MADLIB - C OR D

the only problem with madlib is his dopey monotone... but even that can be quite endearing sometimes, and with such great production (and the whole quasimoto thing was a really imaginative way around that) it is very easy to endure.

the rest is patchy

i like 'yesterday's new quintet' for rehashing that old groove sound more so than i do the breakestra for doing the same thing. nothing really innovative just plenty of fresh nostalgia.

i've never gotten into the madlib remixes, or any colabs with lootpack.. i can rarely bear the 'oh so CraZy' peanut butter wolf mixes im not sure if he's throwin' them as he should be or if he's just gettin stoned by his own label.

haha. Yesterdays New Quintet broke up.
http://www.stonesthrow.com/ynq/

When do we get the Chris Gaines collabo?

I liked Beat Konducta 1 & 2 waaaaay more than I did Donuts

haha. Yesterdays New Quintet broke up.
http://www.stonesthrow.com/ynq/

-- 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.

Anyone heard Yesterdays Universe?

i am really digging "yesterday's universe", but it is kinda like what my old roommate described as "elevator music for grad students"

that sounds bad

but i've never been a grad student so who knows?

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.

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.

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.

new Beat Konduktah mixtape, The Dil Cosby Suite - a pretty explicit tribute to Dilla - is pretty awesome.

Matos very wrong about Beat Konductah vs Donuts

I prefer Donuts, but I wouldn't disagree that they are of a piece...

I love Madlib, but the Beat Konductah stuff bores me to tears.

I really love it, but I think its an acquired taste, like a Quasimoto album with all the actual 'songs' removed, instead focusing on his more non-sequiteur charms, puzzling vignettes, and a fascination with ambience and sound. The India album was less satisfying - I don't really think it worked as a whole, but there were moments there which seemed almost accidentally genius. For me, a lot of Madlib's charm lays in an absence of or wandering focus, and I think the Beat Konduktah really indulges his penchant for obfuscation - I just like to get lost in this little snippets.

The Dil Cosby suite is very moving, however. It's pretty explicitly a Dilla tribute, sampling a lot of familiar Dilla sources and excerpting his vocals and beats across the tracks; moreover, there's a powerful sense of sadness and loss to the tracks, which is striking as the Beat Konduktah stuff is usually more of an eerie or confusing mood.

I thought the wigflip album was the new one?

wigflip's out now on bbe, dil cosby suite is out this month or next on stonesthrow (available as mp3s now from the site though)

thoughts on wigflip?

crickets?

only heard the one promo track that's out, didn't really excite me

y'know what I need to go back and listen to? Jaylib - Champion Sound. I liked a couple of the singles but I don't think I gave the whole album a fair shot. I bet it's pretty good.

is it true he did a rmx of ronnie foster's mystic brew? any good?

that's probably the best song on the Blue Note record imo (Mystic Bounce)

"singles" as in the ones that were already out on 12" like The Red

madvillainy 2 is sort of ok.

that's just remixes, right? madvillainy verses over new beats?

C!

borrowed time from madvillainy 2's incredible, apart from, weirdly, the vocal bit, just with a beat behind it. the surrounding sound collages are amazing though.

dil cosby's pretty alright, nothing amazing tho

Here we go into 2010...

November 10, 2009

Madlib is launching the Madlib Medicine Show, a once-a-month, twelve-CD, six-LP series. The Madlib Medicine Show will be a combination of Madlib's new hip-hop productions, remixes, beat tapes, and jazz, as well as mixtapes of funk, soul, Brazilian, psych, jazz and other undefined forms of music from the Beat Konducta's 4-ton* stack of vinyl.

Madlib Medicine Show No. 1 is Before The Verdict featuring Guilty Simpson, a 17-track album mixing remixes and new material, something of a prelude to Madlib & Guilty Simpson's forthcoming OJ Simpson album.

