach Experiment, the producer duo Torsten Scholz and Tom Körbler from Berlin/Augsburg.

Torsten is the bass player of the Berlin band Beatsteaks. Tom is an independent producer, engineer and musician and also works for Beatsteaks among others. As a collaborative artist project, DKSBE! releases singles at regular intervals, in cooperation with known or unknown musicians.

The "Yummy EP" presented here comes in the classic single format, which is rather unusual for a rap EP. If now it becomes clear that the 5 songs have a maximum length of about 1:30 min, one feels rather reminded of punk or hardcore releases of the 80s or 90s. That was also the purpose of this release from DKSBE!

Logo, that the sound does not come along so hanging. Bang already! Short crisp rap songs with punk attitude, if you needed a description, then probably this one.

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BVA

Lex Neville

Release: 2021 / UK – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Lex Neville is a 16 track album produced by Leaf Dog and Illinformed with guest verses from Datkid, Jack Jetson, King Kashmere, Leaf Dog, Smellington Piff and Verb T, cuts by Jazz T

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Down Ta Erf

Atomic Duke / Let's Duke It Again

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Limited edition of 100 copies on cassette including 5 bonus tracks in addition to the original demo album from 1997.

The members of Down Ta Erf consists of a production team of twin brothers Wall & Steel, one emcee Mathematik. The trio would first meet on the football field sharing the back field as running backs for the Eagles in a local (Scarborough, Toronto) youth football league, a few years later into their teens they would link again to form what we now know as Down Ta Erf. During the early developing years the crew would go on to focus on creating the purest most original interpretation of the music and the times that they could, digging both within themselves and the crates as well. What took place was the creation of a special time capsule of music brought to you by a crew that truly live and breathe the culture of music.

Available in a limited run on 2LP, CD and cassette plus digitally on all major platforms.

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The Duke Ya Love To Hate

7" | 2021 | EU | Original (Cold Diggin')

Tape | 2021 | UK | Original (Millenium Jazz)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Strike #3! Cold Diggin’ with just another banger: “Hey, this ain’t no small time sh*t man!“ Strictly limited first pressing of 150, hand numbered copies, silk screen printed sleeves.

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The Lion Ranger

Cosmic Calculations

Release: 2021 / UK – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Kurious

A Constipated Monkey

DNA Edits Instrumentals Volume 1

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Limited edition of 100 copies on cassette of Kurious' debut album "A Constipated Monkey".

"A Constipated Monkey" is one of our favorite albums from 1994 and we are very excited to finally share the release with you. Most of the production has been handled by The Beatnuts as well as the SD50's and the guest list includes iconic MC's such as Casual of the Hieroglyphics, MF Grimm, Sadat X of Brand Nubian, Psycho Les of The Beatnuts and others.

Available in a limited run on 2LP+7", CD and cassette plus digitally on all major platforms.

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DJ DSK

7" | 2021 | UK | Original (DNA)

Release: 2021 / UK – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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These DJ DSK edit instrumentals were pressed up after many requests from DJs who wanted them, they can be used with the vocal versions, create new mash ups or just played as a track in their own right. It is also a great bonus that some of the original tracks do not even have instrumentals available.

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Main Source

Breaking Atoms

Cloud Nine / Make It Ruff

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Strictly limited edition of 100 copies on cassette of Main Source's classic debut "Breaking Atoms" from 1991.

With "Breaking Atoms", the trio comprised of K-Cut, Sir Scratch and Large Professor delivered a timeless classic in Hip Hop history. The album features cameos by a young Nasty Nas, Joe Fatal and Akinyele as well as a co-production by Pete Rock. Setting standards with its »crunchy digitized drums, choppy segmented samples, and murky filtered basslines«, as Ben Detrick wrote in the Village Voice, the album received 4.5 mics in the Source that later on in 2002 were revised to 5 mics.

Available in a limited run on 2LP vinyl, CD and cassette.

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The Duke Ya Love To Hate

7" | 2021 | EU | Original (Cold Diggin')

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Cold Diggin’ is back with another double a-side. Strictly limited first pressing of 150, hand numbered copies, silk screen printed sleeves.

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Mannish

Audio Sedative

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Limited edition of 100 copies on cassette of Mannish's debut album "Audio Sedative" from 1995.

Next up on "90's Tapes" is the mid-90's underground charmer "Audio Sedative" by Los Angeles-based duo Mannish, consisting of Rappers Jekill and Jive. The dope production was mostly handled by B-Zar (better known as American actor Balthazar Getty) and the cuts were provided by a young DJ Nu-Mark who later on became known as a member of Jurassic 5. Available in a limited run on 2LP, CD and cassette plus digitally on all major platforms.

