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April 5, 2013

Anika returns with a self-titled EP

On the heels of her critically acclaimed, Geoff Barrow-produced debut album, Anika returns with this seductive self-titled EP. Drawing together a number of moods, styles and genres under her own inimitable style, Anika's latest EP contains cover versions

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March 18, 2013

The Cyclist

The Cyclist is a 19 year-old lo-fi techno producer from Liverpool, England who combines traditional dance music with experimental sounds on his first full-length release "Bones In Motion". The track "Visions" is the lead-off single of the Stones Throw an

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February 19, 2013

Introducing: The Lions

Inspired by reggae, sound system culture and the myriad of musical styles influenced by Jamaican music old and new, The Lions' sound is firmly placed in soul music. "All the guys in The Lions grew up on classic Jamaican records so since we began we ha

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January 22, 2013

Collaborative album by Stones Throw and Leaving Records

Dual Form is a 53-minute dive into the musical other, a place where freedom of form meets depth of vision, where the old world rhythms meet new world means, and where your labels - wonky, lo-fi, ambient, body music, nerd shit, beat scene, No Wave, pysch,

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January 22, 2013

Various – Leaving Records: Dual Form (Stones Throw)

Dual Form is a 53-minute dive into the musical other, a place where freedom of form meets depth of vision, where the old world rhythms meet new world means, and where your labels - wonky, lo-fi, ambient, body music, nerd shit, beat scene, No Wave, pysch,

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September 27, 2012

Debut Stones Throw LP from Homeboy Sandman

Fighting is in Homeboy Sandman's blood. As a teen growing up in Queens, he tussled with bouncers; he talks of his struggle to walk the straight and narrow. But winning comes to him just as naturally-his father, a heavyweight boxer who emigrated from the D

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September 13, 2012

Homeboy Sandman

Fighting is in Homeboy Sandman's blood. As a teen growing up in Queens, he tussled with bouncers; he talks of his struggle to walk the straight and narrow. But winning comes to him just as naturally-his father, a heavyweight boxer who emigrated from the D

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August 14, 2012

Strong Arm Steady & Statik Selektah

Strong Arm Steady was born in the streets of Los Angeles. SAS Gang set out to create a space for artists to stay connected to the street without having to sacrifice their personalities or artistic ambitions. The original crew consisted of like-minded MCs,

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August 14, 2012

Strong Arm Steady

Strong Arm Steady was formed in the shadows of the West Coast's Death Row Records movement, which at one time, loomed large over much of the region's talent. Many Los Angeles artists—themselves students and children of Death Row—were becoming frustrat

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May 14, 2012

Dave Dub

Dave Dub's The Treatment is hip-hop at its bare bones. It's the philosophical twin of wrecked stoner-rock bands like Sleep, a group Dave frequently shared unlikely billing with, in the early 1990s hometown of San Jose CA. That's how bad his psychedelic he

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April 2, 2012

Quakers – Quakers (Stones Throw)

Quakers is a hip-hop collective boasting 35 members which orbits around a core of three producers: Fuzzface, 7-Stu-7 and Katalyst. Fuzzface is better known as Portishead's Geoff Barrow, a long-time Stones Throw supporter in touch with Peanut Butter Wol

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February 28, 2012

Various – Minimal Wave Tapes Vol.2 (Stones Throw)

This is the second volume of "The Minimal Wave Tapes" series, a collection of rare electronic music compiled from bands around the world. Most of the songs were recorded in the 1980s and originally released on limited edition cassettes or vinyl by the art

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February 3, 2012

Stones Throw presents the second volume of “The Minimal Wave Tapes” series …

This is the second volume of "The Minimal Wave Tapes" series, a collection of rare electronic music compiled from bands around the world. Most of the songs were recorded in the 1980s and originally released on limited edition cassettes or vinyl by the art

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October 6, 2011

Jonti

"When I think of how to write about Jonti's music, I don't feel like writing at all. I feel like drawing a picture, with watercolors and maybe crayon - colorful, abstract, youthfully curious and open to interpretation. Maybe then I'd staple, glue or nail

