J Dilla - Donuts (Original Donut Cover) Format:Vinyl 2LP A Shade Of Jade

A Shade Of Jade

digital technology had only just become affordable to poor student musicians

tapes and sample-triggered drum machine sounds were skillfully woven together to create tight and compelling punk-industrial rock songs and semi-improvised noise-scapes possessing a presence and impact never before achieved by the group

The KVB's six track EP is the culmination of a week long recording session at Anton Newcombe's studio in Berlin

rising like a campfire’s embers whilst taking cues from Beth Gibbons

J Dilla - Donuts (Original Donut Cover) Format:Vinyl 2LP A Shade Of JadeDonuts began simply enough as an idea to turn a particularly good demo beat tape into a full length release, and has since became a classic hip hop album, one of the defining works of J Dilla's life. Completed during a year in which J Dilla spent in and out of Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, and released on his birthday Feb. 7, 2006, Donuts would gain particular poignancy when the producer died on Feb. 10, 2006. Announced in Fall 2005, the