As I arrived at work one Monday morning, I received news that my uncle had been murdered earlier that morning. I took the next available bus home. Popped on my headphones, clicked play on my last playlist, and this song played. Got me in tears on the ride. To this day it reminds me of my uncle. Rest easy ❤️

My babies will know beauty and love through music. I promise you humanity. I will do my best to raise lovers of all things.

I listen to a lot of instrumentals and a lot of hip hop in general, and I can say this is my favorite beat of all time. i get goosebumps every time I hear "do what you want do what you like do what you feel do what you need"

Could play this everyday for the rest of my life.

Man, "Montara" is one of my favorite jazz songs ever (I'm a big Bobby Hutcherson fan). I like how Madlib freaked the loop with the chopped up Lou Rawls break. Classic material!!!

This song demonstrates the simple brilliance of hip-hop as a way to make music. Here you take a pretty straightforward wind piece, specifically the main melody from Montara, and a drum break from another record. The act of putting them together at that very moment (let's say 00:18), is where it transforms. No longer just two pieces living separately, they come together and form a whole greater than a simple sum of its parts. A good loop + a good break, that's really what it comes down to.

Groovin', G-g-g-groovin', so groove n' groove n' groove n' groove n' so on.

Madlib makes you appreciate music

Love how this track plays with the left and right stereo channels

we live in a decade where this man is standing on his feet, u gotta be thankful for that.

Dilla used this sample in that concert smoking grooves tour with ATCQ and flipmode squad on the film rhyme and reason in 1996

Total Chill Out. Googled up 'Montara, CA', clicked on images, while listening to this - Absolute Synesthesea.

i love women who dig real hip hop. that shit is a turn on.

i could listen to this song over and over....Madlib and Jdilla are great

Just heard this on the jazz station Wclk in Atlanta. This track is soothing to the soul. Tight!!

I live for Montara by Bobby Hutcherson. Beautiful piece of work. Great taste in sampling ❤❤❤❤

I think the most impressive thing of this beat is how Madlib panned everything, so insane.

Thank you, Madlib, thank you...for those of us who love Blue Note jazz and Hip Hop coequally...thank you, brother. You give me hope for Hip Hop in the new millennium.

Madlib on a Sunday stroll

This Beat make me think about life, the ups and downs, cut your lights off and blow a blunt to the Face.

appreciate and love this great musician while he's still here with us. my favorite artist of all time. this whole album is one memory after another.

RIP Bobby Hutcherson.

Such a hidden gem 💎 Might be one of my favorite Madlib tracks.

One of his most emotionally moving and best instrumentals hes made. Love how peaceful and laidback it sounds. that flute is otherworldly

Groovin' and... black!

I would love to see MadLib produce a whole album with Ghostface Killa do MC vocals!!!!

oh lord this is beautiful! its like brain massage lol

I can think of approximately 85.000 different things I can do with this as a perfect soundtrack, from a long shower to a leisurely walk down a half deserted street at night with blinking stoplights keeping the rhythm..

This is the tune when youre riding the bus through the city streets of Noerrebro in Copenhagen on a late summer evening.. Peace from Denmark!

THIS SAMPLE WILL NEVER GO OLD. TOO MANY DOPE TRACKS AND PERSONAL FAVORITES HAVE USED IT. ONCE AGAIN, TOO DOPE MADLID

Just amazing i love everything in this song i could play it again & again & again

loving this forever.a pure classick.orig and Madlibs

This is something we like to call.....music. The radio doesn't play music, much to our dismay.

I love listening to madlibs chill at work, makes my work day smoothly melodic like his tunes

Yeeaahhh right ..... Its like, I just can't get enuff of this silky smooth groove

That beat at 4:30 though.

From 3:10 - 4:02 his scratching is magical. Madlib my man

Such an awesome beat!

Oh my Madlib sir!!!!