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October 6, 2011

Stones Throw is proud to present it’s first Australian signing …

Multi-instrumentalist, arranger, producer, and vocalist, Jonti, began assembling music after his departure from South Africa to Australia. Spending countless hours studying records like they were books, processing each song, this became Jonti's music scho

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September 15, 2011

The Stepkids

The Stepkids are futuristic electro soul recorded on a reel-to-reel; soaring harmonies sung by three singer/songwriters; Kandinsky-esque visuals that make for enigmatic live performances. "A lot of what excites us about this band is this band itself," say

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September 12, 2011

Connecticut psych-soul outfit The Stepkids present their self-titled debut album …

Connecticut psych-soul outfit The Stepkids are three singer-songwriters destined for great things together. The Stepkids' groove is a fusion of 70s soul, funk, punk, jazz, folk, West African rhythms and modern classical. This gifted band absorb it all, t

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September 6, 2011

Vex Ruffin is making records for Stones Throw …

On paper Vex Ruffin's music is simple: an untrained punk musician who uses a few basic instruments in uncomplicated ways, he calls the style 'minimalist.' Although it may not seem like it upon first listen, Vex's music is rooted in sampling and hip hop be

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September 5, 2011

Vex Ruffin

On paper Vex Ruffin's music is simple: an untrained punk musician who uses a few basic instruments in uncomplicated ways, he calls the style 'minimalist.' Although it may not seem like it upon first listen, Vex's music is rooted in sampling and hip hop be

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May 2, 2011

James Pants – James Pants (Stones Throw)

The story of James Pants is an unlikely one. The son of two Presbyterian ministers from an American backwater called Spokane, he went from being the goofy white teenage DJ for a black nationalist rap group to a much-loved multi-instrumentalist who can cou

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April 14, 2011

James Pants is one of the most creative fucking people to walk this earth …

The story of James Pants is an unlikely one. The son of two Presbyterian ministers from an American backwater called Spokane, he went from being the goofy white teenage DJ for a black nationalist rap group to a much-loved multi-instrumentalist who can cou

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April 4, 2011

J.Rocc – Some Cold Rock Stuf (Stones Throw)

"Some Cold Rock Stuf" is the debut album of original music from one of the original turntablists, the longtime DJ for Madlib and the late J Dilla, and our pick for world's greatest hip-hop DJ. But this is not a "DJ album". Not a "beat album". Not a mix ta

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March 21, 2011

J. Rocc

One of the original turntablists, J. Rocc founded the Beat Junkies in 1992 with Melo-D and Rhettmatic, but has done just as much on his own as in a group setting. He began DJing in the mid-'80s with a California group named PSK. Soon after forming, the Be

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March 10, 2011

J.Rocc’s debut album “Some Cold Rock Stuf” will make you lose your mind …

"Some Cold Rock Stuf" is the debut album of original music from one of the original turntablists, the longtime DJ for Madlib and the late J Dilla, and our pick for world's greatest hip-hop DJ. But this is not a "DJ album". Not a "beat album". Not a mix ta

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December 27, 2010

Tony Cook is back to reality …

Tony got his start as James Brown's drummer (while still a teenager) as soon as he graduated from school. He drummed off and on for James as well as Etta James, all the while recording his own music that sounded nothing like either artist. A bunch of h

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December 27, 2010

Tony Cook

Upon its emergence in the early 1970s, disco was relatively harmless. It didn't cut itself, spit in your face, or try to split your skull open with a bass guitar. But it also adversely affected a number of long-standing traditions. Among them, pioneering

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August 6, 2010

Mad electronics from the legendary Bruce Haack …

Up until now, Bruce Haack's legacy has only existed in the quirks, glitches, and audio signals of techno-luminaries such as Zapp and Kraftwerk, left unacknowledged and relatively unknown. But with the release of Farad Bruce Haack, the electronic music pio

