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Freddie Gibbs & Madlib

Pinata: The 1964 Version - 2023 Reissue

    Single-LP Edit Of Piñata Lacquered At Half Speed Master By Metropolis Mastering In London For The Highest Fidelity. Featuring Danny Brown, Mac Miller, Earl Sweatshirt, Raekwon, Scarface, Domo Genesis, Ab-Soul, Polyester the Saint, BJ The Chicago Kid, Big Time Watts, G-Wiz, Casey Veggies, Sulaiman, Meechy Darko & Freddie Kane. “Piñata is a gangster Blaxploitation ­lm on wax,” says Gibbs. As a producer, Madlib, quite simply, is music. 

    TRACK LISTING

    A1. Supplier
    A2. Scarface
    A3. Deeper
    A4. High (ft. Danny Brown)
    A5. Harold’s
    A6. Bomb (ft. Raekwon)
    A7. Shitsville
    A8. Thuggin’
    A9. Real
    A10. Uno
    B1. Robes (ft. Domo Genesis & Earl Sweatshirt)
    B2. Broken (ft. Scarface)
    B3. Lakers (ft. Ab-Soul & Polyester The Saint)
    B4. Knicks
    B5. Shame (ft. BJ The Chicago Kid)
    B6. Watts (ft. Big Time Watts)
    B7. Piñata (ft. Domo Genesis, G-Wiz, Casey Veggies, Sulaiman, Meechy Darko, & Mac Miller).

    Madlib

    Before The Verdict (Black Friday 23 Edition)

      THIS IS A BLACK FRIDAY 2023 EXCLUSIVE AND WILL BE AVAILABLE INSTORE ON FRIDAY NOVEMBER 24TH ON A FIRST COME FIRST SERVED BASIS, LIMITED TO ONE PER PERSON.

      IF THERE ARE ANY REMAINING COPIES THEY WILL BE MADE AVAILABLE ONLINE AT 8AM ON SATURDAY NOVEMBER 25TH).


      Before The Verdict Hits For RSD Black Friday 2023 In A Gold Vinyl Pressing. In 2010 Madlib launched the Madlib Medicine Show Series - an ambitious undertaking that saw the prolific producer release a new title on a monthly basis - which kept him busy into 2011. The series debuted with Before The Verdict with Guilty Simpson, a seventeen track rap outing with the Detroit MC. In addition to being the debut of Madlib's Medicine Show Series the release also served as a prelude to Guilty Simpson's OJ Simpson album, his collaboration with Madlib from later that year. Before The Verdict, an action-adventure psycho-thriller in the form of a full-length rap album, is back on print on vinyl for RSD Black Friday 2023

      TRACK LISTING

      1. Arraignment (Intro)
      2. Ode To The Ghetto (OJ Simpson Remix)
      3. Yikes (OJ Simpson Remix)
      4. Further
      5. Lucky Guy
      6. Pigs (OJ Simpson Remix)
      7. Life Goes By
      8. Get Bitches (OJ Simpson Remix)
      9. The Exclusive (feat. MED)
      10. Robbery (OJ Simpson Remix)
      11. Kill 'Em (OJ Simpson Remix)
      12. The Paper
      13. I Must Love You (OJ Simpson Remix)
      14. Looking For Trouble
      15. Young Guns (feat. J Dilla)
      16. My Moment (OJ Simpson Remix)
      17. American Dream & Future (OJ Simpson Remix)

      Jackson Conti (Madlib & Mamao)

      Sujinho

        Madlib reissues his long out of print collaboration with legendary Brazilian drummer Ivan “Mamao” Conti, propellant for lauded jazz fusion archetypes Azymuth, on his own imprint. Alternate cover artwork, photography by B+. When Madlib went to Brazil in 2002 with Mochilla to participate in the production of the Brazilintime documentary, his one mission was to meet Ivan “Mamao” Conti, the drummer of the legendary trio Azymuth. Madlib had made an Azymuth tribute record he wanted to play for him. On a rainy night in Rio, Mamao and Madlib went in the studio.

        Several hours later the rhythm tracks that make up Sujinho were laid and the process began. Featuring the music of Madlib, Mamao, Edu Lobo, Chico Buarque de Hollanda, Luiz Eca, Baden Powell, Vinicius De Moraes, Marcos Valle, Joao Donato, Dom Um Romao, Airto Moreira and even George Duke… and with guest vocals by Thalma De Freitas — Sujinho is a unique and classic record. Filled with the angularity and edge of a Madlib production and underwritten by the polyrhythmics of Mamao — Sujinho takes Brazilian music into places it has never been, bringing oft forgotten classics like “Upa Neguinho” to 21st century ears.

