#TTLessentials - Must-Have Records In Your Collection

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...

You might've listened to this back when it first came out, but it's definitely worth a revisit. I know my ears were a little more biased a decade ...

Antena's Camino Del Sol is a classic work of dark psychedelic pop, made way back in 1982. It meets all reissue hype requirements: Factory Records c...

Originally released in 1995 by Aphex Twin, I Care Because You Do was his third full length effort. It was the first of his albums to break away fro...

An indispensible artifact from an era when the Aphex Twin could do no wrong. In the mid 90s, Richard D. James led the charge of the IDM world, live...

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...

Bad Brains' first LP from 1982. Considered by many as one of the best hardcore LPs ever, the Bad Brains self titled debut brought a new dynamic to ...

Capacity is the second album by Big Thief, recorded in snowbound upstate New York with now-frequent collaborator Andrew Sarlo. The tracks on Capaci...

Best album of the 90s? Possibly maybe! For her second album, Bjork and her cast of collaborators escaped to the Bahamas to record at Compass Point ...

Vespertine was a departure from the sultry downtempo and chic IDM of Bjork’s previous albums, trading big room extravagance for reticent experiment...

Finally reissued! Boards Of Canada's highly anticipated follow up to their Warp debut gets a long overdue repress. Geogaddi arrived four years afte...

Another in-demand repress from the Warp crew! Boards fourth full length album released with no pre-hype, very typical of this low key Scottish duo....

Bob Marley & The Wailers' seminal 1973 album, and first for Island Records. While this isn't exactly a tough piece to find, looking for an uns...

Debut full-length from Birmingham, England’s Broadcast. The Noise Made By People came after the band signed to Warp Records and spent nearly three ...

Dreampop essential! By the time Cocteau Twins released Heaven Or Las Vegas, they had been perfecting their singular sound for nearly 10 years, reco...

30 years old and still potent as ever... Cypress Hill's self-titled debut. The album, available on colored vinyl, features audio remastered from th...

After a spell of being aggravatingly out of print, Daft Punk's Discovery finally repressed on their own Daft Life imprint. Here's Woodman's OG Lab ...

Daft Punk's 1997 debut album took the raw foundation of Chicago house to prog rock levels of high concept and grandiosity... looking over the odd ...

This was the first LP released on Greensleeves, and it couldn't get much more classic than this. It's basically a showcase for Dr. Alimantado, comp...

"Bitches ain't shit but hos and tricks, lick on the nuts and suck the dick..." Ahhh, quality ish. My earliest memory of this record was when Dr. Dr...

LA's Flying Lotus is being setup as the next Madlib-Diplo-DJ Shadow-type producer cash cow. The hype is well-warranted in my opinion, as Flying Lot...

Classic '94 full length from Guru and Primo on official double vinyl. Hard To Earn was finally supposed to make Gang Starr go gold, but was once ag...

You all know the "Think" break. You've heard it on "It Takes Two" and countless hip hop, B-more and jungle records. And by now you know it comes fr...

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...

Simply put, this is one of the most important records of all-time and a damn good listen to boot. If you don’t already own it, you should pick up t...

Now on deluxe colored vinyl! For me, buying MF Doom records is one of the few activities that captures that feeling of refuge found in thrift store...

20th anniversary edition! To celebrate 2 decades with one of MF DOOM's most beloved projects, Big Dada have made the album available in its origina...

There's a lot of hubbub in the rap cognoscenti around this new release from Daniel Dumile, man of a thousand (well, at least 5) names. He's hardly ...

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...