#TTLessentials - Must-Have Records In Your Collection

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...

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...

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...

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 here...

Operation Doomsday faithfully reissued on standard black double vinyl with the OG cover, just like it was back in 1999 on the original Fondle 'Em r...

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

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...

I really lost my shit when I first heard this. Heads in the know tell you that this their best, most complete album. No weaklings, just solid beats...

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

“We do actually believe that there are powers in music that are almost supernatural. I think you actually manipulate people with music.” Boards Of ...

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

By special request, Stones Throw has pressed up copies of Dilla's beat sketch masterpiece Donuts with the "smile" cover, originally used for the CD...

We all go through changes throughout our life. Most of us not quite as publicly as the artists and super stars that grace magazine covers and onli...

"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...

"Remastered blue/red color vinyl 2LP retail exclusive version of the classic 1987 compilation originally released via the legendary Factory Records...

Mos' classic full length solo debut, back on official double vinyl! Black On Both Sides is one of the crown jewels in the Rawkus catalog - an esse...

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

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 ...

Tribe's masterful debut jazz thing album. Surprise favorites like "After Hours" and "Footprints" continually grow on you between the hits "Bonita A...

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...

Official reissue of The Strokes debut album. Is This It was originally released back in 2001 and pretty much set it off for the NYC band consisting...

Finally repressed! In the grand scheme of things, 10 years isn't really THAT long for a record to be out of print... but for an album as seminal as...

Now available on remastered, 180g vinyl! Nice and loud double LP pressing of Ill Communication complete with perfectly reproduced artwork. This alb...

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

You know that really impressionable period in your life where you don't really know anything about anything, and you meet a bunch of cool people an...

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

First reissue of Stereolab's fifth studio album 1997! Their sound here had tightened up even more (read: less rock-ish) since Emperor Tomato Ketch...

Ahmad Jamal Trio is Ahmad Jamal on piano, Jamil Nasser on bass and the monster Frank Gant on drums. On what is perhaps the finest post-bop, pre-fus...

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...

This is one of the most respected dub albums of all time, featuring Augustus Pablo's finest instrumentals run through the King Tubby version machin...

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...