June 12 street date. RECORD STORE DAY release. This single LP edition of "Piñata" has been lacquered at half speed master by Metropolis Mastering in London for the highest fidelity and is housed in an 80s themed cover variant exclusively for Record Store Day 2021. "Piñata", the acclaimed effort from Freddie Gibbs and Madlib, is a perennial best seller. For RSD 2021, Gibbs and Madlib replace Crockett and Tubbs for a follow up to the blaxploitation inspired "Piñata: The 1974 Version", with the 80s fueled "Piñata: The 1984 Version". Though we promise, no mullets or ugly Ferraris.
Excl. - Madlib loves Brasilian music. Back in 2002 that wasn’t so obvious. At that time he was beginning the experiments that led to the Yesterday New Quintet records from 2003 to today. Peanutbutter Wolf used to slide Coleman and myself CDs of those early “rehearsals” as Madlib would call them and we spent many hours dissecting and discoursing on them and how he was changing the music. When the possibility of the Keepintime crew going to Brasil came up I asked Madlib one night outside the Rootdown if he wanted to go. “Cmon man…. Azymuth is one of my favorite groups” he confided. I had seen many Azymuth records over the years, the Rio de Janeiro trio on Milestone with some dodgy looking covers. I knew their proto-house anthem Jazz Carnival but they weren’t my favorite group. Music has a beautiful way of making you re-evaluate what you may have discarded. Madlib is an artist that gives one new ears every couple of years if you choose to pay close enough attention. I’m happy to say that in regards to Azymuth - Madlib blew our heads open. When we went to Brasil to recruit drummers the only name I knew I wanted for sure was Mamão. Mamão is the drummer of Azymuth. Mamao is a fantastic drummer and a warm generous person. That scene in the film where we played him the Madlib CD is a beautiful emblem of the spirit of the Brasilintime. Mamão reacted with genuine excitement at the music - singing and playing percussion along with it. Even calling in his wife to hear. We knew that a Madlib, Mamão collaboration would only take time and organization. Mamao of course isn’t simply the drummer of Azymuth. He has a long career in the studios of Rio that stretches back to the Jovem Guarda era with the rock group the Youngsters and which includes sessions for Roberto Carlos, Marcos Valle, Maria Bethania, Hyldon, Edu Lobo, Chico Buarque, Gal Costa among many others. He is also the drummer on the Dom Salvador record with the monster break! He continues to be active playing and producing many projects for Far Out Records. Madlib played a new CD of tracks that he had been working on with this project in mind and there was one that stuck with Mamao. Segura esta Onda is that track and it is really a tribute to Azymuth. Mamao ended up singing on it. It was a great night and within two months Madlib had turned those rhythm tracks into the album you have in your hands. Filled with songs from the greats of Brasilian music of the mid sixties to early seventies. Luiz Eca, Chico Buarque, Joao Donato, Baden and Vinicius, Marcos Valle, Dom Um Romao, Airto even George Duke gets a look in. And of course Azymuth. This a very special set of music.
January 29 street date. Talk of LIBERATION began to circulate around the industry after Kweli posted a short but significant blog about it on his Myspace page back in September of 2006 along with the first release from the album, "Funny Money". Since then, Kweli and Madlib fans flooded messageboards and blog pages, anxious for the impending release. With both halves known to have been members of some of the best collaborations in hip hop, the expectations for this project were, in effect, set far above the bar. The cohesion of Kweli’s sharp, quick spitting lyrics and Madlib’s progressive beat production made for a much sought after product.
July 7 street date. Shades Of Blue is a unique project that turns over the legacy of the esteemed Blue Note jazz label to one of hip-hop's most unique artists, Madlib. He is considered to be one of hip-hop's most inventive visionaries and connects it's productions through smart lyrics and poetics. The album opens with the declaration that "We are now having a little cooking session for Blue Note right here on the scene..." Madlib was afforded the opportunity to mine the crates of Blue Note. On Shades of Blue, he delivers remixes and brand spanking new interpretations of Blue Note classics. Whether funking out Ronnie Foster's original "Mystic Brew" and transforming it into the "Mystic Bounce," or giving Wayne Shorter's "Footprints" a go with Yesterday's New Quintet, rest assured that Madlib's innovative sonic vocabulary will fill the ears. Other artists receiving a Madlib reimagination include Donald Byrd, Bobbi Humphrey, Bobby Hutcherson, Horace Silver, The Three Sounds and many more. Pitchfork album reviewer Scott Hreha rates the album 8.6 "Listening to Madlib's music, I'm reminded of the Black radical maestros responsible for some of the outermost-limits music-making of the past half-century: Sun Ra, George Clinton, Lee 'Scratch' Perry". In 2014, it ranked at number 11 on Paste's "12 Classic Hip-Hop Albums That Deserve More Attention" list. 180 gram audiophile vinyl. Interpretations and Remixes of Blue Note Classics "The Look Of Slim", "Distant Land", "Stormy", live performance of "Peace/Dolphin Dance" and many more tracks. First pressing of 1.000 numbered copies on Blue and White mixed vinyl.
