We're celebrating 20 years of J Dilla's Donuts with a brand new Anniversary Audiophile Edition. The Donuts Audiophile Edition is lacquer cut at Bernie Grundman and manufactured at Fidelity Record Pressing - 2LP 180g vinyl at 45rpm. Deluxe art printed Stoughton jacket.
When J Dilla, aka Detroit’s James Yancey, made Donuts, he was 31 years old and widely celebrated as a producer of rare talent, having worked with Erykah Badu, D’Angelo, and De La Soul, among many others. He had an encyclopedic knowledge of obscure jazz, funk, and soul, and, as a talented drummer in his own right, he brought a rare sense of groove to the samples he chopped up on his trusty Akai MPC.
Donuts began simply enough - an idea to turn a good demo tape into a full-length album. It would end up being one of the defining works of Dilla's life. Completed during the year Dilla spent in and out of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, and released on his birthday, February 7, 2006, Donuts gained particular poignancy when he died three days later on February 10th.
| A1 | Donuts (Outro) |
| A2 | Workinonit |
| A3 | Waves |
| A4 | Light My Fire |
| A5 | The New |
| A6 | Stop |
| A7 | People |
| A8 | The Diff'rence |
| B1 | Mash |
| B2 | Time: The Donut Of The Heart |
| B3 | Glazed |
| B4 | Airworks |
| B5 | Lightworks |
| B6 | Stepson Of The Clapper |
| B7 | The Twister (Huh, What) |
| C1 | One Eleven |
| C2 | Two Can Win |
| C3 | Don't Cry |
| C4 | Anti-American Graffiti |
| C5 | Geek Down |
| C6 | Thunder |
| C7 | Gobstopper |
| D1 | One For Ghost |
| D2 | Dilla Says Go |
| D3 | Walkinonit |
| D4 | The Factory |
| D5 | U-Love |
| D6 | Hi. |
| D7 | Bye. |
| D8 | Last Donut Of The Night |
| D9 | Donuts (Intro) |