        TRACK LISTING

        Mamaoism
        Barumba
        Anna De Amsterdam Interlude
        Praça Da Republica
        Papaia
        Brasilian Sugar
        Sao Paulo Nights
        Xibaba
        Upa Neguinho (feat. Thalma De Freitas)
        Casa Forte
        Amazon Stroll
        Berimbau
        Anna De Amsterdam Reprise
        Waiting On The Corner
        Tijuca Man
        Nao Tem Nada Nao
        Sunset At Sujinho
        Segura Esta Onda (feat. Mamao On Vocals). 

        Jackson Conti

        Sujinho - Black Friday Edition

          AVAILABLE ONLINE ON SATURDAY NOVEMBER 27TH FROM 8AM.

          LIMITED TO ONE PER PERSON.

          Madlib Invazion reissues Madlib’s collaboration with legendary Brazilian drummer Ivan “Mamao” Conti, propellant for lauded jazz fusion archetypes Azymuth. 5000 pressed for worldwide. Debuts on Black Friday. First released in 2008 on CD by the US based Mochilla imprint with vinyl being issued only in Europe on the Kindered Sprits label. Both formats are out of print with vinyl unavailble since its initial run. Alternate cover artwork, photography by B+.

          When Madlib went to Brazil in 2002 with Mochilla to participate in the production of Brasilintime his one mission was to meet Ivan “Mamao” Conti the drummer of the legendary trio Azymuth. Madlib had made an Azymuth tribute record he wanted to play for him. On a rainy night in Rio Mamao and Madlib went in the studio. Several hours later the rhythm tracks that make up Sujinho were laid and the process began. Featuring the music of Madlib, Mamao, Edu Lobo, Chico Buarque de Hollanda, Luiz Eca, Baden Powell, Vinicius De Moraes, Marcos Valle, Joao Donato, Dom Um Romao, Airto Moreira and even George Duke… and with guest vocals by Thalma De Freitas — Jackson Conti is a unique and classic record. Filled with the angularity and edge of a Madlib production and underwritten by the polyrhythmics of Mamao — Sujinho takes Brazilian music into places it has never been, bringing oft forgotten classics like Upa Neguinho to 21st century ears. 

          TRACK LISTING

          Mamaoism
          Barumba
          Anna De Amsterdam Interlude
          Praça Da Republica
          Papaia
          Brasilian Sugar
          Sao Paulo Nights
          Xibaba
          Upa Neguinho (feat. Thalma De Freitas)
          Casa Forte
          Amazon Stroll
          Berimbau
          Anna De Amsterdam Reprise
          Waiting On The Corner
          Tijuca Man
          Nao Tem Nada Nao
          Sunset At Sujinho
          Segura Esta Onda (feat. Mamao On Vocals)

          Freddie Gibbs & Madlib

          Piñata - 2021 Repress

            Freddie Gibbs is the product of violent, drug-laden streets but unlike most rappers with similar resumes, he brings the block to the booth without inhibition or an exaggerated rap persona. 'Piñata', a 17 track collaboration with producer Madlib, is the best distillation yet of his transparent approach to making music, combining an at times stark honesty with electrifying talent as a lyricist and performer. Piñata is “a gangster Blaxploitation film on wax,” says Gibbs, who came up on the streets of Gary, Indiana, the disregarded city previously best known for producing Michael Jackson. Here he is joined by Mac Miller, Earl Sweatshirt, Raekwon, Scarface, Domo Genesis, Ab-Soul and a host of others in setting his soliloquies of the streets alongside film snippets and dusted funk, soul and prog musical tapestries. While this is the latest in a series of single-artist collaborations for Madlib, after Jaylib (J Dilla), 'Madvillainy' (MF Doom) and the street-centric 'OJ Simpson' with Detroit’s Guilty Simpson, the pairing is unique as it is the first time for Gibbs working with just one producer. On 'Piñata', where Gibbs can shift from textbook lessons in robbing and drugging on trackslike “Scarface” and “Knicks,” to perhaps the album’s most personal song, “Broken,” a collaboration with Scarface, who, along with Tupac, DMX and 50 Cent, make up the rapper’s own Mount Rushmore of MCs (“You’re getting a hurricane of all those motherfuckers hitting you at once when you listen to Freddie Gibbs,” he says). “Deeper,” a Gibbs favorite and the third single from the album after “Thuggin’” (2012) and “Shame,” (2013) is an ode to hip-hop in the mold of Common’s “I Used to Love HER”; “High,” featuring Danny Brown, is self-explanatory and just what you would expect from Gibbs, Madlib and one of Detroit’s finest; while on “Real,” Gibbs addresses an old score just as Michael Corleone settled all family business on baptism day. As a producer, Madlib, quite simply, is music. And ten years into his career - a time when other artists become comfortable - Gibbs remains restless, focused, with an eye on the competition and their position relative to his ascent. This is because mentally, he’s still on the corner hustling, which would be the downfall of the average rapper. With 'Piñata', Gibbs confirms that he is anything but average.

