Stones Throw Our Vinyl Weighs A Ton Review

At times our vinyl weighs a ton feels as much as the story of a record label as that of a community and a subculture seeking to reinvent itself and grow in the face of changes in both the music industry as well as the tastes of its architects.

Stones throw our vinyl weighs a ton review. Avid crate diggers who can list their favourite volumes of the beat konducta series and have spent countless hours trying to decipher lyrical easter eggs in. Jeff broadway s excellent new documentary our vinyl weighs a ton skillfully and artfully tells the stone throw story as it reaches some great heights and sinks to some deep lows. Like a lot of the music released by stones throw our vinyl weighs a ton is not for everyone. Our vinyl weighs a ton is a feature length documentary about avant garde los angeles based record label stones throw records.

Our vinyl weighs a ton. Our vinyl weighs a ton. This is stones throw records is a film that s full of inspired detours colorful non sequiturs inside jokes and unexplained phenomena that will likely give hip hop. Our vinyl weighs a ton jeff broadway s recent documentary about the los angeles label features plenty of footage of wolf as a kid precociously engaged in both collecting and recording music.

A prominent exception is kanye west who appears to be on the verge of tears discussing j dilla s passionate appreciation for the intricacies of production style. This is stones throw records is a film that s full of inspired detours colorful non sequiturs inside jokes and unexplained phenomena that will likely give hip hop fans paroxysms of pleasure while leaving the uninitiated alternately amused and confused. Our vinyl weighs a ton brings in big names like common and talib kweli to attest to stones throw s cultural significance but these slick effusive testimonials feel like a violation of the funky low fi aesthetic of the label and the film. The film weaves together rare concert footage never before see archival material inner circle home video and photographs and in depth interviews with the artists who put stones throw records on the map.