One of the most legendary collaborations ever that most people wouldnt even know about. Blue Note + Madlib. Mad J Dilla couldnt get one done before he died.

love this track, best track on this album

1/5/2021 Rest in Peace to my conversion van and my home, Surge. 5 days into the new year and my home of two and a half years burst into flames and was completely charred in a mechanical fire that started randomly. Luckily, I am safe. However, I lost everything I own including clothes, mattress and bedding, bathroom supplies, dishes and kitchen items, food, all my important documents (including passport/birth certificate, etc.), personal items such as my laptop and cellphone. Everything. I had spent the months of July-October of 2020, getting my conversion van repainted and ventilated, extensive mechanical work done, and reconstructed on the inside. All in hopes of taking off on another off the grid journey. I'm a firm believer that "everything happens for a reason", which supports the idea that disasters such as this can often be blessings in disguise. However, I believe blessings also come when you are able to admit you could use some help.

I love this song, for some reason it wasn’t available here in Finland but NOW IT IS. Listening to this makes me feel like you are taking a step into the past

Makin moves. Royal flush. Sample. Respect from chile.

BEAUTIFUL work!

nice - chillin' hip hop groove

The smell of cedar / sandalwood would sound like this... 😎

One of my favorite tracks from Madlibs Blue Note.......AWSOME

THIS is timeless

invigorating. totally induces nostalgia.

Beautiful.

this beat is perfection

So cool how the tone of the flute completely changes once the beat comes in... music is a strange and beautiful beast

i love this, eu amo madlib

One of madlibs Best compositions.

Absolutely beautiful! We all know who is one of the best producers in hip-hop.

Id play TF out of shakers. My air drumming is stellar. 🤣🤣 This song gives me life. Im always motivated and inspired when i listen to this. It feels like victory.

This is my favorite track on this record....for many years

don't forget lil kids queens ny york rapper "royal flush" sampled this as well on his track called makin moves" circa 97'

one of my favs

Do what you want, do what you like Do what you feel, do what you need

Beautiful piece right here

The drum machine switch up at the end is pure genius.

Love this one!

Limitless catalog this man has!

One of the best

This beat always takes me to another place

Each time I hear this song it makes me crazy... MADLIB!!!

My favorite sample piece on here

This should be played for our kids. Radio needs to hear this.

Frankie Cutlass Nice & Smooth Pete Rock

the very beginning...and 4:20 to the end is my absolute favorite part. I just love how its so mellow and then all of a sudden the drums kick in HARD!!! and makes me feel like im at the livest party in the World...and its only me right now.

OMG THIS IS SO F*&@# GOOD! The very first notes of the piece stops me in my tracks. Eat 'cha heart out Bobby Hutcherson.

YESSS thank you!

too smooth !

This is my favorite beat on this album.

Un leño y madlib que más se puede pedir

this song continues to save my life

Perfect song, like all madlib's songs.

SUAVE, LAID BACK, MADLIB, THE GENIUS, NO DISRESPECT GZA. BIG UP MADLIB! © BUNTREEALL ≤¶4 ©

Lovely.

beautiful

What a brilliant idea.

madlib all day!

my men! wat a sound.

Epic shit right here

Great track

GOAT beat

I play this on my clarinet and soprano sax. And I rap. Been listening to this since 5th grade. I'm still listening to this a senior.

Love love it 47xan candy

master piece

dope. chill. groovin'.

doesnt really get more beautiful then this does it

I dig it !

how is marijuana so dangerous? this is what came from it, this is what inspired madlib to make such a chill and great song. amazing man. i smoke to this. all my problems just fade away through that flute.

Simply Food 4 The Mind, Body, & Soul ;-)

Yes sirrr..

Love.

I heard this beat being rapped over by a underground rapper(now deceased) Avionadramida, and I heard it before that a long time ago, but I never knew the name of the song, or the guy who made it so I searched around, found out Madlib made it, got into Madlib, and all his wonderful music with MF DOOM, Quasimoto, and many others, then I found this beat, now I play it everyday.

Heals my being