We don’t cover enough hip-hop over here, but our brains would appear to have a sixth sense-powered radar for any Madlib happenings. Either that or dude’s just so prolific it’s impossible not to hear about a new project every other week. His latest: the Madlib Medicine Show. This will be a once-a-month, 12-CD, six-LP series released via the good people at Stones Throw. (via The Fader)
According to an announcement on the label’s site, “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.” Not your average hip-hop release then.
The first “show” will be a 17-track album entitled Before the Verdict that features Detroit hip-hop heavyweight Guilty Simpson. Hear these two sounding off below. The vinyl version of the release will be a hand-screened, limited-edition of the album, while Show No 2., Flight to Brazil will assume a mixtape format.
And in case anyone still wishes to contest the rule of Madlib and his many (many) monikers, know that material for the Madlib Medicine Show was culled from no less than four tons of vinyl.
Show No 1, Before the Verdict, is out January 2010.
