Limited 180gm vinyl LP pressing. The sound of Blue Note had been embedded in hip hop through sampling and remixes since it's early days- but Madlib raised the bar when the DJ/producer/rapper/musician invaded their vaults for his 2003 masterpiece Shades Of Blue - a visionary album featuring remixes/reimaginations of classics by Donald Byrd Bobbi Humphrey Ronnie Foster Bobby Hutcherson Wayne Shorter and more. Blue Note Classic Vinyl Series is all-analog mastering from the original master tapes.