Sound Ancestors

by Madlib

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A unique collaboration arranged and edited by Four Tet, 'Sound Ancestors' organizes Madlib's characteristically eclectic, sample-based productions into a cohesive instrumental hip-hop statement. The album explores a deep lineage of Black music, shifting from raw funk and neck-snapping beats to psychedelic jazz loops and hazy soul passages, all unified by Four Tet's structural guidance.

Genres

  • Instrumental Hip Hop

Tracklist

  1. There Is No Time (Prelude)
  2. The Call
  3. Theme De Crabtree
  4. Road Of The Lonely Ones
  5. Loose Goose
  6. Dirtknock
  7. Hopprock
  8. Riddim Chant
  9. Sound Ancestors
  10. One For Quartabê / Right Now
  11. Hang Out (Phone Off)
  12. Two for 2 - For Dilla
  13. Latino Negro
  14. The New Normal
  15. Chino
  16. Duumbiyay