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MADLIB LAUNCHES HIS ONCE-A-MONTH SERIES

Madlib launches the Madlib Medicine MP3 leak “The Paper” downloaded Show, a once-a-month, twelve-CD, 43,000 times on stonesthrow.com six-LP series with Before The Verdict. The as of 12/10… and counting Madlib Medicine Show will be a Marketed and promoted by combination of Madlib's new Hip Hop productions, remixes, beat tapes, and Publicity by Score Press , as well as mixtapes of , Soul, Brazilian, Psych and other undefined Limited edition forms of music from the 's 4-ton* stack of vinyl. Format: CD Cat. No: MMS 001 Madlib Medicine Show No. 1 is Before Label: Madlib Medicine Show The Verdict featuring , a Available: February 2nd, 2010 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 forthcoming OJ Simpson album. Volume 1 is a limited pressing of CDs.

Next up: Flight to Brazil, is a mixtape of Brazilian jazz, funk, prog-rock, folk and psychedelia coming in late February. Later releases will include Beat Konducta in Africa.

*4-tons of vinyl, this is true. It’s all in his studio. The World-Psych Masterpiece from The Whitefield Brothers

1. Joyful Exaltation feat. Bajka 2. Safari Strut 3. Reverse feat. and MED 4. Taisho 5. Sad Nile 6. The Gift feat. and Mr. Lif 7. Ntu 8. Pamukkale 9. Alin 10. Breakin' Through feat. 11. Sem Yelesh 12. Lullaby For Lagos feat. Quantic 13. Chich

Earthology is the long awaited follow up to The Whitefield Brothers cult-classic In The Raw. While In The Raw’s hypnotic, defiantly psychedelic funk music was grounded in the great musical traditions of both America KEY SELLING POINTS: and Africa, Earthology finds the Brothers infusing their funk (or, as the Brothers prefer it, “raw soul”) with musical traditions that span the globe. • Marketed and Promoted by Stones Throw Records including promotion of “The Gift” 12” To achieve the Earthology’s unique sound, the Brothers employed an array of instruments and put in a dizzying amount of research: traveling the • “The Gift” 12” single also available world, joining different bands and ethnic performing ensembles, amassing • Package includes a deluxe “mini LP” and absorbing field recordings, trawling used record bins for lost examples gatefold jacket including thick, cardboard of global psychedelic-fusion, over a period spanning some fifteen years. “paste-on” sleeve and a fold out poster insert Like In The Raw, Earthology is grounded by a “raw soul” band’s building blocks: drums, guitar, bass, keys and horns, but it is augmented by such • Publicity by Score Press exotic instruments as gongs and from Asia, xylophones and string • Stones Throw Records Fan Club 45 instruments from Africa and Central American percussion instruments. available to key retailers The use of African polyrhythms now seems commonplace on a funk or psych album; Arabic rhythmical structures, African pentatonic scales and Oriental modes do not. The Whitefield Brothers, and a multitude of guest The features Edan, Mr. Lif, ranging from vocalists Edan, Mr. Lif, Bajka, Percee P and MED to Quantic, Percee P, MED, Bajka musicians from Antibalas, El Michels Affair, Quantic and the Dap-Kings, set these elements in a modern context and, over the course of thirteen dense and members of the Dap Kings, tracks, blend them with the fierce funk their fans have grown to love. Poets of Rhythm and El Michels Affair

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Format: CD in a Gatefold Paste-on Cat. No: NA 5047 Label: Now Again Available: FEBRUARY 2nd The World-Psych Masterpiece from The Whitefield Brothers

A1. Joyful Exaltation feat. Bajka A2. Safari Strut A3. Reverse feat. Percee P and MED B1. Taisho B2. Sad Nile B3. The Gift feat. Edan and Mr. Lif C1. Ntu C2. Pamukkale C3. Alin D1. Breakin' Through feat. El Michels Affair D2. Sem Yelesh D3. Lullaby For Lagos feat. Quantic D4. Chich

