Madlib - Sound Ancestors

 

"Sound Ancestors" by producer Madlib - someone I'm not exactly familiar with yet is far from a trip to frame and tell future generations about, but it certainly has highlights and notable elements! Frankly, in the less good moments - this gives a lot of 7G (Ag. cook) vibes - diversity of sound, unfocused , taking motifs and prolonging them to exhaustion (even if the tracks are brief), or else putting several elements together but nothing happens ( Riddim Chant)"

Until "Hopprock" (included) I still believed that the tracks would strengthen by showing us the "bigger picture" , since "There is no Team prelude" gives that vibe. "The Call" and "Road Of The Lonely Ones" are perhaps the real higlights of the album - through spacious production, psychedelic vocals, and extremely catchy riffs/percussion. Also of note on this solid block are the bass lines of Dirtknock and the electrifying "Hopprock".

From here on there are certainly details, textures, cartoony elements ("One for Quartebê/ Right Now", "Hang Out Phone Off"), percussion ("The New Normal") and even whole fragments that can be considered fascinating ("Sound Ancestors", the "2 for two for Dilla" motif)

Although they are decent tracks and Madlib makes an effort to fit them into the tracklist: the repetitive slurred "Loose Goose" and the strangely organic "Duumbyay" as well as "Latino Negro" despite adding a huge diversity of sound, just don't quite fit the LP.