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Blackmarket Seminar
Hip-Hop · 2014 · 20 tracks · 1h 3m

Blackmarket Seminar

Madlib

Seventy minutes of unearthed Oxnard history. Dusty jazz loops, heavy boom-bap percussion, and the unmistakable hiss of a mid-nineties cassette master.

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It's like finding a lost tape of 90s underground gold in the back of a dusty closet.

A gritty, nostalgic journey through the unpolished foundations of underground hip-hop.

Blackmarket Seminar · vs · Madlib
Social Commentary+2.1σ

The writing leans far further into social commentary than the rest of the catalogue.

Tracklist · 20 Tracks · 1h 3m
01
Intro
1:29
02
To Be Lost
3:29
03
Called Your Bluff
2:45
04
Beats by the Pound
0:53
05
Put Your Title to Waste
3:10
06
The Indicator
4:33
07
Mind State
2:43
08
Down 4 The Kaz (The 1st Take)
3:16
09
O.X. Veterans
4:37
10
Battle Drills
3:43
11
Sleep If You Want
3:31
12
Corrections
2:56
13
Snake eyes
3:04
14
Tha Unstoppable
2:47
15
Friendly Fire
4:23
16
Make Your Ears Bleed
3:37
17
Battle Drills (remix)
3:15
18
Called Your Bluff (remix)
2:45
19
A.V.E.R.A.G.E.
3:25
20
O.X. VETS The Lost Reel
3:24
Moments Worth Waiting For
The way the drums on O.X. Veterans feel slightly behind the beat, creating a heavy, dragging sense of momentum.
The sudden transition into the remix of Called Your Bluff where the bassline becomes noticeably more distorted and thick.
The ghostly, filtered vocal samples that drift in and out of the background on To Be Lost.
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