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Black Friday Record Store Day 2022 Reissue. Color: Random. Limitation:For RSD Black Friday Delicious Vinyl presents this key material from Jay Dee’s output in a never before issued and not to be repeated random colored vinyl assortment. Shortly after Jay Dee’s younger brother Illa J’s solo debut was issued on Delicious Vinyl, the label and the artist knew the next step in honoring Jay Dee’s legacy was to issue the complete instrumentals from Yancey Boys as a stand-alone release. This mother lode of previously untouched (at the time) beats dates as far back as Jay Dee’s time working on the Pharcyde’s sophomore album, 1995’s Labcabincalifornia. As Delicious Vinyl owner Michael Ross explains, “From ‘95 through ’98 Jay Dee was my go-to guy for hot beats and remixes. He was always making beats, always. So there was a select amount of tracks that he composed for me during that time, tracks as good as anything he’d done, only they never got used.” Once these beats were used for Illa J’s Yancey Boys they were presented to the public on Yancey Boys Instrumentals.
That’s right, it wasn’t MCA’s legal department, it was Dilla’s creative vision that stripped out the samples. But what about the sample laden “Take Your Clothes Off” and “Off Your Chest” you may ask? Frank interjects, “those were done after the fact.” And why did MCA shelve the project, was this a label afraid to release what the Detroit trio had concocted? Well that doesn’t appear to be the case. According to Nitt turnover in the A&R department at the time was rapid to the point that no one seemed to know who at MCA was responsible for the project. This led to a call to then MCA president Jay Boberg who agreed to release Frank N Dank from their deal. So there you have it. As Freud once said, “sometimes a cigar is just a cigar”. In the case of 48 Hours, it’s one hell of a tasty cigar. 48 Hours is now at last ready for the respect and proper release it has deserved all along, with the complete album as well as a second vinyl of Dilla’s instrumentals. As Frank reminds us, “This is the exact version of 48 Hours that we (Frank N Dank & Dilla) turned in to MCA and the way Dilla intended it to be!”
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Frank Nitt and Dankery Harv - or just Frank n Dank - knew J. Dilla before you. but don't feel bad, they knew Dilla before anyone knew Dilla. when Dilla was still in Detroit, before he was known as J. Dilla. before he'd even stepped foot in LA. From their personal vault, Frank n Dank bring you these cuts from their years working with Dilla, including complete instrumentals, presented in a nice 12-inch red vinyl pressing.
"Ding ding! True school is in session!" trumpeted okayplayer.com when Tre & Nu-Mark released their freebie EP Another Day, Another Dollar in 2011. The duo knew they were onto something good, and re-upped to create new music. The new album's standout tracks include, "King" featuring Diamond D, "I Know, Didn't I" a savvy flip of Dorando's soul classic, and presented here the reggae-fueled summer jam "Bom Bom Fiya”, with "Bouillon", featuring Del and Murs.
The first official single from "Sunset Blvd." is "Quicksand" which features Common & Dezi Paige. And the B-Side is no sleeper; “The Fisherman” is a full-court press featuring a chorus from Vice and blistering rhymes from Detroit Serious and cuts by J.Rocc of Beat Junkies. The track is, as Frank Nitt promises, “guaranteed to make you bang your head!” Nitt also reminds us that “this isn’t a nostalgia trip: Dilla’s beats were so future-forward that they’re right on time in 2013.”
Delicious Vinyl HHV Records
Delicious Vinyl is a record label from Los Angeles founded by Matt Dike and Michael Ross in 1987. The two met at a party in the mid-eighties. Both were active as DJ in Los Angeles, so they talked about music and they realized that they had the same passion for soul, funk und hip hop. In 1987 they founded together Delicious Vinyl Records. Their first release was the 12inch »On Fire/Cheeba Cheeba« by Tone Loc. This was once the basis of the subsequent single hits »Wild Thing« (3 million sold singles) and »Funky Cold Medina«. Both songs showed also the penchant for guitar riffs in hip hop tracks Dike and Ross had at that time. Marvin Young supplemented the duo and shortly thereafter he, the young MC, had with »Bust A Move« himself a hit. With Mellow Man Ace one of the first logged rap attempt in Spanish followed and with Brand New Heavies, a British downbeat formation, and Masters Of Reality, the stoner rock pioneers, strong evidence, that Delicious Vinyl wanted be understood not only as rap label. In 1992 Matt Dike left the label and Michael Ross meticulously carried on the label. The releases of The Pharcyde, De La Soul, J-Swift and Masta Ace made the label in the following years one of the hallmarks of the »conscious rap« and the sound of the »golden era of hip hop«. These period was concluded in Fatlip’s solo album »The Loneliest Punk«, on which the member of The Pharcyde had worked almost ten years. End of the last decade the record label played a decisive role in the popularization of the »Baltimore sound«. The lettering and logo of Delicious Vinyl (including variants) is a world-popular T-shirt design.