Transmission Received: Mixed Rap! circa 1992

This artifact came our way in transmit via crude "music blasters" whose utterance originated at regular intervals in the year 1992. It is peculiar that we were able to pick up on this frequency at all as that the facilitator was unable to obtain optimal sound performance and thus emitted a low base tone over the right channel through out the galaxy... a chilling reminder of what will be lost with the oncoming onslaught of digitalions. One can always find their courage here.

Madlib - Speto da Rua: Dirty Brasilian Crates Vol. 1 (2008, Mochilla)

This is his latest and very difficult to find on blogs because Madlib and/or his crew are some of the most diligent at making them take down his stuff. Hip Hop Is Read had to remove the sample set for Madvilliany because he hadn't cleared all the samples. Doesn't this just reek of hypocrisy? Anyway, despite this, he's one of my favorites. From the Mochilla website:"In 2007 Madlib went with the Mochilla crew to Recife in the Northeast of Brazil. After spending three weeks there he came home and made six mixes. He named them Dirty Brasilian Crates Vol.1– 6. They are filled with jumps, cross referenced with Bossa, notated with Folkloric chants, pointed with Jazz. Lyrical, dirty and strikingly beautiful this is Volume 1." For an example of the Lord Quas blogapocalypse see here.

Samples from the 3rd Level: Classic Hip-Hop Albums

Click on an album cover for a link to the original samples used. The definitive collection of links can be found at Ivan of Hip Hop Is Read's Hip Hop Sample Index here.