Intoxicated Skull Out Now!!!
Intoxicated Skull is finally out! My very first jazz-funk library album and volume 3 of 12 in the Madlib Invazion Music Library Series. And the last release under the J-Zone name.
Vinyl on Madlib Invazion Bandcamp.
In 2020, Egon & Madlib reached out to clear a sample of my drums (Lunch Breaks) for “Road of the Lonely Ones” and I was given the opportunity to create an album for their library series. Intoxicated Skull has the spirit of both the old KPM and DeWolfe libraries of the 1960s and ’70s and my more drum-centric stuff, but there’s also some bizarre experiments I wouldn’t pull elsewhere 😂.
I don’t really see it as a “J-Zone” record since it’s mostly me + the two killer musicians who helped me put it together: 🎹/composer Rafferty Swink & my Du-Rites partner, Pablo Martin. The record is theirs just as much as mine. It was also the final release under the J-Zone name when recorded in 2020-21, but it was delayed. So now it’s a funky anomaly finally seeing daylight. Grateful for everyone involved for their support and patience. Enjoy.
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The Madlib Invazion Music Library Series was created by Madlib and Egon over the course of the Pandemic, and was a chance to give their creative friends the ability to stretch out and indulge in whatever type of music they wanted for release on the label. The music had to be great and able to be presented as a stand alone album – like the best “Music Library” releases of the past, on labels like Italy’s Sermi, Germany’s Bruton, France’s MP2000 and the UK’s DeWolfe. And, like those albums, it had to work as easy, one-stop clearance for background cues in film and television production and, as producers have been indulging since the 1990s, for sampling.
The series contains 12 releases by DJ Muggs, Karriem Riggins, J-Zone, the Heliocentrics’ Malcolm Catto and Jake Ferguson, JJ Whitefield of Karl Hector/Whitefield Brothers/Poets of Rhythm, Motif Alumni and Music Research Library, Mario Luciano of Polyphonic Music Library, Henkel, Gabriel Rowland of Los Yesterdays, Dan Hastie and Terin Ector of Orgone, Dan Ubick and Joe Harrison
The albums will be released on the Madlib Invazion Bandcamp on the first Friday of each month over the course of one year. Listen, ponder, repeat.
