"When Madlib records, he’s essentially doing a live set, a type of freestyle beat-making. “You can save samples, with an attachment for the 303 that you have to buy, but I don’t go through all that hassle. During the creation of the beats for Madvillainy I wasn’t saving ’em. I’d lay the beat straight out. To two channels.” He uses this technique, which produces a two-track recording rather than a more fine-tune-able multi-track version, because it discourages other producers from “fucking my shit up. Making, I don’t know, a house version of ’Curls’ … I seen what happens. I want to have my stuff out there as it’s supposed to be.”"