Stones Throw Is Releasing ‘Madvillainy’ Demos on Vinyl for the Album’s 20th Anniversary

October 30, 2024 E Jazz Reporter

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The label is also dropping an ‘Audiophile Edition,’ and both are available for preorder now.

MF DOOM performs at a benefit concert for the Rhino Foundation at Central Park’s Rumsey Playfield on June 28, 2005 in New York City.

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MF DOOM and Madlib‘s collab album of all collab albums, Madvillainy, turned 20 this year and Stone’s Throw announced that they will be releasing the demos on vinyl for the very first time in a lengthy Instagram post. Read it below.

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“In 2002, before @madlib and @mfdoom finished Madvillainy, the first demo sequence of the album leaked online – early vocal cuts from DOOM, recorded then quickly mixed in LA at Madlib’s Bomb Shelter studio. The leak spread around the world, and while the tracks may have been unfinished, it was clear that this was a hip-hop album unlike any other…

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We’re celebrating the 20th anniversary of #Madvillainy by releasing the Demos on vinyl for the first time, mastered by Dave Cooley (@elysianmasters) and with an insert of @ecoleye’s contact sheets from the album cover shoot.

The new Audiophile Edition celebrates the finished record: re-cut at 45rpm and pressed on 180g vinyl. Housed in a gatefold jacket with lyrics printed on the inner, with premium quality rice paper inner sleeves.”

The Madvillainy Demos & Madvillainy Audiophile Edition vinyl drops on Black Friday, Nov. 29, but you can preorder your copy now exclusively from Stones Throw. Both editions will be available everywhere else in 2025.

The DOOM estate is also releasing a 20th anniversary edition of MM…FOOD which can also be preordered and they dropped a Madlib remix of the classic cut “One Beer” to celebrate. There’s also a bunch of merch to cop like a DOOM action figure and a cereal bowl with a spoon like the one on the cover.

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