| Madlib / Shades of Blue |
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| Album: | Shades of Blue | Collection: | Hip-hop | |
| Artist: | Madlib | Added: | Jun 2003 | |
| Label: | Blue Note | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2003-07-07 | Pull Date: | 2003-09-08 | Charts: | Hip-Hop |
| Week Ending: | Sep 14 | Sep 7 | Aug 31 | Aug 24 | Aug 17 | Aug 10 | Aug 3 | Jul 27 |
| Airplays: | 2 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 4 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Jul 18, 2010: | FLASHBANG RADIO: MUSIC TO GAIN WEIGHT TO Stormy, Slim's Return | 4. | Feb 20, 2006: | smoked gouda Funky Blue Note | |
| 2. | Jun 11, 2008: | Eran Mukamel f Jessup (Japanese punk-rock love songs aimed at businessmen) Slim's Return | 5. | Jan 18, 2006: | Deep in the Groove Funky Blue Note | |
| 3. | May 03, 2006: | Stones Throw Records tribute and Taylor Winstead guest star Mystic Bounce, Slim's Return | 6. | Dec 17, 2005: | MHz Mystic Bounce, Stepping Into Tomorrow |
| Album Review |
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| The Dead Kenny-Gs Reviewed 2003-06-30 | ||
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Madlib – Shades of Blue Hip Hop influenced Soul/Fusion Jazz remixes and covers. People seem to be divided about Madlib (Stones Throw records, Lootpack, Quasimoto, Yesterday's New Quintet). Some think he's a genius, a hip hop producer with a profound insight into jazz and other sample sources. Other people think that he just makes a bunch of boring jazzy crap. That said, if you love Madlib, you'll dig this collection—it's basically Madlib doin' his thing with free reign over the Blue Note catalog. Actually, Madlib's original compilation ("Funky Blue Note", track 8) is one of the best things on here. In all recommended, although it might offend hip hop or jazz purists. 1) Spoken Intro 2) Medium tempo groove with vibes, turntablism 3) Flowing, lounge-y spiced up with harder drums 4) **Handclaps and party sounds make Mystic Brew really swing 5) *Harder drum break, almost discordant salad of flute and Fender Rhodes. 6) Spoken documentary history of Blue Note 7) *Crunchy Mizel brothers fusion beat, with Medaphor supplying vocals. 8) **Up-tempo, heavy drums 9) More spoken documentary 10) *Flowing Mizel style fusion, female vocals 11) Skit with spoken intro 12) *Soulful with some old school hip-hop samples 13) *Bouncy Horace Silver classic featuring flute, spoken outro 14) Dammit! When will people stop putting Simple Text on records. Boooooo! Other then that, sort of a spacey Latin flavored jam 15) Starting to get pretty jam-y here Tom Purcell, June 2003 | ||
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