PRINZ (Germany)
A quick blurb and picture advertising a night at Palo Palo in Hannover.

THE FADER.COM (NY)
"Brooklyn's Tom Thumz (aka Dr Delay) brings blends and Lifers' Group obscurities on Medium: Rare II"

RICHMOND TIMES DISPATCH (VA)
"For as much as hip-hop culture has influenced the lifestyle of many Americans, much of its history has been obscured, lost in the shade of the record biz.

But on the outskirts of what's good at the moment, there are music collectors piecing together discarded rap documents. One of those music sponges is a former Richmonder, Tom Thumz (aka Dr. Delay), whose recent release is a 70-minute DJ mix of head-scratching hip-hop rarities.

Thumz plays a musical butcher, cutting up vinyl with the brash humor of an obsessive crate digger. Although the Brooklyn transplant flexes his turntable chops, his strength here is in his selections, most of which will have you wishing for a track listing.

Despite songs from the underground big names of Kool Keith, Lord Finesse and Showbiz & AG, most of these tracks are the sort of heavyweight rarities scrounged up from dollar bins.

Thumz drops oddity platters like Steinski's "The Motorcade Sped On," a stomping beat tale of the JFK assassination, blended with De La Soul's 1989 test-press "Double-Huey Skit."

Most will never recognize names such as Raw Dope Posse, Funkmaster Wiz or the Fila Fresh Crew, but their songs tell of an important time when beats would snap necks and it was a sign of lyrical skill to "go Rambo" like Nikki Rap n Scratch.

Ever one to shine light on the darkness of the past, Thumz winds down the mix with Carver High School's "Get It Together," a single that illuminates his purpose. This mix is not nostalgia, instead it is respect for kids who were inspired and desperate enough to put beats and rhymes on wax, but then were forgotten. A"

-- Graham Eng-Wilmo
Richmond Times Dispatch

SOUL-SIDES.COM (SF)
"I'll be honest - I often confuse Dr. Delay and DJ Day (who I'll have a post from coming soon)...not just because their names are similar but mostly because both put out kick ass mixes and edit tracks. With DELAY, he's just released a power-pack double-CD set, one of funkalcious b-boy tracks for you to wear your Puma soles out to; the other a collection of rare rap that never compromises quality simply for the sake of obscurity.

I included the first 9 minutes or so of Well Done, the b-boy mix; what's nuts is that Delay manages to find at least a few dozen songs that allows him to maintain the same upbeat groove throughout the entire CD yet it without feeling repetitive or redundant.
The second track is actually a bonus cut that Delay includes at the end of Medium: Rare II, a remix of "Life's a Bitch," by Nas, feat. AZ. If I'm not mistaken, I think Delay actually put this together on a whim for an impromptu remix contest on Soulstrut.com but it hardly sounds like something he slapped together. I was never a huge fan of the original beat to "Life's a Bitch," but I'm loving how Delay gives this song a whole new sound and feel. (Hint: white label needed!)

Both CDs are only available for a limited time (I got #101 out of 250 limited run) so act fast to order."

--Oliver Wang

THE MIRROR (MONTREAL)
A brief blurb about Delay's appearence in town.

NACT LICHTER (GERMANY)
A blurb highlighting a night with the Soulpower DJs in Germany. These guys manage the JBs, Marva Whitney, Fred Wesley, Vicki Anderson, Gwen McCrae, and Maceo Parker when they're in Germany.