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Wouldn't Get Anywhere / All These Problems

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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German hardcore band Urge drops their fiery single release »Brainwashed«. After one year of work on this remix, Canadian rapper Abdominal who is known for his work with DJ Format is rhyming over a heavy Mo'Wax-esque beat produced by Smoove including lots of skilled cuts by Berlin based turntablist and DJ Robert Smith.

Together they built a deep-sounding monster of a tune. The 7inch which sits in a Japanese Katta round inner sleeve includes the original song as well as bonus Beats'n'Breaks for all the DJs.

Furthermore this release includes a hand-folded and hand-sleeved eco-printed poster for the black recycled version and a special riso-eco-printed high-quality poster (with vegetable inks) on the limited colored runs. There are 80 copies each of recycled red, light blue and dark blue transparent with color matching posters for sale on Bandcamp only. Total edition is 90 each (10 copies are reserved for the artists). All hand-numbered and hand-sleeved. When they're gone, they're gone.

The artwork of the poster is designed by Anton Volxem.

»Oonops Drops« is not a guitar-driven music label or specialized in hardcore or metal but it's an openminded label which finds ways to fuse and work until it fits with many different genres.

About Urge: The band was formed in 1989 and has a lot of stage experience touring with American and English bands. For instance, Urge toured Europe for a few weeks with Fugazi. They shared stages with MDC, Melvins, Fugazi, Voivod, Bolt Thrower, MDC, Melvins, just to name a few. The German music magazine Spex called them »Hardcorehausen« and for some time they were on the road as a site project with »Power Of Expression« with singer Marc Grewe (Morgoth) and played at the legendary Wacken Festival.

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DJ Goce

7" | 2023 | UK (Dusty Donut)

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Piece Of Me Feat. Ghostface Killah / Joy & Pain Pete Rock Remix

Release: 2023 / UK

Genre: Hip Hop

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The mighty Dusty Donuts label is back with a bang. After seeing an extended hiatus due to global conflicts and supply chain issues, they’re back on track. The Balkan phenom DJ Goce is behind the boards for this one and it’s a doozy. Taking inspiration from early naughties soul laced bangers, both sides are heavy. Side A is derived from a track produced by a certain NPD laced fashion mogul and builds on the Soul and Hip Hip stabs. Goce drops crazy Game on this one. Side B is a Problem. And no one can seem to solve it. The answer is that this 45 won’t leave crates for a long while.

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Lady Wray & Pete Rock

7" | 2023 | US | Original (Big Crown)

Best Day Ever Remastered Remastered Edition

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Hip Hop, Organic Grooves

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On January 28, 2022, Lady Wray released her Piece Of Me album. A deeply personal record that takes on the good and the bad in life from deception and abuse to the joys of motherhood and triumph. The accolades the album has received in the year it has been out speak volumes. Performing on The Stephen Colbert Show, selling out multiple US tours, cleaning up in the best of 2022 lists, and then crushing an NPR Tiny Desk on the 1 year anniversary of the album. Piece Of Me continues to find its way to new ears and has already proved itself a timeless classic. So where do you go from here? When Ghostface Killah reaches out and says he wants to do a remix of the title track you do that. The A side, "Piece Of Me" (Remix) features Ironman himself who puts down a verse about a relationship that ran its course but no one is sure they did the right thing in. Ghostface sounds right at home over the gully Leon Michels produced track and takes the already rock solid tune to another level. Then what do you do for a B side.... You call The Chocolate Boy Wonder, Pete Rock and get him to remix "Joy & Pain". Pete takes one of the stand out tunes on the album and gives it an entirely different energy with thundering drums and a bassline that shake the windows in the car.

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Mac Miller

CD | 2011 | UK | Reissue (Rostrum)

Release: 2011 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Hip Hop

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CD | 2023 | UK | Original (Real Life Drama)

Illinformed

Illin For Meds

Woop Baby (Extended Version)

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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The album is completely produced by illinformed and features 1jack, All Hail Y.T, Babylon Dead, Bil Next, Bill Shakes, Bisk, BVA, Chris Skillz, Crossbow T, Datkid, Dirt Platoon, Eric The Red, Frek 1, Gaza Glock, General, Inja, Jack Jetson, Jay Nice, Leaf Dog, Left Lane Didon, Lisaan'Dro, Pertrelli, Res One, Ruste Juxx, Sean Peng, Sk!nt, Smellington Piff, Tony Broke, Verb T, Wish Master & Wyatt Earp.

