The Buggles - ‘Adventures in Modern Recording’ Acetate & ‘I Am a Camera’ Test Pressings
Bodast featuring Steve Howe - ‘The Bodast Tapes’ Acetate
Spandau Ballet - ‘Paint Me Down’ 12-Inch Test Pressing
Wu-Tang Clan street team promotional cassette (Wu)
DJ X-Cell mixtape featuring rare/unreleased Wu-Tang affiliate material
Beastie Boys - ‘Hello Nasty’ Island Records Advance Cassette
RAL Spring ’94 Sampler - Promo Cassette (Def Jam / Columbia)
Rush Associated Labels (RAL) - Sampler Fall 1994 Promo Cassette
Kick It! The Def Jam Sampler Volume One - Cassette (CBS, 1987)
Gang Starr - ‘Words I Manifest’ 12-Inch Test Pressing, Inscribed by Guru to Marley Marl
Gang Starr - ‘Daily Operation’ Press Kit Photo and Cassette
HIGHLIGHT: MOBY’S HAND-DRAWN DEMO
a hand drawn piece of history
An original demo cassette given by Moby to Dylan Hundley in person in New York City, c. 1987–88. Entirely hand-drawn J-card in blue and red ball point pen: turntables, mixer, and surrounding doodles
Martyn: Between the Inner and Outer World
The Dutch producer on dubstep, drum and bass, Detroit and the long tail of a club record.
The Roland TR-1000
The machine question: what a drum machine is for, and what happens when the tool changes.
The Daft Punk / De La Soul Issue
Dance and hip hop in one back issue — the same crossing of genres the Moby tape is doing on side two.
HIGHLIGHT: EARLY EMINEM
The spine of this collection runs from the 1995 Soul Intent cassette single that predates it, through an original 1996 F.B.T. pressing of Infinite itself, to the 1998 Stretch Armstrong snippet tape that trailed The Slim Shady LP — and on into sealed first presses of the two albums that made him a household name.
Alongside it: a run of DJ Babe’s 7 Mile Album mixtapes, the hand-to-hand economy that carried Detroit rap out of Detroit months before the majors caught up.
Missy Elliott - Original Promotional Photograph
Jay-Z - “Paper Dog” Recall Notes and Console Tape (1998)
Malcolm McLaren - "Duck Rock" Acetates
Jam Master Jay Adidas Leather Tracksuit - Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Exhibit Piece
Tupac Lyrics on notepad (framed)
The Roots – Phrenology Autographed Limited-Edition Lithograph Print