Earthology is the long awaited follow up to The Whitefield Brothers cult-classic In The Raw. While In The Raw’s hypnotic, defiantly psychedelic funk music was grounded in the great musical traditions of both America KEY SELLING POINTS: and Africa, Earthology finds the Brothers infusing their funk (or, as the Brothers prefer it, “raw soul”) with musical traditions that span the globe. • Marketed and Promoted by Stones Throw Records including promotion of “The Gift” 12” To achieve the Earthology’s unique sound, the Brothers employed an array of instruments and put in a dizzying amount of research: traveling the • “The Gift” 12” single also available world, joining different bands and ethnic performing ensembles, amassing and absorbing field recordings, trawling used record bins for lost examples • Package includes a deluxe gatefold jacket of global psychedelic-fusion, over a period spanning some fifteen years. including thick, cardboard “paste-on” sleeve Like In The Raw, Earthology is grounded by a “raw soul” band’s building blocks: drums, guitar, bass, keys and horns, but it is augmented by such • Publicity by Score Press exotic instruments as gongs and flutes from Asia, xylophones and string • Stones Throw Records Fan Club 45 instruments from Africa and Central American percussion instruments. available to key retailers The use of African polyrhythms now seems commonplace on a funk or psych album; Arabic rhythmical structures, African pentatonic scales and Oriental modes do not. The Whitefield Brothers, and a multitude of guest The albums features Edan, Mr. Lif, ranging from vocalists Edan, Mr. Lif, Bajka, Percee P and MED to Quantic, Percee P, MED, Bajka musicians from Antibalas, El Michels Affair, Quantic and the Dap-Kings, set these elements in a modern context and, over the course of thirteen dense and members of the Dap Kings, tracks, blend them with the fierce funk their fans have grown to love. Poets of Rhythm and El Michels Affair

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Format: 2xLP in a Gatefold Paste-on Cat. No: NA 5047 Label: Now Again Available: FEBRUARY 2nd 1. What They Doin? 2. Walk On By 3. Merry Go Round 4. Santana Part 1 5. The Touch Of You 6. Santana Part II 7. Ain’t No Sunshine 8. Cicso Fare 9. Where Is Love?

Lost dark soul/funk masterpiece from Hampton, Virginia high school champions of Pepsi’s “New Sounds Of 1972” challenge

The stories of great high school funk bands are, thanks to an This official reissue was licensed by the Equatics’ abundance of reissues, commonplace. The tales of great high bandleader, bass player Benjamin Crawford. Packaged as school soul-bands are still rare. A ballad or two on the a “mini-LP” in a thick, “paste-on” cardboard sleeve that random Douglass High School Stage Band album or Timeless mimicks the original album jacket, Now-Again’s reissue of Legend’s mesmerizing entry on Columbus’s 1972 1st Annual Doin’ It!!!! also comes with an eight page booklet with full Inner City Talent Expo notwithstanding, high school bands liner notes, annotation, and never-before-seen photos of rarely struck into the realm of “grown folks” music. Enter The this most impressive organization. Equatics and their brooding masterpiece Doin’ It!!!!

If this is categorized as a “funk” album – and it was for the last ten years, by those few lucky enough to own an original KEY SELLING POINTS: copy – it holds its own. But it was as a soul band, one as • Tough-to-beat originals and covers of the inspired by the melancholic musings of Bill Withers as the likes of Isaac Hayes and Bill Withers psychedelic-pop of the self-proclaimed “Black Moses,” Issac Hayes – that the Equatics shone. These young souls offered • Official reissue world-weary, beat-heavy ballads that stand on par with any of • Limited edition of 1000 units the great independent organizations of the early 1970s. That a • Marketed and promoted by Stones Throw group of teenagers could offer such an angst-ridden plea as that of Leo Davis’s “Merry Go Round” not only transcends the • Comes packaged in a deluxe “mini LP” package including thick, cardboard “tip-on” limitations that came from the band’s average age (seventeen, sleeve with an 8 page booklet at the time of the album’s recording), but also the barriers the stood in front of this group of small-city hopefuls.

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Format: CD in a Paste-on with booklet Cat. No: NA 5062 Label: Now Again Available: FEBRUARY 2nd

Now Again Records 2658 Griffith Park Blvd, #504, , CA, 90039 • www.nowagainrecords.com “Not so sure about anything with these songs except for the fact San Jose. I was known as the “kid with the record out”, even that I made them while living with my mom in the early 90s and though it didn’t really sell. I was also the only kid with a sampler almost all were recorded with the rappers through besides King Shameek, but Shameek moved to New York. None headphones plugged straight into the DJ mixer. I didn’t use of these ‘songs’ were really finished and definitely none were compression on anyone’s voice nor did I know what that was polished. They were all rough draft versions with the intention of back then. That’s why the vocals are all over the place. Most going into a proper studio to re-record. The only rappers I really songs didn’t have effects on the voices either. A lot of adding finished songs with and took to the studio back then were Quiz loops on top of other loops live, which made it sloppy.” One and Charizma, but none of those ‘actual‘ songs are on here.”

