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Must-Cop Record Store Day 2016 Releases: Black Friday Edition
Must-Cop Record Store Day 2016 Releases: Black Friday Edition

Must-Cop Record Store Day 2016 Releases: Black Friday Edition

Must-Cop Record Store Day 2016 Releases: Black Friday Edition

Black Friday is upon us and with renewed meaning in the age of Trump. Whereas in years past you might have scoured the internets for the deepest dives in price tags for things you may not (read: probably won't) use ever, this year, we're approaching the day after Thanksgiving from what basically amounts to the diametrically opposite angle. In the year of the deplorable Cheeto, we're taking our money out of the pockets of those that have supported his shit-show, fear-mongering political circus, and putting it back into the place that matters most: our families, our friends, and perhaps most importantly, our health, both communal and individual.

And this year, maybe more than ever, that means feeding the tweeters with this year's most compelling Record Store Day offerings, to help you smoke, drink and dance the pain away with the notes of masters past and present.

This year's haul is not for the faint of funk, nor those resistant to rhythm. We have choice selections and RSD-exclusives from blues giants like Jimi Hendrix and Muddy Waters, ferocious psychedelia from Isaac Hayes and The Bar Kays, XXX holidaze humor from Dolemite himself, Rudy Ray Moore, and that new new super-heavy funk from minister James Brown and his star-studded People Records roster. And that's just a few of this year's most coveted Record Store Day grooves. So while the rest of the world is hitting Best Buy, Amazon or Macy's for the best deals on the worst wastes of time and money, head out to your wrecka stow and support the local economies with your funky dollar bill. It should be noted that all of these selections, with the exception of those noted, are in-store exclusive releases. So be sure to buck the itis and actually step out the house to dig for these gems.

Must-Cop Record Store Day 2016 Releases: Black Friday Edition

Dennis Coffey - Hot Coffey in the D: Burnin’ at Morey Baker’s Showplace Lounge

The six-string wizard behind some of your favorite Motown marvels has an extensive breakout catalog of experimental funk and fusion gems. Any head will tell you. But on this Record Store Day, we're being gifted an extremely rare glimpse into one magical Detroit evening where the founding Funk Brother and fellow Detroit heavies, Melvin Davis and Mike Theodore, stomped out a raucous live set on local grounds. The album comes packaged with liner notes and essays by acclaimed journalist, Kevin Goins (who also serves as a producer on the record) as well as a cover adorned with the work of Bill Morrison (illustrator for The Simpsons, director of Futurama.)

Must-Cop Record Store Day 2016 Releases: Black Friday Edition

D.R.A.M. - "Broccoli" (7-inch Picture Disc) 

It's the song you love to hate (or hate to love so damn much,) but the charm of D.R.A.M.'s playful chart-topper is undeniable. And to celebrate the breakout hit from an artist described by Erykah Badu as "the lovechild of Ol Dirty Bastard, George Clinton and D'Angelo," EMPIRE has pressed 2,000 7-inch custom die-cut picture discs featuring a very faded stub rolling up an air-blessing of his own ilk (which is kinda sick, but totally in line with the half-baked heroics D.R.A.M. has pulled off this year.)

Must-Cop Record Store Day 2016 Releases: Black Friday Edition

Jimi Hendrix - Morning Symphony Ideas (Colored 10-inch LP) 

The last few years have been laced with all sorts of freshly-released rarities from the original purple progenitor. Today you have yet another chance to cop some wailing psychedelia from the electric guitar gawd. Three tracks pressed to translucent yellow 10-inch wax will make for an exciting new edition to what is hopefully an already fully-flourished wax spread from the late rock icon. With 3,000 copies out and about in the world, this is RSD's best-stocked acetate of the bunch and should not be overlooked by any Hendrix heads of the world.

Must-Cop Record Store Day 2016 Releases: Black Friday Edition

Rudy Ray Moore - This Ain't No White Christmas 

Too often the holidays are reduced to stuffy, real-life greeting card moments that lack as much in color as they do in actual entertainment. Here you need not worry about faking a smile, or the funk, for that matter. This irreverent, seasonally-appropriate comedy record is sure to be a hit by the fireside, with very high probabilities of egg-nog spilling out via nostrils. And if your folks give you a hard time about it, just remember that XXX only means it's three-times as good.

Must-Cop Record Store Day 2016 Releases: Black Friday Edition

Various Artists - James Brown's Funky People Pt. 3

Man, bless the beautiful, devoted souls at Get On Down for this one. Thanks to their tireless commitment to cracking the vaults of James Brown's most notably successful label, People Records, the world has heard, more often than not for the first time ever, The Godfather's side-groups and revue rosters in their own full and respective blooms. In the third volume of a must-cop series, they throw the spotlight on rarities from Sweet Charles, The JBs, Fred Wesley, Lyn Collins, Bobby Byrd and more of the ever-prolific People, all recorded and produced under the supreme guidance of The Minister himself.

Must-Cop Record Store Day 2016 Releases: Black Friday Edition

UGK feat. OutKast - "Int'l Players Anthem (I Choose You)" - (12-inch Picture Disc) 

Few mid-2000s hip-hop cuts have garnered as much adoration as this southern-fried and soulful collaboration. Built over a chopped-never-slopped Willie Hutch classic, this particular union of the south's finest freakers of frequency is widely considered to be not just a stellar standout from a decade driven by commercial rap records, but one of the single greatest love songs of all-time, no doubt already helping millions join in eternal union (and maybe even scoring a few immaculate conceptions along the way.) Pressed on a 12-inch die-cast cut-out of the Lone Star state, we pity the fool that doesn't jump at the opportunity to own one of the 1,750 copies made available.

