Abstract Orchestra - Madvillain Remixes (VINYL LP ATA ATA029 2023) |

Label:
ATA Records (3) – ATA029
Format:
Vinyl, LP, Album
Country:
UK
Released:
Apr 8, 2023
Genre:
Hip Hop, Funk / Soul
Style:
Jazzy Hip-Hop, Instrumental
A1        Raid
Written-By – Daniel Dumile Thompson*, Madlib
A2        Fancy Clown
Written-By – Daniel Clifford Thompson*, Otis Jackson*
A3        Eye
Written-By – Daniel Dumile Thompson*, Madlib
A4        Accordion
Written-By – Daniel Dumile Thompson*, Otis Jackson Jr*
A5        Curls
Written-By – Daniel Clifford Thompson*, Otis Jackson*
B1        Bistro
Written-By – Daniel Clifford Thompson*, Otis Jackson*
B2        Borrowed Time
Written-By – Daniel Dumile Thompson*, Madlib
B3        Fire In The Hole
Written-By – Daniel Dumile Thompson*, Otis Jackson Jr.
B4        Figaro
Written-By – Daniel Dumile Thompson*, Madlib
B5        Fluid
Written-By – Daniel Dumile Thompson*, Madlib
Copyright © – ATA Records (3)
Lacquer Cut At – StarDelta Audio Mastering
Art Direction – Vassilis Skandalis
Illustration – Vlasis Gogousis
Mastered By – Lewis Hopkin
Producer, Remix – Ghost Life
Recorded By – Abstract Orchestra
Includes a download code.
Barcode (Scanned (Stickered)): 5050580802421
Matrix / Runout (Side A): ATA 029 -A-Lewis Stardelta
Matrix / Runout (Side B): ATA 029-B-

Originally released in 2023. Trying to put the enigmatic producer Ghostlife into words is no easy feat, for a start very few people have ever met him. Best way to describe Ghostlife is Kyser Soze with a keyboard, minus all the criminal bits, an anonymous tactician with an ear for a woozy beat. He may indeed have been the source of the above tall tales, writer of his own fiction if you will. It is perhaps then fitting that he should be pulled towards another artist who spent much of his career sowing the seeds of doubt in regard to his own identity, the much-lamented MF Doom. Respected rapper Doom not only hid his face from the public but was also well known for releasing music under a raft of different monikers adding further mystery to a canon of work that had reached a legendary status before his untimely death in 2020, and after. In this instance it is Doom's collaborations with Madlib, resulting in the 2004 ground-breaking album Madvillainy, that got Ghostlife's remix reflex twitching. He decided to further ramp up the subterfuge (this is dream within a dream stuff) and remix some choice cuts from Abstract Orchestra's interpretation of the record. For those who don't know, Abstract Orchestra, led by saxophonist Rob Mitchell, are based on the classic jazz big band instrumentation of saxes, trumpets and trombones and features the cream of the north's jazz scene. When you dig into Madvillainy you will note many of the samples (Sun Ra, Bill Evans, and Freddie Hubbard amongst others) lent a jazz-oriented feel to the record, an ethos that, in turn, lent itself perfectly to the deconstruction and re-imagining by Abstract. Ghostlife wanted peel back the next layer of this onion and, inspired by Kaytranada's organic synthesis of the hip hop aesthetic among slightly higher BPMs, Ghostlife began to pick tracks from Abstract's Madvillain 1 and 2 to play around with. This was all done above board of course. He made contact with Rob who was so intrigued by what Ghostlife sketched out that handed over the original stems with his blessing. All in all Ghostlife remixed ten tracks, including "Raid," "Fancy Clown," "Curls," and "Figaro," and has forgone the big arrangements. Rather he has coaxed out hooks, and sampled small sections, dipping into Abstract Orchestra's work with the steady precision of a watchmaker to create something new and exciting. Tracklist: 01. Raid (Ghostlife Remix) (3:56) 02. Fancy Clown (Ghostlife Remix) (3:35) 03. Eye (Ghostlife Remix) (3:57) 04. Accordion (Ghostlife Remix) (2:54) 05. Curls (Ghostlife Remix) (3:23) 06. Bistro (Ghostlife Remix) (2:54) 07. Borrowed Time (Ghostlife Remix) (3:50) 08. Fire In The Hole (Ghostlife Remix) (3:28) 09. Figaro (Ghostlife Remix) (4:51) 10. Fluid (Ghostlife Remix) (5:10)

• Condition: NEW
• Format: Vinyl
• Internal ID: 5050580802421
• Format Detail: LP
• Genre: HIP HOP
• Released: 03/28/2025