Madvillain -- the epic duo of masked emcee MF Doom and producer Madlib (born Madlib the Kid) -- dropped the legendary LP Madvillainy back in 2004. The collaboration elevated both Doom and Madlib in the eyes of the mainstream music world, including a young me, who then proceded to devour MF Doom tracks.
In 2005, Doom gave six tracks to a then-little-known producer named Four Tet to remix. The result is a very different yet similarly complex take on the same rhymes. Madlib creates progressive Dilla-like sample heavy collages -- ephemeral jazz yet still entrenched in hip-hop's past. Four Tet's production is more linear in its flow. But that's not to say its simple - he trades atmospheric jazz for electro dissidence that functions like its predecessor, leaving the listener in beautiful disorientation.
If you can get through the music, you're left with Doom's own crazy-good lyrical absurdities. Your ears and mind are gonna be doing a lot of working, but if you can take it all in, you can get a whole lot of genius in you.
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