Name: Shades of Blue
Brand: Madlib

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

IMT3641012.1

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Discs

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Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

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Format detail

Holland Import, 180 Gram

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Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2022-05-19

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier US

Tax rate US

Sales:8.875

UPC / Barcode

600753766200

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

Artist

Madlib

Genre US

Hip Hop

Label US

Blue Note

The hip-hop producer extraordinaire tackles Blue Note's soul-jazz catalog on his latest project, given free reign to rummage around 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 New Groove compilation, where artists such as Large Professor and the Roots took their stabs at the label's catalog.

Shades of Blue

Music US