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Artist:	MADLIB
Title:	Madlib Medicine Show No. 1 - Before The Verdict
Label:	MADLIB MEDICINE SHOW
Format:	CD
Price:	$16.00
Catalog #:	MMS 001CD

"Madlib launches the Madlib Medicine Show, a once-a-month, twelve-CD, six-LP series with Before The Verdict. The Madlib Medicine Show will be a combination of Madlib's new hip hop productions, remixes, beat tapes, and jazz, as well as mixtapes of funk, soul, Brazilian, psych and other undefined forms of music from the Beat Konducta's 4-ton stack of vinyl. Madlib Medicine Show No. 1 is Before The Verdict, featuring Guilty Simpson, a seventeen track reimagination of rapper Guilty Simpson's Ode To The Ghetto (augmented, of course, with unreleased songs, other remixes and tons o' beats). You can think of this as somewhat of a prelude to Madlib & Guilty Simpson's OJ Simpson album. Volume 1 is a limited pressing of CDs."

Artist:	MADLIB
Title:	Madlib Medicine Show No. 2 - Flight To Brazil
Label:	MADLIB MEDICINE SHOW
Format:	CD
Price:	$16.00
Catalog #:	MMS 002CD

"Madlib follows his Guilty Simpson collaboration Before The Verdict (MMS 001) with Flight To Brazil, a ticket out of whichever hell-hole you find yourself and into an 80-minute guided tour through five decades of Brazilian funk, bossa-nova, jazz, psychedelic and progressive rock. The Madlib Medicine Show will be a combination of Madlib's new hip-hop productions, remixes, beat tapes, and jazz, as well as mixtapes of funk, soul, Brazilian, psych, jazz and other undefined forms of music from the Beat Konducta's 4-ton stack of vinyl. Next up: Beat Konducta In Africa And India, a continuation of Madlib's country-specific excavations."

Artist:	MADLIB
Title:	Madlib Medicine Show No. 3 - Beat Konducta In Africa
Label:	MADLIB MEDICINE SHOW
Format:	CD
Price:	$16.00
Catalog #:	MMS 003CD

"Madlib follows Flight To Brazil, with the third installment of the Medicine Show series and the fourth installment in his Beat Konducta series: Beat Konducta In Africa. Beat Konducta In Africa contains over forty instrumental hip hop tracks produced and mixed by Madlib. This epic 'beat tape' springs from obscure vinyl gems culled from the Afro-beat, funk, psych, garage-rock, prog-rock and soul movements of countries as diverse as Zambia, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Ghana, Botswana and the Ivory Coast. The Madlib Medicine Show series is a combination of Madlib's new hip hop productions, remixes, beat tapes, and jazz, as well as mixtapes of funk, soul, Brazilian, psych, jazz and other undefined forms of music from the Beat Konducta's 4-ton stack of vinyl."

Artist:	MADLIB
Title:	Madlib Medicine Show No. 4 - 420 Chalice All-Stars
Label:	MADLIB MEDICINE SHOW
Format:	CD
Price:	$16.00
Catalog #:	MMS 004CD

"Madlib follows Beat Konducta In Africa, with the fourth installment of the Medicine Show series, 420 Chalice All Stars. Anyone familiar with Madlib knows of his deep appreciation of the variety of musical styles to originate from the Caribbean island nation of Jamaica. His run through of the Trojan Records catalog, 2004's Blunted In The Bombshelter, served as an interesting amuse-bouche. Now, the entrée -- or at least the first course: 420 Chalice All Stars. Madlib doesn't limit himself to one style in this overflowing platter: all Jamaican flavors are evident, from the speedy ska of the mid '60s to the dark dub of the early '70s to the rollicking funk from some of Jamaica's best known ensembles. The Madlib Medicine Show series is a combination of Madlib's new hip-hop productions, remixes, beat tapes, and jazz, as well as mixtapes of funk, soul, Brazilian, psych, jazz and other undefined forms of music from the Beat Konducta's 4-ton stack of vinyl."

