― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 13 May 2007 22:24 (seventeen years ago) link
― I know, right?, Sunday, 13 May 2007 22:29 (seventeen years ago) link
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― deej, Monday, 14 May 2007 23:11 (seventeen years ago) link
― jaxon, Monday, 14 May 2007 23:29 (seventeen years ago) link
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 14 May 2007 23:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― titchyschneiderMk2, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 10:32 (seventeen years ago) link
― stevie, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 12:13 (seventeen years ago) link
― titchyschneiderMk2, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 12:36 (seventeen years ago) link
haha. Yesterdays New Quintet broke up. http://www.stonesthrow.com/ynq/
― jaxon, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 19:49 (seventeen years ago) link
When do we get the Chris Gaines collabo?
― Oilyrags, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 20:36 (seventeen years ago) link
I liked Beat Konducta 1 & 2 waaaaay more than I did Donuts
― Matos W.K., Wednesday, 23 May 2007 02:13 (seventeen years ago) link
-- jaxon, Tuesday, May 22, 2007 7:49 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link
OK it's a nice idea but what about the malik flavors / joe mcduphrey EP tracks? compilation please.
― moonship journey to baja, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 02:37 (seventeen years ago) link
Anyone heard Yesterdays Universe?
― ogmor, Saturday, 25 August 2007 01:53 (sixteen years ago) link
i am really digging "yesterday's universe", but it is kinda like what my old roommate described as "elevator music for grad students"
― winston, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 03:04 (sixteen years ago) link
that sounds bad
― elan, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 03:10 (sixteen years ago) link
but i've never been a grad student so who knows?
― elan, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 03:11 (sixteen years ago) link
Having been a grad student and now teaching them myself, I *like* the idea of elevator music for grad students.
Madlib's production for Erykah Badu's tune "The Healer" is super sweet too.
― Drew Daniel, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 03:12 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm not a big fan of his productions. Yesterday's new Quintet, though sounding like a great idea conceptually, didn't hold up in execution. Nujabes' Modal Soul alone is better than anything he's capable of producing in my honest opinion.
Not quite dud, light-years away from classic.
― Cliftonb, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 04:09 (sixteen years ago) link
xp i like the idea of elevator music PERIOD, but his point (i think he was referring to prefuse73) was that all these smarty pants dudes were tricking themselves into thinking this kind of stuff was really "deep"/ "intellectual" and beyond the grasp of normal folk (i.e. "superior") when it's really just easy listening with some wacky blips/clicks and non-linear cuts.
― winston, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 05:02 (sixteen years ago) link
new Beat Konduktah mixtape, The Dil Cosby Suite - a pretty explicit tribute to Dilla - is pretty awesome.
― graft Veronica's limbless torso to the 'paalmino' pony called Juno (stevie), Wednesday, 1 October 2008 11:36 (fifteen years ago) link
Matos very wrong about Beat Konductah vs Donuts
― Granny Dainger, Wednesday, 1 October 2008 13:39 (fifteen years ago) link
I prefer Donuts, but I wouldn't disagree that they are of a piece...
― graft Veronica's limbless torso to the 'paalmino' pony called Juno (stevie), Wednesday, 1 October 2008 13:53 (fifteen years ago) link
I love Madlib, but the Beat Konductah stuff bores me to tears.
― Granny Dainger, Wednesday, 1 October 2008 14:11 (fifteen years ago) link
i dunno i'm digging, source material is a bit different
also i haven't really listened to any of this type of stuff for quite awhile so maybe i'm more in the mood
― sinister porpoise (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 18 July 2014 15:34 (nine years ago) link
of course i'm still going to pick it up!
― the late great, Friday, 18 July 2014 15:41 (nine years ago) link
not a huge fan of this one, I wish he would extend himself a bit
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Friday, 18 July 2014 14:53 (1 hour ago) Permalink
actually this is prob unfair because madlib seems like he just locks himself up in different rooms and constantly produces diverse work that other people are left to release
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Friday, 18 July 2014 16:07 (nine years ago) link
I have a lot of time for well eq'd loops but especially after all the medicine shows, I'd prefer a more surprising sort of release (matt have you listened to any of the medicine shows?)
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Friday, 18 July 2014 16:11 (nine years ago) link
nah honestly i listened to the freddie gibbs record which was ok but didn't do a ton for me, but i haven't been checking for this type of stuff for ages tbh
― sinister porpoise (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 18 July 2014 16:24 (nine years ago) link
the production on the gibbs record was pretty restrained and boring imo, check out the 12 or 13 medicine show records madlib finished releasing a couple years ago, most are incredibly rewarding
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Friday, 18 July 2014 16:36 (nine years ago) link
I could go on and on about them, and probably have on some other thread, but I'm on a #12 kick right now
http://youtu.be/porRFeXlOho
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Friday, 18 July 2014 16:38 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=porRFeXlOho
the African one is incredible
― the late great, Friday, 18 July 2014 20:51 (nine years ago) link
hi dere i am corny
http://www.stonesthrow.com/uploads/images/product/detail/exodus-into-unheard-rhythms.jpg
but this goes down great on a sunny sunday
― the late great, Sunday, 5 April 2015 21:25 (nine years ago) link
He's got a new solo LP out, Sound Ancestors, and it's really great so far.
