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J Dilla Tribute

Legendary label Delicious Vinyl is rolling high with some serious talent on their roster. Golden boys Illa J and Aaron LaCrate recently stopped in @ the Boombox Music Blog studio for an interview and a little taste of goods to come.

When Jay Dee passed away from complications relating to lupus in February 2006, he left behind an extraordinary legacy of production work, including hits for Common, Janet Jackson, and Busta Rhymes. One mother load of previously untouched beats dates from his time working on the Pharcyde’s sophomore album, Labcabincalifornia (Delicious Vinyl, 1995). As Delicious Vinyl owner and founder Michael “Mike Floss” 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. When I finally met Illa J last year, I gave him a CD containing those unreleased beats.”

In a case of pure serendipity, 21 year-old Illa J had just relocated from Detroit to Los Angeles and constructed a studio built using Jay Dee’s recording equipment. He dubbed it Yancey Boys Studios in tribute to their fraternal bond. “Dilla was 12 years older than me,” Illa J says. “So back in the day in Detroit I was just a little kid, sitting on the stairs in our house, watching him make those first beats for Slum Village. I always felt my brother’s tracks and had an instinct for what I wanted to do over them.” When Illa J set to work in early ‘08 recording the album, the project flowed quickly as he entered the proverbial can’t miss zone. The name of the studio rightly became the title of the finished album, Yancey Boys, which will be released on November 4th, 2008 via Delicious Vinyl.

Illa J & Aaron LaCrate Freestyle

Shout out to Michelle @ Audible Treats for the info.

One of the top and rising artists/producers right now has to be Black Milk. Some have claimed that he might be the next Dilla; however, that is a very bold statement. Black Milk has a new LP coming out called Tronic on October 28th via Fat Beats Records. The features on the album include Pharoahe Monch, Royce Da 5′9, Dwele, Sean Price, DJ Premier and many more. This guy has adds great sound to mostly anything he touches and is definitely an artist/producer on the rise. Follow me after the jump for the tracklisting of his new album.

1.) Long Story Short ft. Dwele
2.) Bounce
3.) Give the Drummer Sum
4.) Without U ft. Colin Munroe
5.) Hold it Down
6.) Losen Out ft. Royce 5′9
7.) Overdose
8.) Repin for U ft. AB
9.) Hell Yeah
10.) The Matrix ft. Pharoahe Monch, Sean Price, DJ Premier
11.) Try
12.) Tronic Summer
13.) Bond 4 Life (Music) ft. Melanie Rutherford
14.) Elec (Outro)

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We heard Ma Duke’s would be doing an interview to follow up the recent article from the LA Weekly which we covered in our entry J Dilla Estate Suffers From Bootleggers. It was published and in it Ms. Yancey reveals her current estrangement with the executors of the Dilla estate. Hit up the LA Weekly site for Jeff Weiss’ An Interview with J Dilla’s Mother, Ms. Maureen Yancey.

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Delicious Vinyl is an American independent record label founded by Matt Dike and Michael Ross in 1987 and based in Los Angeles. Throughout its history, the label has had distribution deals with PolyGram, Warner Music Group, EMI, Red Ant, Rhino and Universal Music Group. UCLA student Michael Ross met New York City transplant Matt Dike while Dike was DJing at a Hollywood club called Rhythm Lounge in the mid 1980s. The pair discovered they were both members of Impact Record Pool, a service that provided new 12″ records to club DJs, and that they shared a taste in soul, funk, and hip-hop. Soon Dike became the top DJ at the legendary downtown Los Angeles club Power Tools and Ross followed suit. In 1987 they founded their own independent record label Delicious Vinyl and the rest is history.

Here is Akron’s own, LeBron James, sporting a Delicious Vinyl T-Shirt ($20) during the USA Men’s Basketball Team’s Olympic preparation sessions in Beijing, China.

Visit Delicious Vinyl’s Website and brush up on the legendary artists of DV from Tone Loc to J Dilla to The Pharcyde to Masta Ace.

