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01. Stuck Off The 02. Status 03. Burn (Original Version) 04. Styles By The Gram 05. World Premiere 06. Properties Of Steel 07. Piece Of The Action 08. Seeds Of Hate 09. Life Ain't The Same featuring Sir Menelik & Mike L 10. On The Other Side 11. Fame 12. Da Bomb Prelude 13 Da Bomb Baby 14.. 3 The Hard Way featuring Prince Po & R.A. The Rugged Man

All Tracks Produced By THE DEFINITIVE GODFATHER DON SINGLES COLLECTION INCLUDES EVERY HYDRA 12” SINGLE 10 of 14 TRACKS APPEAR FOR THE FIRST TIME ON CD

Properties of Steel contains every Godfather Don 12” single on Hydra Records, originally released individually in the late 90s and early 2000s. Ten of these tracks have never-before been available on CD or digitally, and three of the tracks [“Stuck Off ”, “Status” and “Burn (Original Version)”] are from a legendary test pressing for a single that never made it to market, which fetches $300 plus on the auction market.

This is as much about the label, Hydra, as it is about the artist – Don’s impeccable string of singles, released in the heyday of independent NewYork , was entirely recorded at the Hydra / Sneak Tip bunker, a subterranean fortress that housed a state of the art studio, and was frequented / favored by the Groove Merchantz, , Joel Ortiz, Lakey the Kid (41st Side), , , , Prince Poetry (Organized Konfusion), and many others. The studio / label had a string of 60+ releases, distribution deals with Tommy Boy and LandSpeed Records, a gold album (Screwball’s Y2K) and rates high as an accurate document of the Queensbridge “sound” – streetwise and slang-rich, aka Cormega’s The Realness.

Properties of Steel features guest rappers Sir Menelik, Mike L, Big Lance, Prince Po, and RA the Rugged Man, and the album is entirely produced by Godfather Don.

ORDER CUT OFF DATE FOR THIS ITEM: AUG 10th

Format: CD Cat. No: HYD 832 Label: Hydra Records Available: AUGUST 31st

Distributed in the USA by The Orchard, 23 E. 4th St, NY, NY 10003 • tel: 212-979-6410 • fax: 212-979-7372 PART 8 of 12: ’S ONCE-A-MONTH SERIES

Madlib follows High with the eighth installment in Marketed and his Madlib Medicine Show, a mix of the multiple facets of jazz music: Advanced Jazz. promoted by

Madlib’s been busy this year. And while his recorded output always spans the gamut, he often returns to recurrent themes, spread across the genres that serve as Publicity by Score Press home base – or bases, as it were. Jazz is one such base. High Jazz, the previously released Madlib Medicine Show album, showed a marked development in Madlib’s craft: Limited edition every element of jazz was encapsulated in that eighty-minute opus. What better way to follow such an Format: CD album than with a companion-piece culled from the Cat. No: MMS 008 thousands of jazz that inspired Madlib’s first forays Label: Madlib Medicine Show into the genre? Available: August 31st, 2010 The resulting mix, Advanced Jazz, is, as the title hints, a step (or three!) deeper than the Steve Kuhn and Weldon Irvine albums that he first enjoyed as he was first delving into his Yesterdays New Quintet project Angles Without Edges in 2001. Some of this music – to the untrained ear – might not seem to be “jazz” at all. But rest assured – this is a jazz mix through and through, as exhilarating a ride as Madlib’s Brain Wreck Show and Flight To Brazil. It’s a celebration of this great American music and while it focuses on the past forty years, it clearly heralds every innovation – both domestic and international - of this century-old musical form.

The Madlib Medicine Show series is a combination of Madlib's new hip-hop productions, , beat tapes, and jazz, as well as mixtapes of , soul, Brazilian, psych, jazz and other undefined forms of music from the Beat Konducta's 4-ton* stack of vinyl. *4-tons of vinyl, this is true. It’s all in his studio. A1. What They Doin? A2. Walk On By A3. Merry Go Round A4. Santana Part 1 A5. The Touch Of You

B1. Santana Part II B2. Ain’t No Sunshine B3. Cicso Fare B4. Where Is Love?

