I've been following the work of one Otis Calvin III, AKA Seattle producer/singer/MC OC Notes, for some time now. Back in 2007, I met him at a Grieves CD release at Nectar, where he expressed deep displeasure during the set of a pre-Mad Rad Terry Radjaw (with a scantily-clad Buffalo Madonna playing back-up dancer); funny in hindsight, seeing as the dudes are friends and collaborators now (Out For Stardom put out that excellent Metal Chocolates record)-but that's how a lot of my friendships started too, come to think of it. I was impressed by his otherwise laidback demeanor and the musical mind he dispayed during our blunt session backstage, and kept up with cat via Myspace. He left for school in Arizona (the Conservatory of Recording Arts and Sciences) the following year but was kind enough to send me a huge care package of self-burned CD's, a treasure trove of his work (some of which didn't see release til a couple years afterward). I was especially taken with his collection Greetings From the 9th Dimension and, enthralled with its' spacey headtrip, found it creeping into my regular rotation with the quickness. Ever since, his catalog, profile and reputation has only gotten bigger, and very deservedly so; if he hadn't been compared to dude a million times already by myself and others, it would be fair to call Notes Seattle's own answer to Madlib. Medicine is his latest all-instrumental outing, chunky with bizarre vocal snippets and sound effects. Five bucks for the scrip!