

With a new workspace finalized and ready for use, his now-legendary ability to work on music for days on end was on display right away. It was in the Bomb Shelter studio that Madlib’s obsessive pursuit of musical mastery reached a new plateau. “Madlib moved in unofficially, first set up shop in the living room, then into this ’50s-era bomb shelter downstairs with 18-inch concrete walls.” “It was the three of us just winging it, no plan, no money,” Jeff Jank recalled in a 2011 interview with Ego Trip. With Wolf, former Stones Throw manager Egon, and art director Jeff Jank sharing the same living space during the label’s formative years in the late 90s and early 2000s, their collective path towards success took an important turn when super-producer Madlib joined them as an informal fourth roommate.

A look inside Stones Throw Studios via The Vinyl Factory.
