Angles Without Edges is the first album released by hip hop

Hip hop

Hip hop is a form of musical expression and artistic culture that originated in African-American and Latino communities during the 1970s in New York City, specifically the Bronx. DJ Afrika Bambaataa outlined the four pillars of hip hop culture: MCing, DJing, breaking and graffiti writing...

 producer Madlib

Madlib

Otis Jackson Jr. in Oxnard, California, known professionally as Madlib, is a Los Angeles-based DJ, multi-instrumentalist, rapper, and music producer...

's Jazz project, Yesterdays New Quintet. Although a fictional quintet

Quintet

A quintet is a group containing five members.It is commonly associated with musical groups, such as a string quintet, or a group of five singers, but can be applied to any situation where five similar or related objects are considered a single unit....

, it's actually Madlib playing different instruments under different aliases. This album was released in 2001 under Stones Throw Records

Stones Throw Records

Stones Throw Records is an independent hip hop record label based in Los Angeles, California. It was started in 1996 by DJ/Producer Peanut Butter Wolf in part to release the music he made with Charizma who was killed at the age of 20....

 in CD and vinyl

Gramophone record

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 formats.

Track list

All tracks produced by Madlib.

1. "Prelude" - 1:59
2. "Julani" - 3:05
3. "Papa" (Alex Malheiros) - 4:34
4. "Keeper Of My Soul" (Walter Bishop, Jr.)- 4:18
5. "The One Who Knows" - 3:43
6. "The Birth Of YNQ" - 2:53
7. "Paladium" (Wayne Shorter)- 5:35
8. "Life's Angles" - 3:07
9. "Thinking Of You" - 3:15
10. "Uno Esta" (Fonce Mizell & Larry Mizell)- 3:44
11. "Rugged Tranquility" - 4:07
12. "Daylight" (Edwin Birdsong/Roy Ayers/William Allen)- 3:55
13. "Hot Water" - 3:44
14. "Mestizo Eyes" (Fonce Mizell & Larry Mizell)- 3:55
15. "Sun Goddess" (Maurice White & J. Lind)- 3:57
16. "Kuhn's Theme" - 2:32
17. "Little Girl (Dakota's Song)" - 2:21
18. "Broken Dreams" - 5:34
19. "Last Day" - 0:55

Credits

Credits adopted from Discogs

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• Design - Jeff Jank
• Exec. Producer - Peanut Butter Wolf
  Peanut Butter Wolf
  Chris Manak, aka Peanut Butter Wolf, is a DJ, hip-hop producer and the founder of hip-hop label Stones Throw Records.A native of San Jose, California, He took on the name Peanut Butter Wolf in the late-80s when he realized that a girlfriend’s youngest brother feared the “peanut butter wolf monster”...
  
  
• Liner Notes - Dave Tompkins
• Mastered By - Gene Grimaldi
• Photography - B+