01. Stuck Off The Realness 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 Godfather Don 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 The Realness”, “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 album 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 Hip Hop, 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, The Beatnuts, Joel Ortiz, Lakey the Kid (41st Side), Mobb Deep, Cormega, Screwball, 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: MADLIB’S ONCE-A-MONTH SERIES Madlib follows High Jazz 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 Stones Throw Records 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 albums 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, remixes, beat tapes, and jazz, as well as mixtapes of funk, 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. ORDER CUT OFF DATE FOR THIS ITEM: AUG 10th 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 electronic music 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 vocoders 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 synthesizers, 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.