Lost dark soul/funk masterpiece from Hampton, Virginia high school champions of Pepsi’s “New Sounds Of 1972” challenge

The stories of great high school funk bands are, thanks to an This official reissue was licensed by the Equatics’ abundance of reissues, commonplace. The tales of great high bandleader, bass player Benjamin Crawford. school soul-bands are still rare. A ballad or two on the Packaged in a deluxe cardboard “paste-on” sleeve random Douglass High School Stage Band album or Timeless that mimicks the original album jacket, Now-Again’s Legend’s mesmerizing entry on Columbus’s 1972 1st Annual reissue of Doin’ It!!!! also comes with full liner notes, Inner City Talent Expo notwithstanding, high school bands annotation, and never-before-seen photos of this rarely struck into the realm of “grown folks” music. Enter The most impressive organization. Equatics and their brooding masterpiece Doin’ It!!!!

If this is categorized as a “funk” album – and it was for the last ten years, by those few lucky enough to own an original KEY SELLING POINTS: copy – it holds its own. But it was as a soul band, one as inspired by the melancholic musings of Bill Withers as the • Tough-to-beat originals and covers of the psychedelic-pop of the self-proclaimed “Black Moses,” Issac likes of Isaac Hayes and Bill Withers Hayes – that the Equatics shone. These young souls offered • Official reissue world-weary, beat-heavy ballads that stand on par with any of the great independent organizations of the early 1970s. That a • Limited edition of 1000 units group of teenagers could offer such an angst-ridden plea as • Marketed and promoted by Stones Throw that of Leo Davis’s “Merry Go Round” not only transcends the • Comes packaged in a deluxe limitations that came from the band’s average age (seventeen, cardboard “paste-on” sleeve at the time of the album’s recording), but also the barriers the stood in front of this group of small-city hopefuls.

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Format: LP in a Paste-on jacket Cat. No: NA 5062 Label: Now Again Available: AUGUST 31st

Now Again Records 2658 Griffith Park Blvd, #504, Los Angeles, CA, 90039 • www.nowagainrecords.com 1. Electric To Me Turn from The Electric Lucifer (1970)

2. Incantation from The Electric Lucifer (1970)

3. National Anthem To The Moon from The Electric Lucifer (1970)

4. Maybe This Song from Together (1971)

5. Rain Of Earth from Together (1971)

6. Rita from Single (1975)

7. Man Kind from Haackula (1978)

8. Epilogue from Haackula (1978)

9. Ancient Mariner from Electric Lucifer Book 2 (1979)

10. Stand Up Lazarus from Electric Lucifer Book 2 (1979)

11. Noon Day Sun from Electric Lucifer Book 2 (1979)

12. Lie Back from Bite (1981)

13. Snow Job from Bite (1981)

14. Program Me from Bite (1981)

15. The King from Single (1982)

16. Party Machine from Single (1982)

Up until now, Bruce Haack’s legacy has only existed in the quirks, has turned his work into a virtual music library, one whose samples glitches, and audio signals of techno-luminaries such as Zapp and have already been culled by the likes of Cut Chemist. Kraftwerk, left unacknowledged and relatively unknown. But with the release of Farad Bruce Haack, the pioneer can finally Farad Bruce Haack serves as a glowing primer of Haack’s work through- be lifted out of the sooty fields of arcane knowledge and placed into a out his career. Touching on the lush, pysch-electronic grooves of the justifiable position of recognition. Electric Lucifer period and extending to his more abstract, angular works, this compilation highlights his use of the Farad, one of the first Haack’s music is rooted in the idea that humans and electronic musical invented at the time. Yet amidst echoey reverb and machines share a reciprocal relationship that manifests itself through haunting drones, Haack himself manages to create something primal sounds. In order to further explore this dynamic, Haack dropped out and human, not necessarily conflating human and electronic but posing of Juilliard to pursue a more experimental course in, surprisingly, them as compatible partners. educational children’s music. Haack released material off his own label Dimension 5 Records in 1962, which allowed him to mix kinetic “Like a number of his contempories, including Mort Garson, Gershon energy, infuse psychedelic philosophy, and pluck sounds from various Kingsley, Beaver & Krause and Jean-Jacques Perry, Haack saw a genres across the board. Adding to his musical pastiches, Haack spiritual dimension to the sounds coming out of his circuits. However, no used home-made modular , proto-vocoders, and the one else expressed that vision in such complex terms.” — Wire heat-touch sensitive Dermatron to expand his music into the technological realm of creativity. “An autodidact who built synthesizers that spewed a panoply of After contributing to commercials, TV shows such as Mister Rogers, deliriously quirky sounds, this misfit composer is the only person to and theatre productions, Haack released the acid-rock-techno gem appear on Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood and produce a classic acidhead LP Electric Lucifer, a conceptual masterpiece that maps out a war (The Electric Lucifer).” — The Stranger between heaven and hell, and where notions of “powerlove” are mediated through Moog synths. “Neglected as a musical force during his lifetime…” — Pitchfork