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Letherette

7" | 2023 | UK | Original (Wulf)

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

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Extended edit of Letherette's Woop Baby which has gained virality on Instagram (600k plus reels) and Tik Tok (15.3k posts) as well as extensive syncs (hbo, Starbucks) with the original version gaining 7m+ streams across DSPs
A limited edition 7" single physical release is to follow in the coming weeks.

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Wax Tailor

Hope And Sorrow

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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CD | 2022 | EU | Original (X-Ray Productions)

Degiheugi

Only After The Show

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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CD | 2022 | EU | Original (X-Ray Productions)

Degiheugi

Aquilon

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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7" | 2023 | UK | Original (rx:tx)

Axel Holy & Marka San

Chess

Tape | 2023 | EU (Dirt Tapes)

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Axel HolyandMarka Sandeliver three songs off their first collaborative effort, the Chess (ep), available on limited 7" vinyl. "Strange World," "Parlez Vous," and "Chess," are the first offerings from the pair's EP.
All 7" include a free download code for the full EP.
The full6-track features six original tracks with an incredible amount of depth: grime, hip-hop, and trap. Axel Holy delivers gritty UK grime vocals over Marka San's dark post-apocalyptic atmospheric soundscapes.
Bouncing nitty gritty beats and rhythms between Ljubljana and Bristol, Axel Holy and Marka San's goal of a small EP quickly turned into 20-plus songs. The duo handed the songs over to their label,rx:tx, to finalize the track list of what would become theChess (ep).
Make sure you check out this exclusive 3-track release from Axel Holy and Marka San's upcomingChess (ep). Don't miss out, get yourself a limited vinyl while supplies last!

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Assalti Frontali

Conflitto

Swan Storm | The Quiet After The Storm

Release: 2023 / EU

Genre: Hip Hop

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Released on "Il Manifesto Dischi" in 1996, this is the second album of the band led by Militant A. 13 tracks played by the Brutopop line up as a real backing band, in addition to the presence of Pol G at the console, Eyewitness also on vocals. Recorded by Don Zientara (sound engineer of Fugazi) at the Forte Prenestino in Rome.

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Xczircles | Aamir

2CD | 2011 | US | Original (Ooohh! Thats Heavy)

Release: 2011 / US – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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7" | 2022 | UK (Kiss Klassicks)

Mya / Mario

Case Of The Ex / Boom

Release: 2022 / UK

Genre: Hip Hop

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7" | 2023 | UK | Original (Chopped Herring)

MelloSoulBlack

Rhythm Crusaders EP

Flip The Bit + Artwork B Insert

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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OK it's the end of year fishermen. It's been a dope couple of cycles - sorry there weren't more releases - covid hit hard BUT the good news is , we're back in March with more cycles than 2022. Hold tight for some serious heat!!

For the last offering we have a superb 4 track EP of material from Texas crew MelloSoulBlack produced entirely by our Peruvian flavameister Smoky Kun. You may recognize him from his single on Los Herring Records 'Saoco Del Barrio". Peep it it's still in stock and features a grip of Peruvian MCs over some funky latin beats.