― pomenitul, Monday, 1 February 2021 17:02 (three years ago) link
Yeah, it’s good. Arranged, edited and mastered by Kieren Hebden/Four Tet too.
― This Is Not An ILX Username (LaMonte), Monday, 1 February 2021 17:12 (three years ago) link
I didn't know that but it makes perfect sense.
― pomenitul, Monday, 1 February 2021 17:15 (three years ago) link
What is it? Collage snippets of loops?
― candyman, Monday, 1 February 2021 18:11 (three years ago) link
oh cross posted to four tet. it's really great.
― Joses Chrust (map), Monday, 1 February 2021 18:43 (three years ago) link
https://madlib.bandcamp.com/album/sound-ancestors
― Joses Chrust (map), Monday, 1 February 2021 18:44 (three years ago) link
listened to it today while working, didnt get to dial in on it too close but it had some great tracks for sure. def sounds like what i would hope a madlib/four tet collab would sound like
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Monday, 1 February 2021 18:53 (three years ago) link
love this record
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Thursday, 4 February 2021 23:14 (three years ago) link
yeah.i only have madlibs blue note and trojan mixtapes that are credited to him and are great albeit via an excess of sharp cuts.whereas this is exactly what i needed re samples/beats.i love it.
― mark e, Thursday, 4 February 2021 23:20 (three years ago) link
def sounds like what i would hope a madlib/four tet collab would sound like
Or at least like the Madlib tracks that Four Tet would most like :)
― change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 4 February 2021 23:50 (three years ago) link
I had not much of an idea of what to expect from this album, but one thing I'm pretty sure it wasn't, was a sample of Renaldo & the Loaf! ("Critical/Dance" off The Elbow Is Taboo, in "Loose Goose" around 1:44).
The fun thing is that this bit made me question the sounds earlier in the track, which had formerly sounded plausibly Jamaican to match the vocals -- I start wondering whether he has reorganized some slightly silly kazoo/comb bits from "Hambu Hodo" (2:36 on) from the same album?
― anatol_merklich, Friday, 5 February 2021 20:42 (three years ago) link
The kazoo bits in Loose Goose are also from Critical/Dance, just later in the track.
― MarkoP, Friday, 5 February 2021 22:52 (three years ago) link
love the use of young marble giants on dirtknock
― This Is Not An ILX Username (LaMonte), Saturday, 6 February 2021 02:45 (three years ago) link
On the R&tL thread, Milton said that the entire track is built on "A Critical Dance", but the version on Arabic Yodelling, not Elbow.
― anatol_merklich, Saturday, 6 February 2021 11:47 (three years ago) link
Anyone knows what’s the sample on “latino negro”
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Saturday, 6 February 2021 15:04 (three years ago) link
I love that one, sounds to me like the updated version of “everything is alright” by Four Tet in 2001: spanish guitar + jazz drums looped. But whereas in Four Tet’s debut you can tell it’s looped, in the madlb one it sound’s played live. I’m not even sure it’s a sample.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Saturday, 6 February 2021 15:10 (three years ago) link
So good
― flopson, Sunday, 7 February 2021 01:21 (three years ago) link
i wonder how much material Four Tet had to work with
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Wednesday, 17 February 2021 23:30 (three years ago) link
hate this album lol
― Bongo Jongus, Wednesday, 17 February 2021 23:35 (three years ago) link
it seems so boring and toothless to me, but then again I've always found four tet stuff to be like that. This doesn't really sound like madlib at all to me
― Bongo Jongus, Wednesday, 17 February 2021 23:36 (three years ago) link
for all the crazy finished projects that madlib's sitting on I wonder why they decided to put this out, but I mean I'm prob in the minority here thinking this
probably.i love it.i have no idea re the sample sources, and genuinely don't care.if four tet can extract albums like this out of madlibs chaotic excess then so be it.i love the flow of the album.it's as simple as that.
― mark e, Thursday, 18 February 2021 00:05 (three years ago) link
Because Four Tet pushed for it, I think that's pretty obvious
Xp
― change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 18 February 2021 00:09 (three years ago) link
― Bongo Jongus, Wednesday, February 17,
lol 100% of the music on the album is made by madlib and 0% by kieran. all he did was choose the songs from a file dump and sequence them
― flopson, Thursday, 18 February 2021 07:43 (three years ago) link
i thought he did some arranging
i dont want to weigh in til i listen to this whole project. i heard one song that did make me think bongo jongus might be right. felt like a loop madlib would pick, put into a familiar formal framework (arguably overfamiliar)
i will listen before saying too much more. but i wanted to legitimize the criticism cuz i think madlib's catalog is overwhelmingly huge and kind of discourages close critical reading by nature so ofc the four tet record is the biggest revive this thread had in years
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Thursday, 18 February 2021 07:49 (three years ago) link
he’s way too prolific, the ynq stuff is just uninspired noodling, but this is the best madlib release in a while
xp- from nyt
For “Sound Ancestors,” Hebden decided that although he could alter and manipulate the material Madlib sent him, he wouldn’t create any new sounds.
― flopson, Thursday, 18 February 2021 08:04 (three years ago) link
sounds nothing like the four tet madvillainy remixes
― flopson, Thursday, 18 February 2021 08:05 (three years ago) link
feel duty-bound to bump this tbh
― imago, Thursday, 29 June 2023 10:42 (eleven months ago) link