Underground Sounds

We're celebrating 20 years of J Dilla's Donuts with a brand new Anniversary Audiophile Edition. The Donuts Audiophile Edition is lacquer cut at Bernie Grundman and manufactured at Fidelity Record Pressing - 2LP 180g vinyl at 45rpm. Deluxe art printed Stoughton jacket. 

When J Dilla, aka Detroit’s James Yancey, made Donuts, he was 31 years old and widely celebrated as a producer of rare talent, having worked with Erykah Badu, D’Angelo, and De La Soul, among many others. He had an encyclopedic knowledge of obscure jazz, funk, and soul, and, as a talented drummer in his own right, he brought a rare sense of groove to the samples he chopped up on his trusty Akai MPC. 

Donuts began simply enough - an idea to turn a good demo tape into a full-length album. It would end up being one of the defining works of Dilla's life. Completed during the year Dilla spent in and out of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, and released on his birthday, February 7, 2006, Donuts gained particular poignancy when he died three days later on February 10th.

Track List: A1. Donuts (Outro)  A2. Workinonit  A3. Waves  A4. Light It  A5. The New  A6. Stop!  A7. People  A8. The Diff'rence  B1. Mash  B2. The Donut of the Heart  B3. Glazed  B4. Airworks  B5. Lightworks  B6. Stepson of the Clapper  B7. The Twister (Huh, What)  C1. One Eleven  C2. Two Can Win  C3. Don't Cry  C4. Anti-American Graffiti  C5. Geek Down  C6. Thunder  C7. Gobstopper  D1. One for Ghost  D2. Dilla Says Go  D3. Walkinonit  D4. The Factory  D5. U-Love  D6. Hi.  D7. Bye.  D8. Last Donut of the Night  D9. Welcome to the Show