Madlib's most underrated album.
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- Опубліковано 7 чер 2024
- This video celebrates one of Madlib's most underrated albums, the contributions of Kieran Hebden that lead to the album's release and a connection with Miles Davis.
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Madlib is one of the most prolific and eclectic producers working today. From hip hop to jazz, reggae to EDM, Madlib releases whatever music he wants. In the case of the Sound Ancestors album, he did something uncommon which was to give a large collection of his ideas to Kieran Hebden, aka Four Tet, to select, arrange, edit and mix into a cohesive album. The resulting album is unlike any other Madlib release, an instrumental hip hop, jazz, reggae collage masterpiece. In this video, we celebrate this album, and explore a connection between Madlib and Miles Davis through the life of Teo Macero, longtime collaborator of Miles Davis.
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Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:58 Teo Macero
1:45 Miles Davis' Bitches Brew
3:12 Sound Ancestors: Backstory
4:55 Vocal Samples & Selection
5:58 Sonics & Mixing
7:04 J Dilla Tribute
7:23 Thoughts on the Album
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This album is interesting because you can hear Four-Tet’s influence all over it, especially in the sequencing. A lot of the tracks on Sound Ancestors are stretched out, where most of Madlib’s other tapes have shorter beats reminiscent of a beat tape (30 seconds - 2 minutes max). It is interesting to hear an album produced by an amazing producer be arranged and sequenced by a completely different producer. But it’s even more surprising that Madlib let go of his work, as he is very specific about what he wants his sound to be (see stories of him only giving 2-tracks to artists because he doesn’t want the palette he’s created to be destroyed by an engineer).
Great comment and insight.
Yea just goes to show how close madlib and four tet really are
4:51
Great write up. Personally I think his Beat Konducta Dilla tributes are his most underrated releases. So much goodness and so heartfelt
Thanks. That’s a good call. I should revisit that series.
I agree, Beat Konducta 5-6 is one of his best releases in terms of references. Because it’s a Dilla tribute, there’s all sorts of samples from other tracks he and Dilla made together, and I’m sure a ton of samples that he’s speaking to Dilla with directly. I would call it another near perfect example of a classic madlib album, bridging the gap between beat tape and something else more complex and original
The history of the loop digga is up there as well
sooo true, so many crazy dope beats on that
They’re incredible, but receive a lot of love all round so I wouldn’t say they’re underrated
You guys nailed it. This album is the clearest and most artistic I’ve ever heard Madlib. The sounds really come out the speakers and grab ur soul.
What a great comment. thanks!
this was one of my favorite albums of 2021. it's not his most impressive work by any means but it is a very slept on project, maybe the fact that it's only 2 years old is why and perhaps in the future it will be appreciated a bit more but only time can tell.
a lot of the tracks are very touching, and i'm a big fan of four tet, his contribution to this record enhance the experience even more for me.
good observations. thanks for sharing.
Sound Ancestors is so dope. Like the production on this is different. If you notice, normally madlib loves being dirty in a dilla esq way, Four Tet cleans it up and it has this polish to the tracks that I've never heard. It's cool seeing Madlib got out of his comfort zone. Also Duumbiyay is a banger.
so dope. thanks for your comment!
Incredible video! I bought the vinyl as soon as it came out and it continues to be in constant rotation. I’m so glad to hear it get recognition.
Thanks! That’s awesome that it’s been in constant rotation for you. What a great album. Enjoy!
Well researched and presented as always. High quality stuff, thanks!
Thank you! Much appreciated.
I enjoy this project a lot, and I appreciate you highlighting it!
Sure thing. Yeah. It’s a good one.
wow, this video is fantastically produced -- very much looking forward to see what the rest of this channel has to offer 👍
Thanks! what a nice comment. Plenty of good content in the works.
Super underrated. It's wild that I remember started listening to him way back in the Lootpack era and Four Tet was not long behind. Both of these guys has been relevant in the music space since the early 2000's for me. Fucking insane that Four Tet is still headlining or subheadlining festivals while still remaining busy with his projects.
Good comment. They’ve been around for a while. And they are both prolific and eclectic. Pretty sweet collaboration on this album.
was just listening thinking the same thing this morning😭 love this channel🤞
Awesome! Thanks.
You deserve more fans! Great content!!
Much appreciated.
Wonderful video!!! Your channel is the real underrated gem!
