Apollo Brown - This, Is Not That - VINYL LP

Limited gold and cream splatter colored vinyl LP pressing. This is Apollo Brown's very first beat collection put together in 2007 a few years before winning the Red Bull Big Tune Championship in Detroit and then signing to Mello Music Group. The collection has been such a popular record around the Mello Music Group office for the past few years that we decided to make it available to everyone for a one time pressing on vinyl. Over 30 tracks from Apollo Brown. Album Tracks 1. Intro (Work) 2. Migrate 3. Substance 4. Hold Me Down 5. Down There 6. We Almost Lost Detroit 7. My Spine 8. Way Back 9. Legend 10. Spoiled Coffee 11. The Turning Key 12. What You Need 13. Ninety-Two (Gone) 14. Without Jan (Mom) 15. Can It Be 16. Invisible 17. My Establishment 18. Press Ya Luck 19. Custom 20. From One to Won 21. Empty World 22. Poverty's Pair of Dice 23. The Squeeze 24. Born on Halloween 25. Passin' Time 26. The Question 27. My Steelo (Check My Credentials) 28. Too Much 29. Bang Bang 30. Outtro (Change)

Limited green vinyl LP pressing. 2022 . Simplicity is genius. Great artists can make the ostensibly impossible seem effortless. It's in this rarefied air where you'll find Detroit's Apollo Brown, constantly conjuring fresh innovations out of a tried-and-true formula. For the last decade, the Mello Music Group artist has singularly re-defined and expanded the foundation of what boom bap production can sound like in the 21st Century. This is the tradition that Apollo Brown triumphantly upholds the head-nodding, screwface-inducing, soul-replenishing lineage of Primo and Pete Rock, J Dilla and Large Professor, Mobb Deep and DJ Muggs. He makes music for old and young heads-bone bruising beats that summon visceral images of back-alley brawls in '81, pool hall melees, and metropolitan griminess. An East Coast sound with a midwestern mentality, channeling the marrow-freezing chill of the wind fleeing Lake Michigan. Album Tracks 1. Hidden 2. Blacklight 3. Love Me, Love Me Not 4. No Monsters 5. We Outside 6. Humble Wins 7. Breathe 8. Lost Angels 9. Catch Up 10. Bobby Bonilla 11. The Realest 12. Broad Spectrum 13. Stay Low 14. What the Hook Gon Be 15. Omari's Lament

On Clouds, Apollo Brown delivers one of the purest distillations of his signature sound-dusty drums, soul-soaked samples, and a heavy sense of atmosphere that feels both nostalgic and timeless. Released early in his catalog, Clouds plays less like a statement and more like a mood introspective, unhurried, and quietly confident.The album floats between boom-bap tradition and cinematic soul, drawing from vinyl crackle, melancholy melodies, and head-nod tempos that reward close listening. Apollo Brown's beats don't rush the moment; they linger, letting emotion seep into every snare hit and chopped vocal fragment. There's a weight to the music, but also space-room to think, to drive, to sit with your own thoughts.What makes Clouds resonate years later is it's restraint. This is instrumental hip-hop that doesn't beg for attention or overwhelm with technique. Instead, it trusts feel and texture, proving that mood can be just as powerful as message. The record feels like weather rolling in-subtle at first, then unmistakable.Clouds stands as a foundational chapter in Apollo Brown's journey a reminder that before the acclaim and collaborations, there was a producer deeply committed to craft, emotion, and the quiet power of a perfectly placed beat. Album Tracks 1. Sound of Guns 2. Blue Ruby 3. Never in a Million Years 4. Balance 5. The Eleventh Hour 6. Wisdom 7. Black Pearls 8. Shoot the Heart 9. Push 10. One Chance 11. Human Existence 12. Know the Time 13. Heirloom 14. Seed of Memory 15. The Sky Is Falling 16. Just Walk 17. Shadows of Grief 18. Time Passed Autumn 19. Choices 20. Father and Son 21. The Conscious Breath 22. Drinking Life 23. Imagination 24. Tao Te Ching 25. Heart of Glass 26. The Baghdad Sun 27. A Day's End 28. God's Creation