“At this point in my “rap music career”, my goal was to make a “I think at that time, if I made a beat that a rapper liked and he In Control type comp with all the rappers in San Jose had lyrics, I’d record him over it to hear what it sounded like. I was meeting at the time. My situation was a lot different than Some of the beats were chosen by more than one group or artist, Marley’s though, mainly because he established a crew of and I’d try different guys over the same track. My idea to do this rappers that all worked together (before Wu-Tang) and most of comp back in 1990 quickly got scrapped as I found myself the rappers I worked with never even met each other.” working with Charizma more than anyone else and decided that he was the one I worked best with. We both had that slightly “The fact that I put out a record with Lyrical Prophecy (Quiz One warped sense of humor. Plus, we both liked the Whirlwind and Deshee) in 1989, made it easy for me to find MCs to record in pinball machine, so that sealed the deal.” — PBW

1. CHARIZMA - A Day In Your Life Format: 2xLP 2. DESHEE - Knowledge I’m Servin Cat. No: PBW 009 3. Catch The Beat Label: PBW Classics 4. N.O.T.U. - The 7th Sign Available: February 2nd, 2010 5. CHARIZMA - Raquel 6. Jamboree 7. QUIZ ONE - Score The Medaphore 8. PEACE MAKER - Original 9. MC TWAN - Rebel Within 10. CHARIZMA - ‘Move 11. Brother Brother Brother 12. DESHEE - Death In The Premises 13. CHARIZMA - No Time For Frontin 14. Full Beat 15. RAISED BY SUESS - Jane & Jim 16. N.O.T.U. - On the Square 17. CHARIZMA - It’s Charizma 18. DOUBLE DUCE & KID KRUSH - Lyrical Calisthenics 19. PEACE MAKER - Live & Direct 20. Scratch (feat. CHARIZMA) 01. INSIDE A CHANGE (Intro) 02. SO CLOSE, SO FAR feat. BUN B, and COLIN MUNROE 03. CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED feat. LIL FAME, SAIGON and 04. NIGHT PEOPLE feat. FREEWAY, RED CAFE and MASSPIKE MILES 05. FOLLOW WE feat. SMIF N WESSUN 06. DO IT 2 DEATH feat. LIL FAME, and 07. COME AROUND feat. and ROYCE DA 5’9 08. DRUNKEN NIGHTS feat. REKS, JOE SCUDDA and J.F.K. 09. LIFE IS SHORT feat. CONSEQUENCE 10. 100 PROOF (Interlude) feat. J.F.K. 11. THE THRILL IS GONE feat. STYLES P and 12. GET OUT feat. , RAPPER POOH, TORAE and LEE WILSON 13. LAUGHIN feat. 14. THE COAST feat. , FASHAWN and KALI 15. FAKE LOVE (Yes Men) feat. REKS, KALI, TERMANOLOGY and GOOD BROTHA 16. EIGHTY-TWO feat. TERMANOLOGY 17. WALKING AWAY feat. KALI and NOVEL

