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The Madlib Medicine Show.
So, here is the info on the new Madlib project. Each month for 1 year he will be releasing an "episode". This is BIG! He'll be spinning new hip hop productions, remixes, some jazz, funk, Brazilian, psych and more. Don't know about you, but I can't wait. Dropping in December 2009.
Here's a leak from Volume 1. Guilty Simpson - The Paper. BIG TUUNE!!
top secret...
You might have heard the infamous Mind Fusion series of Madlib. Well, there's something else in the works from the man with the most aliases in Hip Hop. Madlib Medicine show. Let's hope this stuff is dropping soon!
Also, there's a new mixtape project around the corner. Behind it is no other than Beat Junkie J Rocc. It's called Dil Jackson and is a mash-up of J Dilla and Michael Jackson. Here's a teaser.
Madlib: Shades of Blue
This months album I'm stuck on... Madlib remixing the Blue Note catalog, get out the headphones and recliner.
New Madvillian!!!
About time the new album is coming! Illest combo in HipHop. Madlib vs Doom. Whut?!
Madlib. Speto da rua. Dirty Brazilian Crates Volume 1.
I used to be crazy about Madlib, his beats and his mixes. A true musician exploring the forgotten music of past times. At some stage he lost me with his beatconducta series, I just didn't really feel it anymore. Well today I came across the first mix in a series of six from his Brasilintime time and it's truly mindblowing. A journey into the beautiful forgotten sounds of Sao Paulo.
You can get it at the Mochilla shop.Brasilintime is a documentary film by Coleman and B+, filmed in Sao Paulo, Brasil. In September 2002 Coleman and B+ went to Sao Paulo for nine days. They had a week to link with (hip hop) Brasil, enlist three drummers and find enough breaks to make a break record to guarantee commitment from our oversubscribed DJs back home. The movie documents the meeting of hiphop legends (Babu, Madlib, Cut Chemist, and J Rocc) and jazz legends Paul Humphrey, James Gadson, and Ivan "Mamao" Conti amongst others. If you get a chance to watch it, don't miss out. Truely inspiring jam session!! Madlib building beats in hotel room in Brasil.Here's the trailer for the Brasilintime Documentary.
The cult of J Dilla - What made him special?
Pretty cool article on Dilla by Guardian editor Simon Reynolds, cool in the way it describes the experience of a person after having discovered the work of J Dilla. Or as the famous t-shirt states "J Dilla changed my life".
I'm one of those people who believe the sector that kept rap vital these last dozen years wasn't the underground but that cusp zone between "the streets" and commercial mainstream: Cash Money, Ruff Ryders, Ludacris, Lil Jon. Mostly dirty south, in other words: hip-hop that isn't encumbered by crippling reverence towards its old-skool past.
Still, sometimes as a critic you just absorb a sense of the musical landscape through osmosis and sure enough when I asked the DJ what record he was playing, he reluctantly (the attitude, typical for this kind of store, seemed to be "if you need to ask, you're not someone who needs to know") showed me the instrumentals version of Dilla's posthumous album, The Shining.
Over the next week I got hold of as much Dilla as I could: stuff he'd done with his group Slum Village and in collaboration with Madlib, solo records like Donuts, Ruff Draft, Welcome to Detroit and, naturally, The Shining (where I discovered that the track that blew my mind in the store was called Won't Do)
But then the internet comes along and responds :)
While I respect this as opinion, and musical taste should be as personal and free a choice as anything, I think it is quite wrong to claim that the above mentioned artists have " kept rap vital these last dozen years". Vital to you maybe but most of those who have a deep appreciation for hip hop surely will find fault with this. With respect, it is obvious that the author has, at best, a subtle knowledge and interest in hip hop, as he admits he "slept on" Jay Dee only really discovering him after his death. Anyone truly familiar with "these last dozen years" of hip hop would have known Jay Dee's work intimately, even if, like me, they didn't favour every one of his productions.
The 'backpack' label, a ridiculous reductive stereotype, is not applicable to a man who produced tracks and remixes for Janet Jackson, Heavy D, D'Angelo, Erykah Badu and Jamiroquai and, from his beginning, crafted a sound which had a profound influence accross the genre-and beyond. Neither is it relevant for Premier or Pete Rock. It belittles their accomplishments and influence on the music as a whole.
There is a tendency amongst those over 30 to be irrationally protective of their favourite hip hop artists I do not to fall into that category. As the popularity, and popification, of hip hop has increased over the years some find it hard to deal with their favourites perceived loss of relevance. They shouldn't worry. If we accept music as art and ignore the attempts of people to attatch cultural relevance and vitality to record sales and TV appearances, in other words treat hip hop as any other music or art form, popularity, arbitrary labelling and the concept of relevence become, themselves, irrelevant. The fact that years after his death Jay Dee's past work is still being discovered by some and new releases are eagerly anticipated is proof of this.
He was, ultimately, in the great tradition of hip hop production with influences from a wide variety of musical genres fused into a fresh, true new sound. This influence is traced through the works of, amongst others, Marley Marl, Paul C, Ced Gee, Prince Paul, Rick Rubin, Dr Dre, DJ Muggs, Eric B and Rakim, Erick Sermon, Large Professor, Ali Shaheed Muhammad, Q Tip, Mark the 45 King, DJ Premier, Pete Rock , The Beatminers, Buckwild, Jay Dee, MF Doom, Madlib, Lord Finesse, The RZA, Just Blaze, Kanye West, Hi Tek, 9th Wonder and on and on and on.
Sorry for the role call but if you like Jay Dee and are not familiar with some of the names I have listed give them a listen. There are many more.
Many of these producers began at a time when almost ALL hip hop was "underground", a euphemism for not popular. Most have produced tracks for the biggest names in popular music, hip hop or not, which has never impeded their ability to remain relevent to all who apprecite thier sound. This doesn't mean all of their work is great, how could it be, but these are the people who have injected vitality in the music for the past 25 years or so. I'm sure knowledgable people like Ludicrous,some of the Ruff Ryders and Mannie Fresh will acknowledge that fact.
I mean no disrespect to the author. As I said, I appreciate the post and its honesty. No backpacks in sight.
James Dewitt Yancey - J Dilla or JayDee, one of the most influential producers of our time
James Dewitt Yancey, better known as J Dilla or JayDee. Producer and beatcreator from the underground scene in Detroit, to some one of the best and most influential beatmakers of all time. The list of artists Dilla worked with is pretty impressive, think De La Soul, Busta Rhymes, Common, A Tribe Called Quest, Q-Tip The Pharcyde, Janet Jackson, Erykah Badu, Talib Kweli, Madlib, Kanye West (who?) and Pete Rock. Just to name a few.
J Dilla was part of Slum Village and The Soulquarians and of course produced with Madlib under the their moniker Jaylib, having produced the album Champion Sound which in my opinion was their breakthrough to the larger public. J Dilla produced many solo albums and mixtapes and even today his beats are used by well respected artists in de scene like Raekwon from the Wu-Tang Clan.
J Dilla died on February 10, 2006, three days after his 32nd birthday, on which he released his last album, titled Donuts.
The legacy lives on.
terrifying effigies
- 7am
peter, paul, and mary - puff the magic dragon (1963)
- 9am
the hood internet (abx) - single foxes (put a wood on it) (2008)
- 10am
cam'ron - killa cam (2004)
- 11am
mario kart - koopa beach theme (1992)
- 12pm
madlib - third ear (more) (2006)
girl talk - set it off (2008)
- 2pm
kanye west - roses (2005)
- 3pm
p.o.d. - alive (2001)
- 10pm