Artist:	MADLIB
Title:	Madlib Medicine Show No. 5 - History Of The Loop Digga
Label:	MADLIB MEDICINE SHOW
Format:	CD
Price:	$16.00
Catalog #:	MMS 005CD

"Madlib follows 420 Chalice All-Stars: All Jamaican Sounds with the fifth installment in his Madlib Medicine Show, History of the Loop Digga: 1990-2000. Back in the 90s, 'beat tapes,' as a hip-hop producer's demo-reel is now quaintly referred to, were literally that: cassette tapes of beats that a producer made either for himself, his friends, or for potential collaborators. As you can imagine, Madlib made a bunch of 'em in the days between his early productions for the Alkaholiks (circa '92) and the release of his Quasimoto album (2000) -- after which he took a couple of years off of the beats to focus on making jazz music with his fictional five piece, Yesterdays New Quintet. This collection of beats showcases the way that Madlib's early hip-hop demos were filtered out to his friends and associates and provides an opportunity for a unique view into Madlib's working process: these beats, often freestyled on whatever machine he had at the ready, were picked up by rappers over a period of many years. Trainspotters will find it interesting that beats later destined for the likes of Wildchild and Percee P were made some years before those albums saw release. This album is punctuated with a series of early solo-raps by Madlib and his Quasimoto alter ego and features the cadre known collectively as CDP -- those rappers who worked side by side with Madlib during the days of his Oxnard-based 'Crate Diggas Palace' studios."

Artist:	MADLIB
Title:	Madlib Medicine Show No. 6 - The Brain Wreck Show
Label:	MADLIB MEDICINE SHOW
Format:	CD
Price:	$16.00
Catalog #:	MMS 006CD

"Madlib follows History of the Loop Digga: 1990-2000 with the sixth installment in his Madlib Medicine Show, his psych-prog-avant-freak-out-funk rock mix Brain Wreck Show. Madlib's been pegged as a 'jazz guy' as far back as 2000, when he -- as his alter ego Quasimoto -- released the song 'Jazz Cats.' His releases with the fictional 'jazz group' Yesterdays New Quintet didn't help matters. But, no matter how many jazz records are thrust at him by money-hungry record dealers, he most often -- at least lately -- gravitates to the rock side of the spectrum. That's late 60s to late 70s psych-prog-avante-freak-out-funk rock mind you; from the Tropicalia of Brasil to the Krautrock of Germany to the fuzzy sounds of mid '70s Nigeria, the Beat Konducta's rock tastes know no cultural bounds. Actually, we're not sure if they know any bounds. This -- an introductory mix entitled the Brain Wreck Show (admission, he wrote on the CD master, 'One Brainticket' -- an homage to one of his favorite Krautrock bands) -- should serve to give its listeners a delightfully freaky funked up experience into the rock side of Madlib's collecting conscious. We're glad you're along for the ride. The Madlib Medicine Show series is a combination of Madlib's new hip-hop productions, remixes, beat tapes, and jazz, as well as mixtapes of funk, soul, Brazilian, psych, jazz and other undefined forms of music from the Beat Konducta's 4-ton stack of vinyl."

Artist:	MADLIB
Title:	Madlib Medicine Show No. 7 - High Jazz
Label:	MADLIB MEDICINE SHOW
Format:	CD
Price:	$16.00
Catalog #:	MMS 007CD

"Madlib follows Brain Wreck Show with the seventh installment in his Madlib Medicine Show, a jazz album with his Yesterday's New Quintet called High Jazz. Madlib's been busy this year. And while his recorded output always spans the gamut, he often returns to recurrent themes, spread across the genres that serve as home base -- or bases, as it were. Jazz is one such base. This year, he's already released two albums from 'spin-off bands' that he introduced on the 2007 Yesterday's New Quintet Yesterday's Universe album. And, with High Jazz, Madlib begins anew, offering familiar jazz sounds from a series of 'new' groups from his ever-augmenting cosmos. Call it 'Yesterday's Galaxy.' High Jazz, the name itself a tribute to the landmark jazz-fusion album released by Stanton Davis's Ghetto Mysticism in 1976, shows a marked development in Madlib's craft. Every element of jazz is there. Is that tune modal-funk? Was that song psych-fusion? Was that a bossa-tinged run or another kind of Latin-affair? Where did that sitar come from? Madlib's Yesterday's excursions are never easy to categorize and that's the point -- while experiencing chops like these, the desire to rigidly define takes a backseat to aural pleasure. The Madlib Medicine Show series is a combination of Madlib's new hip-hop productions, remixes, beat tapes, and jazz, as well as mixtapes of funk, soul, Brazilian, psych, jazz and other undefined forms of music from the Beat Konducta's 4-ton stack of vinyl."