MP3: Madlib & Guilty Simpson - The Paper from Madlib Medicine Show No. 1

STONESTHROW.COM advance release date: December 2009
WORLDWIDE release date: January 2010

We are currently planning for the vinyl edition of Madlib Medicine Show No. 1 to be a hand-screened, limited edition release. Madlib Medicine Show No. 2, Flight to Brazil, is a mixtape of Brazilian jazz, funk, prog-rock, folk and psychedelia. Later releases will include Beat Konducta in Africa.

(*4-tons of vinyl, this is true.)

www.stonesthrow.com/madlib

invasion vasion vasion vasion vasion

that should be interesting, a good way to keep track of the insane amount of music dude releases. guilty simpson is awesome for a few songs and then it's just too much angriness and stupidity and i have to listen to something else.

i rep the D, so when you speak about me
i'm the letter between C and E
In fact i'm the one between 3 and 3
with a smokin gun commitin B and E's

beat konducta in africa?

doooooooope.

anyone know if 'all i love' is sampling the roots 'act too (love of my life)', or if it's sampling something older that the roots replayed for their track? i'm guessing the latter, since the madlib one has flutes doing what is a vocal part on the roots track.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWLwMWr0eUw

Madlib is launching the Madlib Medicine Show, a once-a-month, twelve-CD, six-LP series.

Wonder if there are any plans to launch a CD subscription series for this stuff. I'm hesitant to drop $13.99 on each individual CD but I'd gladly shut my eyes, plunk down $140 or so, and be really happy to receive one CD per month in the mail...

Went ahead and emailed Stones Throw about a CD subscription... here's what I got back:

it’s a great plan, we’ve discussed it, but for various reasons we’re unable to do it.

Madlib Medicine Show No. 4: 420 Chalice All Stars

http://www.stonesthrow.com/uploads/news/55f93a11aef3df9bf7170280f7806c40.jpg

CD Pre-sale now at stonesthrow.com. Ships mid-April.
Street date: 4/20.

Madlib Medicine Show No. 4: 420 Chalice All-Stars, aka Son of Super Ape, is all Jamaican sounds – over 79 minutes of dub, reggae, roots. This will be released on 4/20, a date which has significance known to weed-heads worldwide.

The CD contains a 12-page booklet with a special supplement listing every medicinal marijuana dispensary in Madlib's home city Los Angeles.

This is the 4th of Madlib's one-a-month, twelve-CD series on his own imprint, Madlib Invazion. Odd numbers in the series are original productions by Madlib, even numbers are mixtapes.

how were the first three?

First album seems like a collection of mostly leftovers. If I recall, there are a lot of reworked tracks from the OJ Simpson project (Madlib + Guilty Simpson) that's due for CD release shortly. It was enjoyable when I put it on; I just haven't felt compelled to pull it out again, yet.

Second album is AWESOME. Really great, eclectic mix of Brazilian stuff -- far from my realm of musical "expertise," but it's a very compelling set.

Haven't heard the third album yet.

hot as blazes saturday afternoon w/medicine shows # 3 & 5 on the living room stereo

this music makes me happy to be alive

I love Medicine Show 3, probably my favorite of the first four. Haven't picked up 5 and 6 yet. (The cover art for 6 is insaaaaaaaaane!)

Madlib approves of the word "blazes" btw.

Loving #7 right now. Dude's prolificacy is just wow.

I've picked up the first four, can't wait to hear the next few in the series once I have the spare $13.99 apiece to drop.

And damn how did I miss this: http://www.stonesthrow.com/news/2010/02/the-last-electro-acoustic-space-jazz-miles-away

In Search of Stoney Jackson is a fucking AWESOME album from front to back, 100% Madlib production, it's like one of those albums for me that I'm like "what shall I listen to next?" and I'm like "what about just playing Stoney Jackson again." plenty of Planet Asia on it too who's one of my favorites just in terms of flow/style/vibe, always happy to hear him & especially happy when it's in a Stones Throw context

Agree that's a great album, I played it a good bit during the first couple months of this year.

