Stones Throw, you thought I forgot didn’t you? Late June my ass. Oh well. The tracks we have been waiting for are finally here:

In late 2005 Ghostface Killa and MF DOOM were both recording over tracks from J Dilla’s instrumental opus, Donuts, which saw release the following February. Some of these were released on Ghostface’s Fishscale in 2006, while others, including a Dilla-Doom project, were postponed indefinitely after J Dilla’s passing. Two of these tracks, “Sniper Elite” and “Murder Goons,” are presented here for the first time. The two are taken from two sequential songs off Donuts, meant to mix together. We are presenting the two songs unmixed, plus the two mixed together as a bonus track.

Since this is only a two-track release, I won’t leak it (at least for now). Support Stones Throw and and go buy Sniper Elite and Murder Goons on their official site. And no, I can’t account for the change of name of the track “Sniperlite” to “Sniper Elite.”

Gorilla vs. Bear, one of our favorite music blogs, informed us of an upcoming Stones Throw release that has us salivating in expectation:

In late 2005 Ghostface Killa and MF DOOM were both recording over tracks from J Dilla’s instrumental opus, Donuts, which saw release the following February. Some of these were released on Ghostface’s Fishscale in 2006, while others, including a Dilla-Doom project, were postponed indefinitely after J Dilla’s passing. Two of these tracks, “Sniperlite” and “Murder Goons,” will be released digitally, exclusively through Stones Throw’s webstore, due to launch in late June.

I’m speechless. You can bet your ass that as soon as Stones Throw makes these downloads available we will let you know. When is “late” June anyways? Isn’t late now? Come on, Stones Throw, we can’t wait any longer.

I would have to say that this mix was inspired by my trip to Rasputin Music in Berkeley yesterday. I could probably spend all day in there listening to CD after CD - there’s just something hypnotizing about the place…

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