Online Vinyl Resources

• Sandbox Automatic - Number 1 for new Hip Hop releases
• Turtable Lab - Everything from vinyl to production & DJ gear
• Dusty GGrooves - Great selection of older and hard-to-find music on vinyl
• Fat City, Manchester - Excellent UK-Based rsource for records - one of our favs
• Scenario Records - Great reputation, great shop
• All-City Records, Dublin - Great source for new and second-hand funk, soul & hiphop
• Big Brother Records - One of Dublin's most respected vinyl retailers
• OneTrackRecords.Com - Irish online vinyl retailer
• Funk45.com - Great resource for Funk45 research and purchases
• Scenario Records - Great reputation, great shop
• HipHopVinyl.de - Excellent German Vinyl Resource
• Fat Beats - World famouse vinyl store and distributer
• Gemm - Massive online catalogue of old and new records
• Gemm - Massive online catalogue of old and new records
• James Trouble's Deep Funk site - Nice site showcasing Soul & Funk events in the UK

Record Labels

• Ninja Tune - Coldcut's Label
• Stones Throw Records - Well-known Californian goodness
• Ubiquity Records - Great west-coast label pioneering new and old music
• Kajmere - Home of The Rebirth and more…
• Jazzman - Great Label for Quality 7s
• Tru Thoughts - Worldwide Label of the Year 2005
• Tres Records - Home to Lightheaded, Giant Panda and People Under The Stairs
• Female Fun - Peter Agoston's dope label featuring MF Doom, Prince Paul and Sadat X
• OM Records - Published some People Under The Stiars material a while back
• Red Hook - Home of Pablo/Butch Cassidy & Small World
• ABB - Beni B's much respected hip hop label
• BBE - Peter Ardakwah's highly respected label
• Bomb Hip Hop - Dave Paul's ode to the Deejay
• SoulJazz - Smart Londoners with a great ear for a tune
• Groove Attack - German Based label
• Threshold Records - Kutmasta Kurt got beats!
• Interscope - Some big-guns are on this label
• Low Life - UK Hip Hop at its finest
• Mowax - James Lavelle's highly lauded label - home to Unkle & Co.
• Plug - Kero One & Niamaj's stable
• Project Blowed - Aceyalone, Freestyle Fellowship and company
• Roc-A-Fella - Jay-Z's label (you knew that already though...)
• Seven Heads - Great roster of artists on this great label
• Kindred Spirits - Jneiro Jarel, Rich Medina & Co. A dope label.
• Subverse Music - Scienz of Life, MF Doom, C Rayz Walz
• Up Above - Quality Label from California
• Honest Jon's - Damon Alburn's excellent Label
• Blood and Fire - Originally financed by Simply Red's Mick Hucknell (respect)
• Barak Records - Slum Village!
• Lewis Recordings - Home to Edan, Dooley-O, Andrew Thompson...
• Sound In Colour - Steve Spacek, SA RA & Co.
• Breakin Bread - London based collective with fantastic releases (great 7s!)
• Daptone Records - Quality! Home to the incredible Sharon Jones & The Dapkings
• Do Right Music - Dope label - great Mitsu remix projects
• Magnetic Fields - Quantic's own label - deep funk, afro and soul
• Etch - Brighton Tru-thoughts affiliate
• Mad Mats and crew - great Swedish-based label putting out some serious records at the moment
• Tommy Boy Records - Tom Silverman's famous label
• Quannum Records - The re-incarnation of the Solesides label

Magazines

• Cheebah - Limerick heads who've been rockin' it for years
• Spine Magazine - This site has great daily links updates
• Wax Poetics - The best journal for vinyl-collectors and people interested in musical history available
• HipHop Site - Great site with excellent news resources
• HipHop Elements - Updated daily with current hiphop news
• Soul Strut - Deep community of soul and funk DJs and fans
• Urb Magazine - Fresh online magazine - check it

Artists

• People Under The Stairs
• Giant Panda
• DJ Q-Bert
• Percee - P
• Lord Finesse
• Woodwurk
• Quantic
• Culturama
• DJ Shadow
• Jurassic 5
• DJ A-Trak
• Bonobo
• All Natural
• J-Live
• Bobbito (Hip Hop's ambassador)

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