            TRACK LISTING

            SIDE A
            1. Supplier
            2. Scarface
            3. Deeper
            4. High Ft. Danny Brown
            5. Harold’s

            SIDE B
            6. Bomb Ft. Raekwon
            7. Shitsville
            8. Thuggin’
            9. Real
            10. Uno

            SIDE C
            11. Robes Ft. Domo Genesis & Earl Sweatshirt
            12. Broken Ft. Scarface
            13. Lakers Ft. Ab-Soul & Polyester The Saint

            SIDE D
            14. Knicks
            15. Shame Ft. BJ The Chicago Kid
            16. Watts Ft. Big Time Watts
            17. Piñata Ft. Domo Genesis, G-Wiz, Casey Veggies, Sulaiman, Meechy Darko, & Mac Miller

            Jahari Massamba Unit

            Pardon My French

              The Jahari Massamba Unit features Madlib on all instrumentation with the exception of drums, which are laid down by Karriem Riggins. Like Madlib, Riggins is well-versed in both the worlds of Jazz and Hip Hop. Musically, Madlib’s label says “we would call the project Spiritual Jazz, but jazz great Phil Ranelin told us to call it Black Classical Music, so that’s what we’re going with it.” This is an album put together by students of jazz in its myriad and historic corms who are also proponents of jazz’s future. The resulting recording reflects a lifetime of record collecting, musical study, woodshedding, and a reverential respect for one another’s craft. Regardless of categorization this is an exciting an all new entry in Madlib’s Yesterdays New Quintet canon of difficult to categorize music. 

              TRACK LISTING

              Je Prendrai Le Romanée-conti (putain De Leroy)
              Les Jardins Esméraldins (pour Caillard)
              Un Bordeaux Pré-phylloxéra (pour Le Riche Enculé)
              Deux Fakes Jayers (aussi Pour Le Riche Enculé)
              Riesling Pour Robert
              Du Morgon Au Moulin-à-vent (pour Duke).
              Trou Du Cul (ode Au Sommelier Arrogant)
              Etude Montrachet
              Le Feu (pour Belluard)
              Merde (basse-cour)
              Inestimable Le Clos
              La Closerie (pour Prévost)
              Hommage à La Vielle Garde (pour Lafarge Et Rinaldi)

              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.

              STAFF COMMENTS

              Barry says: There's no denying that both Madlib and Hebden are two of the most renowned musicians on the scene, and 'Sound Ancestors' does exactly as you'd expect, cementing their reputations and collaborative capabilities with a rich and soulful fusion of IDM and shuffled beatplay.

              TRACK LISTING

              A1. There Is No Time (Prelude)
              A2. The Call
              A3. Theme De Crabtree
              A4. Road Of The Lonely Ones
              A5. Loose Goose
              A6. Dirtknock
              A7. Hopprock
              A8. Riddim Chant
              B1. Sound Ancestors
              B2. One For Quartabê/Right Now
              B3. Hang Out (Phone Off)
              B4. Two For 2 -For Dilla
              B5. Latino Negro
              B6. The New Normal
              B7. Chino
              B8. Duumbiyay

              Beats by Madlib. Raps by Oh No. Real rap shit by two of the greatest in the game. Also featuring Adub, Elzhi & Chino XL.

              With skitty, experimental beats that wrap around Oh No's serpentine flow perfectly, it's notably different to the boom-bap of "Pinata" or the Atlanta-influenced "Bandana" (two of Madlib's previous collaborations with Freddie Gibbs) whilst still undeniably having the air of a Madlib production.

              Oh No is a rapper and producer who has left his mark across a wide swath of releases. His 2006 concept album Exodus Into Unheard Rhythms (Which exclusively sampled the works of musical theatre composer Galt MacDermot) was highly acclaimed upon its release, as well as his various crate-digging DJ mix projects (Dr. No’s Oxperiment, Dr. No’s Ethiopium). He has produced tracks for the likes of Danny Brown, Action Bronson, Aloe Blacc, Talib Kweli, and Prodigy, while contributing guest verses to tracks by Czarface, Apathy, Murs, Little Brother, and more. 


              STAFF COMMENTS

              Matt says: With two Madlib Invasion records dropping this week we're really spoilt. Another week, another rapper it seems, as our favourite Beat Konducta formulates a sublime modern rap opus with fellow Cali cat - Oh No.

              TRACK LISTING

              A1. My House
              A2. The Pros
              A3. Payday (feat. Adub)
              A4. Give N Take
              A5. Superhumans (feat. Elzhi & Chino XL)
              A6. Buggin
              A7. CDP Smackdown
              B1. Timeless Treasure
              B2. I Jus Wanna
              B3. Away Too Long
              B4. Make Due
              B5. Tired Atlas
              B6. Dishonored Valor


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