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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...

New track from Madlib's latest Medicine Show joint, Low Budget Hi-Fi Music, which also features collabs with Guilty Simpson, Oh No, Dilla + more: mp3:

This one's from a 12" box that Stones Throw put out in '08. It's sold out now, so they're giving this Madlib remix of Dilla's "The $" away for free: mp3:

Monster Rally just sent over some sunny, Madlib-influenced exotica beats from his new "sample-based psych pop" album Palm Reader, due this September. Download 'em all -- and more -- at bandcamp. mp3:

Adult Swim just dropped a brand new track from Madvillain as part of their "8 singles 8 weeks" project. Listen below, and download it for free here. Madvillain :: Papermill ******

Stones Throw just posted up two jams from Madlib's latest Medicine Show release, the triple-LP History of the Loop Digga, on which the insanely prolific producer showcases some of his earliest beat tapes from the '90s: mp3: Medicine Show No. 5 is out May 25 on Stones Throw...

mp3: Taken from Beat Konducta in Africa, out on deluxe limited ed. triple LP March 23 on Stones Throw. ******

madlib in paris (photo) Madlib dropped this adventurous 30 minute set live on Paris' Radio Nova earlier this week: mp3: (21 mb) ************ related: Also found at Stones Throw in a brief piece about Madlib's European tour: an incredible "avant-garde afro-jazz" track from Mor Thiam's (aka Akon's dad) highly coveted (and ridiculously rare/expensive) 1973 Drums of Fire record: mp3: ******

Stones Throw is offering a free download of "Sacrifice," one of the better tracks from Madlib's Beat Konducta Vol. 5 + 6: a Tribute to J Dilla, which we spoke very highly of late last year. mp3: *********