Thanks. What a great comment.
Sound Ancestors is one of favorite Madlib albums and thanks for providing a deeper look into one of my favorite artist.
Thank you! Much appreciated.
Thanks for sharing this! Great stuff.
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it.
I’ve learned a lot, thanks for all of these informations ! Also, I will discover this album asap, thanks
That’s great! Enjoy!
Thank god there is a youtuber that talks about one of my favorite artists. amazing video. love this record
Thanks!
great video, love the editing
Glad you enjoyed it!
Dang it you just introduced me to a ton of new amazing music and my wallet is screaming.
Well, the good news is that music holds its value. It's not a bad investment.
Great content & well research! 👏🏻
Thanks!
Saw this video on my home page, went and bought the album a few hours later. Thank you😊
That’s awesome. Enjoy the video.
Stumbled on this. This was lit. Thanks!
Thanks. Happy you found it.
This was awesome! I love Ancient Ancestors btw, a gem mos def
thanks!
Just listened to it- absolutely loved it, a very refreshing sound
Nice! great comment. Enjoy.
Awesome video 🖤You once again upped your animation game. Masking out all those portraits must have taken a lot of time... The video length of 8:08 is the cherry on top ;)
Thanks! Really appreciate it.
Awesome videos, just subbed!
Thanks!
Great video essay.
Thanks!
Insightful 😊
Thanks!
Great video. Madlibs the goat.
Thanks!
good video love Madlib and 4T
Thanks! They are both great.
Sound Ancestors was my 1st Madlib album and got me diggin deeper into his discography
That’s awesome. He has a very consistent and deep catalog. I would recommend exploring all of it.
I stumbled on this album trying to make a Madlib playlist and couldn't believe I hadn't heard it before. It's really great.
yes! it's great.
This became one of my favourite madlib albums after a few listing sessions
That’s awesome!
I love how HEBDEN loves him so much, every show of him he would stand behind him the whole show admire every second of his sets. This is how music can connect souls. Madlib is a legend
Great points. Thanks for sharing.
Love this album. One of my favorites from that year.
That's awesome. What a great album.
i’ve been meaning to listen to this album since i first heard road of the lonely ones while playing gta, but i never got around to it. This video is giving me that push i needed to actually turn this record on. Thanks!
Yeah. Turn it on and turn it up!
loved it when it came out but i forgot it existed and nowadays im a huge four tet fan. Thanks for the reminder :)
No problem. Four Tet is awesome! Enjoy.
Sound Ancestors is beautiful, man
Yes! What a beautiful album.
Ngl I didn’t expect to see this album, I love it with a burning passion
Wow. that's awesome!
I was so lucky to notice this album when it came out and bought it right away. It's one of my favorite "hiphop" albums to listen to ❣️💯🙌🏻
That's awesome! Thanks for sharing.
I was in love with this at first listen. I didn't think this was "underrated". I thought this was THE Madlib album you wanted!
That's awesome. Enjoy!
Just btb this album yesterday, got this in my reccy today. Great album . Truly. Certainly worth a listen if in the music scene in any capacity.
Nice! Enjoy!
I had only skimmed through it and loved dirtknock. But I’m going to give it another chance. This video made me appreciate it on another level.
Thanks great. Enjoy!
i love the dilla tribute track on sound ancestors!
It's great.
awwesome awesome video. You perfectly express why its fun to listen to madlib records. ima go listen, no ima go crate digging
Thanks. Have fun!
@2nd beat on the 4 dilla joint may be my fav beat ever. Soul levels unmatched. And the second half of one for quartabe (right now), chino, and hopprock are some of my fav joints ive heard in a while as well.
Nice. That's some great music on this album. peace.
I love this album MADLIBS A GENIUS WHO U CAN TELL JUST LOVES MUSIC AND THE PROCESS TO MAKE IT !
I think he has certainly devoted his life to music. And I'm thankful that he did. peace.
Will just copy what I wrote on the album on here.
You can hear the echos of hundreds of years worth of culture and music history in every track on this album. So many beautiful melodies and textures from every era, background and lineage compiled and collaged together by a couple of true heads. To say this album is a masterpiece really is an understatement..the spirits of all the greats, from jazz musicians to brazilian funk drummers, alive once again to create the ultimate afterlife supergroup album. I can definitely feel Dilla and DOOMs presence here too. Enough waffle but it made me feel the same as when I heard Untrue for the first time. Chills. Thanks.
