Madlib's "Yesterdays New Quintet and Yesterdays New Universe"

Approaching the 10th anniversary of Madlib's Yesterdays New Quintet, Stones Throw are taking a look back at the group's records and their many associated offspring which have come to be known collectively as Yesterdays Universe. 


 In the late 90s, Madlib was making a name for himself in indie hip-hop as creator and producer of Lootpack and Quasimoto, but by the time Quasimoto's album The Unseen was topping some critic's year-end lists in 2000, he had begun an extended break from hip-hop production, trading the SP1200 for the Fender Rhodes. Yesterdays New Quintet - Joe McDuphrey, Malik Flavors, Ahmad Miller, Monk Hughes and Otis Jackson Jr., with Madlib as producer, arranger and engineer - was formed in the summer of 2000, setting up shop in the living room the Los Angeles home/headquarters of Stones Throw Records. They lived and worked there through the end of the year before moving to Madlib's studio in a former cold war-era bomb shelter elsewhere in L.A. Read more at Stones Throw.


Download MP3: Yesterdays New Quintet - Life's Angles
Download MP3: Joe McDuphrey Experience - Solar Waves
Download MP3: Young Jazz Rebels - Forces Unseen