Previously unreleased track from 2009 produced by the Illaffiliates, featuring Luey Igloo and cuts by DJ D*Phy.

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Illaffiliates - CREAM

A little something from 2008 for all the cloud creators getting lifted. Produced by Staffan Alexandersson, featuring MC's Double & Luey Igloo with cuts by DJ D*Phy.

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Double & BigLu - Lifted Ft Dphy

Another track dug up from the 2008 era produced by Tee, featuring MC's Double & Big Lu with outro cuts by D*Phy. 

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Double & BigLu - Rep Get Bigger Ft Dphy

Fresh off the press for 2015, Syn City local The Igloo does his thing over a Jay Dee beat featuring a few cuts from yours truly. 

The Igloo - The New Local Ft Dphy

During early 2008 whilst listening to J Dilla’s Ruff Draft LP in a haze of lingering smoke and half-drained longnecks, the idea for a concept mixtape dedicated to the life and works of the late great J Dilla began to formulate over the remaining hours of the evening. 

Over the remaining months Sydney-siders The Igloo and DJ D*Phy teamed up to create The Ruff Craft Mixtape; a concept release doubling as a tribute and ode to one of the worlds most talented and respected hip hop producers hailing from Detroit: The late great James Dewitt Yancey, AKA Jay Dilla. Often dubbed as “your favourite producers favourite producer”, Jay Dee has crafted beats for the likes of A Tribe Called Quest, The Pharcyde, Common, Busta Rhymes, De La Soul and Slum Village to name a few, along with countless remixes, solo productions and unreleased beat tapes.

The Ruff Craft Mixtape is comprised entirely of the finest hand picked Dilla instrumentals from start to finish, with The Igloo handling mic duties and cuts interlaced by D*Phy over seamless beat mixes. Both artists aim to deliver originality and diversity over Jay Dee’s smooth soundscapes, paying tribute in tracks such as ‘Ode to Dilla’ and to the city of Sydney in ‘Celebrations’. 

Throughout the mixtape there is plenty of mentions of keeping an art-form pure and staying true to the roots of the music. “Some fucking rappers only kick what’s real/ life’s cheap/ I don’t need to sell out Dill” is a statement of keeping projects like The Ruff Craft Mixtape to an acclaimed underground audience as much as possible.

The Ruff Craft Mixtape was originally made exclusively available as a limited edition release of 100 hand-numbered audio-cassette tapes, staying true to the definition of a 'mix tape' as well as representing the work ethic and analogue preferences of J Dilla’s production techniques and grimy sounds. The A side featured all the tracks mixed and blended together over 45 minutes, with all the instrumentals left to shine for themselves on the B side. 

Now almost half a decade later, the project has been released in digital format for those that missed out on cassettes and for purveyors of Dilla's music. 

R.I.P Jay Dee. 


Tracklist:
01 Intro
02 Leave It Alone
03 Dedicated To The Suckaz
04 Word Games
05 Smoov Shit Pt.1
06. Pocket
07. Steam Rice
08. Don't Touch
09. Dillalude #1
10. Smoov Shit Pt.2
11. Celebrations
12. Dillalude #2
13. Ode To Dilla
14. Who's Dat (Knock Knock)
15. Outro
16. Reckless Thunder (Bonus Track)

Ruff Craft Mixtape - Side A

A mix of jazz recorded live in February 2010 using all vinyl.

A Drop Of Jazz

Jazz. Soul. Turntablism. Golden-era rap. 
Co-Founder of the Crown St. Cut Collective.

Dphy

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