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Madvillainy Vinyl 2LP Stones Throw
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...
View full detailsclassic indy hip-hop, Doom + Madlib collab
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...
View full detailsfood metaphors for days on supervillain MC's 2004 Rhymesayers outing
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 ...
View full details2003 classic from Doom repressed
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...
View full detailscompanion record to Swimming, 1st posthumous LP
Although Mac Miller started working on Circles soon after Swimming, his tragic, untimely passing in September of 2018 didn't allow the beloved rapp...
View full detailssmooth, jazzy hip-hop from "Dilla of Japan"
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 ...
View full detailsfirst solo full-length from late producer dubbed "Dilla of Japan"
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...
View full detailsmeticulously produced non-rap(?) full-length
"This is IGOR. Pronounced EEE-GORE. Don't go into this expecting a rap album. Don't go into this expecting any album." Tyler, the Creator's 5th stu...
View full detailslush debut from TDE songstress
Heavy album of the year vibes here. SZA hails from New Jersey (born in St. Louis, Missouri), and after 2012's self-released See.SZA.Run, she inked ...
View full detailsa new chapter for Katie Crutchfield, one of 2020's best, Lab exclusivo!
“If I'm a broken record, write it in the dust, babe!” One of 2020’s finest albums; Katie Crutchfield’s well-traveled collection of recovery tunes. ...
View full detailsclassic ATCQ album from 1993
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...
View full details1/2 of Better Oblivion returns w/ help from friends
“Phoebe Bridgers doesn’t write love songs as much as songs about the impact love can have on our lives, personalities, and priorities. Punisher, he...
View full detailsRoots MC head to head w/ in-demand producer Brian Burton, 2022 AOTY contender
"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 ...
View full detailscult 1976 ambient album for plant lovers, official reissue
Long out of print album for lovers of plants and synthesizers finally reissued! Originally released in 1976, Mort Garson's Mother Earth's Plantasia...
View full detailsimaginative modern funk from Texas w/ middle eastern flavors
"My grandpa would always ask me 'Como me quieres?' ('how much do you love me'?), and he'd only ever accept one response. 'Con todo el mundo' (With ...
View full detailsclassic NY hip-hop album
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...
View full detailsvintage R&B for modern times, 3 of 4, Lab exclusivo!
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...
View full detailsdeluxe, remastered pressing of classic Doom album
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...
View full detailstribute to influential African guitarist Ali Farka Touré
"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...
View full details1967 rock & roll classic w/ iconic Warhol cover
Half a century later, this record still slays; if any album is deserving of the "classic" tag, it's The Velvet Underground & Nico. Lou Reed's a...
View full details4 classics chosen by the Lab; each variant is exclusive to this set
Maybe this is something you're not accustomed to hearing. What a road we have travelled from beat-up doubles of "The Unassisted" to the foreverness...
View full detailsgot so high off volcanoes, now the flow is so lava
DONALD GLOVER'S 2013 BREAKOUT SOPHOMORE LP. This is the album that transformed the Donald from a prime-time television actor with a little passion ...
View full detailsgame changing 1993 debut from the Wu
Conspiracy theorists say technology and ideas develop in linear motion. TVs started with sound only (radio), then color, then stereo sound, then r...
View full detailsbeats masterpiece from influential Detroit producer
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...
View full details2 seminal albums together w/ rare bonus material for 20th anniversary
"21 years since the release of Radiohead’s seminal albums, Kid A and Amnesiac comes a combined and expanded reissue, KID A MNESIA. Here put back to...
View full detailssecond album by ATCQ, jazz/hip-hop fusion at its best
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...
View full detailsthird studio album from BK hip-hop trio
Super deluxe double LP pressing of Check Your Head. Best Beasties' album ever? I guess you can debate it, but there's no arguing that this one is d...
View full detailsall-time classic album from French robot duo
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 ...
View full detailsrare sounds from a transitional period in City Pop, Lab exclusivo!
"Light in the Attic’s Pacific Breeze series has supplied the world’s growing legions of Japanese music fans with an expertly curated selection of t...
View full detailscold and lonely debut album
Emma the dog…right? Here at Lab HQ we have a dog by the name of Emma. A while back (around 2007), Justin Vernon was visiting the HQ and he fell in...
View full detailsdisco, pop and rock from one of the best, pick!
It's kind of freaky how James Murphy gets better with every album. With every song and every release, he manages to out do whatever preceded it. Th...
View full detailsluminous & expansive stew of black metal & shoegaze
Critically-acclaimed second studio album from Bay Area metal alchemists Deafheaven. The recording of Sunbather marked the assimilation of drummer D...
View full details5th & final LP from late Pittsburg rapper
"I just need a way out of my head, I'll do anything for a way out / of my head." R.I.P. Mac Miller. Swimming is his 5th album, and it's a sombre lo...
View full detailsdebut from Billy Corgan & co., produced by 'Nevermind' producer
Originally released in 1991, Gish is the debut LP from Chicago's Smashing Pumpkins. '91 saw the release of another monumental grunge album, Nirvana...
View full detailsthe best yet from Odd Future leader?
4th full-length from Tyler, The Creator! And yes, it's the one where he raps "I've been kissing white boys since 2004" ("I Ain't Got Time"). There ...
View full detailspopular 1990 album feat. 'Enjoy The Silence, Personal Jesus, Policy Of Truth'
High quality 180 gram repress of the British new wave rockers' biggest album. Depeche Mode's first album of the 90s saw the group taking a new appr...
View full details3rd album from virtuosic LA bassist/songwriter
It's here! Thundercat's anticipated third album, pressed up as a deluxe quadruple 10" boxset on special edition red colored vinyl, courtesy of Brai...
View full details1998 technicolor electronica on Warp, essential
“We do actually believe that there are powers in music that are almost supernatural. I think you actually manipulate people with music.” Boards Of ...
View full detailsMitski pushes through with 'a soundtrack for transformation'
"Like the mountain laurels for this new album is named, public perception, like the intoxicating prism of the internet, can offer an alluring façad...
View full detailsdebut album from Korean girl group
pink colored vinyl housed in gatefold sleeve limited edition music label: Interscope 2020
selected tunes from bestselling retro jazz + ragtime soundtrack, lab pick!
Cuphead Classics Compiled! 2017’s Cuphead is a retro game like no other - a wonderland of 30’s style hand-painted animation with a bumping soundtra...
View full detailscollection of remixes, sample sources + tracks that influenced Thomas + Guy-Man
“If you hear any noise / it’s just me and the boys…” Argentina’s Music Brokers label set their sights on the furthest edges of Thomas & Guy-Man...
View full detailsY2k debut from Damon Albarn's concept group, Dan the Automator production
The Gorillaz 2000 debut faithfully reissued! The Gorillaz are: the Automator, Del, Kid Koala, Blur's Damon Albarn, the Tom Tom Club, and Miho Hator...
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