“He’s actually got this new album coming out and continuing to keep the spirit of all that music,” Hebdon continued. You know, Dilla’s gone, DOOM’s gone, but Otis is hanging in there, going strong and not giving up. But maybe could be quite a positive thing to happen in the middle of it. “Like maybe we just need to put everything on pause for a bit. “When we heard about, it was all completely shocking,” Hebden said. Hebden told NPR that they contemplated postponing the album in the wake of MF Doom’s death, but they reconsidered. Madlib’s new album Sound Ancestors, which was edited, arranged and mastered by Four Tet (aka Kieran Hebden) drops on Friday. But yeah we checked in, whether it was music or not, talking about our kids or whatever.” We talked last year and everything seemed fine,” he said, adding that “it was mostly me sending him beats, he rarely sent me stuff. “We talked like once or twice a year, but that’s how it’s always been. The prolific producer, whose 2004 Madvillainy collaboration with MF Doom is among Rolling Stone‘s 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, said he had remained in touch with the rapper.

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