Madlib assumed the persona of Quasimoto for The Unseen (2000), possibly his artistic zenith, Lootpack's Soundpieces: Da Antidote (1999), a celebration of classic hip-hop music ruined by the rappers (Jack 'Wildchild' Brown and Otis Jackson himself disguised as Quasimoto via manipulations of his own voice),ДЄnd its companion Soundpieces: Da Instrumentals (1999),ДЄlbums on which he had already displayed his Madlib's solo career, mostly obsessed with the legacy of jazz, had been fairly intense, comprising: Of mediocrity should have been pruned out. The fleeting moments of genius should have been expanded, and the long stretches Too much of the album is tedious rapping over facile collages of samples. The rapping is not as flashy as the production, but it peaks in Figaro, the one song in which Doom sounds truly villainous.ДЄlas, the scattershot format of the album eventually becomes cluttered noise. Parodistic Frank Zappa-esque crooning and a horn fanfare. The ultimate cheese moment is Rainbows, with

Meat Grinder begins with comic interlude that almost demystifies the thick bass line. 'cheesy', creating a clownish counterpoint to whatever it is being rapped. The profusion of samples is disorienting: low-budget crime and horror movies, television commercials, jazz and avantgarde records of the 1960s, Hanna Barbera cartoons, and countless discussions about supervillains. The samples are all over the place: Do Not Fire joins the videogame Street Fighter with Bollywood soundtracks. The suspenseful beat of Shadows of Tomorrow,ДЄnd especially the warped and chaotic All Caps.ДЄmerica's Most Blunted weds chaotic vocal interplay with a booming, jumping beat while sampling Sun Ra's Atlantis and Steve Reich's Come Out. Or the slow noir industrial beat of Rhinestone Cowboy, Or the funky beat drenched in viscous vintage organ tones in Curls, Some productions are cheap tricks, like the accordion-driven Accordion,Д«ut many are the real heart of the song, like the Two tracks, Rhinestone Cowboy and Strange Ways, were entirely designed and implemented using the tiny sampler SP-303 (introduced by Roland in 1998). Supervillain Theme, with its hypnotic guitar pattern. There isn't a continuous vision but rather fleeting moments of brilliance,Д®xotic tones and minimalist repetition, and Madlib's eclectic, encyclopedic, drunk/stoned and, at the same time, classy production, although it is debatable whether hisД«eats here were as creative as on the Quasimoto album. It was both a stylistic phantasmagoria and a cartoonish concept album. Orchestration made it an impressive tour de force of production techniques,Д«ut it was a far cry from the purported masterpiece of hip-hop. While every magazine bragged about it, very few reviews could explain Their collaboration yielded one of the most publicized albums in the history of Songs (mostly smooth soul-jazz-funk instrumental ballads) out of microscopic fragments of keyboards, guitar, sax, vibraphone, drums and bass (not samples, but his own creations). New York-based rapper Daniel 'MF Doom' Dumile (former member of comicalДЄnd Los Angeles-based producer Otis 'Madlib' Jackson (the son of a bluesmanДЄnd a folksinger, and the nephew of jazz trumpeter Jon Faddis), who hadДЄlready experimented with the collage techniqueДЄs the one-man band Yesterday's New Quintet (fictitiously described asДЄ 'quintet') on Angels Without Edges (Stones Throw, 2001), building Viktor Vaughn: Venomous Villain (2004), 5/10Дangerdoom: The Mouse And The Mask (2005), 6/10 Viktor Vaughn: Vaudeville Villain (2003), 6.5/10

King Geedorah: Take Me to Your Leader (2003), 6/10

Quasimoto: The Further Adventures of Lord Quas (2005), 6.5/10 Sound Directions: The Funky Side Of Life (2005), 4/10 Yesterdays New Quintet: Angles Without Edges (2001), 6.5/10ДJ Rels: Theme for a Broken Soul (2004), 4/10 Lootpack: Soundpieces: Da Antidote (1999), 5/10 ( Copyright В© 1999 Piero Scaruffi | Terms of use) Madvillain: biography, discography, reviews, ratings, best albums

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