J Dilla - Donuts

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J Dilla’s instrumental masterpiece and perhaps the finest record he ever made.Donuts is half soul mixtape, half beat CD and 100% genius from the sorely missed hiphop legend.

“My favorite producer? J Dilla... Jay Dee, he’s bringing it strong.”– Pharrell Williams
“Dilla is a drum god. His drums can’t ever be topped.”– Kanye West

As well as his involvement on the Jaylib ‘Champion Sound’ album and the posthumous Ruff Draft album also on Stones Throw, J Dilla aka Jay Dee crafted classics for the likes of Common, A Tribe Called Quest, De La Soul, Busta Rhymes, The Pharcyde, Janet Jackson, Slum Village – the list goes on and on. His debut as a solo artist was 2001’s Welcome to Detroit on BBE, and he joined forces with Stones Throw two years later, collaborating with Madlib on the now-famous Jaylib album.
Donuts was the last record he made before he succumbed to the blood disease lupus in Feb 2006. Tracks have subsequently been used as beats for the likes of Ghostface Killah, MF DOOM, Talib Kweli, Q-Tip, Guilty Simpson and more.

kamikaze said:

I was a latecomer to Dilla. A friend copied me Donuts a couple of years back, I went a bit mental for it if truth be told, and I listened to the thing to death. And then I simply couldn't find the copied CD of it anywhere for about nine months, until I went to listen to Quasi Objects by Matmos a couple of months back and Donuts was inside the box of that. I was fucking delighted, and have probably listened to it a good fifty-or-so times since rediscovering it. I put it right up there with Endless Summer by Fennesz, as an album which to me totally defines its own genre. It's obviously nothing like Fennesz musically though, it's a bunch of old soul records cut up and fucked about with, and I'd go so far as to say the end product is the perfect soul/hip hop album. So anyway I figured it was probably time to get the thing on vinyl so I won't ever lose it again, and the kindly postman brought me this first thing today. It's nice to finally have a proper copy of it...

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