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Showing posts with label Madlib. Show all posts

Dilla Days: February 5th

Continuing on with the fifth of twenty-eight days dedicated to James "J Dilla" Yancey is another pair of creations that are sure to keep your head nodding. Starting off is a track most of you are probably familiar with from the Jaylib collaboration album Champion Sound. The Talib Kweli assisted cut "Raw Shit" represents exactly what the title of the song says and is yet another example of Dilla's versatile production styles. Secondly, we have a song I don't know a lot about other than it's extreme dopeness. The song is called "I Must Love You" and for whatever reason was the only Dilla production featured on Guilty Simpson's album Ode To The Ghetto. Anyways, the beat is absolutely nuts and if you haven't heard it I would highly recommend that you take a few seconds to check it out.

Download: Jaylib feat. Talib Kweli - "Raw Shit" (Prod. by J Dilla)
Download: Guilty Simpson - "I Must Love You" (Prod. by J Dilla)

Guilty Simpson - Piglets (Oh No Remix)

This past year, around the same time Madlib was creating his remix of Guilty Simpson's Ode to the Ghetto for his Madlib Medicine Show #1 release, 'Libs little brother Oh No began remixing the tracks as well, using samples from the Now-Again catalog. Oh No's Ghettodes collection is not an album, but a few tracks have been released, including this remix for the song "Pigs" which was originally produced by Madlib for the Ode To The Ghetto.

Download: Guilty Simpson - "Piglets (Oh No Remix)"
Bonus: Guilty Simpson - "Pigs" (Prod. by Madlib)

Strong Arm Steady feat. Phonte - Best Of Times (Prod. by Madlib)

As the anticipation continues for the upcoming Strong Arm Steady & Madlib album In Search of Stoney Jackson, the folks at Stones Throw decided to let out yet another leak. On the album's intro "Best Of Times", the SAS crew flows over a smooth, laid back head-nodder from Madlib and features Little Brother's Phonte singing on the hook. In Search of Stoney Jackson drops next Tuesday, January 26th, and is produced entirely by Madlib, who is a longtime friend of Phil Da Agony and extended Strong Arm Steady family. The album’s conception owes a great deal to World Famous Beat Junkie, J.Rocc, who provided the trio with close to 200 of the Madlib the Beat Konducta’s tracks to choose from.

Download: Strong Arm Steady feat. Phonte - "Best Of Times" (Prod. by Madlib)

Strong Arm Steady & Bad Lucc - Jordache Look (Prod. by Madlib)

Here's some more Madlib to add to your collection, and once again it is another collaboration with Strong Arm Steady, including additional vocals from Bad Lucc. Strong Arm Steady & Madlib's In Search of Stoney Jackson drops worldwide Jan. 26, 2010. Advance copies of the CD/Digital are available at Stones Throw now. The guys are working on a video for the album, so expect that and a podcast of other new material to come in the weeks ahead.

Download: Strong Arm Steady & Bad Lucc - "Jordache Look" (Prod. by Madlib)

Madlib & Guilty Simpson - The Paper

Madlib Medicine Show No. 1: Before The Verdict is a full 17-track hip-hop album with original tracks and "the OJ Simpson remixes" featuring Guilty Simpson. Consider it a prelude to Madlib & Guilty's collab OJ Simpson. There are two brief guest appearances by MED and J Dilla, in a short, previously unreleased interlude dating back to his & Madlib's first collaboration. An 8-page booklet with track list is included in the CD. Worldwide release of Madlib Medicine Show No. 1 will be January 2010. The CD is available now at stonesthrow.com.

Download: Madlib & Guilty Simpson - "The Paper"
Download: Madlib - "Kill Em (Guilty Simpson Remix)"

Strong Arm Steady feat. Phonte - Best Of Times (Prod. by Madlib)

In Search of Stoney Jackson is produced entirely by Madlib, longtime friend of Phil Da Agony and extended Strong Arm Steady family. The album’s conception owes a great deal to World Famous Beat Junkie, J.Rocc, who provided the trio with close to 200 of the Madlib the Beat Konducta’s tracks to choose from. Strong Arm Steady had previously rapped over Madlib productions on the Madlib and Talib Kweli Liberation album, but this full-length marks a long-desired collaboration between the four. It’s a hip-hop jam session, with the group acting as the rhythm section for an all-star cast of guest vocalists such as Planet Asia, Guilty Simpson, Evidence, Chace Infinite, and Phonte of Little Brother. [via Stones Throw]

Download: Strong Arm Steady feat. Phonte - "Best Of Times" (Prod. by Madlib)

In Search Of Stoney Jackson

DJ Khalil drops by the studio and captures some footage of Strong Arm Steady previewing some joints for some friends (Jay Electronica, Bad-Lucc & Planet Asia), off their upcoming Stoney Jackson collaboration album with Madlib.

