The Lightmen | Fancy Pants
Drummer, bandleader and activist Bubbha Thomas had toured America with R&B revues, served as a session musician for Peacock and Back Beat Records, and played straight ahead jazz with legends before the political and social upheaval of the late 1960s led him to a path first charted by Coltrane. “Fancy Pants” is his second LP […]
med, blu & madlib | bad neighbor
MF DOOM, Aloe Blacc, Hodgy Beats, Anderson Paak, Mayer Hawthorne and Dam-Funk join MED and Blu over 100% Madlib beats. A couple years ago Blu got a few Madlib instrumentals and put together a few demos. The rough collection became the foundation of what would become “Bad Neighbor“. MED, a longtime collaborator of Madlib, put […]
madlib | trouble knows me
Future Islands’ Sam Herring teams with Madlib for Rap Project “Trouble Knows Me”. The record will be released Sep 1, 2015 on Madlib Invazion, and a limited run of vinyl with one-of-a-kind screen-printed covers. Three rap tracks andthree instrumentals on Side A. Flip side has instrumentals for the rap tracks. The artwork is by Gustavo Eandi & Jeff […]
unstraight ahead
Los Angeles label Now-Again Records releases the newest album by Jay Whitefield (Poets of Rhythm, Whitefield Brothers) and company ‘Unstraight Ahead’ by Karl Hector and the Malcouns. Listen and download the track ‘Push Na Ya’ for free here. Album now on sale at Rappcats or iTunes. Afrodelic Kraut Funk excursions featuring Members of Poets of Rhythm and Whitefield Brothers. Unstraight Ahead finds […]
give ‘em what they want
J Dilla set out in 2002 to record an album collaborating with his favorite producers, and Supa Dave West was among them. The first two vocal tracks on this record are built around the same lyrics – “Give ‘Em What They Want” produced by Dilla and “The Doe” produced by West are typical of how he […]
rock konducta vol.1
Madlib will release Rock Konducta Vol. 1 – 2 on all formats in Spring 2014. Shipping now is the advance LP release of Rock Konducta Vol. 1. Vinyl only. No CD, no digital. There isn’t even track titles. Rock Konducta is the latest in Madlib’s instrumental “Beat Konducta” series, the producer’s raw hip-hop beat tapes […]
porter chops glasper
Denaun Porter‘s new project is an instrumental hip-hop album inspired by jazz musician Robert Glasper. He flipps 22 tracks of Glaspers official release and even cuts from live performances he ripped from YouTube. It tooks nine days until the album was finished, and more to come. Download the wohle thing for free here. Support: Facebook | […]
1997-2007
J.Rocc put this one together, collecting ten years of Madlib’s remixes. Many of these were released by the artists on singles, others were made for Madlib‘s own use and are still unreleased. This was originally released as Stones Throw Podcast #21. Direct MP3 download here. Support: Official | Facebook | Stones Throw Tracklist >>
raw medicine
Stones Throw released two tracks off Madlib‘s remix album “Madlib Medicine Show #12: Raw Medicine”. Inspectah Deck & Raekwon verses are from two different original tracks – one by 7L & Esoteric, the other from Big Pun. The album will be out next week, September 27th. [haiku url=”http://rappcats.com/xxx/madlib_remix_deck_rae.mp3″ title=”Inspectah Deck & Raekwon (Madlib Remix)”] Inspectah Deck & […]