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. The Leaves Are Turning
2. La Seine À Minuit
3. Gris Gris
4. Sayonara
5. Hearts Of Darkness
6. Fine Like Wine
7. Painted Skulls
8. The Grotto
9. Blackbirds
10. Spanish Moss
11. Black Coffee
12. Fly Swatter
13. Dawn Patrol
14. Muitas Caipirinhas
15. The Return
16. El EscorpIón
17. Flooding
18. The Villa
19. Mojo Hand
20. Antenna Up
21. Flip Of A Switch
22. Snakes In The Walls
23. World On Wheels
24. Magnetic Fields
25. Mati Self Portrait
26. Aïr Zaïre
27. Paranoid Void
28. The Silver Queen
