Album artwork for Sound Ancestors by Madlib
Album artwork for Sound Ancestors by Madlib
Album artwork for Sound Ancestors by Madlib

Gil Evans to Miles Davis…. Holger Czukay to the ensemble known as Can….Jean Claude Vannier to Serge Gainsbourg on Histoire de Melody Nelson. That’s the only way to explain the specificity of Four Tet and Madlib’s collaboration, in this special album that showcases a two-decade long friendship that has resulted in an album that follows Madlib’s classics like Quasimoto’s The Unseen, Madvillainy and his Pinata and Bandana albums with Freddie Gibbs.

“A few months ago I completed work on an album with my friend Madlib that we’d been making for the last few years. He is always making loads of music in all sorts of styles and I was listening to some of his new beats and studio sessions when I had the idea that it would be great to hear some of these ideas made into a Madlib solo album. Not made into beats for vocalists to use but instead arranged into tracks that could all flow together in an album designed to be listened to start to finish. I put this concept to him when we were hanging out eating some nice food one day and we decided to work on this together with him sending me tracks, loops, ideas and experiments that I would arrange, edit, manipulate and combine. I was sent hundreds of pieces of music over a couple of years stretch and during that time I put together this album with all the parts that fitted with my vision.” Kieren Hebden AKA Four Tet

Madlib

Sound Ancestors

Madlib Invazion
Album artwork for Sound Ancestors by Madlib
LP

£29.99

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Released 12/03/2021Catalogue Number

MMS044LP

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Album artwork for Sound Ancestors by Madlib
CD

£12.99

Released 05/03/2021Catalogue Number

MMS044CD

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Album artwork for Sound Ancestors by Madlib
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Metallic Silver

Released 05/01/2024Catalogue Number

989327004451

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Madlib

Sound Ancestors

Madlib Invazion
Album artwork for Sound Ancestors by Madlib
LP

£29.99

Black
Released 12/03/2021Catalogue Number

MMS044LP

Learn more
Album artwork for Sound Ancestors by Madlib
CD

£12.99

Released 05/03/2021Catalogue Number

MMS044CD

Learn more
Album artwork for Sound Ancestors by Madlib
LP +

£31.99

Metallic Silver

Released 05/01/2024Catalogue Number

989327004451

Learn more

Gil Evans to Miles Davis…. Holger Czukay to the ensemble known as Can….Jean Claude Vannier to Serge Gainsbourg on Histoire de Melody Nelson. That’s the only way to explain the specificity of Four Tet and Madlib’s collaboration, in this special album that showcases a two-decade long friendship that has resulted in an album that follows Madlib’s classics like Quasimoto’s The Unseen, Madvillainy and his Pinata and Bandana albums with Freddie Gibbs.

“A few months ago I completed work on an album with my friend Madlib that we’d been making for the last few years. He is always making loads of music in all sorts of styles and I was listening to some of his new beats and studio sessions when I had the idea that it would be great to hear some of these ideas made into a Madlib solo album. Not made into beats for vocalists to use but instead arranged into tracks that could all flow together in an album designed to be listened to start to finish. I put this concept to him when we were hanging out eating some nice food one day and we decided to work on this together with him sending me tracks, loops, ideas and experiments that I would arrange, edit, manipulate and combine. I was sent hundreds of pieces of music over a couple of years stretch and during that time I put together this album with all the parts that fitted with my vision.” Kieren Hebden AKA Four Tet