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Madlib - Shades of Blue [New Vinyl LP] Reissue

Artist: Madlib

Title: Shades of Blue

Format: Vinyl LP

Genre: Jazz

UPC: 602537781997

Release Date: 2014

Record Label: Blue Note Records

Album Tracks

DISC 1:
1. Introduction
2. Slim's Return
3. Distant Land
4. Mystic Bounce
5. Stormy
6. Blue Note Interlude
7. Please Set Me at Ease
8. Funky Blue Note
9. Alfred Lion Interlude

DISC 2:
1. Stepping Into Tomorrow
2. Andrew Hill Break
3. Montara
4. Song for My Father
5. Footprints
6. Peace/Dolphin Dance
7. Outro

Double vinyl LP pressing. It's a crate digger's fantasy: free access to the archives of legendary Blue Note records, plus an open pass to sample and remix nuggets from their collection of classics. Left Coast space cadet Madlib lived out this dream, and the result is a true hip-hop oddity. Falling somewhere between mix CD, remix project, oral history and tribute album, Shades of Blue is, in essence, a love letter from Otis Jackson, Jr.. to jazz. Interrupted by shout-outs from his jazz idols and snippets of Blue Note history, the album combines straight-up remixes, skewed cover versions by Madlib (under numerous guises) and one new composition. Of these, it's the remixes that fare best, as Madlib brings his off-kilter, ear-rattling beats to bear on jazz-funk tracks by Donald Byrd and others. There's a slightly outdated acid-jazz vibe surrounding the project, but at his best, Madlib's mix of California dreaminess and underground grit transforms the well-known source material into something that sounds utterly contemporary.