Donuts (20th Anniversary Audiophile Edition)

Description

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 Detroits James Yancey, made Donuts, he was 31 years old and widely celebrated as a producer of rare talent, having worked with Erykah Badu, DAngelo, 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.

• – Disc 1 –
• 1Donuts (Outro)
• 2Workinonit
• 3Waves
• 4Light It
• 5New
• 6Stop
• 7People
• 8Diff’rence
• 9Mash
• 10Time: The Donut of the Heart
• 11Glazed
• 12Airworks
• 13Lightworks
• 14Stepson of the Clapper
• 15Twister (Huh, What)
• 16One Eleven
• – Disc 2 –
• 1Two Can Win
• 2Don’t Cry
• 3Anti-American Graffiti
• 4Geek Down
• 5Thunder
• 6Gobstopper
• 7One for Ghost
• 8Dilla Says Go
• 9Walkinonit
• 10Factory
• 11U-Love
• 12Hi
• 13Bye
• 14Last Donut of the Night
• 15Welcome to the Show