The classic painting “Jazzcats Crossing the Hudson” will appear on the next edition of Madlib Medicine Show, the 8th in the series, a jazz mixtape titled “Advanced Jazz”.

from Wikipedia:

“Jazzcats Crossing the Hudson is an 1851 oil-on-canvas painting by German American artist Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze. It pre-emptively commemorates the arrival in New York City of jazz greats Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Sun Ra, Pharoah Sanders, Steve Kuhn and others. The painting is remarkable for the fact that it was created decades before the birth of any of these jazz artists.”

Link: Madlib Medicine Show #8–Advanced Jazz

Madlib Medicine Show #4: 420 Chalice All-Sta aka Son of Super Ape! All Jamaican Sounds, mixed by Madlib.

CD: Madlib Medicine Show #4: 420 Chalice All-Stars
Snippet (MP3): Madlib Medicine Show #4: 420 Chalice All-Stars

In 2002 some good folks who have the Trojan & Greensleeves catalog asked Madlib to make a mixtape of these classic reggae records. They sent him a huge box with every record they had. For about two months Madlib played these records, smoked trees, made hip-hop beats, and recorded with YNQ in his studio The Bomb Shelter. One night they called and said hey where’s the music, it’s overdue. Next morning this mixtape emerged from the cave.

Artist: Madlib
Title: Blunted In The Bomb Shelter
Antidote Records, ANTCD102, 2002
Cover: Jeff Jank

1. Place in the Sun/Fire Corner/Black Man Time – David Isaacs
2. Flat Foot Hustlin’ – Dillinger
3. Jingle Lion – Lee Perry
4. Walk Rastafari Way – Mikey Dread
5. Destruction Sound Battle – Prince Far I
6. Public Jestering – Winston Blake/Lee Perry
7. Better Version – King Tubby
8. Bad Da – Gregory Isaacs
9. Black Magic Woman – Dennis Brown
10. Throne of Blood – Prince Jammy
11. Lottery Spin – Zap Pow
12. Star Trek – Vulcans
13. Want Me Cock – Owen & Leon Silveras
14. Free Man – The Ethiopians
15. Man in the Street – Don Drummond
16. Don’t Deal With Folly – Prince Far I
17. I Love Marijuana – Linval Thompson
18. Stop the Dubbing – Aggrovators
19. Free from Chains – Prince Jazzbo
20. Sensimelia – Barrington Levy
21. Mission Impossible – Roots Radics
22. Golden Chickens
23. Herb Vendor – Leroy “Horsemouth” Wallace
24. Babylon Deh Pon Fire – Truth Fact & Correct
25. Shaft – The Chosen Few
26. Sipreano – The Upsetters
27. Girl of My Dreams – Cornell Campbell
28. Rhythm Pleasure – Jerry Lewis
29. Cocaine – Sly & the Revolutionaries
30. Love Life – U-Brown
31. Voice of Jah – Mikey Dread
32. Teacher, Teacher – Dennis Alcapone
33. DJ’s Choice – Dennis Alcapone
34. King Tubby’s Special – King Tubby
35. Reggae Makossa – Brenton Dowe
36. Rougher Version – King Tubby
37. Cool Down Version – King Tubby
38. Space Flight – I-Roy
39. On the Move – Roland Alphonso
40. Guns of Navarone – The Skatalites
41. Popcorn – The Upsetters
42. None Shall Escape Judgement – Johnny Clarke
43. Freedom Style – Trinity
44. Starvation – The Pioneers
45. African People – Jay Boys

CD Amazon: Madlib – Blunted in the Bomb Shelter
MP3 Download: Madlib – Blunted in the Bomb Shelter

An excellent resource for info about these artists & releases is the website Roots Archives. Many of the individual tracks are found on The Trojan Ska Box Set Vol. 1 & 2. Link: www.roots-archives.com

Download: Mos Def feat. Slick Rick – Auditorium (MP3)
From the Mos Def album The Ecstatic, dropping June 9th. Produced by Madlib, with instrumental taken from the Madlib joint "Beat Konducta in India"

Madlib’s five-volume mixtape series, Mind Fusion, was released 2004-2007. These CD releases bare no label or address, just the name “Madlib” designed like the Tamla Records logo. One suspects they are outlaw. Some have suggested they were printed by an arm of the Aum Supreme Truth Cult in Japan, but no solid proof exists to support this claim.

Vols. 1 and 4 contain production from Madlib. Vol. 2 is a jazz mix. Vols. 3 and 5 are mixes of records from around the world. Each mix has a minimal or incomplete track list and a descriptive subtitle.

Liner notes in each volume, from authors such as Thurston Moore, Vaclav Havel, LeRoi Jones, and Lungston Hughes, range from essays on jazz, a Los Angeles guides, poems, tips on making bombs at home, and a biography of the Beat Konducta which is likely ficticious.

Vols. 1 and 2 appear to have been repressed because of slightly different color and logo placement between the two editions.

A detailed description of each is below:

Mind Fusion Vol. 1: Hip-Hop
26 tracks. Various production and remixes by Madlib. Published track list has incorrect/unofficial track names. One pressing has no track ID’s, the other one has 26 track ID’s. (Track list below.)

Mind Fusion Vol. 2: Jazz, Funk, Soul

Mind Fusion Vol. 3: Dirty Crates from the Bottom
Funk, Soul, Jazz, Psychedelic, Rock, Hip-Hop Instrumentals, Reggae (Dub) and Abstract. Compiled & mixed by Madlib for Madlib Invazion at the Loopdigga’s Hideaway. Additional mixtown by Tascam Villain.

Mind Fusion Vol. 4: Hip-Hop Remixes, Nas Vs. Jay Z, & CDP Archives
1-4: Remixes, 5-12: Nas vs. Jay Z, 13: from the CDP Archives, 14: Interlude, 15-19: Remixes. Produced by Madlib. Track list below.

Mind Fusion Vol. 5: Dirty Crates from Around the World
Two track ID’s with two mix sets. The copy reads: 1. Dirty Crates from Around the World, 2, Live at the Do-Over. Compiled & Mixed by Madlib.

Mind Fusion Vol. 1 – track list
Mind Fusion Vol. 2 – track list
Mind Fusion Vol. 4 – track list
Mind Fusion Vol. 5 – track list