LABEL: Stones Throw Records
VINYL RELEASE DATE: 12/12/2025
ALBUM RELEASE DATE: 2/07/2006
VARIANT: 20th Anniversary, Audiophile Edition, Black Vinyl 2LP

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 Detroits James Yancey, made Donuts, he was 31 years old and widely celebrated as a producer of rare talent, having worked with Erykah Badu, DAngelo, 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.

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Tracklist:
A1. Donuts (Outro) A2. Workinonit A3. Waves A4. Light It A5. The New A6. Stop! A7. People A8. The Diff’rence B1. Mash B2. The Donut of the Heart B3. Glazed B4. Airworks B5. Lightworks B6. Stepson of the Clapper B7. The Twister (Huh, What) C1. One Eleven C2. Two Can Win C3. Don’t Cry C4. Anti-American Graffiti C5. Geek Down C6. Thunder C7. Gobstopper D1. One for Ghost D2. Dilla Says Go D3. Walkinonit D4. The Factory D5. U-Love D6. Hi. D7. Bye. D8. Last Donut of the Night D9. Welcome to the Show