Great write up! thanks for sharing. peace.
Came back to this video after listening to it after a while of saying I would and I have too say it is a masterpiece
Awesome. Great album.
finally someone is talking about this masterpiece, it's a pure pleasure to listen to. the track Duumbiyay is very uniqe. just a nice album to have on vinyl!
Great comment. Thanks for sharing.
coming into this video i was expecting some random tape but it was sound ancestors, which is one of my favourite albums of his soooo i think there are much more underrated madlib albums out there
well, I guess it depends on what you compare it to. But sure, there's probably a beat tape out there that's really good and no one knows about it.
Shades of blue & Sujinho are both albums from him i'll never get over !!!!!
great albums
0:32 Somehow, it doesn't sound like you said "Sound Ancestors" there.
And to be honest, I thought this video was going to be either about "Dil Cosby Suite", Lootpack's "Soundpieces: Da Antidote!" or "The Further Adventures of Lord Quas", and not his newest album, which just turned 2 years old.
Great editing and nice narration!
Thanks for your comment.
Respect to Madlib & Four Tet..
That Peacoat is 🔥
Madlib's fashion is so good.
The LEGENDARY Madlib 🔥🔥🔥
The one and only.
Two for 2 was special. Like he channeled that shit
He did. Sounds like something Dilla did.
This was my second ever vinyl record I've purchased. (Cheat Codes was the first) It's just phenomenal honestly. It's the one of the only albums I can play on repeat. GOAT producer, only rivaled by Dilla or Blockhead
That's awesome! You're off to collecting some nice records. Have fun!
Picked this up in a record store one day after only ever hearing madvillainy. It’s a great record. Primal, yet alien sounding beats. I loved it
awesome! its a good one.
‘In Search of Stoney Jackson’ and ‘Pardon My French’ I feel are his most slept on projects. I do however absolutely love ‘Sound Ancestors’
Those are slept on too.
I tried to get the instrumentals of "Stoney Jackson" a couple years after it came out, the guy at the record store laughed at me, EVERYONE had already bought it out
I'm still stuck on Yesterday's New Quintet 'Angles without Edges' to this day
Thats a good one. We like what we like.
Riddim Chant is my favorite song in the sound ancestors album.
What an amazing song!
Sound Ancestors is insane!!!!
Yeah, what a great album.
One of my favorite albums of the 2020s
Sweet. Enjoy.
I think the big difference in sound is that so much of Madlib’s stuff is in that Lo-fi sound. It’s like, there’s nothing wrong with a nice big studio production sound, hiphop headz be like, “it has to sound dirty and raw”, but it’s like, stuff has moved on from that aesthetic, technology and music
Yeah. Great comment. Dre started getting high quality studio sounds in the 80s. But I think he’s a rare example. 40’s production is also highly polished. I guess it depends on what hip hop you listen to. Peace.
I picked up this album when it first dropped. I think it is great, and a cool collaboration. My only critique is that the mix sounds a bit thin overall.
Awesome. Good comment. I think the mix is different from typical Madlib records.
sound ancestors yes!
100 times yes. love this record til the day i die
1000x.
One of my favorite Madlib albums. Steadily going back to Road for the Lonely ones, Hopprock and etc. The mix is entrancing..it what I Imagine boom bap on acid to feel like. Rs
How could I forget Dirtknock😆🙄.🔥
Those are good tracks. lot of them on this album.
Dirtknock is dope.
@@OllieLoops too many. Loose 🦆 and Riddim Chant is another batch of favs. But this whole album's really just a vibe..
yeah I fucking loved this upon release
Awesome!
tbh I only knew about the album after hearing road of the lonely ones on GTA but since then it's been something I've stuck on whenever I need to do work etc. somehow I didn't even know it was a thing despite following madlib's work for years
Well, it happens that way sometimes. enjoy.
Un gran disco, me gusto apenas lo escuche.
Gracias por tu comentario.
I agree with this
It really is a fantastic album
Chimp Xl is one of my favourite Madlib songs
Awesome! Thanks for your comment.
have you listened to any of the medicine shows
I have. They're great. The Dil Withers suite is one of my favorites. That is underrated as well.
there's a great doc everyone should check out abt teo macero, PLAY THAT, TEO. he really shaped a few decades of timeless music.
good suggestion. thanks.
