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Includes Free Digital Download Code. Repress - 180 Gram Heavyweight Black Vinyl. The Instrumentals of Elzhi's Elmatic Album - complete Re-Production with live instruments of the Classic Nas record "Illmatic"! The name Will Sessions was born as a producer alias of trumpeter Sam Beaubien. After sharpening his keyboard skills and learning writing and arrangement from the accomplished David Van De Pitte (who arranged for countless Motown recordings including Marvin Gaye’s album What’s Going On) at Wayne State University, he decided to start a band. With classmates Tim Shellaberger (bass) and Bryan Arnold (drums) along with recruits Ryan Gimpert (guitar) and Eric Kacir (Percussion), the band was complete.T h e y helped to develop a nascent monthly funk music party called Motor City Funk Night, and three years later, the party has grown into one of the sta- ples of the Detroit scene, and Will Sessions were playing in front of crowds of up to 3000 people. The success of the Funk Night parties led to significant studio work with artists like Black Milk, Mayer Hawthorne, and Slum Village, and the hip hop sessions in particular led Beaubien to concoct the idea of Will Sessions recreating his favorite sample-based music in a live setting with the full band. His vision would be realized with three smash concerts in 2009 for Black Milk, Guilty Simpson, and Phat Kat, which left hip hop fans in awe of how the band stayed faithful to the original sampled and programmed beats, while creatively elevating the songs to new heights by recreating them live. It was the particular challenge of duplicating the unique beats of J Dilla that gave Beaubien the confidence to work on the emcee Elzhi’s anticipated project Elmatic. Elmatic had been initially planned and announced in 2008 as a tribute to the historic 1994 album Illmatic by Nas, but it wasn’t until early 2011 that Elzhi and his manager Jae Barber agreed that it would be best to recreate all of the beats from scratch--and there was clearly nobody who could do it better than producer Sam Beaubien and Will Sessions. Since it’s widely considered to be the holy grail of hip hop recordings, the prospect of du- plicating the music from Illmatic was daunting. By using the original sam- ple sources of the album’s tracks as a foundation, producer Beaubien and the band members managed to recreate both the sound and the mood of the classic album with stunning precision on Elmatic, exceeding lofty expectations set by loyal fans and skeptical critics alike. With an ever-increasing body of recorded work, a skyrocketing reputation within their hometown market, and their first tastes of national and international interest, Will Sessions are primed to be among Detroit’s hottest musical exports.

Il 2020 è ormai, a detta di molti, l'anno del Covid-19. Una malattia subdola e insidiosa causata dal contagio da virus SARS-CoV-2. Il 2020 è l'anno del contagio. In un contesto nazionale e internazionale del genere, parlare del novo album di Attarus e Il Contagio risulta bizzarro, se non addirittura difficile. Il produttore e l'mc di Lecco hanno in serbo da mesi il loro nuovo lavoro discografico, ma hanno deciso di rimandarne l'uscita a causa del primo lockdown, in rispetto alle tante vittime dell'emergenza sanitaria dovuta alla diffusione del virus. Ora che la situazione è in lento miglioramento, anche se in una condizione di lockdown parziale, i tempi sono maturi per l'uscita di Mutazione Del Virus: fuori a novembre 2020 su cd e in digitale per l'etichetta discografica Skill To Deal Records, Milano. Skill To Deal Records, dopo le celebri pubblicazioni con Alien Army, Dj Skizo, Oyoshe, Flycat, Wza, Egreen e Craig G, decide di puntare sul duo lecchese composto da musicisti attivi da tempo nella scena con le loro crews: NDP per Il Contagio, SDPL per Attarus. L'unione tra il percorso artistico dell'mc e quello del producer da vita a un disco hip hop al 100%, dal sound attuale ma comunque solido, richiamante la golden age del movimento tanto quanto la nuova scuola. La rappata anni novanta del Contagio confluisce nelle ritmiche proposte dal producer in una modalità su cui si può sintonizzare sia l'old schooler che la nuova leva. Dai temi più classici alle riflessioni più intime, l'album si sviluppa lasciando spazio ad atmosfere e sonorità articolate, mature e profonde, il giusto mix tra quelle del precedente disco dell'mc, Pandemia più recente lavoro di Attarus, Lazarus Vol. 1 , del 2019. Mutazione Del Virus va talvolta ad allontanarsi dalle drums potenti tanto caratterizzanti il suono hip hop hardcore, per andare a toccare qualcos'altro: dal richiamo club a quello ambient, dall'atmosfera chill a quella confidenziale, passando per la trap e per la melodia. Il rap del Contagio e le produzioni di Attarus, al loro primo disco insieme ma con esperienze individuali di lungo corso, si affiancano eccellenti collaborazioni, sia alle rime che agli scratch: Dj Skizo, Ape, Sab Sista, Polly, Dj Lil Bac, Dj Never, Easy Man, Sbend, Saraceno, Malavedo.