It’s been a couple years now since Statik Selektah made sure the world “spelled his name right” and “stuck 2 his script”. In that time he has established himself as THE new go-to KEY SELLING POINTS: beatmaker laying down joints on albums by Lloyd Banks, • Videos: Three have been shot so far: “So Close, So Far” feat. Wale, Bun B & Colin Munroe M.O.P., Foxy Brown, Saigon, A.G., OC, Donny Goines, and even (directed by Rik Cordero), “Night People” feat. Freeway executive producing The Grand Theft Auto IV soundtrack for & Red Cafe (dir. by John Columbo) and “The Thrill Is Rockstar Games. He also spent the better part of 2009 touring Gone” feat. Styles P & Talib Kweli (dir. by Zach Wolfe) globe as the official tour DJ for Q-Tip on his Renassaince world • Television: Statik to host Freestyle Fridays on BET tour. Stat can also be found every Thursday Night on Eminem’s (Friday after street date) and he will have a feature on Shade 45 Sirius/XM satellite radio station as well as FM stations MTV’s Mixtape Mondays all across the world. Whew... • Magazines and Websites: XXL review confirmed for March issue (dropping in February) along with features Enter 2010: Mixtapes and mixshow radio programs from New on OkayPlayer, HipHopDX, Complex and XXLMag.Com York City to Los Angeles to Germany are already playing the lead • Radio: College & mixshow, live appearances & interviews singles, “The Thrill Is Gone” which features Styles P and Talib Kweli and “Critically Acclaimed” with Lil Fame, Saigon and Sean • Release parties: Jan 30th at the Middle East in Cambridge, MA with Bun B plus special guests / Feb Price. Stat has an uncanny knack to enlist veteran legends and 2nd at SOBs, NYC with Bun B, Talib Kweli, Styles P, the freshest new talents; LA to NC, Philly to , NYC to Freeway, Saigon, Consequence plus special guests Boston, they all line up to flex over his now signature production. • Tour: To support 100 Proof, Statik is touring Europe Check the track listing for the laundry list of features. starting in February 2010 • P.O.P., media impressions & marketing tools are available For more information please visit: www.statikselektah.com, showoffhiphop.com and www.brickrecords.com

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Format: CD File Under: Rap / Hip Hop Cat. No: SHOW-BRK 098 Box Lot: 30 Count Label: Traffic Ent. Group / Fontana North Available: FEBRUARY 2nd Price Code: S

Distributed in the USA by The Orchard, 23 E. 4th St, NY, NY 10003 • tel: 212-979-6410 • fax: 212-979-7372 A1. Let ‘Em Know (Produced by ) A2. Live and Let Live (Produced by Domino) A3. That’s When Ya Lost (Produced by Del tha Funkee Homosapien)

B1. A Name I Call Myself (Produced by Del tha Funkee Homosapien) B2. Disseshowedo (Produced by Domino and Jay Biz) B3. What a Way to Go Out (Produced by Domino) B4. Never No More (Produced by A-Plus)

C1. 93 ‘til Infinity (Produced by A-Plus) C2. Limitations feat. (Produced by Jay Biz) C3. Anything Can Happen (Produced by A-Plus) D1. Make Your Mind Up (Produced by Del tha Funkee Homosapien) D2. Batting Practice (Produced by Casual) D3. Tell Me Who Profits (Produced by Domino) D4. Outro (Produced by Domino) AVAILABLE FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER ON DOUBLE VINYL REMASTERED FROM THE ORIGINAL MASTERS AND PRESSED EXTRA LOUD FOR DJs There are very few albums across any genre that stand the In 1998, the album was selected as one of The Source’s test of time better than 93 ‘Til Infinity, the classic debut 100 Best Rap Albums of All Time. record from the crew’s very own Souls of Mischief. In an era where and G-Funk domi- Considered by many to be a text book “slept-on” classic nated the West Coast Rap scene, Souls broke ground on a Rap record, 93 ‘Til Infinity has only grown better with completely unique and thoroughly west coast sound. age. The album simply defines the Hiero golden age with While the Dr. Dre’s and the Snoop Doggs were garnering a sound that would later be fine tuned with strong much of the mainstream attention, Souls were quietly releases from MCs Del The Funkee Homosapien, Casual forging a charismatic, critically acclaimed, and cohesively and . shaped record that when categorized, sounded much It takes some serious bravado to name your album 93 ‘Til closer to than N.W.A. The sound of Infinity, but certainly the goal of creating a Hip Hop “clas- their debut is characteristic of the distinct style explored by sic” must have been on the collective minds of group the collective, including a rhyme scheme based on internal members A-Plus, , , and when recording rhyme and beats centered around a live bass and obscure this landmark moment in Hip Hop history. It’s true, even jazz and funk samples. seventeen years after the album’s initial release many

93 ‘Til Infinity was propelled into success by its title track people are still discovering it, and with this re-mastered and lead single, which reached #32 on the Billboard Hot reissue on double vinyl, fans all over the world will once 100. It also featured singles “That’s When Ya Lost” and again discover the brilliance that 93 ‘Til Infinity delivers and “Never No More” which also reached the Hot Rap Singles. will continue to deliver beyond infinity.

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Format: 2xLP Cat. No: TEG 78504 Label: Traffic Ent. Group Available: FEBRUARY 2nd

Distributed in the USA by The Orchard, 23 E. 4th St, NY, NY 10003 • tel: 212-979-6410 • fax: 212-979-7372