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Stones Throw: 10 Years
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MOG Editorial Review
Few hip-hop labels have ever been as all-encompassing as Stones Throw Records, and this compilation celebrating the storied collective's first decade of existence is a perfect introduction to their weird world. While most know them mainly as the home of J Dilla's archives as well as the masterful Madvillainy, Stones Throw encompasses so much more, knowing that the genre's culture extends to everything from soul to jazz to funk. This extends not only to unconventional samples that feature each flavor, but also having acts that go beyond tipping their hat, including Madlib's Yesterday's New Quintet project. Even since the album's release, Stones Throw have expanded the kinds of acts on their label further, and no one else is doing as much to represent hip-hop to the fullest as the group of artists showcased here.
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AMG Review of Peanut Butter Wolf Presents: Stones Throw Ten Years [1 CD Promo]
John Bush
All Music GuideThe ten-year anniversary of Stones Throw is an opportunity to re-air some of the best independent rap produced between the mid-'90s and mid-2000s, including what has to be called the best underground rap record of the time (Madvillain's Madvillainy), as well as plenty of other touchstones along the way (Jay Dilla, Madlib, Lootpack, Jaylib). There's a good balance between album tracks and new exclusives, the set travels back and forth between rap and unearthed soul-jazz/funk with relative ease, and the set even resurrects one of the best obscure tracks in the Stones Throw catalog, "In Your Area" by Peanut Butter Wolf and Planet Asia (although, since PBW put this together, it's no surprise). Although this is the second label retrospective in just a few years (Stones Throw 101 was the other), it's a cavalcade of impressive hip-hop and, even better, on the second disc is a ten-year-anniversary mix of Stones Throw highlights by J-Rocc.






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