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Knxwledge feat. NxWorries - "Itkanbe[sonice]" b/w "Stillsonice" - 10" picture disc. "Stillsonice" is a new remix of the NxWorries track from Knx's album 1988. The record is packaged in a clear bag with a printed card. (Size: 10 in x 7 in. The record grooves are the side of a 7-inch record.)

Illustration by Rhymezlikedimez, design by Jeff Jank.

When There’s Love Around is an album of two halves. The first is “about feeling small and insignificant and stressed,” Kiefer says. “It’s about things that cause me to worry, but at the end of the day, are probably unimportant from a larger cosmic perspective.”

The nostalgia of looking through old childhood pictures in one of the lead tracks, “I remember this picture,” is reflected on the album cover, a Polaroid of Kiefer and his sister, painted by Mikey Yates.

The album’s second half is more reflective and spiritual, its cathartic mood occasioned by the loss of Kiefer’s beloved grandmother. While grief and loss are main themes, the tone is still largely positive – Kiefer describes himself as an optimist.

Kiefer assembled a band of his favorite musicians, including DJ Harrison, Andy McCauley, Josh Johnson, Will Logan, Sam Wilkes and other jazz luminaries. They laid the album down in three sets of sessions over 2020, including one stint at Jazzy Jeff’s studio after the DJ invited Kiefer to record there. Several songs were recorded in one or two takes, with any mistakes left in, true to Kiefer’s preference for music that feels spontaneous and from the heart. Kiefer has long performed with a live band, and found the setup suited the communal spirit he was striving for on this album: “I find something about the Herculean type of jazz performer really alienating. I want to celebrate human connection,” he explains.

Neues, instrumentales Beat-Album von Multi-Instrumentalist, Sänger, Produzent und Hip-Hop-DJ Stimulator Jones, kuratiert von Stones Throw-Gründer Peanut Butter Wolf. Low Budget Environments Striving For Perfection ist der Nachfolger zu Exotic Worlds and Masterful Treasures, seinem Debütalbum, das u.a. den Breakout-Hit "Soon Never Comes" enthält.

/ Remix / America's Most Blunted

Ooooh, that's fresh! With the 2nd Madvillain album in the making, Stones Throw hooks up with James Reitano to create this ill-ass cartoon design. Relaxed fit. 100% cotton.

Ooooh, that's fresh! With the 2nd Madvillain album in the making, Stones Throw hooks up with James Reitano to create this ill-ass cartoon design. Relaxed fit. 100% cotton.

Classic Stons Throw album, all productions by Madlib and artwork by the one and only Jeff Jank!

2021 Repress.

Teeth Agency is musician Jesse Hackett and artist Mariano Chavez – “lizard lounge jazz and French noir sleaze with sinking ship piano improvisations in underwater organ suits.

Down to the Lowest Terms: The Soul Sessions is an album first envisioned by Steve as a young man, essentially decades in the making. The recording took place in 2019-2020 in collaboration with a cast of a new generation of talented producers, orchestrated with the help of Stones Throw founder Peanut Butter Wolf. Listen to “Keep Dreamin” (produced by Shibo)

10-inch, shaped picture disc. “Peach Fuzz” is Tyler, the Creator's reworked version of Prophet's “Wanna Be Your Man” produced by Prophet, Mndsgn, and Swarvy. The record has the two tracks on Sides A & B. The record is packaged in a poly bag with printed O-card.

Original compositions by Gabriel Reyes-Whittaker created with an analogue Oberheim synthesizer, a Midi sequencer, and an effects unit.

Limited repress, only 1 per customer!

Produced by the late great J Dilla!

II: The Next Wave is the long-awaited second album from hip-hop production supergroup Quakers Features over 25 MCs on over 30 tracks across 2 LPs Featured MCs include Sampa the Great, Koreatown Oddity, Jonwayne, Guilty Simpson, Grandmilly, Jeremiah Jae, & more Artwork created by graphic novel artist Joe Currie

You're looking for a snapback hat that's on par with all the big players' stuff? Don't look further, the 5 Panel Baseball Snapback Cap is a high-quality design single-handedly produced by Stones Throw.

