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Yancey Boys - Quicksand (Ft. Common & Dezi Paige) 12" (DELICIOUS VINYL)
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Delicious Vinyl will soon release Sunset Blvd., the all new album from Yancey Boys, the group piloted by John “Illa J” Yancey and Frank Nitt. The dynamic new collection is built around previously unheard tracks created by Illa J’s brother: the late, great J Dilla (James Yancey). With Frank Nitt’s standing as J Dilla Music Catalog Curator and the official approval of Yancey Media Group, all productions on Sunset Blvd. originate from The Lost Scrolls — the stunning cache of beats Dilla left behind. The first official single from Sunset Blvd. is "Quicksand" with features Common & Dezi Paige. And the B-Side is no sleeper, “The Fisherman” is a full-court press featuring a chorus from Vice and blistering rhymes from Detroit Serious and cuts by J.Rocc of Beat Junkies. The track is, as Frank Nitt promises, “guaranteed to make you bang your head!” Nitt also reminds us that “this isn’t a nostalgia trip: Dilla’s beats were so future-forward that they’re right on time in 2013.” PRODUCED BY J DILLA SIDE A - QUICKSAND (feat. Common & Dezi Paige) 1. Vocal Mix 2. Instrumental SIDE B - FISHERMAN (feat. J Rocc, Vice, & Detroit Serious) 1. Vocal Mix 2. Instrumental
UPCOMING: Yancey Boys - Sunset BLVD. (DELICIOUS VINYL)
Due out November 2013 on CD or 2LP, to pre-order please contact us at info@conch.co.nz
Delicious Vinyl proudly releases Sunset Blvd, the new album from Yancey Boys, the group piloted by John “Illa J” Yancey and Frank Nitt. The dynamic new collection is built around previously unheard tracks created by Illa J’s brother: the late, great J Dilla (James Yancey). With Frank Nitt’s standing as J Dilla Music Catalog Curator and the official approval of Yancey Media Group, all productions on Sunset Blvd originate from The Lost Scrolls — the stunning cache of beats Dilla left behind.
With its rapturous single “Quicksand” featuring Common, Sunset Blvd also teams Yancey Boys with De La Soul’s Posdnuos (“Beautiful”), The Pharcyde’s SlimKid3 (“Rock My World”), and T3 of Slum Village (“Jeep Volume”), making it clear that the Dilla legacy is being represented by those who knew and collaborated with Dilla in his lifetime. Additional guests on Sunset Blvd include DJs Rhettmatic, C-Minus, and J Rocc (Beat Junkies) as well as rap roughneck Guilty Simpson and R&B strongman Eric Roberson. “We’ve created an album that would make Dilla proud,” says Frank Nitt, who grew up with Dilla in Detroit. “But this isn’t a nostalgia trip: Dilla’s beats were so future-forward that they’re right on time in 2013, and we’ve assembled the best artists possible to represent that.” The road to Sunset Blvd has been paved with hard work and sweet inspiration. In 2008, Illa J began making music under the Yancey Boys banner, with the guidance of Delicious Vinyl Co-Founder Michael Ross and utilizing beats his elder brother left behind. Ross explains: “Putting together the first Yancey Boys album was a unique opportunity to keep it all in the family by giving young Illa J a jump off with unreleased beats of his late great brother. In addition, the record was a unique way to satiate Dilla's rabid fan base with a batch of undiscovered gems. On Sunset Blvd, Illa and Frank dive deep into to a new batch of stunning unreleased Dilla beats to take what we did on the first album to the next level.”
