LEAVING RECORDS Presents 12-inches of Pleasure: "Anymore" from Flaunt Edwards AKA J.Rocc's The Name Is Flaunt (Stones Throw)
Flaunt Edwards
is a long-standing alias of
J.Rocc The Funky President
.
Jason "J.Rocc" Jackson
has, over the years, become one of the most world-renown and sought-after
Hip-Hop
DJ's, turntablists, and producers. One of the founding members of
The Beat Junkies
,
has spent time either playing with or recording alongside artists such as
Axel F.
with
M.E.D.
Bumrush Bros.
D-Styles Sextet
, DJ Spinna,
Dirty Fingered B-Boys
, J Dilla,
Jurassic 5
, Madlib, and
PSK
, as well as being the honorary "third member" of
Jaylib
.
The Witzard
, actually, has a very special relationship with
J.Rocc
, as I've been patiently waiting to hear
Jay
's long-rumored
J Dilla & Michael Jackson
mash-up/blend album,
SHARE MY BED
, for about 10 years now. Although, miraculously, earlier this year,
J.Rocc
surprise released an 8-track version of
on his
Bandcamp
page; along with it, was this quote, seemingly, paraphrased from
Dilla
himself: "
J Dilla
once said he was gong to make an album of him singing. The cover was a picture of him like
Michael Jackson
on
Thriller
. The title of the LP was going to be
SHARE MY BED
." I soon reached out to my friend and frequent collaborator,
unibrow duck (@UnibrowDuck)
to see if he could whip up an alternative
cover based off of
Dilla
's vision. In a matter of days,
unibrow duck
had designed a cover image, complete with a tiger cub, and we soon reached out to
@jrocc
, who, to our surprise, offered to graciously adopt our alt. cover design as the official
SHARE MY BED
cover artwork!
Now,
J.Rocc
has returned to
Stones Throw Records
for the follow-up to his 2014 cassette release,
Beats On Tap(e)
.
J.Rocc
has, over the years, been featured on countless
releases and DJ mixes, although, starting around 2003, released a number of projects attributed to his own name on the label, including:
Play This (One)
12-inch, Play This Too 12-inch,
Stay Fresh
12-inch, Some Cold Rock Stuf,
Mystery Tracks EP
, The Minimal Wave Tapes: J.Rocc Edits Volume 1-2, and the aforementioned
Beats On Tap(e)
. This brings us to
The Name Is Flaunt
,
J.Rocc
's upcoming release attributed to
Flaunt Edwards
to be released on
Stones Throw
's sister label
Tuesday, October 30th. "Best DJ in the world,
J.Rocc
gives you six bootleg bangers of
Electro
ecstasy as
Flaunt Edwards
on 12" VINYL channeling legendary party people like
Ron Hardy
, Larry Levan,
DJ Harvey
, and Kraftwerk,"
Matthewdavid
's
LEAVING RECORDS
wrote within a recent email blast.
The Name Is Flaunt
is the quasi-follow-up to
J.Rocc
's previously released—and now, mysteriously scrubbed from The Internet—full-length/bootlegs as
Flaunt Edwards
, 2012's
J.Rocc: Flaunt Edwards Edits
and 2015's
J.Rocc X Flaunt Edwards - The Edits, Vol. 1
.
The Name Is Flaunt
seems to follow more in the same vein as
J.Rocc
's edits of
Tuxedo
's
2013's "Wheel me Out" (Edit) & "Rock Creek Park" (Edit,) and
Salsoul vs. West End Edits
7-inch.
Flaunt Edwards' The Name Is Flaunt
12-inch is now available for pre-order from both
&
LEAVING RECORDS
with FREE digital download available instantaneously, upon vinyl purchase.
