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Few albums have combined jazz and hip-hop as audaciously as Madlib’s radical invasion of the former’s most illustrious label - Blue Note. Here, Madlib’s SP-1200 comes across not so much as a drum machine or sequencer, but more as a time machine, able to create temporal anomalies where the past doesn’t just inform the present, the two are able to communicate and inspire each other. Madlib’s heritage, knowledge and prowess as a remixer makes him the natural heir to both genres’ kingdoms - and his access to Blue Note’s hallowed vault have allowed him to create a variety of vivid reimaginings of classics by Donald Byrd, Bobbi Humphrey, Bobby Hutcherson, Wayne Shorter, and more.