J Dilla - Dillatronic (Vinyl) Format:Vinyl 2LP Over a decade later

Over a decade later

(Air Studios - 4AD/Jagjaguwar Session) / 13

Cornelia Parker

“This ain’t rock ‘n’ roll

Roedelius cranks up a carousel of fairground organs

J Dilla - Dillatronic (Vinyl) Format:Vinyl 2LP Over a decade laterDuring his brief lifetime, James "J Dilla" Yancey produced thousands of tracks. As Erykah Badu, who worked with him on her Mama's Gun album, once said during a RBMA lecture, Dilla made "beats all day long." He collected many of them onto CDs, and handed them out to friends and colleagues. These "beat tapes" had begun circulating across the Internet by the time he passed in 2006 at the age of 32. On Dillatronic Dilla's familiar techniques are evident,