What album produced by Madlib has the best beats?

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Pinata and Bandana are interesting to me - They definitely felt like the Part 1 and Part 2 of something. Bandana took his formula from the previous album and sharpened it to a fine point while adding to his wheelhouse with joints like Half Manne/Half Cocaine. And he made the whole shyt on an iPad. :mindblown:

It often goes unmentioned, but Madlib acted a damn fool on 'Champion Sound'.

McNasty Filth, Heavy, The Official and Survival Test are just :scust:
 

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Madvillainy

Pinata and Bandana are interesting to me - They definitely felt like the Part 1 and Part 2 of something. Bandana took his formula from the previous album and sharpened it to a fine point while adding to his wheelhouse with joints like Half Manne/Half Cocaine. And he made the whole shyt on an iPad. :mindblown:

It often goes unmentioned, but Madlib acted a damn fool on 'Champion Sound'.

McNasty Filth, Heavy, The Official and Survival Test are just :scust:
Facts!! Some of my fav Lib beats are on that album. And what's crazy about that era, Most of those beats he did on CS are straight from the cassette, no saved files, floppies. They were from the 100 Beats aka Ox Essentials tapes he made in Brazil. The OG tapes rips leaked a few years back you can even hear the hiss and distortion in the shyts lol. And Dilla's beats were straight from his CDs, he used to eq his shyt so good, artist would use his beats straight off the CDs lol. :wow:
Madlib show's the tapes here. (timestamped)
 

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I know everyone saying Madvillainy but to me it might be piñata.

I’m gonna throw this out there too. In Search of Stoney Jackson is in my top 3. Gibbs actually just said that’s the album where if he never heard it, we wouldn’t have piñata, Bandana, Fetti, and Alfredo.

I love that one. It might be my personal favorite. The rhyming isn’t on par with DOOM or Gibbs but every beat is wavey. Phonte kills his verse and hook here too.

 

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Madvillainy and The Unseen are his two master works.

Lootpack's The Antidote is a slept on album that's up there.

I also love his Beat Konducta Dilla tribute album

For his jazz stuff Shades of Blue is the best.

Obviously the Gibbs albums are up there too.

But there's so many but those releases are the cream of the crop IMO.
 

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My two are Unseen and Lootpack’s albums. Those albums are timeless to me and more crisp in nature sonically. I still play them both regularly. I’d say Bandana is also a personal favorite. Been revisiting Stoney Jackson lately and realizing how much of a blueprint it was for him and Gibbs’ work.
 

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I’m literally just discovering Shades of Blue within the last week or so. I was so anti-jazz that I overlooked this album. I’ve been making it a point to go back to jazzier albums now that my ear is more mature. Album is hella dope and kinda happy I discovered it now at an older more chilled place in life.
 
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