TITLE: 3 Feet High and Rising Picture Disc
ARTIST: De La Soul 
LABEL: BCM Records/Tommy Boy 1989 

This is just a great looking piece of vinyl, double sided picture disc of the first De la Soul album, it was only released in Europe. I have to give props to DJ Signify because he found this record and gave it to me.

TITLE: De La Soul is Dead DJ Promo 
ARTIST: De La Soul 
LABEL: Tommy Boy 1991

This special dj pressing of the second De la Soul album was on my wish list for years and I totally lucked out when I found this record here in NYC. I paid some cash for this, but I did get a deal. There were only a couple thousand made and each copy is numbered. I play my copy at clubs all the time, which may be dumb in a collector viewpoint, but each track sounds great live on a nice sound system.

TITLE: I Wish My Brother George Was Here
ARTIST: Del tha Funkee Homosapien 
LABEL: Elektra Test Press

What can I say? Del is one of my favorite mc's of all time, this is his groundbreaking first album, and it's a freaking test pressing!!!!

TITLE: Fools Gold 12" gold vinyl
ARTIST: Stone Roses
LABEL: Silvertone 1990

This is the first record that I ever bought. It was eighth grade and I loved Stone Roses but I couldn't find this single as a cassette, so I bought the 12" so I could tape it on my parents' turntable. I'm so glad I bought the record, this song is almost ten minutes long and it has one of the dopest breaks of all time. It's great to play at a party and it's great to scratch to because it has this long instrumental breakdown at the end. The Stone Roses were so amazing with their first album and then they just fell off, it's a shame. But this song still rocks, ten years later.

TITLE: Passin' Me By b/w Ya Mama remix
ARTIST: The Pharcyde
LABEL: Delicious Vinyl 1993

I got this record for four bucks because the A Side is pretty scratched up, but that's the beauty of it all, everyone knows how great Passin' Me By is, but it's the Ya Mama Remix that really kicks ass. It was only available on this English pressing and it is the perfect party remix of an already fabulous song.

TITLE: Entropy b/w Send Them
ARTIST: DJ Shadow and the Groove Robbers
LABEL: Solesides 1993

DJ Shadow is perhaps my favorite producer of all time and this is an example of his early funky greatness. The 17 minute Entropy is an example of Shadow first coming into his own as a producer and composer of beautiful breaks. Gift of Gab shines on "Count and Estimate" and Asia Born aka Lyrics Born rips it in "..........", his first appearance on wax, I believe. I also have this e.p. on cassette, thanks to my brother, Ben, who used to intern at Solesides, another precious Solesides collectible.

TITLE: Music For Robots
ARTIST: ---
LABEL: Science Fiction Records c.1995

I found this record at this weird thrift store next to Fat Beats in LA. When I couldn't find anything interesting at Fat Beats, I would go next store to sift through children's records and vintage clothes. One side of this record is a story about robots taking over the earth in 2050 AD and the flip side is electronic music by "Hollywood sound experimenter" Frank Coe designed for robots to listen to!

TITLE: Unified Rebelution
ARTIST: Jurassic 5
LABEL: Blunt 1995

Jurrasic's first single, Unified Rebelution is one of my favorite songs of all time, this is how I first discovered J5 and DJ's Cut Chemist and Numark. I got this when I first moved to in LA in 1994. Even though this is technically the third pressing of this song, it is still a rare record. (they released it twice in small runs independently before Blunt/TVT picked it up.) It has instrumental and accapella versions, which is dope, because the instrumental is a song in itself. And the artwork is all drawn by the multi-talented mc Chali 2na himself, which is so cool.

TITLE: Hot Potato test pressing
ARTIST: Freestyle Fellowship
LABEL: 4th and Broadway Test Press

Freestyle Fellowship are probably my favorite lyricists of all time. This record is dope because it has the Hot Potato remix with totally new lyrics plus it has "Way Cool" and "Heat Mizer."

TITLE: Word of Mouth feat. DJ Cheese
ARTIST: King Kut
LABEL: Beauty and the Beat Records

This is an original pressing of "King Kut", an old school hip hop classic featuring the funky scratching of DJ Cheese. The cover is great because it has these photos of the group hanging out in their bedroom (I presume) and they are wearing these ill matching sweatshirts.

TITLE: Boogie Down (Bronx)
ARTIST: Man Parrish feat Freeze Force
LABEL: Sugarscoop 1984

This is my favorite electro record of all time.

TITLE: Hanukah Rocks
ARTIST: Gefilte Joe and the Fish
LABEL: Rhino 1981

Gefilte Joe and the Fish are "The world's only senior citizen, Jewish rock band". This record is shaped like a Star of David, need I say more? Okay, one more thing, there's a remake of "Rapper's Delight" called "Napper's Delight" and it has these old Yiddish-sounding guys rapping on it. Priceless.

TITLE: Hey Ladies
ARTIST: Beastie Boys
LABEL: Capitol 1989

This single has "33% God" and "Dis Yourself in '89 (Just Do It)" on the b-side, the extended instrumental versions of "Hey Ladies" courtesy of those funky Dust Brothers. The cover of this record is really cool too. If you look closely, there are three naked, painted women hidden in the picture.