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STH 7047EP
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"Krista. New collab with James Pants and Vex Ruffin. We have a two track 45, maybe a one-off, maybe a sign of more to come. Vocals and guitar by Vex, the rest by James Pants. Exec producer: Peanut Butter Wolf."
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STH 2306LP
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"Collaborative release by Stones Throw and Leaving Records. Leaving Records is one of Los Angeles' best, a hand-curated cassette label whose international reach belies its boutique status and DIY style. Naturally, Dual Form reflects the brightly burning light guiding Leaving's doings: an elevated level of experimentation combined with the twinning beliefs that art is sacred and music is magic. In a way, avant chanteuse Julia Holter provides this set's mantra with her haunting cover of Arthur Russell's 'You and Me Both' when she sings, 'Want to keep on doing.' To that end, Anticon founder Odd Nosdam delivers the booming but elegiac 'Sisters,' Postal Service electrician Dntel gets playful with 'Windy Windy,' psychedelic blueser Sun Araw discovers transcendence for 'Right Off,' and Serengeti teams with Matthewdavid for the far-out rap of 'Into the Night.' Dual Form could've easily been a retrospective of Leaving Records' 'greatest hits,' but that'd be a disingenuous introduction to a label that's always looking forward. All of the tracks on the album are new, original recordings. If the names gathered here look unfamiliar, it'd be a good time to start studying them." Housed in a gatefold sleeve with digital download card.
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STH 2289CD
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"Raw hip hop recorded on Vintage Gear (SP 1200 and Ensoniq). Dave Dub was featured on Quakers produced by Geoff Barrow of Portishead. Veteran MC who has worked with the likes of MYKA 9, Murs and Peanut Butter Wolf making his Stones Throw debut!"
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STH 2275CD
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"A quick glance at MED's discography shows many classic releases from years past: Madvillain's Madvillainy, Madlib's Shades of Blue, J Dilla's The Shining, Lootpack's Soundpieces, Quasimoto's Unseen. Each appearance showcases his well-rounded knack for lyricism, ranging from vivid street imagery to nostalgia to everything in between. It's fitting that he calls this album Classic. With the sophomore album, fans are treated to collabs with label mate Aloe Blacc, Talib Kweli ('Classic'), Hodgy Beats (OFWGKTA), and with producers Madlib, Oh No and the Alchemist."
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STH 2272CD
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"Multi-instrumentalist, arranger and vocalist Jonti began assembling music after his departure from South Africa to Australia. Spending countless hours studying records like they were books, processing each song, this became Jonti's music school, testing his theories on a 4-track recorder. Jonti is a multi-instrumentalist, arranger and vocalist working in Australia. He has recorded with Mark Ronson, Santigold, Sean Lennon and the Dap-Kings. For Jonti's debut album, coming this fall on Stones Throw, he went the opposite route -- doing everything himself start to finish."
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STH 2271CD
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"On paper Vex Ruffin's music is simple: an untrained punk musician who uses a few basic instruments in uncomplicated ways, he calls the style 'minimalist.' Although it may not seem like it upon first listen, Vex's music is rooted in sampling and hip hop beat-making culture. The SP 303 sampler provides the drums and other sounds, a purchase inspired by Madlib. Vex is the first and only artist signed to Stones Throw Records on the strength of an unsolicited demo sent through the mail."
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STH 2262CD
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"The album was originally called Love Kraft, until someone with access to the internet said that it was also a Super Furry Animals LP. Seeing as James Pants never operated out of any big city music scene, his non-challance about Googling is probably to be expected. The scene that inspires James Pants exists solely in his head, and sometimes David Lynch's. Both men have spent plenty of time living in Spokane, Washington, and found muse in a fictional television town a few miles east. 'It's that Twin Peaks sound,' James Pants says of Love Kraft. 'More noise and wailing guitars.' Lead single 'Darlin'' picks up at another pop culture point, sounding like a doo-wop-channeling prom song in a John Hughes movie. That is, until a swirling guitar so specific to now joins the dance. Stereogum says that 'James Pants will play all your instruments then play with all your styles' and he flexes those production chops throughout his eponymous release. But just because of James Pants' scene-insulated living choices and defiant keyboard choices, doesn't mean he can't work with people. Really rad people, actually. He's remixed Beck, Pharell & Santogold, Dam Funk, and Mayor Hawthorne and a future collaboration with Tyler, the Creator of OFWGKTA."