Madlib & Guilty Simpson - The Paper

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 (yes, it is really that much) 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.

Download: Madlib & Guilty Simpson - "The Paper"

Strong Arm Steady feat. Talib Kweli - Get Started (Prod. by Madlib)

Here is the second track to be released from the upcoming collaboration between Strong Arm Steady & Madlib, Stoney Jackson. "Get Started" features a verse from Talib Kweli and an incredible instrumental courtesy of Madlib. Guest appearances on Stoney Jackson include Talib Kweli, Guilty Simpson, Phonte, Planet Asia and a host of underground Los Angeles’s emerging rap talent. Track list & release date on the way, as well as a new music video coming sometime next week.

Download: Strong Arm Steady feat. Talib Kweli - "Get Started" (Prod. by Madlib)

Stoney Jackson (Strong Arm Steady x Madlib) - Get Ya Money Right

The Madlib/Strong Arm Steady collaboration album Stoney Jackson came together in a flurry of creative energy over recent months. Prompted by Madlib’s stalwart DJ J.Rocc, who supplied SAS with 14 new Madlib beats CD, this album’s conception and delivery bear resemblance to the trajectory took by 2003’s Jaylib with J Dilla and 2004’s Madvillain with DOOM.

The SAS had previously rapped over Madlib’s music on their mixtape/album Deep Hearted and on the Talib Kweli/Madlib album Liberation.

The Stoney Jackson album unfolds over sixteen tracks and is a brisk, exciting hip hop record. Krondon and Phil The Agony supply the majority of the vocals with the third SAS member Mitchy Slick; guest appearances include Talib Kweli, Guilty Simpson, Little Brother’s Phonte, Planet Asia and a host of underground Los Angeles’s emerging rap talent.

Stoney Jackson represents Madlib’s return to the hip-hop fold and sets the scene for the OJ Simpson collaboration he’s finishing with Guilty Simpson.

Download: Stoney Jackson (Strong Arm Steady & Madlib) - "Get Your Money Right" (Podcast)

Jaylib - Champion Sound

01. L.A. To Detroit
02. McNasty Filth feat. Frank-N-Dank
03. Nowadayz
04. Champion Sound
05. The Red
06. Heavy
07. Raw Shit feat. Talib Kweli
08. The Official
09. The Heist
10. The Mission
11. React feat. Quasimoto
12. Strapped feat. Guilty Simpson
13. Strip Club
14. The Exclusive feat. Percee P
15. Survival Test
16. Starz
17. No Games

Preview:

Madlib - Shades Of Blue

01. Intro
02. Slims Return
03. Distant Land
04. Mystic Bounce
05. Stormy
06. Blue Not Interlude
07. Please Set Me At Ease feat. MED
08. Funky Blue Note
09. Alfred Lion Interlude
10. Stepping Into Tommorow
11. Andrew Hill Break
12. Montara
13. Song For My Father
14. Footprints
15. Peace (Dolphin Dance)
16. Outro

Preview:

Karriem Riggins & Madlib Are "Jahari Masamba Unit"

This is Karriem Riggins on Madlib's fucked up drum set at the Loop Digga's Hideaway. New album from Madlib & Karriem under the name Jahari Masamba Unit coming later this year.

A Guide To Madlib's Mindfusion Series.

Madlib’s five-volume mixtape series, Mind Fusion, was released 2004-2007. These CD releases bare no label or address, just the name “Madlib” designed like the Tamla Records logo. One suspects they are outlaw. Some have suggested they were printed by an arm of the Aum Supreme Truth Cult in Japan, but no solid proof exists to support this claim.

Vols. 1 and 4 contain production from Madlib. Vol. 2 is a jazz mix. Vols. 3 and 5 are mixes of records from around the world. Each mix has a minimal or incomplete track list and a descriptive subtitle.

Liner notes in each volume, from authors such as Thurston Moore, Vaclav Havel, LeRoi Jones, and Lungston Hughes, range from essays on jazz, a Los Angeles guides, poems, tips on making bombs at home, and a biography of the Beat Konducta which is likely ficticious.

Vols. 1 and 2 appear to have been repressed because of slightly different color and logo placement between the two editions.

A detailed description of each can be found by clicking the following link: Rappcats.com

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