20-YEARS OF DONUTS WITH DEZ ANDRES

Twenty years after its release, Donuts remains one of the most quietly radical albums in recorded music, a 31-track fever dream assembled by James Dewitt Yancey in a hospital bed, racing against a rare blood disease, working from a portable SP-303 and a stack of crates. Detroit gave the world J Dilla, and in doing so gave us a blueprint for how feeling could be encoded into rhythm, something bruised and elastic, simultaneously grief-stricken and joyful, never quite landing where you expect. Donuts wasn't just a hip-hop album. It was a transmission. And two decades later, that signal is still reaching people.

Dez Andrés
DJ heyLove*
Max Kane (live)
DJ Traps
DJ OSÉ
SETI X (Host - MC)

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