Madlib – Beatkonducta in Africa (African Voodoo Queen Drama)

Madlib’s Young Jazz Rebels – Forces Unseen

Madlib – Last Electro-Acoustic Space Jazz & Percussion Ensemble

Stones Throw 101: Much Music

Strong Arm Steady – Best of Times

Produced by Madlib.

Madlib & Guilty Simpson – The Paper

Madlib clearly lives in the lab. He still has the Strong Arm Steady Project (Stoney Jackson), the Guilty Simpson project (OJ Simpson), and he could quite possibly be working with Metal Face right now as well. Apparently that’s not enough, because he has started The Madlib Medicine Show. The show is 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.” The first show is entitled, Before The Verdict, and features Guilty Simpson on a 17 track album with new material and remixes. It’s meant to serve as a prelude to the OJ Simpson album. The Madlib Medicine Show No.1 will be out in December, here’s a track from the project, “The Paper.”

Download: Madlib & Guilty Simpson – The Paper

Source: okayplayer.

J. Rocc Spins New Madvillain @ Fat Beats Live

J.Rocc, with exclusives in hand as usual, jumped on the radio show Fat Beats Live on EastVillageRadio.com to preview some new Madvillain tracks that DOOM and Madlib are working on in Los Angeles.

Oh No – Ethiopium [Snippets]

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To follow up Dr. No’s Oxperiment (Turkish & Lebanese Psyche samples) he’s dropping Ethiopium, an album built entirely around Ethiopian samples. The project will be available exclusively on StonesThrow in a few weeks.

Madlib Interview in The Wire

This is an excerpt from Wire’s cover story on Madlib from their Aug. 2009 issue, which is available now. Check out thewire.co.uk for information about this issue, an MP3 exclusive of Madlib’s Summer Suite, or a digital edition of the magazine at exacteditions.com

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…”

To keep reading this interview click here.

Madlib – Summer Suite

Summer Suite is a 40-minute jazz fusion piece produced and arranged by Madlib, under the name The Last Electro-Acoustic Space Jazz & Percussion Ensemble. This suite is a single track comprised of four major sections and several different themes, altogether feeling similar to, more more cohesive, than one of Madlib’s jazz mixtapes. “Electro-acoustic space jazz” itself is a fitting description. To listen to a sample and purchase click HERE.