Name: Shades of Blue
Brand: Madlib

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

MOVLP1898

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Colour

black

Colour details

Discogs ID

[r10861344]

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Discs

Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

180 Gram vinyl.

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Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2017-08-18

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

Little Amber Fish

Tax rate GB

UPC / Barcode

0600753766200

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2 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / black

Artist

Madlib

Genre GB

Hip Hop

Label GB

Blue Note

Essential

In Shades of Blue Madlib, hip-hop producer extraordinaire, tackles Blue Note's soul-jazz catalogue, enjoying free rein in the fabled label's vaults. On one level, the project makes perfect sense given Madlib's Yesterday's New Quintet work: he clearly has an ear for the Blue Note jazz aesthetic. The remixes and reinventions here are mostly pleasant and even surprising at times--get down with "Mystic Bounce", a flip on Ronnie Foster's "Mystic Brew". Yet some of these tracks seem a little too casual and undercooked, making Shades of Blue feel a bit too much like just another Madlib side project. In fact, Blue Note had already done a better job with this very same concept on their largely forgotten 1996 <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000005H2H/%24%7B0%7D">New Groove</a> compilation, where artists such as Large Professor and the Roots took their stabs at the label's catalogue.

Shades of Blue

Music GB