Artist:	MADLIB
Title:	Madlib Medicine Show No. 8 - Advanced Jazz
Label:	MADLIB MEDICINE SHOW
Format:	CD
Price:	$16.00
Catalog #:	MMS 008CD

"Madlib follows High Jazz with the eighth installment in his Madlib Medicine Show, a mix of the multiple facets of jazz music: Advanced Jazz. Madlib's been busy this year. And while his recorded output always spans the gamut, he often returns to recurrent themes, spread across the genres that serve as home base -- or bases, as it were. Jazz is one such base. High Jazz, the previously released Madlib Medicine Show album, showed a marked development in Madlib's craft: every element of jazz was encapsulated in that eighty-minute opus. What better way to follow such an album than with a companion-piece culled from the thousands of jazz albums that inspired Madlib's first forays into the genre? The resulting mix, Advanced Jazz, is, as the title hints, a step (or three!) deeper than the Steve Kuhn and Weldon Irvine albums that he first enjoyed as he was first delving into his Yesterdays New Quintet project Angles Without Edges in 2001. Some of this music -- to the untrained ear -- might not seem to be 'jazz' at all. But rest assured -- this is a jazz mix through and through, as exhilarating a ride as Madlib's Brain Wreck Show and Flight To Brazil. It's a celebration of this great American music and while it focuses on the past forty years, it clearly heralds every innovation -- both domestic and international -- of this century-old musical form."

Artist:	MADLIB
Title:	Madlib Medicine Show No. 9 - Channel 85 Presents Nittyville
Label:	MADLIB MEDICINE SHOW
Format:	CD
Price:	$16.00
Catalog #:	MMS 009CD

"Madlib follows his detour into jazz with a punch-you-in-the-face return to hip-hop form -- a collaborative album with Detroit rapper Frank Nitti. Madlib and Detroit-based rapper Frank Nitti first collaborated on Jaylib's 'McNasty Filth,' from the seminal Champion Sound album. Back then, Frank was one half of the rap-duo Frank n' Dank and he and his partner were the late J.Dilla's go-to MCs. Madlib liked what he heard; he promised Frank that one day, he would work with the budding rapper on an album. Seven years, hundreds of beats, a bunch of blunt smoke and far too many cross-country trips later, and this is the result: a hazy, funk-filled rap album, done as only the Beat Konducta can do."

Artist:	MADLIB
Title:	Madlib Medicine Show No. 10 - Black Soul
Label:	MADLIB MEDICINE SHOW
Format:	CD
Price:	$16.00
Catalog #:	MMS 010CD

"Madlib digs deep to give you a mix of 60s and 70s soul and funk unlike you've ever heard. Madlib has taken us across so many different terrains with his Medicine Show Series. His most recent work? The sweetest installation yet - Madlib Medicine Show No. 10: Black Soul. Through Madlib's extensive output you've seen - or heard rather, Madlib's unique power to renew value to obscure sounds, and with this particular project nothing has changed. Madlib Medicine Show No. 10 reminds us of the mastery Madlib has performed throughout his heralded body of work, sourcing inspiration by the likes of Don Blackman, ZZ Hill or the Sylvers and blowing you away with the original work that stems from it. With Black Soul, he's digging deep to give you a mix of 60s and 70s soul and funk unlike you've ever heard."

