Madlib Medicine Show "Brick" box set back in stock + "free medicine" in Paris tonight.

• June 21, 2012

IN THE STORE:
MADLIB MEDICINE SHOW: THE BRICK

Back in stock: 13-CD set, the complete "Madlib Medicine Show"

After a short delay, the Madlib Medicine Show "brick" is back in stock. To celebrate, the doctors are giving away a free Medicine Show "brick" in Paris at L'Entree des Artiste, a bar on the 11th district with great drinks and a lot of Madlib & Dilla on the soundsystem.  First person to show up, order a "Medicine Show" cocktail and ask for the brick gets it.

These "free Medicine" drops have also gone down in Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York and London.

The "brick" is the complete collection, 13 CD's, 13 booklets, all wrapped together. The releases are...

1. MADLIB MEDICINE SHOW #1: BEFORE THE VERDICT / (discussion)
Hip-hop Album feat. Guilty Simpson. Full-length, 17-tracks, combining new material and remixes.
2. MADLIB MEDICINE SHOW #2: FLIGHT TO BRAZIL / (discussion)
Mixtape. 80-minutes of Brazilian psyche, folk and jazz.
3. MADLIB MEDICINE SHOW #3: BEAT KONDUCTA IN AFRICA / (discussion)
Hip-hop Album.  Inspired by and based on African records of the early 1970s – obscure & independent vinyl gems from afro-beat, funk, psych-rock, garage-rock & soul movements from Africa.
4. MADLIB MEDICINE SHOW #4: 420 CHALICE ALL-STARS / (discussion)
Mixtape. All Jamaican sounds, 80 minutes. Complete with Los Angeles medicinal marijuana guide.
5. MADLIB MEDICINE SHOW #5: HISTORY OF THE LOOP DIGGA / (discussion)
Hip-Hop Album. Madlib's early years, 1990-2000, from beat cassettes produced for local rap crew Crate Digga's Palace.
6. MADLIB MEDICINE SHOW #6: THE BRAIN WRECK SHOW / (discussion)
Mixtape.  Psych-prog-avante-freak-out-funk rock mix CD.
7. MADLIB MEDICINE SHOW #7: HIGH JAZZ / (discussion)
Jazz Album. All new Madlib productions from his collective of jazz groups and musicians known as Yesterdays Universe.
8. MADLIB MEDICINE SHOW #8: ADVANCED JAZZ / (discussion)
Mixtape. A jazz music course with no grades, lecturer or tests - just a room of dusty jazz vinyl and Madlib at the turntable.
9. MADLIB MEDICINE SHOW #9: CHANNEL 85 PRESENTS NITTYVILLE / (discussion)
Hip-Hop Album feat. Frank Nitt. Loosely-based concept album around an obscure TV show, Nittyville, running on Channel 85. Full-length, 14 tracks.
10. MADLIB MEDICINE SHOW #10: BLACK SOUL / (discussion)
Mixtape. The Disco era, 80 mins, mixed by Madlib.
11. MADLIB MEDICINE SHOW #11: LOW BUDGET HIGH FI / (discussion)
Hip-Hop Album. Dirty Demos produced by Madlib, with The Professionals (Madlib+Oh No), MED, Strong Arm Steady, AG, Guilty Simpson, J. Rocc, Supreme Team (Madlib+Karriem Riggins), and Jaylib.
12. MADLIB MEDICINE SHOW #12: RAW MEDICINE  
Hip-Hop Remixes. Part mixtape, part beat tape, featuring a host of un-suspecting collaborators that run the gamut from thugs, street poets, star emcees and underdogs. The show runs 60 minute with 30+ tracks.
13. MADLIB MEDICINE SHOW: 13: BLACK TAPE
Hip-Hop Remixes. The previously-unannounced encore to the Medicine Show series, and continuation of number 12. 60 minutes, 35 tracks.