June 1 street date. As one of the most prolific hip hop producers of all time Madlib collaborated with different artists and recorded own songs under different pseudonyms. During his outstanding year 2003 he released the crown on his work, the remix album Shades of Blue. The album Untinted contains the source material for the project and is fantastic intro to compare all the material from both recordings. It's a great dose of jazz in which Madlib focuses on the soul and jazz stuff he used for the recordings. With songs by among others Herbie Hancock, Horace Silvers and Donald Byrd the 12-track album gives you an indication of the way Madlib created his pieces. 180 gram audiophile vinyl. Original songs by Gene Harris & The Three Sounds, Donald Byrd's "Distant Land" (previously unreleased track, now available on vinyl), Bobbi Humphrey, Wayne Shorter and more tracks by jazz icons.
July 15 street date. Madlib’s Rock Konducta 2 - the second of two rock-inspired entries in the producer’s long-running Beat Konducta instrumental series. Madlib announced his Rock Konducta album with a limited edition 45 made specifically for sale at the Zamrock Live! Madlib Medicine Show in San Francisco in ealry 2013. It was a fitting place to make the debut, as his previous Beat Konducta in Africa album was heavily inspired by Africa’s vibrant 70s rock scene, with a specific focus on Zambia’s Zamrock. Rock Konducta - presented in two LP volumes - is the fifth installment in Madlib’s Beat Konducta series. Previous entries include: Beat Konducta : Movie Scenes, Beat Konducta: in India, Beat Konducta: Dil Cosby and Dil Withers Suites and Beat Konducta in Africa. Rock Konducta grabs its source material from various worldwide rock scenes from the 60s through the 80s, from American psychedelia to Germany’s krautrock to acid-soaked Spanish prog to synthy, early-80s oddities. Tied together by Madlib’s unique sensibility, these scenes coalesce into a new whole. Who knew that rock music sounded like this? Well, there’s one obvious answer to that question.
Available now. Back in print, and at a lower price! '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 and Madlibs first
collaboration. This 2xLP standard reissue has brand new cover art.
March.23rd Street date. Beat Konducta in Africa is a 37-track instrumental hip-hop album produced & mixed with Madlib, featuring J. Rocc. This album bases itself on the obscure vinyl gems from the afro-beat, funk, psych-rock, garage-rock & soul movements of African countries as diverse as Zambia, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Ghana, Botswana and Ivory Coast. Madlib's Beat Konducta instrumental series created from Madlib's raw beat tapes, began in 2006 with Movie Scenes, an imaginary movie & TV soundtrack with the feel of Blaxpoitation soul, afro-psychedelia and moody progressive rock. Beat Konducta in India (Vol. 3-4) and A Tribute to J Dilla (Vol. 5-6) followed in 2007 and 2009. Pieces of these albums have been reworked by artists such as Talib Kweli and Mos Def, who used Beat Konducta in India on his 2009 album Ecstatic.
June.21st Street date. 34 tracks of Madlib's fifth installment of the infamous Medicine Show series! This collection of beats showcases the way that Madlib’s early hip-hop demos were filtered out to his crew of friends and associates, providing an opportunity for a unique view into Madlib’s working process. The Madlib Medicine Show series is 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. This album is punctuated with a series of early solo-raps by Madlib and his Quasimoto alter ego and features the crew known collectively as CDP those rappers who worked side by side with Madlib during the days of his Oxnard CA-based Crate Diggas Palace studios.
July.27th Street date. Volume 7 in the Medecine Show series. High Jazz is an all-new Madlib jazz production. High Jazz, the name itself a tribute to the landmark jazz-fusion album released by Stanton Davis’s Ghetto Mysticism in 1976, shows a marked development in Madlib’s craft. Limited deluxe edition 3-disc vinyl.