Similar to friend (who J-Dilla sampled for “Mad electronics from the legendary Bruce Haack -- easily one of the “Lightworks”), Haack’s facility to create new electronic soundscapes most unusual talents to ever pick up a moog!” — Dusty Groove

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Format: CD in a 4-panel digipak Cat. No: STH 2221 Label: Stones Throw Records Available: AUG 31th

Stones Throw Records 2658 Griffith Park Blvd, #504, Los Angeles, CA, 90039 • www.stonesthrow.com 01. The Haunted House Of Rock (Extended Version) 02. Nasty Lady 03. Underground 04. It’s All In Mr. Magic’s Wand 05. Magic’s Wand 06. Yours For A Night 07. Rap Machine 08. The Haunted House Of Rock ( Version) 09. Magic’s Wand (Special Extended Mix) 10. Rap Machine (A Capella) 11. Yours For A Night (A Capella) 12. The Haunted House Of Rock (Haunted Mix)

“I had no plans whatsoever to get into Rap. It happened accidentally, but it must have been meant to happen ‘cause we did it so well.” — Jalil of Whodini

In the pantheon of rap royalty that includes the likes of Run-DMC, The Beastie Boys and Public Enemy, Whodini is often mistakingly overlooked. Embodying the essence of a Hip Hop group, the trio simultaneously managed to appeal to a wide variety of music listeners and act as the poster children representing a new sound and attitude in urban music.

Now, their debut album is finally remastered and expanded for the digital age. Packaged in a mini paste-on style jacket replicating its original vinyl release, Whodini’s self-titled debut includes the hits “The Haunted House of Rock,” “Yours For A Night,” “Rap Ma- chine” and the Thomas Dolby (of “She Blinded Me With Science” fame) produced “Magic’s Wand,” all of which are dance floor classics, propelled by their and drum machine heavy beats.

Get ready to experience a groundbreaking album in flawless hi-fi stereo sound like you’ve never heard it before.

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Format: CD Cat. No: TEG 78506 Label: Sony / Traffic Ent. Group Available: AUGUST 31st

Distributed in the USA by The Orchard, 23 E. 4th St, NY, NY 10003 • tel: 212-979-6410 • fax: 212-979-7372 SIDE A 01. Problems 02. The Right Thing 03. With Lee 04. Bad Trip 05. Get On The Good Foot SIDE B 06. I Don't Know Where I'm Going 07. Clap Your Hands 08. Honey Dove 09. I'm The Man 10. You Made A New Man Out Of Me

Truth & Soul Records is proud to announce the re-release Stubblefield proud. The rest of the band follows his lead of Lee Fields Problems. The sonic palette of this record with succinct stabs of guitar and horns, while Lee floats reaches far and wide, ranging from the rampaging over the top, giving thanks to the woman who changed his psychedelic funk of “Bad Trip” to the softer introspective evil ways. “Rapping with Lee” finds Mr. Fields delivering a sounds of “Honey Dove”, but that’s just the beginning. The heartfelt discourse on how to keep and love one lady in a album opens up with “The Right Thing”, a gripping tale of humorous and heartfelt way that only he could do. The fills love found and love lost, set to the super heavy popcorn in around him, with sweet horns and Fender Rhodes meets afro-funk backbeat. In “I Don’t Know Where I’m chiming in over a tough funk groove. going (But I know Where I Came From) the lays down a super heavy, Bobby Byrd-esque groove with Lee emoting Lee takes a break on “Clap Your Hands”, letting the band frankly about perils people face and about finding your own get down to business, with a heavy, happy party track that way. We find our way to the title track, “Problems” a is a sure fire hit on dance floors worldwide. On “Honey” Lee meditation on many of the trials and tribulations that Lee pays tribute to his lifetime love over a slow, organ filled himself has had to overcome over the years. groove that hits hard and won’t let up. Last but not least “Near East” is another instrumental track by the band. They The band supports him with solid, take-no-prisoners guitar, expand their sound, capturing an eastern feel and groove heavy bass and a mouth watering drum break that will have while still creating that innate funk toughness that The producers funning to their samples. “You Made A New Man Explorers are famous for. Long out of print and highly Out Of Me” gives drummer Olu “Rocksteady” Owudemi the coveted, we are happy to release the LP in a heavy chance to lay down a drum beat that would make Clyde paste-on jacket.

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Format: LP Cat. No: TS 011-LP Label: Truth & Soul Records Available: AUGUST 31st

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