Donuts (20th Anniversary Audiophile Edition)

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 Detroit’s James Yancey, made Donuts, he was 31 years old and widely celebrated as a producer of rare talent, having worked with Erykah Badu, D’Angelo, 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 -
• 1 Donuts (Outro)
• 2 Workinonit
• 3 Waves
• 4 Light It
• 5 New
• 6 Stop
• 7 People
• 8 Diff'rence
• 9 Mash
• 10 Time: The Donut of the Heart
• 11 Glazed
• 12 Airworks
• 13 Lightworks
• 14 Stepson of the Clapper
• 15 Twister (Huh, What)
• 16 One Eleven
• - Disc 2 -
• 1 Two Can Win
• 2 Don't Cry
• 3 Anti-American Graffiti
• 4 Geek Down
• 5 Thunder
• 6 Gobstopper
• 7 One for Ghost
• 8 Dilla Says Go
• 9 Walkinonit
• 10 Factory
• 11 U-Love
• 12 Hi
• 13 Bye
• 14 Last Donut of the Night
• 15 Welcome to the Show