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Godfather Don

Exotic Essentials

The Beginning Of The End / Say Word Feat. Bahamadia

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Strictly limited edition of 100 copies on cassette.

"Exotic Essentials" is a handpicked demo compilation by Godfather Don himself including some lost gems of mid-90's works. The album includes 8 vocal tracks as well as 9 instrumentals shorties from the vaults. Available in a limited run on black as well as grey colored 2LP, on limited CD and cassette plus digitally on all major platforms.

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Boogiemonsters

That's How I'm Going Out / Instrumental

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Strictly limited edition of 300 copies of the next release in our »HHV Boombap 45's« series.

Heavy double-sider with two fan favs from the Boogiemonster's sophomore album "God Sound". "Say Word" features Bahamadia and is available on 45 for the very first time.

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Godfather Don

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Strictly limited edition of 300 copies of the next release in our »HHV Boombap 45's« series.

Two charmers from the one and only Godfather Don available on 45 for the very first time. Enjoy "That's How I'm Going Out" plus the instrumental version on the B. Tip!

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Bush Babees

Gravity

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Limited edition of 100 copies on cassette.

The Bush Babees sophomore album finally gets a reissue treatment on limited 2LP+7", cassette, CD and digitally. "Gravity" features productions by the likes of The Ummah, Pos of De La Soul, Rahzel of The Roots, Shawn J. Period and others. Guest MC's include Mos Def, Q-Tip of A Tribe Called Quest, Rahzel and Muntcho Leo.

The trio consisting of Kaos, Y-Tee and Mr. Man grew up in the West Indies, so reggae had a strong influence on their music. Formed in 1992, the Brooklyn representatives dropped their debut "Ambushed" in 1994 followed by the sophomore album "Gravity" in 1996 with the help from a number of Native Tongue members.

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Bush Babees

Ambushed

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Limited edition of 100 copies on cassette.

The Bush Babees debut album finally gets a reissue treatment on limited 2LP+7", cassette, CD and digitally. "Ambushed" contains instant classics like "We Run Things" or "Remember We" and features productions by the likes of Ali Shaheed Muhammad of A Tribe Called Quest, Salaam Remi, Jermaine Dupri and others.

The trio consisting of Kaos, Y-Tee and Mr. Man grew up in the West Indies, so reggae had a strong influence on their music. Formed in 1992, the Brooklyn representatives dropped their debut in 1994 followed by the sophomore album "Gravity" in 1996 with the help from a number of Native Tongue members including Q-Tip and The Ummah, Pos of De La Soul, Rahzel of The Roots as well as a young Mos Def.

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Mathematik

Ecology

Simba Sitoi (Feat. Kardinal Offishall)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Strictly limited edition of 100 copies.

Another dream comes true and we are humbly thankful to finally share Mathematik's full-length debut "Ecology" on 2LP, cassette and CD as well as digitally. Originally released in 1999, "Ecology" became an instant classic inside and outside the Canadian Hip Hop scene and is one of these magical albums that still don't loose their charisma after 20+ years!

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Runaway (Chris Read Remix / Instrumental)

7" | 2020 | UK | Original (Dinked)

Blue Benz Feat. Nelson Dialect

Release: 2020 / UK – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Description : Three continents collide on 'Runaway', the latest single from Mozambican rapper / vocalist Simba Sitoi, featuring Canada's Kardinal Offishall, remixed by the UK's Chris Read. Simba Sitoi is a key player in the Hip Hop scene in his native Mozambique, where his vocals in both English and Portugese have graced releases including a full length album for UK stalwarts BBE Records. Kardinal Offishall is a 5 x winner at the Juno Awards (Canada's equivalent of the Grammys) and has collaborated with a host of artists including the likes of Scott Storch, Sean Paul and Eminem. London based producer Chris Read's production and remix credits include Grammy Award winning vocalist Bilal, BBC New Music Award winners Maylight and Hip Hop legends The Pharcyde.

The back story to this cross-continental collaboration features A Tribe Called Quest, Mozambique's colonial past and Nando's chicken. In 2018, Nando's flew Kardinal Offishal to Mozambique to film a short documentary exploring the history of the restaurant's Peri Peri sauce, an accompaniment to grilled chicken first developed by Portugese settlers in Mozambique. While filming, Kardinal visited Simba's studio to find out more about the regional music scene. The two vocalists hit it off and, in an unplanned studio session, 'Runaway', a track inspired by the UK's Broken Beat sound, was recorded. Simba had previously worked with Chris Read when he remixed Simba and Milton Gulli's cover version of A Tribe Called Quest's 'Scenario' for BBE Records back in 2013. Chris was enlisted to remix the track and has delivered a version which features Broken drums, a Latin flavored bassline and horns that add Dub feel.

