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

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