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Carl Aqua

7" | 2022 | EU | Original (Wax Flip)

Flip The Bit + Artwork A Insert

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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-3 track EP on 7" vinyl
-Including hand-numbered Artwork B Insert
-Limited to 25 copies
-brown kraft discobag
-Mastered by SterilOne / Staub Audio Engeering

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Carl Aqua

7" | 2022 | EU | Original (Wax Flip)

Can't You See (You're Losing Me) / Uncle Willie Good Time

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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-3 track EP on 7" vinyl
-Including hand-numbered Artwork A Insert
-Limited to 25 copies
-brown kraft discobag
-Mastered by SterilOne / Staub Audio Engeering

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Djar One

7" | 2022 | UK (Soul Flip)

Breath & Stop / Smash Sumthin'

Release: 2022 / UK

Genre: Hip Hop

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Two of the biggest names in the game join forces & the results do not disappoint!Straight out of Le Havre, Djar One's beat-heavy productions have been demanding attention on dancefloors and radio stations worldwide via his Beats House imprint. We couldn't be more delighted to have him on board the good ship Soul Flip for our eleventh 45 release. First up for the Djar One treatment is Mary Wells' Northern-leaning stomper, "Can't You See (You're Losing Me)". Already a dancefloor bomb, Djar One ramps up the energy still further to devastating effect. On the flip, he takes on the seldom-heard original 1965 version of "Uncle Willie Good Time" by The Astors with similarly superb results.

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Q-Tip / Redman

7" | 2022 | UK (Originals)

Tape | 2022 | UK | Original (Tapeheadcity)

Release: 2022 / UK

Genre: Hip Hop

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Originals returns with 2 Hip Hop anthems from Q-Tip & Redman which both sample the drums from Kool & The Gang’s N.T. Puuuure Fiiiiiiire! Don’t sleep!

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Raiges Cano

Lo-Fingers Of Jazz Bap

Tape | 2022 | UK | Original (Tapeheadcity)

Release: 2022 / UK – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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"Lo-Fingers of Jazz Bap" is the second solo album we've released this year by Ukrainian beatmaker Raiges Cano, which was created by classical methods of sampling delicious Jazz and Funk compositions, all this is harmoniously intertwined with rich bass parts and analog synthesis, while, as before, the rhythm continues to keep explosive Boom Bap drums.

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Raiges Cano

Slum Cultural Heritage

Release: 2022 / UK – 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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CD | 2022 | EU | Original (Warner)

Freddie Gibbs

$Oul $Old $Eparately

One And One / Me So Horny Refixes

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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A lot of people don't realize that Freddie has actually been in the game for over a decade and came in on the same Freshman XXL cover as Meek Mill, Nipsey Hussle etc. Yet he was the only one with no major label backing or artist affiliation and his partnership with warner is his very first solo major label deal. With that being said, he feels as if he has made it thus far in his career without compromising his morals, creative integrity and principals as a man all while resisting temptations... hence the title $oul $old $eparately or $$$

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The 2 Live Duke

7" | 2022 | EU | Original (Cold Diggin')

Smellington Piff & Illinformed

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop, Organic Grooves

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This one honors the works of a very beloved Miami HipHop outfit. ltd edition, silk screen printed sleeves, black vinyl.

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Roma Supreme

CD | 2022 | UK | Original (Real Life Drama)

CD | 2022 | UK | Original (High Focus)

Release: 2022 / UK – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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17 track album 'Roma Supreme' by Smellington Piff & Illinformed

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CMPND

Long Live The Court

Close To Home Limited Colored Vinyl Edition

Release: 2022 / UK – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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For the uninitiated, Cmpnd (pronounced compound) are a hybrid rap super group formed of producer and rapper Wundrop and MC’s Kemastry & Vitamin G. Coming off the back of their cult classic, Eagle Court (released on High Focus Records) the trio are gearing up to return with more raucous depraved antics on Eagle Court II: Long Live
The Court. Picking up right where they left off mixing insanity and debauchery, pain and pleasure, introspection and surrealism into a deludamolic delicacy for the audience to savour.

Skilfully expressing their unique personalities whilst simultaneously producing a coherent piece of art that stays true to Cmpnd’s underbelly ethos.

This densely packed 18 track album defies categorisation, as the trio bring a whole new vision and aesthetic to the forefront whether it be the mind boggling production or the ferocious pen game. Featuring Datkid, TrueMendous, Orifice Vulgatron, Bil Next & many more, this is essential listening for all..

