MMS 001 MADLIB MEDICINE SHOW 1 Before the Verdict CD
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MADLIB LAUNCHES HIS ONCE-A-MONTH ALBUM 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 Stones Throw Records productions, remixes, beat tapes, and Publicity by Score Press Jazz, as well as mixtapes of Funk, Soul, Brazilian, Psych and other undefined Limited edition forms of music from the Beat Konducta'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 Guilty Simpson, 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. Percee P and MED 4. Taisho 5. Sad Nile 6. The Gift feat. Edan and Mr. Lif 7. Ntu 8. Pamukkale 9. Alin 10. Breakin' Through feat. El Michels Affair 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 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 ORDER CUT OFF DATE FOR THIS ITEM: JAN 12th 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 ORDER CUT OFF DATE FOR THIS ITEM: JAN 12th 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. ORDER CUT OFF DATE FOR THIS ITEM: JAN 12th 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, Los Angeles, 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 rapping 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.