Peanut Butter Wolf, DJ and owner of
Stones Throw Records, heard Quas' demo tapes and encouraged Madlib to release more tracks under this alias. Quasimoto was featured on Wolf's
My Vinyl Weighs a Ton album in 1998, on the song "Styles Crews Flows Beats". Later, Madlib put out Quasimoto's debut album,
The Unseen, in 2000. This album received much praise from
underground fans and from mainstream media, making it onto
Spin Magazine's top albums of the year list. Madlib's original idea for his character was to make him an "unknown person or entity", hence the title of Quasimoto's debut album,
The Unseen. While the character was depicted as a humanoid white figure on
The Unseen's album cover, the appearance of the character was changed after fans started identifying him as a creature holding a brick in the artwork for
The Unseen (2000) by Jeff Jank. The illustrated character was first used on the cover of single
Microphone Mathematics (1999) credited to Keith Beats. After the release of
The Unseen, Madlib spent the next few years working on different projects such as
Yesterdays New Quintet and his album
Shades of Blue. Quas re-emerged in 2003, making a few guest appearances, notably on
Jaylib's
Champion Sound and
Madvillain's
Madvillainy (Madlib and
MF Doom). Quasimoto officially returned with the vinyl-only
Bus Ride EP in 2005, continuing his distinctive style of high pitched rhymes and unorthodox samples. In 2005, Quasimoto dropped
The Further Adventures of Lord Quas which featured
M.E.D. and MF Doom. The album cover features a reference to
Frank Zappa's debut album,
Freak Out!, a picture of super-producer
J Dilla, and a picture of
Wild Man Fischer, who is also referenced in one of the songs. The voice of
Melvin Van Peebles is sampled on several tracks from both albums. In June 2013, the compilation album
Yessir Whatever was released. It was said to be "a collection of 12 tracks made over a roughly 12-year period," however there were no new Quasimoto recordings made after the year 2005. Some tracks were released on rare and out-of-print vinyls while others were previously unreleased, being mixed and mastered for the first time specifically for the compilation. ==Influences==