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May 10, 2010

Guilty Simpson

Guilty Simpson was born in Detroit, the son and grandson of the family's performing musicians in his father and grandfather. At age four, Simpson and his mother began traveling with an aunt in the military, living in California and Birmingham, Alabama, be

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May 3, 2010

Matthew Larkin Cassell

San Francisco Bay Area songwriter, vocalist, and multi-instrumentalist Matthew Larkin Cassell is now known for a trilogy of late 70s/early 80s records that he self-financed and released on his own imprint. These records - soulful, brilliant and difficult

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April 22, 2010

Producer Madlib (Otis Jackson) + MC Guilty Simpson = OJ Simpson …

OJ Simpson. That's the name of the album. No bloody gloves. No Ford Broncos. These are some twelve hard-hitting, straight-from-the-gutter hip hop tracks featuring Guilty's inimitable baritone, and an equal number of Madlib's signature album-as-soundtrack/

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April 22, 2010

Stones Throw Records presents Matthew Larkin Cassell’s “The Complete Works” …

It's not often that a sample clearance claim against a record company turns out to be an altogether pleasant experience. Usually it's a blustery, puffy-chested affair with lawyers on both sides citing arcane copyright cases and threatening court proceedin

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April 22, 2010

Guilty Simpson

Guilty Simpson was born in Detroit, the son and grandson of the family's performing musicians in his father and grandfather. At age four, Simpson and his mother began traveling with an aunt in the military, living in California and Birmingham, Alabama, be

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March 19, 2010

Young Jazz Rebels is a Madlib jazz group from the Yesterdays Universe collective …

Young Jazz Rebels is a Madlib jazz group from the Yesterdays Universe collective. The album "Slave Riot", their debut, is an avant-garde free jazz record, a style Madlib has been developing with Young Jazz Rebels since their debut on 2006's "Chrome Childr

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March 12, 2010

Prefuse 73′s re-imagined dub take on “La Llama” …

Somehow a minimal Catalan psych-folk album inspired by Brazilian counter-current musical giants fell in line with Mars Volta-leader Omar Rodiguez Lopez's prog-rock opus "Old Money" and Madlib's "Beat Konducta 5 & 6"; in mid 2009 Stones Throw released Sava

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March 12, 2010

Dublab’s “Secondhand Sureshots” with Daedelus, J-Rocc, Nobody, and Ras G …

"Secondhand Sureshots" is a filmed experiment in creative sound recycling. Dublab Dublab directors Bryan "Morpho" Younce & Mark "frosty" McNeill sent beatmakers Daedelus, Nobody, J.Rocc and Ras G on safari into L.A. thrift stores with orders to make new m

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February 2, 2010

Madlib’s latest Yesterdays Universe jazz fusion album …

"Miles Away" by The Last Electro-Acoustic Space Jazz is the latest in releases to evolve from producer and arranger Madlib's first jazz releases with the group Yesterdays New Quintet. As Yesterdays New Quintet dissolved in 2007 the collective was expan

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January 25, 2010

The first official anthology of Minimal Wave music …

Minimal Wave: both a genre of underground DIY electronic music from North America and Europe in the late 1970s and 80s, and the name of the label devoted to unearthing these recordings. "The Minimal Wave Tapes" is the first official anthology (on CD, LP a

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January 18, 2010

Strong Arm Steady

Strong Arm Steady was formed in the shadows of the West Coast's Death Row Records movement, which at one time loomed large over much of the region's talent. Many Los Angeles artists – themselves students and children of Death Row – were becoming frust

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December 23, 2009

Strong Arm Steady

Strong Arm Steady was formed in the shadows of the West Coast's Death Row Records movement, which at one time loomed large over much of the region's talent. Many Los Angeles artists – themselves students and children of Death Row – were becoming frust

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December 22, 2009

Strong Arm Steady & Madlib collaboration “In Search Of Stoney Jackson” on Stones Throw …

Strong Arm Steady was formed in the shadows of the West Coast's Death Row Records movement, which at one time loomed large over much of the region's talent. Many Los Angeles artists – themselves students and children of Death Row – were becoming frust

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