The Roots: Illadelph Halflife Vinyl 2LP WMG Vinyl Sale almost operatic key layers and

almost operatic key layers and transient blasts of yellow-eyed pitch shifting in "Radioactivity" don't force you into a rapt

Rare original copies from 1980 are always in-demand and still catch a pretty penny

now on limited white vinyl

Plessow's Raw Cuts series seemingly never goes out of style: those filtered beats age like Paulina Porizkova and wheels of cheese that Mario Batali has hoarded in his basement

The Roots: Illadelph Halflife Vinyl 2LP WMG Vinyl Sale almost operatic key layers andThe third Roots album (counting Organix) is still criminally slept on. Thankfully DGC has given it a proper vinyl reissue so more heads can get up on this 1996 hip hop classic. Illadelph Halflife is the starting point of the sound that has dominated their subsequent records: half live, half studio with a thin line in between. Illadelph captures that dynamic in its rawest state, when The Roots still flaunted home studio type EQs and non radio hooks