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Patchworks

7" | 2020 | EU | Original (Favorite)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Favorite Recordings presents an exclusive collaboration between French producer Bruno ‘Patchworks’ Hovart (Voilaaa, Mr President, Taggy Matcher, …) and Australian NYC-based rapper and poet Nelson Dialect. The two artists met two years ago after Nelson’s gig in Lyon and, of course, they discussed and seriously planned to collaborate one day, both having an everliving love for early nineties hip hop. Then came the quarantine and Covid-19 with Patchworks locked in Lyon, Nelson Dialect in NYC: it seemed to be the right time to do it. A few months later and they finally drop Blue Benz, the result of their long distance collaboration, coming as a beautiful 7inch filled with proper Jazz & Soul Hip Hop vibes. On A side, « Blue Benz » reminds indeed the best feelings of the nineties hip-hop with its infectious slapped bass rhythm and subtle Rhodes chords, all fiiting perfectly with Nelson Dialect’s serious flow! On B Side, « Jazzy Blue Benz » offers an alternate take on the same groove, focusing more on the electric guitar gentle slides with a more percussive beat and horns arrangements with a proper NYC jazz feeling. From Adelaide, Australia, Nelson Dialect now lives in New York working with Bronx label Red Apples 45 started by AG of Ditc and Ray West. Making music since he was 16, he has received critical acclaim for his work with producer Must Volkoff and their most recent album Magnetism. Before moving to New York, Nelson toured extensively in Australia supporting some of the biggest international Hip Hop acts including Mobb Deep, Lupe Fiasco, Ghostface Killah, GZA, RZA, Pharoahe Monch and DJ Premier among many more. He just released a new album Opal Mind with French producer NuTone.

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The Nonce

The Sight Of Things

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Limited edition of 100 copies.

We couldn't resist to drop two of our favorite projects from the 90's by legendary Westcoast crew The Nonce, "World Ultimate" (1995) and "The Sight Of Things" (1998). Yusef Afloat and Nouka Basetype (later known as Sach) delivered an unique sound and released instant classics like "Mix Tapes", "Bus Stops", "The Sight Of Things" or "Who Falls Apart?". Both projects are available in limited quantities on vinyl, CD, cassette as well as digitally.

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The Nonce

World Ultimate

12" | 2020 | EU | Original (BMM Records)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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La Recre

Ne Penser A Rien EP

CD | 2020 | UK | Original (Real Life Drama)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop, Organic Grooves

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"This intense Parisian drum-and-keys duo fuses the sound of melancholy ‘70s library music with hip-hop rhythms and a heavy dose of psychedelia. Émile Sornin (Forever Pavot) and Cédric Laban (Forever Pavot, Isaac Delusion) made a name for themselves on the French indie pop scene, earning tens of thousands of fans. For them, La Récré is a place where they can explore raw grooves and play with roaring delays and heavily reverbed keys." - Bandcamp Daily

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Babylon Dead

Book Of The Dead

CD | 2020 | US | Original (Otherground Inc)

Release: 2020 / UK – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Babylon Dead consists of J Man & Illinformed

The 18 track album features Badness, Daddy Freddy, Devilman, Irah, Jamalski, Killa P, Rider Shafique & Warrior Queen

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Open Mike Eagle

Anime Trauma And Divorce

Release: 2020 / US – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Foreign Objects / Hard Times

Yusef Afloat

Visions Of Bodies Being Burned

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Strictly limited edition of 100 copies on cassette.

Next up on "90's Tapes" are the demo 4-track recordings of Yusef Afloat's "Foreign Objects" and "Hard Times".

Known as one half of legendary Westcoast group The Nonce (along with Nouka Basstype aka Sach), MC/producer/musician Yusef Afloat produced tracks for Aceyalone, Supherb, and Figures Of Speech. He also appeared on the original 1994 release of Project Blowed. On May 21, 2000, Yusef "Afloat" Muhammad was found dying on the side of Freeway 110 in Los Angeles, he was 28 years old. The cause of his death is still unknown.

