Check the title track from the new Madlib / Freddie Gibbs collab EP, Thuggin', out today on Stones Throw. According to the label, "the duo’s as-of-yet untitled album is planned for release in first quarter 2012." Pick it up on vinyl here:
Freddie Gibbs + Madlib :: Thuggin
Get the first official DOOMSTARKS release -- the Victory Laps picture disc 12" shown above, which comes complete with a remix from DOOM + Madlib, plus an official "Serato tone" -- from Stones Throw.
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New 32-minute Stones Throw podcast, mixed by Flying Lotus. Stones Throw says:
"We've been talking with Lotus for a long while about a mix for the Stones Throw podcast. Here's one he just sent over ... no theme, no loops, just "records found in the valley...
"James Is hands Down One Of The most Creative Fucking People To Walk This Earth. Every Album Sounds Totally Different, And That Influences The Fuck Out Of Me. I Am Not A Cross Dresser." --Tyler, the Creator
Here's another gloriously fuzzed-out electro-lounge banger from a thoroughly heartbroken James Pants...
Another track from Madlib's latest Medicine Show joint: this one's a collab with Dilla from the duo's "never-realized second album" as Jaylib. From Stones Throw:
"Madlib and Dilla collaborated primarily through the exchange of beat tapes, occasionally reworking each others material, or chopping the same beat in a kind of recorded call-and-response...
Here's a preview of two new Madvillain tracks, in the form of a short snippet from Stones Throw's latest Peanut Butter Wolf-mixed podcast, a "50-minute mix of current & upcoming Stones Throw Records for 2011." Download the whole thing -- which also features tracks from Madlib, James Pants, Dam-Funk, and more -- here...