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Reissue MOV 180 gram audiophile vinyl Interpretations and Remixes of Blue Note Classics "The Look Of Slim", "Distant Land", "Stormy", live performance of "Peace/Dolphin Dance" and many more tracks

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BBE Music announces a special 20th Anniversary edition of one of the most important records in the label’s history: J Dilla’s Welcome 2 Detroit, presented in a deluxe 7” vinyl box set boasting instrumentals, two brand new interpretations by Azymuth and Muro, a stash of previously unreleased alternative mixes and studio outtakes pressed over 12 discs, plus a book revealing the album’s hidden story, told by those who were there. First issued by BBE Music on Monday 26th of February 2001, Welcome 2 Detroit was James Dewitt Yancey aka Jay Dee’s first solo outing and the debut appearance of his new ‘J Dilla’ moniker (bestowed on him by none other than Busta Rhymes). The album also inaugurated the producer-led Beat Generation album series, which would later spawn classic LPs by DJ Jazzy Jeff, Pete Rock, DJ Spinna, Marley Marl and even will.i.am, all of whom had been inspired to reach for new creative heights by hearing Dilla’s magnum opus. Choosing to showcase his own voice and the voices of local rap-heroes from across the city instead of big stars, Welcome 2 Detroit marked a coming of age for the then 27 year-old producer, who fully embraced the creative-freedom offered by BBE for his first solo project. As Dilla tells it: “Peter (Adarkwah, founder of BBE) let me do whatever I wanted to do. So, I wanted to put people on there who are gonna spit y’know, lyrically and represent Detroit. Because I wouldn’t have been able to pull this album off if it came out under a major. Cos they’re not gonna let you just do a song or you can’t just do an instrumental. You gotta have this feature and you’re Jay Dee, why ain’t you got Erykah Badu? Why ain’t you got so and so on your album? I’d have had to go through all of that, instead of just putting out…y’know, Beej on this joint!” The album would prove to be the perfect distillation of Dilla’s Detroit. From Kraftwerk- inspired Tech Noir that would make Metroplex proud, through subtle echoes from Africa, live jazz-funk and bossa-nova grooves, to tough Midwest boom-bap, this record somehow showed reverence to the city’s past without ever leaving its present. Grimy street flows that somehow swayed like James Brown. Unquantized marvels, so free and alive in their bounce, that they could seduce the hardest of hard-rocks into the sweetest screwface! Diverse, multifaceted, super collaborative and yet somehow singular, Welcome 2 Detroit was the shy and humble James Yancey revealing his true self in the only way he knew how: through his music. “The numerous guest appearances from some of the city’s best MCs at the time — Beej, Big Tone, Elzhi, Frank N Dank, Phat Kat — added to the album’s immersive experience, offering listeners a taste of Detroit in a way that only Jay Dee could do.” – Okayplayer To mark the 20th Anniversary of this momentous record, BBE Music is issuing a specially remastered edition of Welcome 2 Detroit, featuring a stunning new remix of ‘Think Twice’ by Japanese DJ/producer Muro and a stellar cover version of ‘Rico Suave Bossa Nova’ by legendary Brazilian jazz-funk juggernauts Azymuth, plus a stash of newly discovered alternate versions and work-in-progress recordings from the album sessions, lovingly reproduced from priceless cassette tapes recorded by J Dilla himself. An accompanying book by British writer and filmmaker John Vanderpuije offers an oral history of the album’s making, as told by Amp Fiddler, Ma Dukes and all of the album’s key musical contributors. The deluxe 7” vinyl box set and digital album will be released on February 5th 2021 during the annual #DillaMonth celebration, as close to the great man’s birthday as possible, Format: 12x 7″ Vinyl Box Set / Digital Release Date: February 5th, 2021

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