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Aitch

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Capitol)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Scorcha Transparent Orange Vinyl Edition

Sean Paul

LP | 2022 | DE | Original (Island)

Release: 2022 / DE – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Rock Your Body / Senorita Vince Cartier Edits

Justin Timberlake

7" | 2022 | UK (Kiss Klassicks)

demon time Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2022 / UK

Genre: Hip Hop

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2nd release from Kiss Klassics serves up 2 of Justin Timberlake’s R&B classics getting the 45 edit treatment from mysterious Canadian Edit maestro Vince Cartier!?

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Mura Masa

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Polydor)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Sucka N**** / Red Clay Big Hole Edition

Atcq / Jack Wilkins

7" | 2022 | US | Original (Old Chillin Us)

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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7" | 2022 | UK | Original (Edits)

Casual Connection

Edits 004

Nelson Dialect & Mr Slipz

Release: 2022 / UK – Original

Genre: Hip Hop, Electronic & Dance

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Casual Connection is back with another double dose of classic mashups over more recent instrumentals. Back-to-back club Bangers.

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Ever Since

CD | 2022 | UK | Original (High Focus)

De Bovenover Blues Volume 1

Release: 2022 / UK – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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High Focus Records are excited to present 'Ever Since', the brand new album from prolific Brighton-based producer Mr Slipz and the newest member of the HF family, Australian rapper Nelson Dialect - A landmark release and signing for High Focus with Nelson being the first international signing on the label.

UK listeners might have first heard Nelson collaborating with Verbz & Mr Slipz on the song ‘Hope’ from their acclaimed LP ‘Radio Waves’ released on High Focus in 2020. Nelson has a cult following in his own right in Australia, and previously released music on the legendary U.S label Fat Beats to great acclaim.

Now teaming up with one of the most exciting and respected UK producers, Nelson & Mr Slipz deliver ‘Ever Since’. A statement piece by two artists with well over a decade spent on their craft which sounds as urgent and refreshing as if it were their first time releasing music. The album’s title is a reference to the endless quest for a timeless sound, reflecting the creative partnerships which spark from a seemingly forever existing thread of music.

The album features a slew of impressive guest verses including label mates Vitamin G & Verbz on the emphatic ‘Oxford Scholars’. Two legends Jehst & Confucius MC combine on ‘Smooth Ride’. Bronx pioneer & D.I.T.C legend A.G delivers a show stopping verse on ‘Trembling the Marrow’. There are hypnotic singing performances by Indira May on ‘First Date’ & ‘Open Book’ as well as Hiatus Kaiyote back up vocalist Jace XL on the soul stirring anthem “Figure Out What’s Right”. U.S rappers SickInTheHead & Cazeaux O.S.L.O round out the impressive guest list on the album with their inspired verses.

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Fry Ry

7" | 2022 | EU | Original (South Of North)

Rhymes Be Bomb / Pelottaa

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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4 chop-outs from the DE Bovenover Blues beat tape . TIP!

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J & Mo

7" | 2022 | UK | Original (AE Productions)

CD | 2022 | UK | Original (Real Life Drama)

Release: 2022 / UK – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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The first AE Productions release of 2022 comes in the form of a 7” by J & Mo – otherwise known as J Man (of Cut Beetlez) and DJ Mo Money. Finnish DJ/producer duo who are in the midst of creating an album. To pre-empt the album release this lead off 7” serves as a taster of what is to come - a mix of well-crafted vocal and instrumental Hip Hop tracks with some great guest MC’s.

The main cut here ‘Rhymes Be Bomb’ features Emcee G Roc Gayle (of The Vibe Drops/Piece Of Mind), and is a perfect example of a track that works on 45 for DJ’s with a nice bouncing groove, excellent turntable work and good vocals that are clean so great for radio play.

The flipside ‘Pelottaa’ (Finnish for frightened) is exclusive to this 7” but is an indication of the flavour of the instrumental tracks that appear on the album and features J Man’s fellow Cut Beetle HP Lovescratch on the vanishingly rare vinyl appearance of human beatbox.

Sleeve design and direction by Mr Krum references a vintage board game with superb results by replacing the bombs with microphones which takes the theme of musical bombs and applies the same metaphor to the artwork.

