Madvillain

“Papermill”

[Adult Swim; 2010]

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It’s no secret that most of the band members in Radiohead are vocal fans of hip-hop. Check the “Office Chart” playlists that they occasionally post on Dead Air Space, and it’s easy to see their affinity for the genre. Likewise, respectable members of the hip-hop community reciprocate the love. We can’t say that without mentioning the Thom Yorke remix of the song “Gazzillion Ear” from the masked emcee’s most recent LP, Born Like This.

Oh, but Yorke is not stopping with DOOM. Yorke recently co-hosted Gilles Peterson’s BBC radio show and dropped hints that he’s been in talks to collaborate with influential hip-hop producer and Stones Throw Records resident Madlib. Details on the project were fuzzy, with Yorke citing time and schedule constraints as reasons why the project has not come together sooner. Reportedly, he already has some Madlib beats, and he told the radio host that a Madvillain remix can be expected soon (Madvillain is the collaboration between DOOM and Madlib).

This is exciting news for both hip-hop heads and Radiohead heads.

(Via Hip-Hop DX)

J. Rocc played this new track on Benji B’s show on BBC 1Xtra. You may recognize it from the three track clip that was spread around.

It looks like the true “Madvillainy 2″ will be seeing a 2010 release.

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Just a little nugget from the Stones Throw newsletter:

NEXT…………….
On the horizon for ST and family:
Dec: James Pants – Seven Seals (info & MP3)
Dec: Madlib’s Medicine Show
Dec: Dublab “Secondhand Sure Shots” DVD
2010: J.Rocc – Some Cold Rock Stuf
2010: Aloe Blacc – new album
2010: The Inpiration of Fela Kuti, 4×10″ box set on Now-Again (preview)
2010: Strong Arm Steady & Madlib collab (info)
2010: Minimal Wave compilation
2010: Guilty Simpson & Madlib – OJ Simpson (info)
2010: Bruce Haack vocodor anthology
2010: Tony Cook anthology
2010: Matthew Larkin Cassell anthology (info)
2010: Some new stuff from this guy with a mask and his blunted producer friend.

It’s not much, but it’s reassuring. A video for “One Beer (Drunk Version)” was also included in the newsletter. Check it out below:

UPDATE:

J. Rocc played some new Madvillain joints as a guest DJ on Fat Beats Live on EastVillageRadio.com last week. MP3s below.

MP3: Full J. Rocc Show
MP3: 3 Madvillain Snippets
via Hungry Joe of ateaseweb.com/mb

Sweet! Stones Throw just put out a 30-track instrumental Koushik album called Beep Tape. It’s available as a free MP3 download, this week only, so get it while you can.

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J.Rocc & Madlib were recently over in Paris for a few nights doing Stones Throw shows, and we’re hearing that J.Rocc spun a couple of cuts from the new Madvillain album.

DOOM has said he will have some more releases this year, so is the second Madvillain album coming soon? I certainly hope so.

[There's some footage of J.Rocc spinning the MV2 cuts on YouTube, but the audio quality is terrible and nothing can really be made out]

Stones Throw also posted this picture from the tour up on their website…

Well let’s check out the CD above. It reads 4/09; April 2009.

But back in April, Hip Hop DX published this interview with DOOM:

[Swift & Changeable (the project with Ghostface Killah) is] about 40% done. Forty-two percent done, if I had to say. But then it’s hard to gauge because everything is speeding up now, so it could probably be done real fast, within two months I could have it done. Madvillain seems like it’s closer to being done. I’m working on the shit now. That shit’ll be done within the next two months. I don’t know when they gonna put it out. Otis [Madlib] is the producer, so I don’t really have to do too much. I think on this record, we’re mixing it up. I’ll have more production on this one. We’re thinking of doing half and half on production and half and half on content. I’m also working on a record for Williams Street, that’s Adult Swim’s record company. I think I’m gonna do [the alias King] Ghidra on there. I’m not gonna set that in stone, but I think Ghidra might be coming out on Williams Street. So by the end of the year, all of them will be done.

So really, who knows? But we’re bound to get at least one more DOOM-related release this year. Please?

Here’s that Youtube clip that was referenced before. Yes, the sound quality is truly terrible.

Straight from Stones Throw:

J. ROCC:
This is the first show we ever did. It was a party for the release of the Madvillain LP. We didn’t practice for the show… or any of them for that matter. I would ask them what they wanted to perform then they would go, “I don’t know….you make up the set list”… hahaha.

Well, thank you to Madlib & the Stones Throw Family (Wolf, Jank & Egonavichi) for giving me such an experience. It was a blessing … Getting to spin for my favorite producers. I remember getting tapes from Jake One of Slum Village and beat tapes and just geeking out with the few homies who knew what time it was. Then I’m getting to d.j. and go on tour with this dude. Man, talk about a dream come true.

Anyhow…enough with the heartfelt moments..

MORE INFO:
This was recorded at the Henry Fonda Theater, April 4, 2004, on the first night of the Madvillain/Jaylib tour for Madvillainy. Madlib & J. Rocc had performed Jaylib songs live, but this was the first show with J. Dilla, who had just moved to Los Angeles and joined the tour without being announced on the flyers. Another unannounced guest late into the set was Common. The voices you hear are B+ & Melo-D, who recorded this set.

The photos below were all taken from this show, on stage, back stage, and in the alley behind the theater. Color photos by Kiwamu Omae, black & white photo by Joao Canziani.

MP3: Jaylib Live 2004

-Evan Kaloudis