Release Date: 12/12/2025Format: LPLabel: Stones ThrowRelease type: Vinyl LP Pressing. 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. Donuts Outro Workingonit Waves Light It The New Stop! People THe Diff'rence Mash Time: The Donut Of The Heart Glazed Airworks Lightworks Stepson Of The Clapper The Twister (Huh, What) One Eleven Two Can Win Don't Cry Anti-American Graffitti Geek Down Thunder Godstopper One For Ghost Dilla Says Go Walkinonit The Factory U-Love Hi Bye Last Donut Of The Night Welcome To The Show
