 | Madlib Shades of Blue
4.0 excellent
| Ranking: #187 for 2003 | |
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4.5 superb | jojocope555 | September 1st 17 | this thing is incredibly crafted. every moment feels live.
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4.5 superb | ciregno | March 29th 10 | YEAH, RIGHT HERE. YEAH. YEAH. yea. Yeah. YEAH. yeah. yeh.
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0.0 | Bulldog | February 9th 10 | This is nice, classy, serene jazzy instrumental hip hop at its best. Madlib does an awesome job, using his beats to envelope me in a calm, pontificative state of mind.
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4.0 excellent | hydeyomoney | February 7th 10 | Madlib's mindfulness for jazz shows its truest colors on here, mixing exotic, newer sounds from his hip hop influences, and the smooth intricacies of everything Blue. It sounds like a mad scientists concoction of all types of Jazz from all era's and a spice of hip hop, and it sounds AWESOME. Madlib is a genius.
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4.0 excellent | Bedex | January 16th 25 | This is s o l i d. Madlib opens his expansive LP career with incredible class. The first 50 minutes of the record are an ever flowing continuum of intricate collages of all manners of jazz laid atop buttery smooth beats, sometimes complex and glitchy, sometimes more straightforward, but always delightfully produced. As you'd expect with the master, this is never a matter of a simple loop repeated over a simple beat for three and a half minutes. The samples blend and morph into another, the beats intertwine constantly, and transitions between tracks are just as smooth as transitions within them. In those first 50 minutes there was maybe a total of two that I did not bop my head to. I was frankly thinking of 4.25 ing this. But I do think the record would have benefited from remaining below the 50min bar. Past that point, the continuum remains, the quality is probably still there, but it felt like the record was overstaying its welcome just a little bit, and the groove was not quite enough to make up for that feeling, especially with a conclusion that's a touch meh. I'll spin this again undoubtedly. 4.2
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4.0 excellent | Naomi Lores | July 30th 21 | hi/fi madlib to chill/relax/drink whiskey and smoke cigars in a jazz lounge to
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3.5 great | butcherboy | August 20th 18 | should have gotten the rawkus roster to rap over these.. as it stands, a grand collection of jazz rap loops..
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3.5 great | Timmy | January 23rd 23 |
4.0 excellent | Merlijn | October 5th 22 |
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3.5 great | Denis | December 6th 21 |
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4.0 excellent | Gillie | January 30th 21 |
4.5 superb | Josh | June 14th 20 |
4.0 excellent | Royl123 | February 6th 20 |
4.0 excellent | Handers | April 10th 19 |
4.0 excellent | MSPAINT | October 22nd 18 |
3.5 great | xOle | June 26th 18 |
4.0 excellent | Prancer | January 19th 18 |
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4.0 excellent | nolanzz | October 28th 17 |
4.0 excellent | GMBass | September 21st 17 |
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4.0 excellent | Preston | October 7th 16 |
5.0 classic | areed95 | September 30th 16 |
3.5 great | Wolfe | September 8th 16 |
4.5 superb | Nights | August 23rd 16 |
4.0 excellent | Henry | July 27th 16 |
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4.0 excellent | Haon | January 6th 16 |
3.5 great | Scarfo | October 23rd 15 |
4.0 excellent | DazSkunk | September 17th 15 |
4.0 excellent | l7max | June 11th 15 |
3.5 great | Behexen | February 28th 15 |
4.0 excellent | VlacDrac | November 27th 14 |
3.5 great | jimbon | July 24th 14 |
3.0 good | ethos | June 2nd 14 |
4.0 excellent | wilko56 | March 15th 14 |
4.0 excellent | jmh886 | March 10th 14 |
4.0 excellent | waluan | January 7th 14 |
3.5 great | Skoj | October 10th 13 |
4.0 excellent | SgtPepper EMERITUS | June 27th 13 |
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3.5 great | Hoppip | December 23rd 12 |
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4.0 excellent | gonzab | July 2nd 12 |
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4.5 superb | JPaller | December 27th 11 |
4.0 excellent | Wael | December 19th 11 |
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3.5 great | Skipdog | September 21st 11 |
3.5 great | nnnope | September 10th 11 |
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4.0 excellent | Cerbyrus | December 24th 10 |
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4.0 excellent | Enotron | August 23rd 10 |
4.0 excellent | Timon87 | June 21st 10 |
4.0 excellent | Kyle | October 3rd 09 |
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3.5 great | niobium | February 21st 09 |
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4.0 excellent | Zoo | November 26th 08 |
4.5 superb | BITEME | July 17th 08 |
3.5 great | KINGGS | February 25th 08 |
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