Artist:	MADLIB
Title:	Madlib Medicine Show No. 11 - Lowbudget High Fi Music
Label:	MADLIB MEDICINE SHOW
Format:	CD
Price:	$16.00
Catalog #:	MMS 011CD

"Madlib got a bit lost in his detour into jazz -- Madlib Medicine Show's 7 (High Jazz) and 8 (Advanced Jazz). He was supposed to circle back with a punch-you-in-the-face return to hip-hop form -- a collaborative album with Detroit rapper Frank Nitti -- but instead he found himself lost in the Lost Gates... a place where Black Soul (Madlib Medicine Show 10) really means Disco Funk. Sorry about that. The good news is: he's back. And that hip-hop album, for which the Medicine Show faithfully have been holding their tickets, is finally here. It's called Lowbudget High-Fi Music and it's an interesting look back at the Madlib Medicine Show and a prelude of what is to come in the 12th, 13th and -- maybe -- 9th releases in the series. All of the regular Madlib collaborators -- MED, Guilty Simpson, Strong Arm Steady -- are represented here with exclusive tracks. Karriem Riggins pops in for a Supreme Team interlude, as does A.G. Madlib digs out a Jaylib-era track that was earmarked for the never-realized second album and, of course, interludes, outerludes and -- probably -- queludes abound."

Artist:	MADLIB
Title:	Madlib Medicine Show No. 12 - Raw Medicine: Madlib Remixes
Label:	MADLIB MEDICINE SHOW
Format:	CD
Price:	$16.00
Catalog #:	MMS 012CD

"Raw Medicine is the latest collection of Madlib remixes, featuring a host of unsuspecting collaborators that run the gamut from thugs, street poets, star emcees and underdogs. We ain't naming names. The show runs sixty minutes plus with features thirty plus tracks. The Madlib Medicine Show Series is a combination of Madlib's new hip-hop productions, remixes, beat tapes, and jazz, as well as mixtapes of funk, soul, Brazilian, psych, jazz and other undefined forms of music from the Beat Konducta's 4-ton stack of vinyl."

Artist:	MADLIB
Title:	Madlib Medicine Show No. 13 - Black Tape
Label:	MADLIB MEDICINE SHOW
Format:	CD
Price:	$18.00
Catalog #:	MMS 013CD

"When Madlib launched his Madlib Medicine Show, the original idea was simple: twelve releases, one per month, alternating between original works and mixtapes spanning different genres. It took a little longer than planned to get to No. 12 (MMS 012CD), which put the idea in his head to give us all a bonus Medicine Show No. 13. Here is, the long rumored, highly anticipated, final installment of the Medicine Show: Madlib Medicine Show No. 13 - Black Tape. Black Tape (which is of course actually a CD) is a 60 minute hip-hop mix of some of rap's best, half-best, brilliant and borderline-retarded MCs, all colliding head-on with a collection of Madlib beats."

Artist:	MADLIB
Title:	The Brick
Label:	MADLIB MEDICINE SHOW
Format:	13CD Box
Price:	$108.00
Catalog #:	MMSBOX 1001CD

"When Madlib launched his Madlib Medicine Show last year, the original idea was simple: twelve releases, one per month, alternating between original works and mixtapes spanning different genres. It took a little longer than planned to hit number 12, so we ordered up a bonus, number 13 -- and, since we figured that there might be some new converts to the fold, we decided to package all 13 albums together. We call this collection The Brick. The Madlib Medicine Show Series is a combination of Madlib's new hip-hop productions, remixes, beat tapes, and jazz, as well as mixtapes of funk, soul, Brazilian, psych, jazz and other undefined forms of music from the Beat Konducta's 4-ton stack of vinyl."

Artist:	MADLIB
Title:	Beat Konducta Vol. 1-2: Movie Scenes
Label:	STONES THROW
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	STH 2133CD

...35 Hip Hop Instrumentals. "Following up his successful Beat Konducta vinyl-only releases, Madlib rounds out his first CD collection of hip hop instrumentals with Beat Konducta Vol 1-2: Movie Scenes. These new, original tracks have been culled from the now-legendary beat CDs which provided the basis for Madlib's 2004-2005 productions from Madvillain, Quasimoto and Jaylib. Movie Scenes presents a vivid hip hop soundtrack for each mood in the model of vintage 'library records' made for TV and film background music in the funky 1960s & '70s. Each of the 40 tracks has a title as well as a parenthetical mood or theme to correspond with what's unfolding on the screen. The film is for you to imagine, the score courtesy of Madlib the Beat Konducta."

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