Madlib Medicine Show Thread

[the silencer]

since we're gonna be getting a new album every month, why not have a continuing thread about it..

for those that don't know, Madlib has been releasing a new album every month this year as a continuing series. The odd numbers are new, original Madlib material and the even numbers are mixtapes, collections of certain themed material..


so far we've got:

No. 1: Guilty Simpson - Before the Verdict


mostly a meandering album of Madlib remixing Guilty Simpson joints as well as a few fresh ones...some good sounds and darts here and there but nothing spectacular and kind of boring at times.. I notice alot of the same skits (and sometimes beats) that were used on the Madvillainy 2 remix album.


No. 2: Flight to Brazil


a lengthy mixtape where Madlib shows off seemingly obscure dusty old Brazilian records...at first (well, after one listen) I didn't like this because i was hoping for hip hop instrumentals but when you accept it for what it is it's fucking great.. Just plenty of great sounds from all different genres but mostly jazz and psychedelia. This is my 2nd favorite of the Medicine Show so far.


No. 3: Beat Konducta in Africa

next to "In Search of Stoney Jackson" this is my favorite of all the Madlib-involved releases already in 2010 (with the jazz records included he's got what, 8 releases already? and we're in May...)
an extremely rich, lengthy excursion through African records and old movie quotes, miscellaneous quotes, all kinds of sounds and little nick nacks, Madlib just throws everything at you hear and plenty of it sounds GREAT.. next to last year's Dilla tribute, this has to be the 2nd best Beat Konducta album... fresh, funky, lengthy. I let myself get absorbed in this musical journey for days at a time


No. 4: 420 Chalice All-Stars

i had high hopes for this and now after a couple weeks I'm still trying to really get into it.. It's entirely dub and reggae records selected by Madlib who (just like the Brazilian Medicine Show) is just playing DJ here..There's plenty of good songs on it, even a few that I clearly recognize from Wu samplings but, with 80 minutes of reggae music (split into 8 tracks) there's some shit I don't like at all. The booklet for this album is VERY cool.




next up is No. 5: History of the Loop Digga and the two sample tracks that have been put out sound fucking AWESOME and I'm hyped to get this one.





What do you guys think of the Medicine Show so far?? I think it's a blessing and I'm highly appreciative Madlib is feeding the fans steady material (actually he's stuffing our faces)..

We're not even halfway through, I'm curious what else he's got in store