The music had to be great and able to be presented as a stand alone album – like the best “Music Library” releases of the past, on labels like Italy’s Sermi, Germany’s Bruton, France’s MP2000 and the UK’s DeWolfe. And, like those albums, it had to work as easy, one-stop clearance for background cues in film and television production and, as producers have been indulging since the 1990s, for sampling.
The series contains 12 releases by DJ Muggs, Karriem Riggins, J-Zone, the Heliocentrics’ Malcolm Catto and Jake Ferguson, JJ Whitefield of Karl Hector/Whitefield Brothers/Poets of Rhythm, Motif Alumni and Music Research Library, Mario Luciano of Polyphonic Music Library, Henkel, Gabriel Rowland of Los Yesterdays, Dan Hastie and Terin Ector of Orgone, Dan Ubick and Joe Harrison
The albums will be released on the Madlib Invazion Bandcamp on the first Friday of each month over the course of one year. Listen, ponder, repeat.
Tracklist:
1. Shiva Strut
2. Shirley Got Bigger
3. Orange Forever
4. Nasty Popcorn Ceiling
5. Side Eye
6. Calgon
7. Truck Stop
8. Gangsta Boogie
9. Mr. Mean
10. Seebourg
11. Nitro
12. Du Jazz March
13. Intoxicated Skull
14. Lil' Mallet
15. Oyster Sammich
16. The Bastard Tambourine
