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Lukid - Foma

North London based produced Lukid released his album 'Foma' early this
year. It's instrumental hip-hop at it's finest, but darker than you
may be expecting. Last.fm cites artists such as Lone and Dimlight as
being similar, I can kind of see what they're getting at.

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John Robinson - Who Is This Man?

Sample based hip-hop produced by Doom. Need I say any more?

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Atmosphere - Say Hey There

Hip hop from 2005 on the album 'You Can't Imagine How Much Fun We're Having'...

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The Moments - To You With Love

Beautifully sampled by J Dilla for his Donuts album on the track 'Last Donut of the Night'...

Here's the Dilla take...

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Common Market - Tobacco Road

Released at the end of last year, Tobacco Road is proper hip hop.

This is called 'Back Home'...

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Inverse Feat. Substantial - Spark My Soul

Spark My Soul is on the Cunninlynguists recently released album 'Strange Journey Volume One'.

Proper soulful, musical hip hop...

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A Tribe Called Quest - Find A Way

'Find A Way' was produced by J Dilla and released back in 1998, it's one of my favourite hip hop tunes of all time.

As part of The Ummah collective, comprising of Q-Tip and Ali Shaheed Muhammad, they produced the 4th & 5th albums by A Tribe A Called Quest.

It samples Towa Tei 'Technova'...

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Slum Village - The Look of Love

From the 'Fan-tas-tic Vol.1' album which was recorded in around '97, but not officially released until 8 years later.

The first 40 secs of 'live' recording aren't my favourite but after that it really starts...

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J Dilla - 'Baby' Featuring Madlib & Guilty Simpson

Madlib is one of my favourite artists and I love how they combined for the track 'Baby' from the album 'The Shining'...

Samples The Stylistics 'Maybe It's Love This Time'

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J Dilla - Love Ft. Pharoahe Monch

'Love' is from the album 'The Shining', that was only 75% complete at the time of Dilla's passing. It was released in August '06 after it was posthumously completed by friend and fellow Detroit hip-hop artist Karriem Riggins who was entrusted by Dilla's mother.

It samples Five Stairsteps 'We Must Be In Love'...

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