Available now. After a brief pause in the 'Medicine Show' series, MADLIB returns with a 28-track, full length hip-hop album of collaborations with AG, Guilty Simpson, MED, Oh No, Strong Arm Steady, and others. Karriem Riggins pops in for a short Supreme Team session, Madlib & Oh No debut their group The Professionals, and we hear for the first time a Jaylib-era track from Madlib & Dilla's never realized second album. The unofficial title of this album is 'Dirty Demos Selected By The Loop Digga', a reference to a fire which destroyed some of this album's master tapes. Note that the limited 3LP deluxe edition (MMS011DLX) is sold out.
December 13 street date. DELUXE LP - LIMITED TO 1000 UNITS! Created specially for this fall's Medicine Show Tour, "Medicine Show #12/13" is a single LP containing eleven tracks from "Medicine Show #12: Raw Medicine" on side one, ten tracks from not-yet-released "Medicine Show #13" on side two. Total running time: 37 minutes. The covers are one-of-a-kind original artwork, silk screened by Hit+Run, with artwork by Jeff Jank & Gustavo Eandi. This is strictly limited to 1000 pieces and will not be released in standard-jacket format.
March 5 street date. Gil Evans to Miles Davis.... Holger Czukay to the ensemble known as Can....Jean Claude Vannier to Serge Gainsbourg on "Histoire de Melody Nelson". That's the only way to explain the specificity of Four Tet and Madlib's collaboration, in this special album that showcases a two-decade long friendship that has resulted in an album that follows Madlib's classics like Quasimoto's "The Unseen", "Madvillainy" and his "Pinata" and "Bandana" albums with Freddie Gibbs. "A few months ago I completed work on an album with my friend Madlib that we'd been making for the last few years. He is always making loads of music in all sorts of styles and I was listening to some of his new beats and studio sessions when I had the idea that it would be great to hear some of these ideas made into a Madlib solo album. Not made into beats for vocalists to use but instead arranged into tracks that could all flow together in an album designed to be listened to start to finish. I put this concept to him when we were hanging out eating some nice food one day and we decided to work on this together with him sending me tracks, loops, ideas and experiments that I would arrange, edit, manipulate and combine. I was sent hundreds of pieces of music over a couple of years stretch and during that time I put together this album with all the parts that fitted with my vision" - Kieren Hebden aka Four Tet.
March 5 street date. Gil Evans to Miles Davis.... Holger Czukay to the ensemble known as Can....Jean Claude Vannier to Serge Gainsbourg on "Histoire de Melody Nelson". That's the only way to explain the specificity of Four Tet and Madlib's collaboration, in this special album that showcases a two-decade long friendship that has resulted in an album that follows Madlib's classics like Quasimoto's "The Unseen", "Madvillainy" and his "Pinata" and "Bandana" albums with Freddie Gibbs. "A few months ago I completed work on an album with my friend Madlib that we'd been making for the last few years. He is always making loads of music in all sorts of styles and I was listening to some of his new beats and studio sessions when I had the idea that it would be great to hear some of these ideas made into a Madlib solo album. Not made into beats for vocalists to use but instead arranged into tracks that could all flow together in an album designed to be listened to start to finish. I put this concept to him when we were hanging out eating some nice food one day and we decided to work on this together with him sending me tracks, loops, ideas and experiments that I would arrange, edit, manipulate and combine. I was sent hundreds of pieces of music over a couple of years stretch and during that time I put together this album with all the parts that fitted with my vision" - Kieren Hebden aka Four Tet.
August 12 street date. Following three stellar EP releases over a two and a half year period, the Madlib and Freddie Gibbs collaboration is finally here - Piñata, aka Cocaine Piñata - with the bold claim "featuring every mother fucker in the rap game worth fucking with."
Available now. 2018 repress. "Madlib and Freddie Gibbs return with a final EP launch before they release their long-awaited collaborative album, Piñata. The Deeper EP delivers on this promise, and more. Gibbs showcases the yin and yang of heartbreak and anger on the title track, in a lovelorn narrative that meshes perfectly with the weepy strings and insistent rhythm of Madlib's beat. We haven't heard something like this in rap music since Nas' 'One Love,' nearly twenty years ago. The B-side, 'Harolds' -- exclusive to this EP -- gives Gibbs a chance to ride some low down Beat Konducta-fueled funk in a nostalgic ode to the Chicago chicken-shack that served as the backdrop to many of his seminal life experiences."
