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Tag: Madlib

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Madlib on his influences and love for music

November 4, 2020November 4, 2020 by Luke Alex Davis
Madlib for Konbini

Madlib sat with Konbini and talked about his musical influences, his first ever record, and the album his parents listened to the most.

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Jazz

Jahari Massamba Unit – Pardon My French

October 22, 2020October 22, 2020 by Luke Alex Davis
Jahari Massamba Unit – Pardon My French

Jahari Massamba Unit is the new collaboration between Madlib and Karriem Riggins. Here’s more about their new album, Pardon My French.

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Hip Hop

The Professionals (Oh No & Madlib) are back with a new album

December 2, 2019August 11, 2020 by Luke Alex Davis
The Professionals (Oh No & Madlib) are back with a new album

Madlib and Oh No join forces again as The Professionals with a new album out in January.

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Interviews

That time Scratch Magazine interviewed Madlib in 2005

July 12, 2019August 10, 2020 by Luke Alex Davis
Madlib

Madlib is more welcome to interviews these days but in 2005, they were a rarity. I can’t let a Madlib interview pass me by without saving it somewhere. Sometimes I scope them out for inspiration. On my travels, I found one via Stones Throw. It was an interview by Scratch Magazine and tells the same …

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Video

Freddie Gibbs & Madlib – Crime Pays (VIDEO)

May 31, 2019January 26, 2020 by Luke Alex Davis
Freddie Gibbs & Madlib - Crime Pays (VIDEO)

Prepare for trouble and make it double as Freddie Gibbs and Madlib promote their new album with “Crime Pays”. I’ve not been this excited for a new album in a long time. Yesterday, Freddie Gibbs and Madlib announced their new album Bandana would drop on 28th June. Egon of Now Again originally set a release …

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Instrumental Hip Hop

Starchildluke – VENOMTAPE

February 11, 2019March 1, 2020 by Sampleface
Starchildluke - VENOMTAPE

The UK producer drops the second album from his #Road2Switch series. We covered Starchildluke’s last album, Boas Festas, when it came out for Christmas. His aim was to release one album a month in 2019 for his #Road2Switch series, a fund created to buy a Nintendo Switch. January’s album is called VENOMTAPE and uses a …

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Hip Hop

Madlib, The Afro-Modernist​

December 9, 2018August 10, 2020 by Luke Alex Davis
Madlib

Modernism might have a white visage but Madlib’s brand of afro-modernism shouldn’t be overlooked.

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Hip Hop

Why I Love Madlib

October 24, 2018August 10, 2020 by Luke Alex Davis
Why I Love Madlib

Today is Madlib’s birthday. Here’s why I love his music and personality so much. In the mid-to-late 00s, I discovered a compilation by Zero 7. It was part of Late Night Tales’ mix series (then called Another Late Night) and it featured a song called Real Eyes by Quasimoto. I found it intriguing for many …

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Sampling Mixes

Samples from Jaylib’s Champion Sound Played by VinRican

October 13, 2018November 17, 2020 by Luke Alex Davis
Samples from Jaylib's Champion Sound Played by VinRican

Power 106 Los Angeles got DJ VinRican to mix tracks from Champion Sound with the samples they used. It’s officially dope. Say what you want about WhoSampled but I’m sure many of us have searched through and marvelled at the samples used in our favourite tracks. I’ve done it with Jaylib before but there’s always …

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Sampling DOOM

Sample Breakdown: Madvillainy

June 1, 2018January 6, 2021 by Luke Alex Davis
Sample Breakdown: Madvillainy

For anyone who needed a sample breakdown of Madvillainy, one of the greatest hip hop albums of our generation, here you go.

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Music

What I Learnt From Madlib’s 2016 RBMA Lecture

January 15, 2018August 10, 2020 by Luke Alex Davis
What I Learnt From Madlib's 2016 RBMA Lecture

Interviews with your idols can open a world of understanding. I watched Madlib’s RBMA lecture in New York for the first time and here’s what I took from it. Of all the musical idols who have directly influenced my music, Madlib is one of the main artists. His breadth of work and Bohemian approach to …

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Sampling

E-Digging and Crate Digging: A Collection of Posts

October 25, 2017December 10, 2020 by Luke Alex Davis
crate digging

Find resources and inspiration with our e-digging/crate digging article collection.

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Hip Hop

Jaylib – Da Rawkus (2002)

November 26, 2016January 9, 2021 by Luke Alex Davis
Jaylib

Jaylib went HAM in their respective ways on Da Rawkus, an unreleased track from 2002.

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Sampling

SAMPLE: Tha Alkaholiks’ Sample Of Stevie Wonder (1997)

November 24, 2016March 1, 2020 by Luke Alex Davis

We’ve taken a look at Tha Alkaholiks’ “All Night” sampling Stevie Wonder’s “Too High”. Stevie features prominently in every producer’s music collection. That invariably leads to sampling once in a while – or a lot. “Too High”, from his 1976 classic Innervisions, has been sampled on at least 8 tracks WhoSampled can account for. The …

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Mixes Music

Mndsgn Mixtape For Bonafide Magazine

November 23, 2014March 1, 2020 by Luke Alex Davis

Stones Throw’s Mndsgn compiles an exclusive mixtape for Bonafide Magazine. One of the best UK music magazines by far is Bonafide Magazine and after a few design changes, they’re stronger than ever. Their last issue featured interviews from Madlib AND DOOM (together, I might add), Theo Parrish, New Order, Just Blaze and BadBadNotGood amongst others. …

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Jazz Mixes

Madlib Mind Fusion Jazz Spotify Playlist

November 8, 2014January 15, 2021 by Luke Alex Davis

Check out this Latin jazz playlist, with tracks taken from Madlib’s Mind Fusion series. The title says it all really. About a year or so ago, Stones Throw compiled a playlist of jazz tracks from Madlib’s Mind Fusion mix series. It’s a who’s who of classic Latin jazz musicians from all over the globe: Azymuth, …

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Mixes

Pipomixes – Beats, Headphones & Coffee Mix

August 2, 2014March 1, 2020 by Luke Alex Davis

Pipomixes – the self-proclaimed “PBS of the mixtape game” – throws together a fine mix featuring Madlib, James Brown, DOOM and plenty more favourites. We’re all fans of the themed mix but sometimes you just want to hear the greats together in one single stream and Pipomixes has provided. Saying that, there is a tenuous …

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DOOM Hip Hop

Madvillainy: A Decade Later

March 29, 2014January 6, 2021 by Ashton James Brown
Sample Breakdown: Madvillainy

Ashton James Brown gives his own insights into what made Madvillainy so special, 10 years after its release.

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Funk Hip Hop

Snoop Dogg – Cadillacs (Prod. Madlib)

February 28, 2014December 20, 2020 by Luke Alex Davis

Snoop leaves the reggae behind to jump back to the Cadillacs in his new Madlib-produced G-funk voyage.

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Video

SATURDAY MATINÉE: Madlib At Radio France’s Vinyl Library

January 4, 2014August 10, 2020 by Luke Alex Davis

Madlib spoke to Laura Leishman about his favourite records and why Dilla is one of the greatest at Radio France’s vinyl record library. For a man who keeps himself to himself, Madlib interviews are like gold dust and this is no exception. At Radio France’s vinyl archive in Paris, presenter Laura Leishman “unleashed” the West …

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