Labhead Chart - Underground Selections

"Following what many would consider a banner year of releases for both artists, Curren$y & The Alchemist reunite for their third collaborative ...

"Cheat Codes is Danger Mouse's first hip-hop album in seventeen years - since his 2005 DangerDOOM collaboration with the late, great MF DOOM - and ...

"The third album from London based composer, instrumentalist and producer Andy Baxter aka Robohands, fuses elements of jazz, krautrock, hip hop and...

Long out of print album for lovers of plants and synthesizers finally reissued! Originally released in 1976, Mort Garson's Mother Earth's Plantasia...

"Recorded in the basement studio of the Coltrane family home in Dix Hills in 1970, Alice Coltrane's fourth album is a transcendent masterpiece of s...

I don't know how Stones Throw are going to top this. Without exaggeration, this is one of the greatest meeting of the minds of this whole SP1200-ab...

"Ali Farka Touré trekked the world, bringing his beloved Malian music to the masses. Dubbed "the African John Lee Hooker," one could hear strong co...

"Domi & JD Beck release their highly anticipated debut album Not Tight on Anderson.Paak's new label, Apeshit Inc in partnership with Blue Note ...

There's a few records that are just are so universally good that you can't consider yourself a music lover if you don't have em in the racks somew...

Modal Soul is the last album Jun Seba aka Nujabes released while alive, originally released in 2005 on CD only. Similar to Metaphorical Music, the ...

"'Lovage' is defined as 'an herb that is said to be a benefit for relieving abdominal pains due to gastrointestinal gas…also touted to reduce flatu...

"Windows 96's iconic synth/vaporwave album, originally released through Business Casual. One Hundred Mornings now in a new edition with an alternat...

Before To Pimp A Butterfly, there was Aquemini. On their third album, Outkast steer the soulful boom-bap of their first two records further south, ...

"Bonobo has shared 'ATK,'' his first single since the release of his new album Fragments in January. The single is out today on his label OUTLIER i...

Aphex Twin’s Selected Ambient Works 85-92 was released in 1992 by R&S offshoot Apollo Records after Richard D. James had just two singles to hi...

"The second LP by Belarusian trio Molchat Doma, Этажи (pronounced Etazhi, meaning 'Floors'), was first released in 2018 on Berlin-based Detriti Rec...

Bjork's fantastically diverse debut solo album from 1993. Those of us who were around back then probably remember seeing the "Human Behaviour" vide...

Special mono reissue of Miles' most iconic record. Kind Of Blue is the most popular straight-jazz album of all time, the one that even those people...

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...

Conspiracy theorists say technology and ideas develop in linear motion. TVs started with sound only (radio), then color, then stereo sound, then re...

Sophomore studio album from Black Marble. It's Immaterial finds Black Marble in a transitional phase. Originally composed of Chris Stewart and Ty K...

Often referred to as "the J-Dilla of Japan," the love for Jun Seba aka Nujabes's brand of hip-hop continues to grow well after his untimely death i...

anticipated full-length debut from rapper, producer + cousin of Kendrick Lamar black double vinyl pressing printed inner sleeves featuring Kendric...

"Produced by longtime collaborator Hit-Boy, Nas delivers Magic, the transcendent nine track album including 'Wave Gods' feat. A$AP Rocky and DJ Pre...

Nothing much more to say about this... it changed mi life! black vinyl pressing original release year: 1993 music label: Jive 2015 reviewed by th...

Special colored vinyl reissue of Miles' most iconic record. Kind Of Blue is the most popular straight-jazz album of all time, the one that even tho...

Limited pressing of Operation Doomsday with variant cover! Sonically, this is the best it gets as the classic Doom material gets a fresh remaster f...

What do you follow up Illmatic, one of the greatest hip-hop albums of all time, with? For Nas, the answer was It Was Written, the Queensborough MC'...

"For Thee Sacred Souls, the first time is often the charm. The band's first club dates led to a record deal with the revered Daptone label; their f...

"The sun's in her hair, the warmth of the air, on a summer day..." Pacific is the cumulative effort of a who’s-who of Japanese musicians, notably f...

Don't call it jazz-hop! Jazzmatazz Vol.1 was one of the first albums to draw a direction connection between hip hop and its jazz roots. Guru was ab...

Back on black! Operation Doomsday faithfully reissued on standard black double vinyl with OG cover, just like it was back in 1999 on the original F...

What can I say about this album? Easily in the top 10 of all time, there is no way to pick favorites on this album. Not even one okay track on her...

Get On Down celebrate the 25th anniversary of Wu-Tang Forever with the album's first single and universally-agreed-upon posse cut "Triumph" on a li...

Modern kings of Soul bring holiday cheer. Brooklyn's Daptone Records has been churning out the truest soul music recordings for the last decade and...

Louis Kevin Celestin AKA Kaytranada was introduced to FL Studio when he was 15. In 2012, the Montreal-based producer posted his remix of Janet Jack...

Gospel grail reissued! Like A Ship is one of those mega-rare albums that tops many digger's wishlists (and is seldom found) making this Numero repr...

Sault came out of nowhere less than two years ago and has already churned out 4 amazing records, this being #2. You’ve seen it before: anonymous mu...

Score. Since day one of the Lab, I have been waiting for a reissue of Bitches Brew. Finally it's been done up proper with this Legacy 180g double v...

More instrumentals from the Doom vaults! The beats here are pulled from many of the Metal Faced Villain's numerous projects with lots of unreleased...

'Lib and Gibbs full length collab debut! Freddie Gibbs describes Piñata best - "a gangster Blaxploitation film on wax". With Madlib providing the b...

"Surprise Chef’s music is based on evoking mood; their vivid arrangements utilize time and space to build soundscapes that invite the listener into...