It's true. Refreshingly clean sound quality opposed to the older stuff. Big Krit did Lonely roads best tho check that
Nice, I'll have to check that out.
Peace to Yesterday's New Quintet
Ps That Serious song with Dilla and Four Tet is my ish. Guilty might be on that track too.
Pps I bought a copy of this album after I heard That Road of Lonley Ones
Dope. Thanks for sharing.
my fkn god so fkn good
thx
Agreed
Madlib probably has tons of gems waiting on tapes and hard drives
Yeah, he's probably sitting on dozens of albums worth of gold. Maybe we'll hear them one day....
It was a cool album I think most madlib fans listened to it. I think his beat konducta in Africa album is the most slept on.
Thanks for that comment.
Vox Music, Ollie Loops is COMING FOR YOU
hilarious!
Sound ancestors was amazing
It is an amazing album! Thanks for your comment.
two for 2 - for dilla is a top 10 madlib beat
Thats a good one!
Hey Teo, Heeeey Teeeeoooo__Miles whisper yell
TEEEOOOO!
road of the lonely one holy fuck
Yeah, it's a great song.
Album is very very good
Yes, it's great.
Most underrated album is Saturday Morning Remixes 2. Half the tracks missing off youtube. Can only buy it from sketchy sources and it’s unskippable start to finish. Luckily my homie downloaded a torrent of it in 2009 and it’s never left my itunes account since then. 😊
well, it's hard to argue about an album few can hear.
@@OllieLoops check it out if you can. Especially Memory Lane(that track is on UA-cam). IMO best Madlib beat of all time. Samples Minnie Ripperton’s Memory Lane but does it so well. Really good track. The guys rapping on it are perfect for it, too. Really suggest that song and album. It’s the one that has the Madlib My Favorite Ladies remix on it.
I am a real fan of madlib from senegal west africa.sound ancestors is just Mystic,nice,insane.madlib is the Sun Ra of hip hop.lofi started with dilla n' nujabes(both rip) but madlib has stolen da game.damn madlib is m'y best artist.when u perform a playlist thru the sounds of "angle without edges mixed with the sounds of "sound ancestors=eargasm!!!!
What a great comment. Thanks for sharing. I'll have to try that playlist. Take care.
For me, Madlib’s most underrated is Medicine Show #11: Low Budget High Fi Music and Medicine Show #5: History of the Loop Digga.
Those are good. thanks for sharing.
Jesus sound ancestors was an amazing listening expirence and great visuals. I had no idea it was in the works so when I saw it on UA-cam I went home after work and ate some mushrooms and sat down for the listen. like I said amazing listening expirence, This was shortly after DOOMS passing also so this was filling a void
Amazing listening experience indeed. RIP DOOM.
I prefer medicine show 3 and 7, especially bandana, but sound ancestors is another gem on top of an amazing discography
those are good too. Can't go wrong with Madlib.
I mean its the most recent joint
It makes sense
great
REST IN POWER DOOM,
GIFT OF GAB AND PLUG 2
RIP
I thought it sucked to be honest. Regardless of what samples/recording techniques he used, the final result didn't really grab me. It just felt very sterile compared to his other works
Thanks for sharing.
Riddim Chant
It’s a good one.
Such a beige sounding album. Stock, dull. Solid 5/10. It's just some nice loops.
What's your favorite Madlib album?
@@OllieLoops The Unseen, Soundpieces or Champion Sound probably. But then there's bits of the Beat Konducta series I'd stick on before Sound Ancestors, because they don't sound like something my Mum would've played at a dinner party in 1995.
look into the album art
Very interesting. Thanks for that tip.
The drums on Road of the lonely ones is actually a J-Zone break.
interesting. Do you know which break?
@@OllieLoops it’s on his “lunch breaks” pack. #6 “Ode to sloppy Joe”
@@dasdabeatjunkie Thanks! Appreciate the follow up on that.
imo, Madlib's most underrated album is "Further Adventures of Lord Quas"
that's dope. thanks for sharing.
My guess before watching is that it's the Four Tet album
Edit: Wow, my brain is so big.
haha. check out the brains on Jeff!
Sound Ancestors is NPR Madlib. And Four Tet's involvement made me uncomfortable. I thought this video was going to be about Monk Hughes and the Outer Realm.
NPR is dope.