Labhead Chart - Underground Selections

"Mariya Takeuchi’s 'PLASTIC LOVE', a song from her 1984 album VARIETY, was released as a 12-inch single in 1985. 36 years later, in 2021, it will b...

Self-titled debut EP from Fugazi. From the ashes of Minor Threat came the influential D.C. punk sound of Fugazi. Heads might also know this one as ...

You read that right: Pharoah Sanders, Floating Points and the London Symphony Orchestra! Producer / composer / DJ Sam Shepherd and the inventor o...

Operation Doomsday never sounded better. For the Silver Age Set, the classic Doom album gets a fresh remaster! The records themselves are housed in...

Official Nature Sounds version of the original Doom beats comp. Special Herbs Vol. 1 & 2 features 16 beats from the Doom files, some of them un...

When Donuts first rolled into the Lab, I gave it a cursory listen, and, wanting to get home to the new episode of Lost as quickly as possible, toss...

"Madlib is always making loads of music in all sorts of styles and I was listening to some of his new beats and studio sessions when I had the idea...

"Scratch 7" made for DJs. 'Barn Breaks vol III', presented by Owlvaro & Hugu, is the latest installment of oddball samples and loops from your ...

There's A Riot Goin' On marked a special time in musical history. From the gritty Funk, to the outlandish lyricism, and outright message delivered...

Big Pun's debut full length back on double vinyl! Everybody knows Pun could rock a party track, but that fact kind of overshadows the more interest...

"Victory Lap is the debut and only studio album by American rapper Nipsey Hussle. It was originally released on February 16, 2018 through All Money...

Pulling a page from Del's notebook, Madlib created Quasimoto in the studio laboratory. Part of the whole invasion schema, the Madlib production is ...

Sault came out of nowhere less than two years ago and has already churned out 4 amazing records, this being their debut. You’ve seen it before: ano...

"Free Nationals are best known as Anderson .Paak’s live band, until now. Band members Kelsey Gonzalez (Bass), Ron “Tnava” Avant (Keyboard/ Vocoder)...

"Jeff Parker's Forfolks-a new album of solo guitar works released on December 10, 2021 via International Anthem and Nonesuch Records. The album inc...

Deluxe 180g repress of Depeche Mode's sixth studio album. The DM hits keep on coming on 1987's Music For The Masses with "Strangelove" (my personal...

Coltrane's only official Blue Note release during his lifetime, and many say his best all around album. Although I prefer Love Supreme in its soul...

This official Bad Boy reissue of Ready To Die is obviously a much welcome release - finally making one of the greatest hip hop albums of all time a...

This is where fusion meets in the promised land. 9 artists from the West Indies form a band in London, 1971. They bring with them funk, reggae, jaz...

In 2016, Kanye West promised Barack Obama that he'd make beats for Nas's next album (he said this on Twitter, so maybe he really did, maybe he didn...

"Black Marble is one of the latest and greatest additions to the Brooklyn synthwave lexicon, and Weight Against the Door is their debut release, wh...

If you’ve never been able to get over the sound of the drums on “Charlotte Sometimes”, welcome brothers and sisters, we’ve been saving a seat for y...

"The second of two electric-blues albums released on Chess Records and Cadet Concept imprint in the late '60s, Muddy Waters' After the Rain has ach...

The One Man Army Ason has become one of the most misunderstood and maligned artists of our time. All you got to do is give the man a chance cuz he'...

Sault came out of nowhere less than two years ago and has already churned out 4 amazing records, this being #3. You’ve seen it before: anonymous mu...

"Fresh off 2018’s collaborative LP with the enigmatic MF DOOM, Czarface meets Metalface, the adventure continues as CZARFACE now faces off with Wu-...

"Lovesick is a collaboration between the 3x Grammy-nominated singer Raheem DeVaughn and the legendary hip-hop producer, Apollo Brown, best known fo...

"Madlib is always making loads of music in all sorts of styles and I was listening to some of his new beats and studio sessions when I had the idea...

Will power, self discipline, circumstances... Burial’s Untrue continued to refine the damp sonics and urban mood exhibited on his self-titled album...

Sault came out of nowhere less than two years ago and has already churned out 4 amazing records, this being the most recent, and in my opinion, the...

We played this nonstop at Lab HQ when it first dropped in 2017, and slowly but surely everyone in the office had an employee copy to their name by ...

'Lib and Gibbs full length collab debut! Freddie Gibbs describes Pinata best - "a gangster Blaxploitation film on wax" (or in this case, magnetic t...

This is one of those records that you can take to your grave. Arguably Yusef Lateef's most popular and well-received works, Eastern Sounds is one o...

"Consisting of a mix of standards and originals, up-tempos and ballads, and a trio number in 'Ahmad's Blues', Workin' is the third in a series of f...

Wow, this is one fantastic slab of neo-retro soul/funk - and it really should be no surprise considering it comes from members of the same Brooklyn...

“Pharoah Sanders possesses one of the most distinctive tenor saxophone sounds in jazz, which has earned him royal status amongst free jazz players,...

Issued in 1975, this is the articulation of Zambia’s Zamrock ethos. While other albums - Rikki Ililonga’s Zambia, WITCH’s Lazy Bones - are competit...

Mars Audiac Quintet is Stereolab’s third studio album, less of a rocker than 1993’s Transient Random-Noise Bursts…, edging even closer to dreamy lo...

One of our favorite jazz fusion releases of the last few years, Lab exclusivo pressing! The UK trio consisting of keyboardist Jack Stephenson Olive...

"Levitation Sessions -- FUZZ! Heavy psych power trio Charles Moothart, Ty Segall and Chad Ubovich hit the stage for the first time together in five...

Jurassic 5 flexed serious old-to-the-new muscles in the '90s, beginning with their independently-released single Unified Rebelution in 1994, and b...

This is one of the great masterworks that offers accessibility, soul, and growing complexity. Released in 1959, Giant Steps reveals Coltrane at th...

"Every hero needs a villain!" #Realrap! Super(hero)group Czarface and the mysterious MF Doom collaborate for this dense, brain-melter of an album. ...