"When I listen to Yusef now, I'm reminded of what I felt then and that is he knew his time on Earth was limited. The tone was new, stern authoritative on his views and expressions of Hip Hop. I knew he was talking to me and each one of our peers. The tapes have been safe for 20 years thanks to Dee Skee for maintaining archives at Weightless Audio. The implications that I knew someone who may have said things because their span was going to be cut. I'm thinking he saw clearer than we could. I felt he wanted to be a guide in the discovery of what kind of Man I would live to be and what kind of Man listening to this music would turn out to be? I don't know if I had inclinations of my time being so short what I would have been spending it doing and he spent his saying these weighted lines. I thought it abrasive at first but I understand now why he said what he said and how with style! I miss him everyday and I'm so proud that Yusef's music can finally be showcased to the world in the beautiful way it is deserving. I'm blown back looking at the pictures, so many sat on that couch Yusef sits Ganjah K, Meen Green. What great sessions… no magical sessions. Preparing to play this record we would probably roll something and get comfortable on that couch… well… drop the needle! Push play!"

Sach - January 2021

"Foreign Objects / Hard Times" is available in limited editions on 2LP, MC and CD as well as digitally.

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Clipping.

Tape | 2020 | US | Original (Sub Pop)

CD | 2020 | UK | Original (High Focus)

Release: 2020 / US – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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In the horror genre, sequels are perfunctory. As the insufferable film bro Randy explains in Scream 2, "There are certain rules that one must abide by in order to create a successful sequel. Number one: the body count is always bigger. Number two: the death scenes are always much more elaborate-more blood, more gore. Carnage candy. And number three: never, ever, under any circumstances, assume the killer is dead." Last Halloween, Los Angeles experimental rap mainstays Clipping ended their three-year silence with the horrorcore-inspired album There Existed an Addiction to Blood. This October, rapper Daveed Diggs, and producers Jonathan Snipes and William Hutson return with an even higher body count, more elaborate kills, and monsters that just won't stay dead. Visions of Bodies Being Burned is less a sequel than it is the second half of a planned diptych. It turns out, Clipping took to the thematic material of horrorcore like vampires to grave soil. Before the release of There Existed an Addiction to Blood, Clipping and Sub Pop Records divided the material up into two albums, designed to be released only months apart. However, a global pandemic and multiple cancelled tours pushed the release of the project's "part two" until the following Halloween season. Visions of Bodies Being Burned contains sixteen more scary stories disguised as rap songs, incorporating as much influence from Ernest Dickerson, Clive Barker, and Shirley Jackson as it does from Three 6 Mafia, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, and Brotha Lynch Hung. Clipping's angular, shattered interpretations of existing musical styles are always deferential, driven by fandom for the object of study rather than disdain for it. Clipping reimagine horrorcore-the purposely absurdist hip-hop subgenre that flourished in the 1990s-the way Jordan Peele does horror cinema: by twisting beloved tropes to make explicit their own radical politics of monstrosity, fear, and the uncanny. The album features a host of collaborators: Inglewood's Cam & China, fellow noise-rap pioneers Ho99o9, Tortoise guitar genius Jeff Parker, and experimental LA drummer Ted Byrnes. The final track, "Secret Piece," is a performance of a Yoko Ono text score from 1953 that instructs the players to "Decide on one note that you want to play/Play it with the following accompaniment: the woods from 5am to 8am in summer," and features nearly all of the musicians who appeared on both albums. Since their last album, Daveed Diggs-the group's Tony and Grammy Award-winning rapper-has starred in the TNT science fiction series, Snowpiercer, voiced a character in Pixar's Soul, and portrayed Frederick Douglass in Showtime's The Good Lord Bird. Writer Rivers Solomon's novella based on Clipping's Hugo-nominated song "The Deep" has been nominated for the Nebula, Hugo, and Locus Awards, and won the Lambda Literary Award for best Lgbtq SF/Fantasy/Horror novel. Clipping's song "Chapter 319"-a tribute to George Floyd (aka Big Floyd) the former DJ-Screw affiliated rapper who was murdered by police officers in May of 2020-was released on Bandcamp on June 19th and raised over $20,000 for racial justice charities. A clip of the song also became a popular meme on TikTok, generating over 50,000 videos in which teenagers rapped the song's lyrics ("Donald Trump is a white supremacist, full stop_") directly into the frowning faces of their conservative parents. The band also contributed a Skinny Puppy-esque rework of J-Kwon's "Tipsy" to Save Stereogum: An '00s Covers Comp.

