Our Vinyl Weighs a Ton: This Is Stones Throw Records
2013 · Documentary · 94 min. · United States
Feature-length documentary about avant-garde Los Angeles-based record label Stones Throw Records. Under the direction of founder and world-renowned DJ Peanut Butter Wolf, Stones Throw has consistently released critically acclaimed, left-of-center albums since its founding in 1996. Catalog highlights include hip-hop classics like Madvillain's Madvillainy, Dilla's Donuts and Quasimoto's The Unseen. Drawing on live concert footage, never-before-seen archival material, inner-circle home video and photographs and in-depth interviews with the folks who put Stones Throw on the map, OUR VINYL WEIGHS A TON will delve deeper into the label's enigmatic artists, history, culture and global following.
Direction Jeff Broadway
Cast Peanut Butter Wolf · Madlib · MF DOOM · Mayer Hawthorne · Dam-Funk · Kanye West · Questlove
Screenplay Robert Bralver · Jeff Broadway
Cinematography Sébastien Bauer · Jordan Haro · Isaac Sterling
Original title Our Vinyl Weighs a Ton: This Is Stones Throw Records
7.7
36 votes (FilmAffinity)
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