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