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Coops

Crimes Against Creation

CD | 2020 | FR | Original (Just Listen)

Release: 2020 / UK – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Seeing himself as a social commentator, Coops continuously draws inspiration from everything around him and is feeling more inspired than ever. Having signed to the label in 2018 he has already released 2 poignant albums and continues to create at rapid speed. The 8-track project - which was made in just 4 studio sessions - is unlike Coops’ usual 14+ track albums both he and his fans have become used to. Coops turned the album around in record time to ensure his music was released during this unparalleled time in history. The homegrown beats come from his close friend and long term collaborator Talos who has produced almost all his beats to date. In the opening track, ‘ Boom Biddy Bye’ Coops doesn’t waste a second in putting his fellow rappers through their paces. A block rapper with no one to please but himself, Coops professes that he barely listens to what other rappers release to ensure they don’t infiltrate and influence his own music. Highly appropriate for these times, title track ‘ Crimes Against Creation ’ is the stand out voice of this generation and his message to the world. ‘W arped perception, thwart connections, they force perfection, then claim the antidotes an injection...’ plays out and we begin to appreciate how the current situation is playing heavily on his mind. As the album progresses we get to see all sides of Coops’ personality with ‘Piss Poor’ reminding us of the raw gritty London lifestyle from which he has risen from, whilst ‘Profile’ demonstrates his softer more promiscuous side as well as touching on themes of fatherhood and online relationships. Coops’ musical entry point begun by making music with his friends, but it wasn’t until he really looked at himself and the world around him when he decided he needed to go it alone, opening his mind and his solo stream of creativity which hasn’t stopped since. A self-proclaimed hermit he embodies the essence of a true artist and only finds comfort in doing what he loves, not what he is told.

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Saké

Pieces D'orfevre

Release: 2020 / FR – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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The Sight Of Things / Who Falls Apart

The Nonce

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Strictly limited edition of 300 copies of the 33rd release in our »HHV Boombap 45's« series.

Two classics from one of our favorite Westcoast crews The Nonce, for the very first time available on a donut. Tip!

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Science Of Sound

Kaleidoscope Phonetics

Bloody Money / T.O.N.Y. Feat. Tragedy Khadafi

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Strictly limited edition of 100 copies on cassette.

Here it is, one of THE lost albums from the golden era of Hip Hop: Science Of Sound's "Kaleidoscope Phonetics" from the Tribe Called Quest-sphere. With productions and cameos by A Tribe Called Quest and Phife Dawg, Godfather Don, Grandmaster Melle Mel and more. This is true-school rap at its finest and should not be missed by any fan of the classic 90's vibe.

Here's what Ali Shaheed Muhammad is saying about it:

"Science Of Sound, a group established during the 90's "golden era" of Hip Hop. These guys are my family. We were very excited when they signed their record deal and greatly disappointed their label mishandled them. This is the lost album that was recorded in the time I was working on "Beats, Rhymes & Life". There was a lot of back in forth between Tribe's sessions and S.O.S.'s sessions. You can hear the levels they were on and it's as fresh as 20+ years later as it was when it was recorded. Any proponent of golden era Hip Hop will appreciate this find of a lost album." - Ali Shaheed Muhammad, September 3rd, 2020

Available on limited 2LP vinyl, CD and cassette as well as digitally!

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Capone-N-Noreaga

O.G.C. (Originoo Gunn Clappaz)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Strictly limited edition of 300 copies of the 32nd release in our »HHV Boombap 45's« series.

Two classics from "The War Report" by Queens' CNN finally get the 45 treatment for the very first time. Tip!

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No Fear / Hurricane Starang

Rotten Apple / Iced Down Medaillons Feat. Noreaga

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Strictly limited edition of 300 copies of the 31st release in our »HHV Boombap 45's« series.

Classic alert: O.G.C.'s "No Fear" backed with "Hurricane Starang" on the B, for the very first time available on 45!

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Royal Flush

7" | 2020 | EU | Original (HHV Boombap 45s)

I'll Meet You In Greenwich

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Strictly limited edition of 300 copies of the 30th release in our »HHV Boombap 45's« series.

Here's another double-sider of classic 90's NYC rap, for the very first time available on a 45. This time Royal Flush's "Rotten Apple" gets the single treatment backed with the underground anthem "Iced Down Medaillons" featuring Noreaga.

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The Primeridian

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Strictly limited edition of 100 copies on cassette.

"I'll Meet You In Greenwich" is a true classic from the late 90's from Chicago's The Primeridian. Tight productions paired with smooth back & forth rhymes by Tree & See-Me-On make this album another unique gem in your Golden Era collection. Available on limited 2LP vinyl, CD and cassette as well as digitally!

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The Realist

Time Killaz / Gimme Love

CD | 2020 | EU | Original (Vertigo Berlin)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Strictly limited edition of 100 copies on cassette.

Next up on 90's Tapes is another underground gem from the Golden Era, this time from Grand Rapids, MI. The Realist's "Time Killaz / Gimme Love" is another true-school gem for the heads out there. Peep "420 (Keep Doin It)" and you know what to expect. Available on limited 3LP vinyl, CD and cassette as well as digitally!