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STH 2233CD
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"This is the debut album of original music from one of the original turntablists and longtime DJ for Madlib and the late J Dilla. This is not a 'DJ album'. Not a beat album. Not a mix tape. This is an original work of instrumental hip-hop, dance music, smoke tracks, assorted cold rock stuff. J. Rocc first made his name as one of the original turntablists, cofounding The World Famous Beat Junkies in the 1990s with DJ Babu, Shortkut, Melo-D and Rhettmatic, becoming a seminal force in the rise of instrumental hip-hop. He went on to host The Fantastic Four Radio show on L.A.'s Power 106, perform as the third member of Madlib & J Dilla's Jaylib, and tour the world as a solo artist, DJ and producer. Note: Some Cold Rock Stuf also contains a 'mystery disc', one of three mystery discs included in different copies of the album. No track list is provided for the 'mystery disc' and the CD label does not distinguish one mystery disc from the other."
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STH 2221CD
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"Haack's music is rooted in the idea that humans and electronic machines share a reciprocal relationship that manifests itself through sounds. In order to further explore this dynamic, Haack dropped out of Juilliard to pursue a more experimental course in, surprisingly, educational children's music. Haack released material off his own label Dimension 5 Records in 1962, which allowed him to mix kinetic energy, infuse psychedelic philosophy, and pluck sounds from various genres across the board. Adding to his musical pastiches, Haack used home-made modular synthesizers, proto-vocoders, and the heat-touch sensitive Dermatron to expand his music into the technological realm of creativity. Similar to friend Raymond Scott (who J-Dilla sampled for 'Lightworks'), Haack's facility to create new electronic soundscapes has turned his work into a virtual music library, one whose samples have already been culled by the likes of Cut Chemist. Farad Bruce Haack serves as a glowing primer of Haack's work throughout his career. Touching on the lush, pysch-electronic grooves of the Electric Lucifer period and extending to his more abstract, angular works, this compilation highlights his use of the Farad, one of the first musical vocoders invented at the time. Yet amidst echoey reverb and haunting drones, Haack himself manages to create something primal and human, not necessarily conflating human and electronic but posing them as compatible partners."
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STH 2244CD
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"It's not often that a sample clearance claim against a record company turns out to be an altogether pleasant experience. Usually it's a blustery, puffy-chested affair with lawyers on both sides citing arcane copyright cases and threatening court proceedings as if the year were 1987 and Biz Markie had just released his first album on Cold Chillin.' We inked the deal with singer, songwriter, pianist and man-in-the-know Matthew Larkin Cassell to issue his complete works. MLC hit us up after he heard his 'Heaven,' from his superb (and superbly rare) album Pieces on the Madlib production '3.214' from Madvillainy 2: The Madlib Remix. To be fair, Madlib had no idea he was using Mssr. Cassel's work until he put two and two together and realized that his source material, a Japanese bootleg 12" labled 'MLC' stood for, well, you guessed it. And who wouldn't want access to the multi-tracks to MLC's break-beat laded 'My Life?' Madlib certainly did. And MLC wanted to see his entire catalog (comprised of the Pieces album, an EP entitled Matt The Cat, a 7" single and a recently recorded and issued vinyl EP) issued on CD. Less than a year later, here we are. The negotiations - completed (amicably!). Matthew Larkin Cassell - The Complete Works." Includes 20-page booklet containing never-before-seen photos and liner notes.
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STH 2224CD
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"Madlib's been busy these last couple years. And while his recorded output always spans the gamut, he often returns to recurrent themes, spread across the genres that serve as home base -- or bases, as it were. 2010 will be an ambitious one for Madlib and Stones Throw Records, with his slate of 12 Medicine Show albums and mixes, his rap albums for the likes of Strong Arm Steady, Guilty Simpson and MED and a series of albums based around the now-defunct Yesterdays New Quintet's 'spin off bands' that he introduced on the Yesterdays Universe album. If you've read this far, you're probably aware of the former two categories - now on to the jazz. The second of Madlib's 2010 jazz albums is Young Jazz Rebels' Slave Riot. Slave Riot, as you can guess from the title, is a rather chaotic affair. While his previous album, Last Electro Acoustic Space Jazz and Percussion Ensemble's Miles Away rambled along at a leisurely pace, Slave Riot guns to top speed almost immediately and rarely lets up its frenetic pace. To put this in a Sun Ra context, think of this as Madlib's Black Mass, as opposed to Last Electro's Sleeping Beauty." Mini-LP gatefold package.