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Leaf Dog & Bva

The Menu

Tape | 2022 | DE | Original (Deck 2 Deck)

Release: 2022 / UK – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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The Menu is a 16 track album by Leaf Dog & BVA. The album features M.O.P and Keith Murray with most of the production done by Leaf Dog but featuring production from Illinformed and Stevi Beats

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Coldrip

Lucid//

Sucka N**** / Red Clay Small Hole Edition

Release: 2022 / DE – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Lucid// is the new beat album by ColDrip, the sp-404 wizard from down under. This album consists of 20 instrumental beats which will highlight the journey they've been on since arriving in Berlin and finding themselves in the midst of a lucid dream between spacey nights and 8-bit tunes.

Inspired by old-school gaming & anime characters like Akira and Sonic the hedgehog, this album will take you back to the 90s with a special spin that’ll challenge how you perceive rehashed music in the present day.

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Atcq / Jack Wilkins

7" | 2022 | US | Original (Old Chillin Us)

Release: 2022 / US – 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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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 | 2022 | UK | Original (High Focus)

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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Verb T & Illinformed

Stranded In Foggy Times

CD | 2021 | EU | Original (Monkey.)

Release: 2022 / UK – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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High Focus Records are proud to present the latest collaboration from Verb T and Illinformed.

Stranded in Foggy Times both continues and completes the trilogy that began back in 2015, with The Man with the Foggy Eyes, before broadening the horizons with last year’s release of The Land of the Foggy Skies. This final chapter returns to the same conceptual landscape as its predecessors, but also sees Verb T and Illinformed returning to a more classic approach to album making.

In spite of its concept, the Foggy Trilogy is something of a personal outpouring for Verb T, with the original aim being to vicariously discuss the trials and tribulations that play a part in his life, including his struggles with chronic illness and the feeling of alienation from leaving his hometown, while also reflecting on the state of the world as a whole.

As with the previous albums, Stranded in Foggy Times finds Illinformed moving away from the more rugged sound that has shrouded the British scene over the last few months, thanks to his collaborations with the likes of Datkid and Wish Master, instead providing Verb T with an arguably more mellow backdrop. From the string and piano driven introduction on Legacy, to the blissful head-nod vibes of the closing track, Blind Faith, the union between beats and rhymes sits at the perfect level.

The album also boasts one of the most impressive guestlists of the year, one that is very much a product of both players’ worlds. Thanks to Illinformed’s Bristol connection, there are features from the likes of Res One, Datkid, Leaf Dog, Smellington Piff and Chillman, as well as some locally sourced cuts from DJ Rogue. While on Verb T’s side of the fence, we have features from Rye Shabby and Moreone, along with a collaboration that reignites the same creative spark he found in his early days, as King Kashmere steps into the booth on Feeling Strange.

All in all, Stranded in Foggy Times does exactly what it sets out to do, by drawing the trilogy to a close while also providing insights into Verb T’s personal world and the world at large. The fact that it also happens to be one of the strongest rap albums of the year is the icing on the cake.

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Löven

Hunger

12,99 €* 19,99 € -35%

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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

Solemn Brigham (Marlowe)

South Sinner Street

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

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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Golden Swords & F-Plus

Classical Weapons

Release: 2021 / UK – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Tape | 2022 | EU | Original (90's Tapes / HHV)

Dysfunkshunal Familee

Mixed Emotions

Tape | 2021 | EU | Original (Future Times)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Limited edition of 100 copies on cassette of the late 90's demo release "Mixed Emotions" with guest appearances by Apani B-Fly Emcee and Lockness of Splattahouse.

On "Mixed Emotions", the Brooklyn-based Dysfunkshunal Familee consisted of Braindead, D-Rock, Rebel Rhyme and Crazy DJ Bazarro. Recorded between 1994-98, the album still has that special Bushwick underground vibe and feel. Bazarro's words on the project: "What a time to be alive. We just sat in the crib making music, having fun, playstation, trying to change the world in our little world. Everything we talk about then is happening now. Good luck in the game called life. So many mixed emotions on this ride."