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Die Orsons

Tourlife4Life

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Jorun PMC (Jorun Bombay & Phill Most Chill)

Jorun PMC

CD | 2020 | UK | Original (AE Productions)

DJ Shok presents The Music: Hi-Tech's Golden Era Singles

Release: 2020 / UK – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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The long awaited Jorun PMC album is finally here!

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Hi-Tech

Beats, Bangers & Biscuits At 535 E 55th St

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Strictly limited edition of 100 copies on clear cassette.

First ever anthology release of Yonkers MC Hi-Tech's golden era 12" tracks including the instrumental versions. Production handled by DJ Shok and Jay Biz. Available on limited 2LP vinyl, CD and cassette as well as digitally!

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Godfather Don

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Strictly limited edition of 100 copies on gold colored tape!

We at 90's Tapes are kind of speechless as another dream is becoming real for us with this release. As the title says, Don blesses us with beats, bangers and biscuits from his repertoire including "Status (Solo OG Home Demo" or "Burn (OG Home Demo)". We are super happy to finally share this gem with you and hope you enjoy it as much as we do!

Here are some words from the artist himself:
"This release marks an exciting collaboration between me & 90's Tapes in which I have chosen along with the crew to release some of my favorite demos fans and collectors alike have sought after and asked me to "please make available" for years in a format like this. During the whole thing the HHV staff have been super cool from the start. They listened astutely, and invited me to offer any suggestions every step of the way, and made it a smooth, easy going affair overall - resulting in what I believe is a simply marvelous release that I sincerely hope will entertain and be enjoyed by all!"
Godfather Don, May 2020

Represent the real hip hop!

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The B.L.U.N.T.E.D. Crew

The Triangle

Don't Wanna Wake Up / The Rebel Remix

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Strictly limited edition of 100 copies!

Next up on "90's Tapes" is a late nineties nugget from The B.L.U.N.T.E.D. Crew called "The Triangle". Check out "Keep Your Head" and you will instantly fall in love with this gem. Available for the very first time on vinyl and cassette beside a new CD and digital version!

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Dedy Dread & Olivia Ruff

7" | 2020 | EU | Original (Four Flies' DJ's Choice)

The Don Of Diamond Dreams

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop, Organic Grooves, Reggae & Dancehall

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The longtime portuguese dj-producer DEDY DREAD lands on DJ’S CHOICE label for his first full-on original production. "Don't Wanna Wake Up" kicks off the collaboration with the soulful Hawaiian-born singer OLIVIA RUFF, a velvety warm r’n’b banger which will certainly tear through the airwaves. On the flip side, a “bikini-dub” version by THE REBEL - helped by the sax of Danilo Desideri (Funkallisto) - which will make you wish summer comes sooner rather than later. Published and worldwide distributed by the Italian cinematic label Four Flies Records.

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Shabazz Palaces

Tape | 2020 | US | Original (Sub Pop)

Release: 2020 / US – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Shabazz Palaces' Black Up, the group's Sub Pop debut, was recently hailed as one of the best albums of the decade by outlets like Pitchfork, Gorilla Vs Bear, and Variety. Pitchfork summed it up thusly: "Black Up is drowned in murky instrumentals and bombastic, introspective rhymes. The sounds flirt with jazz but also root themselves in a firm understanding of silence, or the sparse magic of simplicity. The songs teem with unexpected climaxes...From great mystery exploded an album of impossible vision." That "impossible vision" has continued to confound and engage Shabazz Palaces fans over the course of four acclaimed albums and two EPs. Each release feels like an evolution, letting the music speak for itself, while slowly revealing more about its creator. With The Don of Diamond Dreams, the group's fifth album, that spirit remains, this time embracing modernism in hip-hop and rap. Featuring 10 tracks in 43 minutes, the album features the highlights "Fast Learner (ft. Purple Tape Nate)," "Chocolate Souffle," "Bad Bitch Walking (ft. Stas THEE Boss), and "Thanking The Girls." It also features contributions from singer/keyboardist Darrius Willrich, Seattle's OCnotes (who collaborated with Shabazz leader Ishmael Butler on the Knife Knights project), Los Angeles musician Carlos Overall, and bassist Evan Flory-Barnes. The Don of Diamond Dreams was recorded throughout 2019 and produced by Shabazz Palaces at Protect and Exalt: A Black Space in Seattle, mixed and engineered by Erik Blood at Studio 4 Labs in Venice, California, and mastered by Scott Sedillo at Bernie Grundman Mastering in Los Angeles.

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K-Mack

UnLimited

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Strictly limited edition of 100 copies on colored cassette!