>>>Buy it now in the The OKP Shop

Must-Cop Record Store Day 2016 Releases: Black Friday Edition

Isaac Hayes and The Bar Kays - "Do Your Thing" (Extended Unreleased 12-inch) 

Teased just the other day in a 22-minute clip that somehow only captures two-thirds of the full reveal, this unreleased 33-minute funk storm from Hayes and The Bar Kays is freshly mixed and remastered from their original 2-inch tapes. So if 22-minutes of the uncut Shaft OST cornerstone wasn't enough for your mind, consider this a necessary and proper psychedelic supplement from the Stax stunners, dug up and pressed by the good folks at Now-Again Records.

Must-Cop Record Store Day 2016 Releases: Black Friday Edition

Lee "Scratch" Perry - The Upsetter Meets Jahtari In The Secret Laboratory (7-inch) 

"Scientific Dancehall" may seem antithetical to a genre so seeped in visceral riddims, but it just might be the only way to describe the work of dub experimentalists like Lee Perry and Adrian Sherwood. The duo first connected in 1986 to produce the Perry's Time Boom X De Devil Deadand today Sherwood's On-U-Sound Records is offering up two cosmic concoctions of the collaborative cut; one from Rootah, the other from Disrupt. Both are ripe and ready for your planet-jumping jukebox in a classic 7-inch disco plate.

Must-Cop Record Store Day 2016 Releases: Black Friday Edition

Frank Zappa - "How Could I Be Such A Fool?" / "Help, I'm A Rock 3rd Movement: It Can't Happen Here" (7-inch Colored Vinyl) 

Likely music's first psychedelic soul crew, Frank Zappa's Mother's Of Invention took as much from the Motown that flooded airwaves as the LSD that raddled countercultural eyes and minds. This 7-inch 50th anniversary colored pressing is one of the finest and most fitting ways to salute the great defender of pure artistry and his countless inventive innovations, still tapped in the age of the bedroom producer, still shining bright as a beacon for straight-edge and "experienced" heads alike.

Must-Cop Record Store Day 2016 Releases: Black Friday Edition

Muddy Waters - The London Muddy Waters Sessions 

By 1970, Muddy Waters had transcended from your favorite brit-rock band's favorite electric blues inspiration to full-on legend of the six-string. This recording, stemming from the meat of his career, captures a rare studio roster featuring the best of both sides of the pond. Waters holds down the acoustic (a rare sighting in itself,) mixing it up with The Jimi Hendrix Experience's Mitch Mitchell, legendary keyboardist Steve Winwood and fellow Chicago bluesman, Carey Bell, amongst others. Blues breakers take heed: at only 2,500 copies pressed, this should be top priority upon commencement of your Record Store Day sojourn.

Must-Cop Record Store Day 2016 Releases: Black Friday Edition

The Jungle Brothers - Done By The Forces of Nature (2xLP) 

Seeing as how we're currently smack in the middle of the greatest Native Tongues resurgence to date, the acquisition (or at least the consideration of) The Jungle Brothers groundbreaking sophomore album is only right. Here you'll find some of the earliest on-record nasally laments of a young Q-Tip, Queen Latifah and, of course, De La Soul, all gracing the smooth rotations of the Native Tongues founders' breakout record. Those intending to grab copies of And The Anonymous Nobody... and We Got It From here should just go ahead and complete the trifecta with this limited edition 2xLP while they can.

Must-Cop Record Store Day 2016 Releases: Black Friday Edition

Otis Redding - Live at The Whiskey A Go Go (2xLP)

Newly mixed and freshly-remastered, this one's for the heavy soul enthusiast. In 1966, Redding rocked a legendary three-night residency at the storied Hollywood haunt (as he was prone to do.) This 2xLP celebrates 50 years since those smoke-and-sweat-soaked evenings with the thunderous singer, compiling highlights from all three shows in a gatefold jacket loaded with liner notes and original artwork from Redding's Tinseltown takeover.

Must-Cop Record Store Day 2016 Releases: Black Friday Edition

Timothy Leary, Richard Alpert and Ralph Metzner - The Psychedelic Experience (Limited 50th Anniversary Edition) 

And now something for the astrally-projected folk of our day (or at least those seeking guidance on the process.) In 1966, sages of psychedelia, Timothy Leary, Richard Alpert and Ralph Metzner, released a recording of their Tibetan Book of The Dead adaptation, used as a handbook (early audiobook in this case) on the etiquettes of ego death. Specifically, by using various forms of psychedelics with little moderation in a place referred to as "LSD Paradise" tucked away in the northwest Mexican shoreline. This properly purple-splattered 50th anniversary reissue is just what these doctors ordered.

Must-Cop Record Store Day 2016 Releases: Black Friday Edition

Erykah Badu - But You Caint Use My Phone 2xLP 

What began as jest, bloomed into a big, beautiful mixtape from one of the most dynamic talents on the planet. And now Erykah Badu's But You Caint Use My Phone is available on vinyl for the first time since its release last year. It's one of the year's more limited releases at just 1,500 pressings available, but for the diehards this should be an easy grab-the-wallet-and-run-to-the-wrecka-stow type decision.

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A Tribe Called Quest - We Got It From Here...Thank You 4 Your Service 2xLP

Though not technically a RSD release, Tribe's final farewell is the hottest item on the list, hands down. If its sales numbers aren't enough to prove it, just scroll along your timeline and see which record's dominating headlines (and charts!) With contributions from all four tribesman (as well as Kendrick Lamar, Kanye West, Andre 3000, Busta Rhymes, Consequence, Anderson . Paak and Elton John) We Got It From Here... is the perfect gift for you and yours, and it begins shipping as of December 23rd, which means your copy may just arrive in time to score your mistletoe moment.

>>>Pre-order it now via The OKP Shop