http://www.undergroundhiphop.com/store/covers_large/MAD002CD-2-Back.jpg

'Remixes 2 - 1980s Saturday Morning Edition' (from 2004 I think) is definitely classic and up there with some of his best work I reckon. Take a load of funk and disco samples from 1978 to 1983, overlay them with classic rhymes from the likes of Nas, The Alkaholics, Raekwon and MF Doom and you have a winning collection of tracks.

my fav ladies remix vs doomilla remix

when my old ipod (rip iDEATH) would be on shuffle, everything off this one would pop up all the time

about 20 mins ago I was driving down the freeway thinking that I need to just make a mix of all my favorite madlib beats or something

Too many gems but I'd have to go with Devils (Nas w/ The Firm)

Medicine show no. 10 is great. Didn't really realise I had it. Don't think it belongs in the actual Madlib canon as it's just crate digging showing off but there are some fucking jams on it. Also all the covers the the medicine show things are masterpieces.

OK cratedigging is probably an exaggeration seeing as most of the songs are pretty IDable

couple of clips off 12 sound fuckin great, like that one mind fusion hip hip mix

http://rappcats.com/xxx/madlib_remix_deck_rae.mp3

http://rappcats.com/xxx/madlib_remix_az.mp3

lol, just looked up a few posts, what I meant to say that I really hope this shit is like Remixes 2 - 1980s Saturday Morning Edition

dgaf about bumping this thread repeatedly but I'm listening to this shit over and over and over again

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sCcl45PVDo

was the "jazznova remixed" album any good?

I mean why can't stonesthrow or whoever put out remix albums that like free design one every year, there's no excuse imo.

testament to how interesting madlib is that i'm clicking play on a youtube called 'jazznova remixed'

i like some of the MED record mentioned upthread, btw, talib's great on it

http://www.stonesthrow.com/news/2012/02/madlib-medicine-show

All 13 Medicine Shows are out now.

I highly rec. #4, #10 and #12

i like 3, 5 and 12

where's the mutant porn at?

the doom/jadakiss song is real good. it's encouraging bc there are a bunch of really bad recent doom tracks.

IIRC that verse is from 2005

ah hm

I love madlib but I saw him do a set for the release of 12/13 or w/e and it was really fuckin boring

wheras I saw him do some random set last year that was one of the most amazing things I went to

Any consensus on the Freddie Gibbs collab (Piñata)?

FREDDIE GIBBS - TEN PACKS OF BACKWOODS VS. DOPE IN MY STYROFOAM

Cheers

Rock Konducta Vol 1 rules so far! chopping up psych, kraut, dollar bin skot type records, everything

not a huge fan of this one, I wish he would extend himself a bit

^^ I hear that ... i loooooove madlib but at the end of the day how many beat tapes do I need?

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

of course i'm still going to pick it up!

not a huge fan of this one, I wish he would extend himself a bit

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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

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?)

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

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

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=porRFeXlOho

the African one is incredible

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

He's got a new solo LP out, Sound Ancestors, and it's really great so far.

Yeah, it’s good. Arranged, edited and mastered by Kieren Hebden/Four Tet too.

I didn't know that but it makes perfect sense.

What is it? Collage snippets of loops?

oh cross posted to four tet. it's really great.

https://madlib.bandcamp.com/album/sound-ancestors

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

love this record

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.

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 :)

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?

The kazoo bits in Loose Goose are also from Critical/Dance, just later in the track.

love the use of young marble giants on dirtknock

The kazoo bits in Loose Goose are also from Critical/Dance, just later in the track.

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.

Anyone knows what’s the sample on “latino negro”

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.

So good

i wonder how much material Four Tet had to work with

hate this album lol

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

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.

Because Four Tet pushed for it, I think that's pretty obvious

Xp

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, 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

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

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.

sounds nothing like the four tet madvillainy remixes

feel duty-bound to bump this tbh

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/14/california-la-fires-madlib-home

Madlib lost home and much of 30 year collection in the LA fires