Brydon's test collection

Super deluxe 180g double LP pressing of "Check Your Head." Best Beastie's album ever? I guess you can debate it, but there's no arguing that this o...

Tribe's masterful debut jazz thing album. Surprise favorites like "After Hours" and "Footprints" continually grow on you between the hits "Bonita A...

Conspiracy theorists say technology and ideas develop in linear motion. TVs started with sound only (radio), then color, then stereo sound, then re...

We're living in the 21st century, and Kanye West is definitely doing something to it. From media frenzies to Twitter rants, the Chicagoan has perma...

Unless Stones Throw gets into porn (Madlib vs. Butt Dentist!), I don't know how they are going follow this up. Without exaggeration, this is one of...

Now available on remastered, 180g vinyl! Nice and loud double LP pressing of Ill Communication complete with perfectly reproduced artwork. This alb...

Well, it doesn't get a lot more essential than this. Two stellar, quality party records, one for setting things off and the other for pushing it ov...

From the people who brought you the Loft Classics series comes Garage Classics, a pretty well-known NY boot series that focuses on compiling gems i...

Debut single from Storm Queen, the new project from the mind of Morgan Geist (of Metro Area fame) that finds him returning to analog dance music wi...

Before mash-ups, there were the Special Blends. Problem was that this Doom side project was impossible to track down. Now thanks to Nature Sounds w...

It's those catchy choruses that get you first. Outkast got a way of pulling you into their albums with these addictive hooks. You can't deny the no...

Crazy Detroit representation on this one. First we have Dabrye on the beat, who's previous instrumental work (hip hop on the verge of techno) captu...

Includes Turntable Lab Picasso Notepad Turntable Lab mousepad Turntable Lab pen various Turntable Lab stickers  note: sticker assortment may vary...

Eyo, can you believe this freakin guy? I have no clue where I stand on Kanye West. Why is he the only rapper whose ego bugs the fuck out of me? How...

Prime mid-seventies Jackie Mittoo on Clocktower. This 10" features three of his signature cuts: the rasta anthem "Drum Song," the groover "Super Ch...

First single from Hova's Blueprint 3 album.  Nothing but swagger and bragadoccio over a rock sampling stomper of a beat (courtesy of No ID).  I kno...

Another Bozo Meko gem. New re-press of one of the most legendary bootlegs ever, Bambaata and Afrika Islam's "Fusion Beats," a block party and mix t...

Before To Pimp A Butterfly, there was Aquemini. On their third album, Outkast steer the soulful boom-bap of their first two records further south, ...

Shota (the Lab's resident jazz aficionado) hipped us to these high-end audiophile grade cleaning accessories from Mofi Sound Lab. This is their eas...

bestseller vinyl record cleaning solution for everyday use, no cleaning machine needed one step cleaning - dissolves dirt with quick-drying lab-gr...

Chi-Town's DJ Rahaan is not only one of the best disco and house DJs I've ever seen rock a party, he's also nice when it comes to the edits. After ...

One wise DJ once said that Roctakon is the Kenny Powers of DJing. I like to think of him as the Hank Moody of the scene. He might even have a mild ...

When Donuts first rolled into the Lab, I gave it a cursory listen, and, wanting to get home to the new episode of Lost as quickly as possible, toss...