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Peanut Butter Wolf, DJ and owner of Stones Throw Records, heard Quas' demo tapes and encouraged Madlib to release moretracks under this alias.
Quasimoto was featured on Wolf's My Vinyl Weighs a Ton album in 1998, on the song "Styles CrewsFlows Beats." Finally, Madlib put out Quasimoto's
debut album - The Unseen - in 2000. This album received much praise fromunderground heads and from mainstream media, making it onto Spin
Magazine's top albums of the year list.
After the release of The Unseen, Madlib spent the next few years working on radically different projects such as YesterdaysNew ...read more
Peanut Butter Wolf, DJ and owner of Stones Throw Records, heard Quas' demo tapes and encouraged Madlib to release moretracks under this alias.
Quasimoto was featured on Wolf's My Vinyl Weighs a Ton album in 1998, on the song "Styles CrewsFlows Beats." Finally, Madlib put out Quasimoto's
debut album - The Unseen - in 2000. This album received much praise fromunderground heads and from mainstream media, making it onto Spin
Magazine's top albums of the year list.
After the release of The Unseen, Madlib spent the next few years working on radically different projects such as YesterdaysNew Quintet and his album
Shades of Blue. Quas re-emerged in 2003, making a few guest appearances, notably on Jaylib'sChampion Sound and Madvillain's Madvillainy (Madlib
and MF DOOM).
Quasimoto officially returned with the vinyl-only Bus Ride EP in late 2004, continuing his recipe for success - keeping contentsimple (weed, rap, etc)
and using crazy samples. Quasimoto dropped The Further Adventures of Lord Quas in 2005. M.E.D.and MF DOOM are featured on the album. The
album cover features a reference to Frank Zappa's debut album, Freak Out!, apicture of super-producer J Dilla, and a picture of Wild Man Fischer, who
is also referenced in one of the songs. The voice ofMelvin Van Peebles is sampled on several tracks from both albums.
Early depictions of Quasimoto were taken from the movie Fantastic Planet, specfically the leashed Oms who wore red maskswith protruding snouts
during the first "de-om".
In an interview, Madlib said that the atmosphere and sound on the Quasimoto albums owe much to the work of Alain Goragueron the soundtrack of La
Planete Sauvage and early Quasimoto video features excerpts from it. The song 'Come On Feet'sample the soundtrack to that film. « hide |
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