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

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Sir E.U + Tooth Choir

Bop 3

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

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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Shin-Ski

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

Book Of Life / Book Of Life Part 2

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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Hi-Tech

7" | 2022 | EU | Original (HHV Boombap 45s)

Formation / Everyday Movement

Release: 2022 / 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 of Hi-Tech's classic cuts get the 45 treatment for the very first time, check out "Book Of Life" backed with "Part 2". Some mid-90's underground flavour straight from Yonkers, NY.

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Mathematik

7" | 2022 | EU | Original (HHV Boombap 45s)

Release: 2022 / 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.

One of our favorite MC's out there, Toronto's Mathematik, joins the series with two tracks off his classic debut release "Ecology". Please welcome "Formation b/w Everyday Movement" to our jukebox!

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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')

7" | 2021 | EU | Original (Boot)

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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Juga-Naut & Jazz T

Marble & Granite

Tape | 2021 | UK | Original (Millenium Jazz)

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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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)

Milkshake Feat. DJ Talisa & Peter Coy

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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Geliks

Tape | 2021 | EU | Original

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Honest 90's Instrumental Hip-Hop, no muddy Wow & Flutter Lofi. This release is only available as physical tape.

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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')

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

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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Da Steez Brothaz

Ghetto Spread EP

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Vertigo Berlin)

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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Maeckes

Pool

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Mannish

Audio Sedative

Tape | 2022 | EU | Original (90's Tapes / HHV)

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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Starvin Art Clique

Starving Art

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Limited edition of 100 copies on cassette of "Starving Art" by Baltimore's Starvin Art Clique.

The Starvin Art Clique consisted of Christopher "30 Fingaz" Gittens, Robert "Hawaii" Russell and DJ Joe "Guess Who?" Davidge and "Starving Art" was their only album. The full production was handled by Guess Who? and Shane "The Doctor" Faber, features included artists such as Shawn Smith, Jaie, Mekolicious and others.

Originally released on CD on Joe Davidge's Overkast Records in 1998, the release was accompanied by a then and now hard-to-find 12" EP with 5 tracks of the album plus an instrumental version.

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

Foundation & Rezidue / G-Depp

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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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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Blue Benz Feat. Nelson Dialect

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

Redman & Method Man Vs Stevie Wonder

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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

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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Dick Vandycke

Le Premier Homme

Release: 2020 / FR – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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CD | 2020 | FR | Original (Just Listen)

Saké

Pieces D'orfevre

Release: 2020 / FR – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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12" | 2014 | EU | Reissue (On And On)

20Syl

Motifs

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

Release: 2014 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Hip Hop

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Over the last two decades, 20syl has crafted a unique, hip-hop infused, electro musical universe. He inherited a rich musical knowledge and a genuine understanding of analog and vintage sounds form years of classic beat making. He first got his start with Hocus Pocus, a band he founded in 1995. As the mastermind behind the band’s five LPs, including their Gold Record Place 54, 20syl has proved himself to be a visionary artist. A member of C2C - a turntablist quartet with whom he has won 4 DMC world titles – he took the genre mainstream with the groundbreaking album Tetra (2012). This successful opus was rewarded with 4 French Grammys and a Double Platinium Record.

In 2014, 20syl launched his solo career while still working with a few hand picked underground artists such as Grems, Raashan Ahmad and Blitz the Ambassador. In the recent years the prolific producer has taken his trademark overseas with popular remixes of ScHoolboy Q, Rihanna, and King Krule – setting up a booming environment for the 2014 release of his anticipated first solo EP, Motifs.

Co-founder of On And On Records, 20Syl has imposed himself as a flagship of the expanding new scene. Passionate about visual arts, 20Syl designs his artwork and direct his music videos.

A free electron, he seduces the public with his sharp identity and his ability to turn his own original creations into major musical trends.

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20Syl

Motifs II

The Sight Of Things / Who Falls Apart

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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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

LP | 2020 | DE | Original (Problembär)

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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Preach

Likör

12,99 €* 19,99 € -35%

Release: 2020 / DE – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Tape | 2019 | DE | Original (We Keep Shit Dope)

V.A.

Frau Finger

Release: 2019 / DE – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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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