Stones Throw serves up two freebies from Madlib’s Medicine Show No. 3: Beat Konducta in Africa dropping March 23 as the third installment of the producer’s one-release-a-month music series for 2010. Beat Konducta in Africa will be released as CD, 2/LP, limited 3/LP deluxe, and digitally. Order online @ Stones Throw. – Madlib – “The [cont.]

Madlib + Strong Arm Steady’s In Search Of Stoney Jackson is available now on Stones Throw Records.

MADLIB MEDICINE SHOW RELEASE PARTY LIVE LP COVER PRINTING LOS ANGELES, JAN. 20 (WED) Each copy of Madlib Medicine Show No. 1 will be hand-silk screened by Hit+Run. At the release party in L.A. on January 20, we’ll be doing a bunch of them live. Even if you don’t have a record player, come down [cont.]

Madlib’s Beat Konducta series of instrumental albums began as a series of beat-tapes handed out to artists like De La Soul and Talib Kweli, and then soon ending up in the hands of fans. Given official release through Stones Throw, each volume has been released in pairs, with volumes 1 & 2 aka Movie Scenes [cont.]

          First, Madlib teamed up with J. Dilla to make Jaylib. Then, Madlib teamed up with the super-villain MF Doom to create Madvillian. Next, Doom took it even a step further with Danger Mouse to form Danger Doom – and now, Madib teams up with Talib to form….uh….Lib-Lib? Nah? Thankfully they abandoned the mash-up names [cont.]

   Everyone loves a good movie in the theatre - buttery popcorn, overpriced soft drinks, giving a hickey to your significant other, breathtaking scenes, and a fantastic soundtrack.    Movie Scenes is the latest installment in the Beat Konducta series inevitably should be compared to J. Dilla’s Donuts; 30 plus songs, no track lasts longer than [cont.]

Almost two years ago, Lootpack producer Madlib went from being the leader of “a group that’s down with the Alkaholiks”, to a leader in underground hip-hop production, graduating from crate digger / beat conductor, to an actual jazz musician. With the release of Yesterday’s New Quintet’s Angles Without Edges, the self-proclaimed “bad kid” assumed the role of [cont.]

 One man’s passion for digging couldn’t be better defined than by listening to his previous releases, The Lootpack’s Soundpieces and Quasimoto’s The Unseen. Even evidenced on his latest single, “Loop Digga”, Madlib proves himself to be one of the last of the true crate diggers. While many of today’s hip-hop producers have traded their samplers for [cont.]