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Ya’ll in for a sooper special treat if you haven’t already seen this. Audio footage of the Jaylib/Madvillian concert has been released through Stones Throw and features everyones favorite dynamic duos plus guests (Common, J Rocc). This recording is from the Henry Fonda Theatre performance from April 2004. Peep the concert pictures and download link for the audio after the jump. Also, a Happy Belated Burfday to the Legend himself (R.I.P. Dilla) whose bday was this past Feb 7th. We miss you!

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Was only a matter-of-time, until we got a KR and Quas (Madlib’s alter ego) collabo. The limited 8″ vinyl figure will be dropping Feb 19th and can be pre-ordered directly off the Stones Throw website. Lord Quas is available in Yellow and Blue. The Lord in a Box package includes the filthy Quas holding a brick and shmokin’ a loosey (or shpliff). Don’t get left out, order one NOW! (more…)

Here’s a quick story on Madlib’s Beat Konducta Vol. 5-6′s album covers. CD drops Feb 10th. Place ya orders directly on the site.

If anyone is wondering why it looks like there is black mold growing on their copy of Beat Konducta Vol. 6, here is the reason: it is black mold.The covers for the vinyl editions of Beat Konducta Vol. 1, 2, 5 and 6, designed by Jeff Jank, are all from the same piece of cardboard. This was originally a library sound-effects record belonging to Peanut Butter Wolf which was being stored in a closet. After a leak and subsequent water damage in 2004, this record cover was thrown onto a back porch where it sat for at least a year before being used on Beat Konducta Vol. 1, and then Vol. 2. Two years later, aided by some spray paint and a lot more mold, it became Beat Konducta Vol. 5 and 6.The disintegrating cardboard is still hanging around the office contaminating its surroundings. As long as Madlib keeps making dirty beats, we’ll keep trying to use it for covers. Source: Stones Throw

Peep the rest of the covers after the jump.

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About time the instrumentals are hitting the CD market. I’ve been vibing out to this for endless hours/days since the mp3s first hit the net back in Sept/Oct last yr. I never found any Madlib interviews bout how he felt when Dilla left, but this right here is all there is to say. The 42 instumental journey has Madlib hitting every emotion on the scale, with J.Rocc doing an excellent job of mixing the record down. I highly suggest for all beat heads and music lovers to listen and have Vol.1-4 in your collection, before you jump directly into this one. The CD is dropping Feb 10th, and can be pre-ordered on Amazon or on the Stones Throw website directly, along with the Beat Konducta posters and such.

Wow….. These two are reeall deadly! I advise you to buy em both. Beat Konducta Vol. 5: Dil Cosby Suite & Beat Konducta Vol. 6: Dil Withers Suite. These are the digital copies and the CD is going to realease early 2009. Madlib and J. Rocc’s Tritbute to J Dilla. Support good music.

Man, only God knows where Doom is. He seriously needs to get it together and get back to Madlib for Madvillainy 2. After hearing these remixes, he gots to be craving. The remix album is dope, for those who haven’t already purchased it off the Stones Throw website. Who you know can produce a classic gem for an album and then go back and remix the whole damn thing again. The legendary wig-flipper produced all the beats over a 10hr journey to Tokyo. Damn, I’ll just let the beats talk.

Madvillain: No Brain

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Madvillain: Running Around With Another

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Madvillainy 2: The Box

CD Madvillainy “2” The Madlib Remix. 25 tracks. Read more below.
7-INCH “One Beer (Drunk Version)” Madlib’s original 2004 version, lost until recently on the floor of his Bomb Shelter studio. If you saw the studio you’d understand.
CASSETTE The Madvillainy Demo Tape. 12 tracks, 36 minutes. This is the first and only official release of the infamous Madvillain demo that “leaked into cyberspace,” while the album was still in progress, as DOOM alludes to in the lyrics of “Rhinestone Cowboy.”
T-SHIRT Nominated. Best Rolled L’s. Madvillain shirt.
COMIC BOOK Meanwhile… the continuation of the All Caps video, included with the CD.
THE BOX 12x13x3 inches. Wrapped in silver like a mask.

This great big box of goodies is only $125 and can be pre-ordered on the Stones Throw online store.

Pre-order: until August 15th
Ship date: September 15th

More pictures and info after the jump . . .
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Madlib cuts through new material off Beat Konducta 5 and unreleashed remixes. He needs to do this more often. 2 fingers!

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