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Donut Shop

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Released
  
June 2010

Donut Shop (2010)
  
Dillatroit (2012)

Producer
  
J Dilla

Genre
  
Hip hop, instrumental hip hop

Label
  
Stones Throw Records Serato Pay Jay Productions

Donut Shop is a 2-disc collection of previously unreleased instrumental hip hop songs by J Dilla, former founding member of Slum Village. The collection was posthumously released in 2010 by joint venture of Stones Throw, the J Dilla Estate, and Serato.

Contents

Background

The collection is made of three previously unreleased instrumentals personally selected by J Rocc from Dilla's archives, which are “Safety Dance”, “Sycamore”, and “Bars & Twists”. The other three unreleased instrumentals are versions of Dilla's productions for Mos Def, Q-Tip and Busta Rhymes. The collection was remastered by Elysian Masters, who mixed and mastered Dilla's Donuts, The Shining, and Ruff Draft albums. Also included are Serato Scratch Live DJ software and two donut slipmats.

Track listing

  1. Safety Dance
  2. Sycamore
  3. Bars & Twists
  4. History (Mos Def)
  5. Move (Q-Tip)
  6. You Can't Hold A Torch (Busta Rhymes)

Samples

  • "Safety Dance"
  • "Sycamore"
  • "King of the Beats" by Mantronix
  • "Do Ya Thang" by B.R. Gunna
  • "Bars & Twists"

    • References

    Donut Shop Wikipedia
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