Stones Throw 5 Panel Baseball Snapback Cap - features:

• high rise 5-panel construction
• Stones Throw embroidery on front
• Est. '96 embroidery on the left panel
• tonal eyelet stitching
• visor with green twill at the bottom
• adjustable 7 eye snapback plastic closure
• interior includes plain taping and a moisture-absorbing sweatband
• 100% cotton twill

The Knxwledge & Koko T-Shirt's features include:
• rib crew neck with interior tape
• Knxwledge & Koko artwork printed on front and the rear
• regular fit
• 100% cotton single jersey

The Stones Throw Outline Logo T-Shirt's features include:
• rib crew neck with interior tape
• Stones Throw Outline Logo printed on front
• relaxed fit
• 100% cotton single jersey

The Los Retros T-Shirt's features include:
• rib crew neck with interior tape
• Los Retros artwork printed on front
• regular fit
• 100% cotton single jersey

The Stones Throw Outline Logo T-Shirt's features include:
• rib crew neck with interior tape
• Stones Throw Outline Logo printed on front
• relaxed fit
• 100% cotton single jersey

When Vex Ruffin’s family moved from Northridge, California to the City of Parañaque in the Philippines, their first car was a Toyota LiteAce. Swooping around the thick Metro Manila traffic between colorful jeepneys and tricycles in the compact van left a strong impression on young Vex. The Toyota LiteAce was immensely popular in early 90s Manila — beloved for its durability and reliability — and enjoys an intense, affectionate following to this day. Vex’s family’s LiteAce would hold his parents upfront, and him and his three younger siblings behind as they cruised in comfort.

Fast forward three decades and Vex is raising two young boys with his wife in the Inland Empire while working two jobs. In between those responsibilities, he cooked up his third Stones Throw LP LiteAce Frequency at his kitchen table, a collection of songs influenced by 70s Manila Sound and Pinoy soul. Other ingredients like Japanese funk, Brazilian sounds, and hip-hop made their way into the recipe. “At my age, you start to reflect,” Vex says, “I’m going back to my roots, channelling that time, mixing nostalgia with how I am right now. ”

What is LiteAce Frequency? “It’s the vehicle that gets you going in the right direction. Hop in and tap into the LiteAce Frequency — it will guide you to the right path.”

“If you don't believe in yourself, that's a fear,” Vex says. “I think everyone is good at something. Everyone has a dream. Sometimes there’s a voice inside you that’s guiding you, and you don't follow it because of fear. This album is about going with your heart. Follow your heart. Self-love. Positive things. Believe in yourself. Going for it.”

Vex Ruffin also finds inspiration in one of his biggest passions — boxing. “Boxing is life. You get hit, you fall down, you get back up, you hit back, but all that matters is that you finish it. Keep coming, don’t stop no matter what.” He feels a close affinity with Bernard Hopkins: “As he got older, he got better. That's me. I'm not getting any younger, but I am getting better. Hopkins has many styles. He can adapt.”

LiteAce Frequency documents Vex’s growth from his first show, more than 10 years ago, in his friend’s backyard. “I’m more mature, more experienced. A lot more mellow. A lot more at peace,” he says.

He compares his music to a kale salad: “It's definitely organic. It’s healthy. There’s not much music like that — healthy music. I’m not perfect — not 100% positive all the time. But my goal is to be that positive influence. When I make the music, it's for myself first and foremost, but it's going to reach people. And it might help them. In the end, I hope that's what it does.”

This album is inspired by bits and pieces of Ethio-Jazz, Afrobeat, Highlife Spiritual Jazz and dusty funk 45’s. It’s where I’m at now and what has kept this mortal vehicle fueled. I tend to take different paths each musical outing but this one is for the long haul, the one for the blue highways and forgotten byways. It’s the one to get lost to. It’s about the journey, not the destination." Tommy Guerrero continues pushing the boundaries while upholding his San Francisco Bay heritage. Starting from the Bones Brigade skate team in the '80s, he’s made movie appearances, designed for Levi's in Japan, Vans shoes worldwide and Sutro eyewear among others, signed a skateboard contract with Converse, co-founded Real Skateboards and 40’s Clothing, is art director for Krooked Skateboarding, and found time to be a prolific recording artist.

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.