Next stop Baltimore! We are super excited to present K-Mack's underground classic "UnLimited" (entirely produced by DJ Concrete) on 90's Tapes in a 2LP outfit incl. download card as well as on cassette and CD. On top this gem is available on digital platforms for the very first time.

This is Annexx Clique in full effect!

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Silouette

Chocolate Malibu

Sex, Props, Cream ... And The Drama In Between

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Strictly limited edition of 100 copies on colored cassette!

Next stop Baltimore! We are super excited to present Silouette's underground classic "Chocolate Malibu" (entirely produced by DJ Concrete) on 90's Tapes in a 2LP outfit incl. download card as well as on cassette and CD. On top this gem is available on digital platforms for the very first time.

This is Annexx Clique in full effect!

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Punk Barbarians

CD | 2020 | EU | Original (LLT)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Strictly limited edition of 100 copies on green coloured cassette.

Originally released in 1996 on Lethal Records, the entire album "Sex, Props, Cream ... And The Drama In Between" by Long Island's Punk Barbarians finally gets a proper re-release on 2LP and cassette. The original 1LP missed a few tracks off the album, so this is actually the very first time you can hear the full release on your turntable.

In November 1996, The Source gave 3 and a half mic's and here's what Miles Marshall Lewis wrote about the Punk Barbarians debut album: "It seems like recently in rap, everybody's album is based on one of these three concepts, but they're not dealing with the reality of the drama in between," says Doozer mid album, discussing Sex, Props, Cream & The Drama In Between title of his Punk Barbairan crew's debut album. The PBs - Sunny Cheeba, Bam Bam, Doozer and Renegade (aka Shine On) - arrive to a ravaged hip-hop landscape with high aspirations: detailing the drama in between libido, recognition and economics could fill 14 albums, much less the 14 tracks on Sex, Prop, Cream - in essence merely struggle - is, after all, the basis of life itself.
With their work cut out for them, the Punk Barbarians still manage to leave a strong mark. Their lively interplay - with an engaging reminiscent of an Onyx or Lost Boyz - sounds honest, like a crew that's been together since the sandboxes of their native Long Island. The fousome bounce off each other like perfectly arranged quadraphonic accoustics, particularly with thepulsing "Blast Off" and the Spanish-guitar textured "Sweets". Jazzy production includes snippets of vibe and harp that echo masters like Lionel Hampton and Alice Coltrane, while simultaneously evoking the aesthetic feel of The Low End Theory. Some tracks - "The Struggle" (which features Donald Byrd) and "You Don't Know" - ride the line between simple influence and imitation of Tribe's jazz-rap masterpice, but with an intuitive understanding rather than mere bastardization.
"Hooptie Car" shins as a diamond in the rough, dreamily escapist like the Pharcyde's "Passing Me By". As Sunny and Doozer reference Grce Jones and Donna Summer - "Pull up to my bumper," "Toot toot, ah, beep beep" - in mid-rhyme, the irony of this track's dopeness sets in. Because while the Punk Barbarians allude to "Malcolm, Martin and Marcus and W.E.B." on "Rest In Peace" and speak of how their rhymes are "killing you like daily intakes of swine," on "Magic," their real flavor is best presented on frivolous cut like "Hooptie Car."
Sex, Props, Cream & The Drama In Between remains an excellent starting point for the PB quartet, and unless their name erects an Alkaholis-like stumbling block, they should have time to display an interesting evolution.

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Mavi Phoenix

Boys Toys

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop, Pop

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7" | 2020 | US | Original (RJ's Electrical Connections)

RJD2

No Helmet Up Indianola

Release: 2020 / US – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Adagio!

New York To Philly

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Strongly limited edition of 100 copies on cassette.

Next up on "90's Tapes" is another grail from the Eastcoast, this time we are more than excited to present the first ever anthology of Adagio!'s classic cuts from the golden era.
Adagio! (pronounced "A-dee-gee-o") stands for "A Definition of Ambition, Goals, Interest and Organization!". The Juggaknots-affiliated New York and Philadelphia based underground hip-hop duo consisting of Rayme Supreme (Raymond Fogle) and Big Cousin also known as The Obvious Wonder (Brian Pritchett aka Carta' P.) had a few 12" releases from 1996 on that still appear on many wantlists. Enjoy!

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Finsta Bundy

101: The High

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Strongly limited edition of 100 copies on white cassette.

We are so excited to finally share this gem with you as we are fans of the Bushwick crew from scratch. For the very first time all of the 12" single cuts of Finsta Bundy get an anthology release on vinyl, cassette and digitally. The album features productions by Evil Dee and Beatminerz' affiliates Rich Blak and Chocolate Tye and will surely please any head that loves the 90's Rap underground vibes.

