Madlib essencial na Fact

A Fact acaba de publicar a sua lista de entradas essenciais no catálogo de Madlib. Eis a lista:

01: LOOTPACK
SOUNDPIECES: DA ANTIDOTE
(STONES THROW, 1999)
02: KAZI‘DOWN FOR THE KAZ'
(STONES THROW, 2000)
03: QUASIMOTO
THE UNSEEN
(STONES THROW, 2000)
04: YESTERDAYS NEW QUINTET
ANGLES WITHOUT EDGES
(STONES THROW, 2001)
05: DUDLEY PERKINS‘FLOWERS’
(STONES THROW, 2003)
06: MADLIB
SHADES OF BLUE
(BLUE NOTE, 2003)
07: JAYLIB
CHAMPION SOUND
(STONES THROW, 2003)
08: MADVILLAIN
MADVILLAINY
(STONES THROW, 2004)
09: BEAT KONDUCTA
BEAT KONDUCTA VOL. 1 - 2: MOVIE SCENES
(STONES THROW, 2006)
10: DJ RELS
THEME FOR A BROKEN SOUL
(STONES THROW / GOYAMUSIC, 2004)

Boa lista, com muitos dos meus "personal faves" aqui listados em ordem inversa de preferência do autor, Mr Beatnick (faltarão alguns dos momentos mais... esotéricos de Madlib, incluindo as homenagens a Weldon Irvine e Stevie Wonder).
Lista completa e textos aqui.

Madlib's Medicine Show

Wowa, pobres bolsos...:

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.

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.)

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

Madlib na Wire

Prepare for a new yesterday, advises Madlib the former Lootpack MC who digs deep into his mental record crate to produce the wayward hip-hop of Quasimoto and the sample-libraries of Beat Konducta. Lisa Blanning hears about virtual one-man jazz bands, collaborations with J Dilla and Melvin Van Peebles, and his attempts to curate the past for music lovers of tomorrow. Photography by Jeremy & Claire Weiss

"My computer?" echoes Madlib incredulously. "I never use a computer. It's too easy. It's not easy to sound like Dilla, but you can make beats like Dilla with your computer, so that's why everybody sounds like Dilla." Madlib is in the middle of a European tour giving a rare interview - his first, in fact, since 2006. As we sit in his East London hotel room, I'm reminded that I'm talking to a man who doesn't use the internet or email. "You gotta look me in the eye," he explains. "That's why people start arguing. You can be bold while you're typing."

Otis Jackson Jr - producer, rapper, musician, crate-digging antiquarian - was born in 1973 and raised in Oxnard, California, 60 miles west of his current base of Los Angeles. We can get a glimpse of what life in suburban Oxnard must have been like from Gilbert & Jaime Hernandez's Love And Rockets comic books (Los Bros Hernandez are also from Oxnard, and many of their narratives are set there at the time young Otis was growing up). However, Madlib's lineage immediately set him apart. Born into a family of musicians, including his father Otis Senior, a vocalist, bandleader and studio player, mother Sinesca, a songwriter and guitarist, and his uncle, jazz trumpeter Jon Faddis, he was exposed to the secret workings of music recording from an early age.

From such auspicious beginnings, Madlib has become one of the most diverse and prolific artists in hip-hop. He made his underground cross-genre breakthrough as his wayward, apocryphal alter-ego Quasimoto; and his other major projects include Beat Konducta's curated collections of MC tools; his one- man virtual jazz band Yesterdays New Quintet and its spin-oils, in which he contributes drums, keyboards, bass and vibraphone; and his collaborations with the late J Dilla (Jaylib) and MF DOOM (Madvillain). Madlib's work traverses modern-day hip-hop to an extent that few can claim, and his crate-digging has reached such depths as to make him a veritable crate in himself, providing others with scores of tracks to help construct their own tunes. Yet for all the success his workaholism has brought him, he is a reticent public figure. "I hate standing in front of a crowd and having to show myself," he admits. "I'm a background dude."

Promete.

Mais leitura, aqui:

Madlib no HdB # 1

Madlib worldwide

Novo podcast com marca Stones Throw e dedo de Madlib.

This is part one of a two-part, hour long jazz mix did for BBC Radio 1's Gilles Peterson Worldwide this week.

Sort of a track list:
Irio De Paula feat. Stephan Gross
Dicci Santucci
The Hamilton Face Band “The Good Guys”
Mystery Track
The Russell Jenkins Outfit “The Drinking Suite” (Stones Throw)
Kenny Cook Octet “Tunes For Pharoah”
Thai Soul Compilation “Thai Boxing”
Prince Jazzbo “Make A Move”
“Psychedelic Joint”
Byron Miller “Panama” (Big One Music)
Rassan Roland Kirk “The Case Of The Mystery Black Notes”
& some other joints

Check out the rest of the show archived for a few more days at:
www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/gillespeterson

Madlib on worldwide Mix

Madlib na Radio Nova

Madlib parou na Radio Nova antes de uma apresentação ao vivo na capital francesa. Realizou um pequeno set de meia hora que agora está disponível no site da Stones Throw. Obrigatório, claro.

Madlib on radio Nova

Madlib on Hit da Breakz 1

Madlib no Hit da Breakz 2