Name | Madlib |
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Landscape | yes |
Background | solo_singer |
Birth name | Otis Jackson, Jr. |
Alias | |
Origin | Oxnard, California, United States |
Genre | Hip hop, jazz, disco |
Occupation | Musician, record producer, rapper, D.J., multi-instrumentalist |
Years active | 1993–present |
Label | Stones Throw RecordsAntidote RecordsBlue Note |
Associated acts | Madvillain, Jaylib, Lootpack, Quasimoto, Karriem Riggins, Azymuth, |
Url | Madlib at StonesThrow.com |
Madlib's first release under the guise of Quasimoto, titled The Unseen, was in 2000. The album was met with critical acclaim and named by Spin Magazine as one of the top albums of the year. Madlib (as Quasimoto) was also named as Hip Hop Connection's Newcomer of the Year in its annual readers poll for 2000. The distinctive high-pitched voice of Lord Quas is attained by playing the original beat at a slow speed, recording the vocals over that slow speed, then speeding the vocals along with the original beat back up to its original tempo. Furthermore, some of the samples that are sped up and slowed down include Madlib's own voice (primarily) and Melvin Van Peebles recordings.
In 2001, Madlib took a turn away from traditional hip hop music, releasing his first Yesterdays New Quintet LP, Angles Without Edges. Yesterdays New Quintet is a Jazz-based, hip hop and electronic-influenced quintet made up of four alter egos or fictional musicians played by Madlib: Ahmad Miller, Monk Hughes, Malik Flavors and Joe McDuphrey; as well as Madlib under his real name, Otis Jackson Jr. Madlib has continued to record other albums under the different guises of Yesterdays New Quintet members, including 2002's tribute to Stevie Wonder, Stevie; as well as "solo" albums by the various members, such as Monk Hughes' 2004's tribute to Weldon Irvine, A Tribute to Brother Weldon, Joe McDuphrey Experience. He also created the pseudonym Sound Directions to create the YNQ-like band's "debut" album The Funky Side of Life.
The first album under the name Madlib, released in 2002, was a collection of old dub reggae tracks from Trojan Records, and was titled Blunted in the Bomb Shelter. The second, Shades of Blue was released in 2003 and is a remix of Blue Note Records. Both albums attracted attention from the fans of J Dilla and MF DOOM.
The 2005 Quasimoto album, The Further Adventures of Lord Quas was accepted well and continued the Quasimoto tradition of using vocal samples from Melvin Van Peebles. This was followed by a YNQ album called Sound Directions: The Funky Side of Life, marking his first collaboration with session musicians.
Madlib produced Erykah Badu's second single from her New Amerykah Part One (4th World War) album, "The Healer". The song formally debuted on Gilles Peterson's BBC Radio show in January 2008.
In May 2008, Conti and Madlib released a full album of Jackson Conti material, entitled Sujinho.
In September 2008, Stones Throw released a limited box set called , containing the long awaited . It has remixes of the first Madvillainy album and the song Monkey Suite, originally on the Chrome Children compilation, a One Beer (Drunk Version) 7"-single, the Madvillain demo cassette, a T-shirt and a comic book.
Madlib's BBE "Beat Generation" Album was released in September 2008.
Madlib's third two-volume Beat Konducta album was released in early 2009. is a 42-track piece dedicated to the late J Dilla.
In 2009, he produced "In Search of Stoney Jackson", a whole album for the Los Angeles band Strong Arm Steady, which was out physically in the beginning of the following year. At the end of that year, it was said that he would start an imprit called "Madlib Medicine Show", half based on unreleased original material, half based on mixes. This project consists of one record being dropped every month for the whole year 2010, making it 12 differents records, including 6 original albums and 6 mixes.
In 2010, a collaboration with Detroit rapper Guilty Simpson, called OJ Simpson, as well as a disc of original tracks and remixes being the first volume of the Madlib Medicine Show series, was out.
The beginning of this year also saw 2 other releases of his jazz imprint Yesterdays Universe, as 2 new projects, one being the band Last Electro Acoustic Space Jazz & Percussion Ensemble (which already dropped the Summer Suite and the Fall Suite before) with the record "Miles Away", and Young Jazz Rebels with the record "Slave Riot".
He also collaborated on two tracks on Erykah Badu's "New Amerykah part 2 : Return of the Ankh".
It is believed that he is currently working on the 3rd Quasimoto album, the 2nd Madvillain album with MF Doom, a project with Karriem Riggins in a Jaylib type of collaboration called Supreme Team, as well as other jazz records from the Yesterdays Universe imprit, following by his collaboration with his younger brother and fellow producer/mc Oh No forming the super duo "The Professionals"
In 2011, he collaborated with Joyce Moreno to contribute a version of the song "Generation Match: Banana" to the Red Hot Organization's most recent charitable album "Red Hot+Rio 2." The album is a follow-up to the 1996 "Red Hot + Rio." Proceeds from the sales will be donated to raise awareness and money to fight AIDS/HIV and related health and social issues.
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Name | Mayer Hawthorne |
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Background | solo_singer |
Birth name | Andrew Mayer Cohen |
Born | |
Alias | Haircut |
Origin | Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA |
Years active | 2008–present |
Label | Stones Throw Records |
Name | Hawthorne, Mayer |
Date of birth | February 2, 1979 |
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