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Endangered Species

Intangible

12" | 2017 | DE | Original (Not On Label (Isaac Haze Self-released))

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Limited edition of 100 copies on white cassette of the third release on "90's Tapes". Endangered Species' “Intangible” was an underground classic released in 1999 on cassette in a very limited run, when word got out this music somehow spread from Calgary throughout Canada to Chicago, Australia, Europe & beyond. The producer / MC combo of Nohow & Infinite P produced the record on the ASR-10 in their dusty home studio using records & a Roland digital 8 track. The only guest appearances were from Agape (Isosceles) who also produced "Fortified Aorta" & DJ Vinroc (5th Platoon / Triple Threat DJ’s), a song they recorded on tour. 21 years later this record finally gets it’s proper reissue treatment on vinyl, cassette and digitally.

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Isaac Haze

Fingerprints Volume 1

CD | 2017 | UK | Original (High Focus)

Release: 2017 / DE – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Used Vinyl

Medium: Near Mint, Cover: Near Mint

Limited edition of 500 hand-numbered copies pressed on green wax!

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Strange U

#Lp4080

Release: 2017 / UK – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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CD | 2016 | UK | Original (High Focus)

Onoe Caponoe

Spells From The Cyclops

Release: 2016 / UK – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Y Society (Insight & Damu The Fudgemunk)

Never Off (On & On) / Pyramids To The Ghetto

7" | 2017 | US | Original (Redefinition)

Quazarz: Born On A Gangster Star

Release: 2017 / US – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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The lead single from the highly sought-after “Travel At Your Own Pace” features the exclusive, previously unreleased B-side, “Pyramids”. This song includes a rare vocal appearance from Damu The Fudgemunk.

This the song's first official reissue and its first appearance pressed on a 45. Both songs packaged in full color double sided cover art.

Known to many as the group Y Society, Insight the Truncator and Damu the Fudgemunk celebrate 10 plus years of friendship and a creative partnership that hold the two in high esteem of their fans. The MC & producer's new 7" is a compelling display of why the duo have always been at the top of their game despite their reserved output since debuting as a team in 2007.

Surprising the world at the top of the year with their full length, "Ears Hear Spears" was a great way to sound the alarm for the excitement of new activity. Selective by nature, Insight and Damu's calculations have served advantageous in making moves and presenting listeners with the right music at the right time. The latest incarnation of this truth can be heard in the previously unreleased b-side track entitled "Pyramids to the Ghetto." Although it was recorded in 2008, it was archived and remained unreleased until now. Now in 2017 this particular song couldn't be any more relevant in how the artists analyze the effects racism of the past & present and its correlation to black plight throughout the Americas (both Insight & Damu drop verses on this track).

Continuing narratives of such legends as Public Enemy and Jeru the Damaja in which the track title quotes, the group individually presents short essays in rhyme form that give a candid account of what they've witnessed as black U.S. citizens living in the 20th and 21st Century. Not only are the social effects on the table for examination, but the positive and negative impacts a racist society has had on black contributions to art and culture are discussed. For the songwriters, "Pyramids to the Ghetto" is therapeutic in which harsh realities are confronted in an unapologetic manner contrasting the previous socially charged material in Insight and Damu's back catalog.

For the listeners, it's a history lesson and a call to motivate us all that history doesn't always have to repeat itself even when it's been the norm for centuries. Adversity and oppression historically have hold some back and made some stronger, but acknowledgement is the first step of progression.

The A-Side, "Never Off (On & On)" speaks on just that. It's a roadmap to dealing with everyday adversity, maintaining faith in self and striving to reach your full potential. Insight presents sermons of encouragement to the everyday person over the Fudgemunk's uplifting beat. The producer chimes in on the chorus with a few words of his own that insists to keep on your path and never fall off. The old saying goes, "Life ain't easy", but the group knows success is not unrealistic. "Never Off (On & On)" was the debut single from the debut album, "Travel at Your Own Pace" which has remained a staple in Insight the Truncator's and Damu the Fudgemunk's legacy.

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Shabazz Palaces

Tape | 2017 | EU | Original (Sub Pop)

I'm Ready Feat. Dres & El Fudge/ Commercial Rap

Release: 2017 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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The storied Seattle hip-hop group Shabazz Palaces returns with a new album called Quazarz: Born On A Gangster Star, their first since 2014’s excellent Lese Majesty, and their third album including the duo’s 2011 debut Black Up.

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Mr. Complex

7" | 2016 | US | Original (Core)