Here’s a joint from Dilla’s little brother, Illa J, off the upcoming Yancey Boys LP. The project will feature a number of previously unheard Dilla beats that have been collecting dust for a decade in the stash of Delicious Vinyl founder Michael Ross. Check out the new track here, click the link below to listen.

Illa J : We Here (Produced by J Dilla)

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Source: Street Hop Magazine

Stones Throw keeps quietly dropping impressive tunes via their new webstore, with the latest gem being an advance digital release of The 5th Installment of Madlib’s esteemed Beat Konducta series. This one — the awesomely titled Dil Cosby Suite — is Madlib + J Rocc’s tribute to the late, great J Dilla. To hear “Anthenagin” off the album listen BELOW!

Madlib - “Anthenagin”

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“Koushik Ghosh heads to Stones Throw with another of the label’s patented blend trippy, mellow atmosphere for the beat heads! It’s a bit tough to get a handle on what we can expect from a Koushik full length down the road, but that’s kind of the appeal, in a way. Like DJ Shadow’s languorous tunes, this EP is more about the mood, than anything else. There’s always a beat-heavy backend, breathy/atmospheric vocals, trippy effects, with tonal shifts from uptempo head-nodders, to laidback and groovy.

“Koushik works in beautiful blends of late 60s psychedelia, modern push-button sequences, and category-defying ethereal melodies. He has released a widely praised single with Four-Tets, Keiran Hebden, remixed artists as diverse as the Webb Brothers and Manitoba, and created a series of recordings which he offered to Stones Throw. This EP is the first of them. Mixing the austere aesthetic of an early 90s crate-digging hip hop producer with the colouring of a free jazz sensibility and the dreaminess of the best psychedelics, this ain’t no by-the-numbers laptop folktronics.

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Delicious Vinyl Records, the label that helped late producer J Dilla get his start in the game, will be releasing an album from Dilla’s brother Illa J. The 21-year-old younger brother of the late producer has relocated to Los Angeles from Detroit after Dilla’s death. Since the move, Illa J has used his brothers equipment to create a studio called Yancey Boys Studio. There, using unreleased beats from Dilla, Illa J has crafted an album of his brother’s beats and his own signing and rapping. The album has yet to be given a title or release date, stay tuned for updates on the project right here.

Source: Street Hop Magazine

A few days ago LA Weekly ran a story entitled “Who’s Biting J Dilla’s Beats? Hip-Hop producer’s legend ascends posthumously; estate struggles to maintain control.” The by-line of this article is more accurate than the slightly misleading title, as the piece reveals the saddened situation of the declining J Dilla estate, struggling under the weight of hefty medical bills Dilla left behind, along with serious tax debt (due to his expensive health costs).

In an attempt to curb copyright infringement, Arthur Erk, the estate’s executor and Dilla’s former business manager, has launched a full-on attack on all Dilla bootlegs stating “If we don’t, it cheapens the value of his brand. We’re trying to protect his legacy and his heirs.” However, as one may imagine, the task of policing the use of Dilla’s beats is a daunting one, especially given the age of the internet. The essential message of Erk’s mission is that all the unauthorized use of Dilla beats is depriving the estate of income to pay off Dilla’s expenses, and provide a future for his children. Hopefully those leaking all unauthorized Dilla material will read this article and take heed; it isn’t helping keep his name alive to do so, it’s hurting his legacy.

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In late 2005, Ghostface Killah and MF Doom were both recording over tracks from J Dilla’s instrumental opus, Donuts, which saw release the following February. Some of these were released on Ghostface’s Fishscale in 2006, while others, including a Dilla-Doom Project, were postponed indefinitely after J Dilla’s passing. Two of these tracks, “Sniperlite” and “Murder Goons,” will be released digitally, exclusively through Stones Throw’s web-store, due to launch in late June.

This one is for Dilla, Hip-Hop.

A Tribe Called Quest (without Q-Tip) speak on their upcoming summer tour with Rock The Bells, their current musical inspirations, Dilla and their future projects.

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Technology is going to play an enormous role in Hip-Hop in the years to come and this is just the beginning. The feature in the video above is The Touchscreen Deck By Attigo, I’ll let the video speak for itself.

R.I.P. DILLA

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