Peanut Butter Wolf

...album was picked up by California experimental hip-hop label Stones Throw after the label's chief, rapper/producer Peanut Butter Wolf, heard only a snippet of Hawthorne's demo. According to the Stones Throw website, Hawthorne, the...

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...on vinyl as a five-record set. "He is the type of artist that people want everything from," says Stones Throw owner Peanut Butter Wolf. Dam-Funk, born Damon Riddick, grew up in Pasadena playing keyboards and drums. After an...

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Chris Manak, aka Peanut Butter Wolf, is a DJ, hip-hop producer and the founder of hip-hop label Stones Throw Records. A native of San Jose, California , he has been active since 1989 when he produced a song by Lyrical Prophecy called "You...

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...looseness of center-hole adapters, and a faster speed to try and keep up with. Now take into account the fact that Peanut Butter Wolf actually went and made 7" edits of 18 different tracks ranging from the dawn of hip-hop to the peak of its...

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...his own sample-friendly music. His complicated form of crate digging eventually attracted the ears of Stones Throw founder Peanut Butter Wolf. According to a Real Detroit Weekly interview, Cohen even turned to the adolescent-approved porn...

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...Drew Cohen, has been a deejay and in hip-hop bands for years. Then two songs ended up in the hands of Stones Throw label head Peanut Butter Wolf, igniting a foray into neo-soul that even surprised him. "I was an all-hip-hop guy. I mean, I've...

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...Score. Nectar) Spokane native James Pants records for the post-hiphop label Stones Throw, the L.A.-based house that Peanut Butter Wolf built with the great Madlib. It is also the house that has Jay Dee as its guiding spirit and that is...

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...manager of the Stones Throw label. He also founded Now-Again Records, which reissues American funk and soul albums, as well as the Soul-Cal imprint with Peanut Butter Wolf. He DJs funk and psychedelia sets at venues all around the world.

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...blurs, hummingbird-like, into something like a smooth, illusory stillness. ERIC GRANDY Peanut Butter Wolf - "Dopestyle" Peanut Butter Wolf, James Pants, Mayer Hawthorne, Dam-Funk Chop Suey) This Valentine's Day, Peanut Butter...

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Last year, the local Stones Throw impresario and DJ extraordinaire Peanut Butter Wolf taught a master class in turntabling with his 777 tour of Los Angeles. Over seven nights and seven venues, he spun sets of seven different genres of music...

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