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STH 2238CD
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"Somehow a minimal Catalan psych-folk album inspired by Brazilian counter-current musical giants fell in line with Mars Volta-leader Omar Rodiguez Lopez's prog-rock opus Old Money and Madlib's Beat Konducta 5 & 6; in mid 2009 Stones Throw released Savath and Savalas's La Llama. That album, an acoustic excursion, drenched in Eva Puyelo Mins' breathy vocals, marched to its own beat, courtesy of Prefuse 73 and Roberto Carlos Lange, aka 'Heldado Negro' -- defiantly cerebral, not made for dancing, no 'stand-out-single'. This follow up entry into the Savath and Savalas book, etched by a new production entity we only know as 'The Predicate' (we think they're the same cats known as 'The Predicate Production Guild', who recently released a library album on Andy Votel's B-Music label) fits perfectly in Stones Throw's ever expanding musical novel. Who woulda thunk it, 'Catalan-folk-psych with minimalistelectronic- sensibilities' re-imagined as an excursion in neo-dub? Not us, but The Predicate (Dub Version) helps us through winter with just enough bounce to remind us of the warm days past and soon to come again."
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STH 2171CD
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"The first of Madlib's 2010 jazz albums is Last Electro-Acoustic Space Jazz & Percussion Ensemble's Miles Away. Miles Away is Madlib's tribute to a series of his jazz heroes from the '60s and, mainly, '70s, with suites, waltzes, ballads, modal-numbers and swinging funk inspired by and covered from the well known (Roy Ayers, Pharoah Sanders, John Coletrane) and the cult (Phil Ranelin, Harry Whitaker). This 'band' shows an organic growth from their earliest releases (the limited edition Summer Suite and Fall Suite albums); electric flute, moog and synths stand aside accordions, sitars and vibraphones in an album that could only originate in the mind of a loop-digging Beat Kouducta as reverent of jazz's deep traditions as he is revolutionary."
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STH 2218CD
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"Having given birth to a music career and to a human child within the span of a few months, celebrated percussionist James Pants withdrew into solitude for some weeks in the year 2008. Hermetically ensuring his privacy in his remote cabin in & around Spokane, Washington, Pants spurned the noise and clatter of the globetrotting lifestyle, as he nurtured his seed in the form of beautiful baby girl Olive, and took to penning this concept album, now known as Seven Seals. For the moment, with the exception of his touring of Europe and China, wowing the throngs with his exhilarating live ensemble Royal Zodiac, the reclusive Pants occupies himself almost entirely with his offspring, and the disciplined study of oceanography, astronomy and gourmet Latin cooking. For fans of: Gary Wilson, Mort Garson, Beck, The Doors, Bruce Haack."
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STH 2217CD
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"Out My Window (Instrumentals + Bonus Beats) is a companion piece for Koushik's debut album. Following several years of building his name through a series of low-key EPs on Stones Throw, remixes for Madvillain, Four Tet, and Light In The Attic records, Koushik is ready to make a name for himself."
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STH 2215CD
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"Guillermo Scott Herren's albums as Prefuse 73 brought him a worldwide audience, critical praise, and inspired a generation of producers whose names are now commonplace on 'Year End Best' or 'Names to Watch' lists. But Herren's first album on Warp, a label synonymous with Prefuse's signature sound, wasn't a 'beat' album, but a key introduction to a most intriguing portion of Herren's multi-faceted musical persona: Savath and Savalas. Following two albums over five years on Warp, Herren has chosen to take a fresh approach with Savath and Savalas, releasing La Llama with Los Angeles-based Stones Throw Records. Herren, with Eva Puyuleo Muns and a new addition to the band, Roberto Carlos Lange, were inspired on La Llama by a shared love for South-American psychedelic music and the early '70s independent music scene that had briefly flourished in Recife, Brazil."
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STH 2058CD
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"How to describe the Stark Reality's 1970 LP...It's been called 'the beat digger's holy grail.' It's been called 'overrated' (especially since copies have been selling in excess of $500 on eBay). 'Avante-garde'. 'Distorted'. 'Genius'. (Sometimes all in a row). The sounds on that uber-rare LP all depart from the sound one might expect to emerge from a late 60s jazz-funk quartet. The Stark Reality came to fame by impressing jazz legend Ahmad Jarnal with a six song demo, psyching out 'square' children's songs that famed composer Hoagy Carmichael had written in the 40s and 50s, and convincing Jamal to release 90 minutes of music on his private AJP label."
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