March 29 street date. "Flat Tummy Tea" b/w "Bandana" feat. Assassin, with instrumentals and bonus beats. "Flat Tummy Tea" is from the forthcoming album "Bandana". Other tracks are exclusive to this 12-inch release.
October 30 street date / November 13 for LP. With 100% beats by Madlib, "Bad Neighbor" is the brainchild of MED - a cornerstone in Stones Throw’s history -- and Blu - the voice behind modern classics like "Below the Heavens" -- who instantly clicked a decade earlier on tour with Emanon. The album is an exclamation point on the idea that began with "The Burgundy EP", expanded to include Dam Funk and Mayer Hawthorne on "The Buzz EP", and continued until contributions from Anderson.Paak (Dr. Dre’s Compton), Hodgy Beats (Odd Future), and the one-and-only MF DOOM made "Bad Neighbor" ready to launch. But "Bad Neighbor" isn’t the first time MED and Madlib’s orbits have collided. A fellow head from the fertile crescent of Oxnard, CA, MED not only guested on the now-classic "Soundpieces" by Lootpack in ’99, he also dropped into Madvillain’s "Raid" ("Madvillainy", 2004) and made his mark on Quasimoto’s "Unseen" (2000), not to mention making the sole MC appearance on Madlib’s acclaimed "Shades of Blue". Madlib, in turn, provided the lion’s share of production on MED’s "Classic" and "Push Comes to Shove" alongside J Dilla and Oh No. Meanwhile Blu, besides earning HipHopDX’s "Rookie of the Year" bona fides, put LA back on the map alongside Exile and as a self-produced solo artist. "Bad Neighbor", although hazy, heavy, and blunted under the influence of Madlib’s aesthetic backbone, floats effortlessly above the smoke by virtue of MED and Blu’s sometimes topical, sometimes acrobatic, and always on-point interplay. The album is undoubtedly an extension of all three artists’ signature sounds, but it simultaneously defies all precedents to reaffirm each individual’s position at the forefront of LA’s legendary hip-hop landscape.
November 13 LP release date (date change) / October 30 for CD. With 100% beats by Madlib, "Bad Neighbor" is the brainchild of MED - a cornerstone in Stones Throw’s history -- and Blu - the voice behind modern classics like "Below the Heavens" -- who instantly clicked a decade earlier on tour with Emanon. The album is an exclamation point on the idea that began with "The Burgundy EP", expanded to include Dam Funk and Mayer Hawthorne on "The Buzz EP", and continued until contributions from Anderson.Paak (Dr. Dre’s Compton), Hodgy Beats (Odd Future), and the one-and-only MF DOOM made "Bad Neighbor" ready to launch. But "Bad Neighbor" isn’t the first time MED and Madlib’s orbits have collided. A fellow head from the fertile crescent of Oxnard, CA, MED not only guested on the now-classic "Soundpieces" by Lootpack in ’99, he also dropped into Madvillain’s "Raid" ("Madvillainy", 2004) and made his mark on Quasimoto’s "Unseen" (2000), not to mention making the sole MC appearance on Madlib’s acclaimed "Shades of Blue". Madlib, in turn, provided the lion’s share of production on MED’s "Classic" and "Push Comes to Shove" alongside J Dilla and Oh No. Meanwhile Blu, besides earning HipHopDX’s "Rookie of the Year" bona fides, put LA back on the map alongside Exile and as a self-produced solo artist. "Bad Neighbor", although hazy, heavy, and blunted under the influence of Madlib’s aesthetic backbone, floats effortlessly above the smoke by virtue of MED and Blu’s sometimes topical, sometimes acrobatic, and always on-point interplay. The album is undoubtedly an extension of all three artists’ signature sounds, but it simultaneously defies all precedents to reaffirm each individual’s position at the forefront of LA’s legendary hip-hop landscape.
October 13 street date. With 100% beats by Madlib, Bad Neighbor is the brainchild of MED – a cornerstone in Stones Throw’s history -- and Blu – the voice behind modern classics like Below the Heavens -- who instantly clicked a decade earlier on tour with Emanon.
November 17 street date. There goes the neighborhood! MED, Blu and Madlib return with a new EP called The Turn Up. Soulful, hard hitting raw sounds produced by Madlib matched with lyrics from 2 of Hip Hops elite.
February 5 street date. Brand new EP featuring BLu & MED trading rhymes over beats by Madlib. Featuring songs from the upcoming LP produced entirely by Madlib & featuring MCs Blu & MED. Packaged in limited edition Burgundy colored vinyl!
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