Stones Throw Reveals 7” Box Set of J Dilla’s ‘Donuts’ Album

And the posthumous J Dilla releases continue…This time it’s a box set presentation of the producer’s next level beat tape Donuts. Spread across eight 7-inches, the collection includes a bonus 45 that pairs a rare picture disc A-side (“Signs”) with DOOM and Ghostface Killah’s previously unpressed takes on Dilla instrumentals (“Sniper Elite,” “Murder Goons”). Don’t add it to your Christmas list, though; the collection is set to ship around January 7th via Stones Throw.

To get an idea of why you’d want to spend nearly $40 on a 43-minute album–reason one: you could play these records back to back and sound like an absolutely brilliant DJ–check out a sample-by-sample breakdown below, alongside a Spotify stream, an embeddable Soundcloud track and an official video…

• “Unknown Track” by Shuggie Otis
  • Sampled in “Donuts (Outro)”
• “The Worst Band In The World” by 10cc
  • Sampled in “Workinonit”
• “The New Style” by the Beastie Boys
  • Sampled in “Workinonit” & “The New”
• “Johnny Don’t Do It” by 10cc
  • Sampled in “Waves”
    
• “Light My Fire” by Lil Brown
  • Sampled in “Light My Fire”
• “Watcha Gonna Wear Now” by Detroit Emeralds
  • Sampled in “The New”
• “You’re Gonna Need Me” by Dionne Warwick
  • Sampled in “Stop”
• “People Hold On” by Eddie Kendricks
  • Sampled in “People”
• “Fruitman” by Kool & The Gang
  • Sampled in “The Diff’rence”
• “Golden Apple Part 2″ by Galt Macdermot
  • Sampled in “Mash”
• “All I Do Is Think Of You” by the Jackson 5
  • Sampled in “Time: The Donut of The Heart”
• “You Just Cant Win” by Gene & Jerry
  • Sampled in “Glazed”
• “I Don’t Really Care” by L.V. Johnson
  • Sampled in “Airworks”
• “Lightworks” by Raymond Scott
  • Sampled in “Lightworks”
• “Long Red” by Mountain
  • Sampled in “Stepson of The Clapper”
• “For Once In My Life” by Stevie Wonder
  • Sampled in “The Twister”
• “A Legend In Its Own Time” by Smokey Robinson & The Miracles
  • Sampled in “One Eleven”
• “Only One Can Win” by The Sylvers
  • Sampled in “Two Can Win”
• “I Cant Stand (To See You Cry)” by The Escorts
  • Sampled in “Don’t Cry”
• “Family Tree” by Tin Tin
  • Sampled in “Anti-American Graffiti”
• “UFO” by ESG
  • Sampled in “Geek Down”
• “Charlie’s Theme” by The Jimi Entley Sound
  • Sampled in “Geek Down”
• “Sweet Misery” by Martha Reeves
  • Sampled in “Thunder”
• “To The Other Man” by Luther Ingram
  • Sampled in “Gobstopper” & “One For The Ghost”
• “Rubber Band” by the Trammps
  • Sampled in “Dilla Says Go”
• “Walk On By” by The Undisputed Truth
  • Sampled in “Walkinonit”
• “Just Because I Really Love You” by Jerry Butler
  • Sampled in “U-Love”
• “Maybe” by The Three Degrees
  • Sampled in “Hi.”
• “Don’t Say Good Night” by The Isley Brothers
  • Sampled in “Bye.”
• “To You With Love” by The Moments
  • Sampled in “Last Donut of The Night”
• “When I Die” by Motherlode
  • Sampled in “Donuts (Intro)”