MADLIB 
Provo today to write an article on one of the producers and mc-even if the adjective is really suitable for him " musician-instrumentalist also being more productive in recent times.
back or to talk about his entire discography, including the drive in which he might have just participated, would create significant problems of space and time. I am in fact talking about its skills, as well as some aspects of his life that led him to be what it is, of his most important, that have enshrined as one of the most creative geniuses that hip hop has had in its history.
We are talking about Otis Jackson Jr. aka Madlib.
Born in 1973 in Oxnard (California), we can define real family tradition. His father, Otis Jackson Sir., Was a decent soul singer 70s, of which we remember the success with the song Message to the ghetto , mother, Sinesca Faddis was a jazz singer.
Not only that, his uncle Jon Faddis, mother's brother, is a historic jazz trumpeter.
In short, the raw material to our little Otis Jr. did not fail. There was born in the middle of the music. As his younger brother Michael, who followed in his footsteps to become the one who is now called by the name of "Oh No The Disrupt".
When Madlib and his brother are still very young his father retired from the scene, trying to devote his time to his family, but decides not to leave out the music delighting in his study. It is in that room that her children grow and have fun. With music. Among musical instruments and sound studio.
In the years that his brother Madlib is approaching the world of rap, and especially him, Otis Jr., started working as a producer with the likes of the Alkaholiks and Cali Agents.
then form a group called Lootpack, along with his friend MC Wildchild and DJ Romes.
Lootpack I work in a lot of material that will not come out officially (but which will then be brought to light in 2004 with "The Lost Tapes") before posting to the Stones Throw which is the label which will bind Madlib, a couple of mix The Anthem and Whenimondamic between 1998 and 1999, and the next album of onset "Soundpieces: Da Antidote", again in 1999. An absolute masterpiece that includes among others the participation of people like Defari, Dilated Peoples, Alkaholiks, and the same brother Oh No.
It is in this record that makes his first appearance of a character with a rather unusual item . A mc called Quasimoto. It is nothing but the Madlib who "invented" this his kind of alter-ego, and is just the beginning of a drawing of pseudonyms that will bear his artistic career.
Quasimoto But the adventure does not stop there, so why Madlib decided to give him his own artistic life and a series of works beginning with the publication of some mix including Microphone Mathemtics and Come On Feet published in 1999 and 2000, again for the Stones Throw Records and will be contained in the album "The Unseen". Another masterpiece.
2 / 1 From these projects, "Soundpieces" of Lootpack and "The Unseen" under the pseudonym Quasimoto, you begin to see the unique approach that Madlib has with the production. Sudden changes of loops, maximum research and attention devoted to percussion, samples derived from pure jazz with some sprinkling of funk that never hurts, all seasoned with the dirt that only the old, smoky jazz can deliver, with the 'Addition of small clicks that offer only the vinyl. Yes, because Madlib as well as being all that is is a big fan and collector of vinyl records mostly jazz, but also funk and beyond.
We can say that diggin 'is one of his favorite sports.
In 2000 Madlib gives birth to a new project that mixes jazz, hip hop and electronica under the name of Yesterdays New Quintet. Compound, as its name says 5 elements: the same convenience and Madlib Malik Flavors, Monk Hughes, Ahmad Miller and Joe McDuphrey. Why fake? Simple ... why do not exist. Nth are pseudonyms used by the same Madlib! The works are in fact entirely composed by him and the fictional debut of the quintet arrive in 2001 with the album "Angles Without Edges" and continues in 2004 with "Stevie" which revisits the hits of the legendary Stevie Wonder, not talk about the solo projects of fictitious members of the quintet (and therefore the same Madlib), and the collection of new material published in 2007 in "Yesterday Universe: Prepare For A New Yesterday (Volume One)." A real treasure trove.
another pseudonym used by Madlib Beat Konducta is to publish several volumes in the years which consist mainly of material instrumental hip hop theme (Africa, India ...) in his unique style and unattainable.
All this without neglecting 2 pearls, both shared with 2 other monsters sacred, that I can not mention: in 2003 he published together with the great producer J-Dilla in Detroit (or Jay Dee, RIP), again for the Stones Throw, the album "Champion Sound" under the name Jaylib, while in 2004 , in collaboration with the great rapper MFDoom, one of the finest rap discs in recent years: "Madvillainy" under the name Madvillain.
Two absolute masterpieces that deserve to be in the collections of all rap really passionate about the world.
in 2003 comes to Madlib unique opportunity to get in the face of criticism of the great enthusiasts of jazz pubblicando per la Blue Note un disco che rivisitasse i grandi successi dell'etichetta jazz più famosa e storica del mondo.
Arriva così "Shades Of Blue" che vede il nostro beniamino cimentarsi in versioni remix di brani dei celebri Donald Byrd, Bobbi Humphrey e Horace Silver tanto per citarne alcuni. Il tutto contornato dal bellissimo video girato per il brano Slim's Return che consiglio a tutti di visionare e che inserirò alla fine di questo articolo.
La discografia di Madlib di certo non finisce qui. Pubblica The second chapter in 2005 under the pseudonym Quasimoto "The Adventures Of Lord Quas Furter," Madvillain remix disc, not to mention the Medicine Show and various collaborations with artists such as Talib Kweli, De La Soul, Prince Po, Erykah Badu , Mos Def and many, very many others ...
So, as said earlier, speaking of the entire discography of Madlib would write a book.
But I am equally sure that given the productivity of this monster of music, the title of the hypothetical book would be "The Neverending Story", with the certainty that, in addition to the important elements of hip hop that I mentioned in this article, there were more targati INVAZION Madlib!
Dj Danko.