Tracklisting:
SIDE ONE: 1. Dilltro (feat. Dank) 2. Fisherman (feat. Vice, J Rocc, & Detroit Serious) 3. Lovin’ U (feat. Eric Roberson) 4. Go And Ask The DJ (feat. Guilty Simpson & J Rocc) SIDE TWO: 5. Jeep Volume (feat. T3 & C-Minus) 6. Flowers (feat. Talib Kweli, Niko Gray, & Rhettmatic) 7. Honk Ya Horn (feat. J. Pinder) SIDE THREE: 8. Slippin’ (feat. Early Mac) 9. Without Wings 10. Beautiful (feat. Posdnuos & Botni Applebum) SIDE FOUR: 11. Quicksand (feat. Common & Dezi Paige) 12. Rock My World (feat. SlimKid3 & Niko Gray) 13. The Throwaway 14. This Evening
UPCOMING: Yancey Boys (J Dilla & Illa J) - Quicksand 12" (DELICIOUS VINYL)
Due out Sept 2013, to pre-order please contact us at info@conch.co.nz
Delicious Vinyl will soon release Sunset Blvd., the all new album from Yancey Boys, the group piloted by John “Illa J” Yancey and Frank Nitt. The dynamic new collection is built around previously unheard tracks created by Illa J’s brother: the late, great J Dilla (James Yancey). With Frank Nitt’s standing as J Dilla Music Catalog Curator and the official approval of Yancey Media Group, all productions on Sunset Blvd. originate from The Lost Scrolls — the stunning cache of beats Dilla left behind. The first official single from Sunset Blvd. is "Quicksand" with features Common & Dezi Paige. And the B-Side is no sleeper, “The Fisherman” is a full-court press featuring a chorus from Vice and blistering rhymes from Detroit Serious and cuts by J.Rocc of Beat Junkies. The track is, as Frank Nitt promises, “guaranteed to make you bang your head!”
Nitt also reminds us that “this isn’t a nostalgia trip: Dilla’s beats were so future-forward that they’re right on time in 2013.”
PRODUCED BY J DILLA
SIDE A - QUICKSAND (feat. Common & Dezi Paige) 1. Vocal Mix 2. Instrumental SIDE B - FISHERMAN (feat. J Rocc, Vice, & Detroit Serious) 1. Vocal Mix 2. Instrumental
Frank N Dank - 48 Hours (DELICIOUS VINYL)
Available on 2xCD here, LP (Vocal) here, LP (Instrumentals) here
Some records are steeped in mythology. Frank N Dank’s 48 Hours is just such a recording. Why so few samples from Dilla? Was that MCA’s decision as they didn’t believe they could get clearances? Why did MCA shelve the recording for so long? Where’s the “original version”? There are nearly more questions about this album than cuts on the album. But according to Frank, “contrary to popular belief there was never an 'original version’ of 48 Hours. We started recording songs to sample driven beats of Dilla‘s and we got 80% of the album done and Dilla decided to change the beats to all the songs.” That’s right, it wasn’t MCA’s legal department, it was Dilla’s creative vision that stripped out the samples. But what about the sample laden “Take Your Clothes Off” and “Off Your Chest” you may ask? Frank interjects, “those were done after the fact.” And why did MCA shelve the project, was this a label afraid to release what the Detroit trio had concocted? Well that doesn’t appear to be the case. According to Nitt turnover in the A&R department at the time was rapid to the point that no one seemed to know who at MCA was responsible for the project. This led to a call to then MCA president Jay Boberg who agreed to release Frank N Dank from their deal. So there you have it. As Freud once said, “sometimes a cigar is just a cigar”. In the case of 48 Hours, it’s one hell of a tasty cigar. 48 Hours is now at last ready for the respect and proper release it has deserved all along, with the complete album as well as a second disc of Dilla’s instrumentals included. As Frank reminds us, “This is the exact version of 48 Hours that we (Frank N Dank & Dilla) turned in to MCA and the way Dilla intended it to be!”
1. Intro 2. Get Cha Bitch 3. Marijuana 4. Rite Bites 5. Street Life 6. Pimp Strut 7. Where The Parties At? 8. Y'all Don't Want It 9. Sex On The Beach 10. All Seasons 11. Alright 12. Afterparty 13. Ma Dukes (feat. Tammy Lucas) 14. Keep It Coming (feat. J Dilla)
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