scrabbling around my itunes for something for the weekend i somehow got caught up in a donut hole.

i’ve heard a couple of things recently which have made me wonder what they’d have been if j dilla had’ve been around to produce them. i find myself missing that ear for a hook, that particular high-hat sound, that laid back head bobbing groove which he brought to so many killer tunes. and i’ve not even had that long to get to know him. in fact before he died it was really only d’angelo’s voodoo and spacek’s dollar which graced my headphones with his unique style. the moving coverage of his premature death made me seek out more of his stuff and subsequently rank donuts as one of my albums of ‘06.

listening back to a couple of track this morning i got into the (industriously) fatal ‘oh, just one more…’ which made me realise once more what a fantastic piece of work it really is.

so rather than take money away from the good work of the j dilla foundation i figured i’d post some source material.

have a super weekend y’all.

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