| Product Summary | | Label: Arista Records | | UPC: 00828765211123 | | Release Date: 3/2/2004 | | Buy.com Sku: 60623166 | | Item#: MX7XQH | Format:  CD |
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| Featuring songs written and produced by Cee-Lo, sonic contributions from the Neptunes, Timbaland, Premier and Jazze Pha and appearances by Pharell, TI, and Ludacris, Cee-Lo Green Is The Soul Machine is a musical journey that knows no boundaries, and gleefully pushes the parameters of hip hop and R&B. "I'm always seeking an advancement of not only hip-hop but music. Period. I do feel like I am making a big picture type of contribution. I'm off the beaten path and I consider this album to be a continuation of a grand individual statement."
"The forays into "soul"... sparkle, as do his playful raps." Entertainment Weekly
"It's a testament to both Cee-Lo's vision and the producers' artistic sympathy that the collaborations maintain a coherent, vintage R&B vibe" Spin Magazine
"With a more succinct drollery and a better sense of studio control, Cee-Lo Green has outdone his fellow Atlantans [OutKast]..." Stylus Magazine
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Notes & Personnel Info |  | This is an Enhanced CD, which contains both regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files. | | Personnel includes: Cee-Lo, Pharrell, Jazze Pha, T.I., Ludacris, Big Rube, G-Rock, Timbaland, Menta Malone (rap vocals). | | Producers include: Traxx, The Neptunes, Thomas Callaway, Timabaland, Jazze Pha. | | Recorded at Darp Studios and Stankonia Recording, Atlanta, Georgia; Eagle Sound Studios, Doraville, Georgia; Hovecraft Recording Studios, Virginia Beach, Virginia; Criteria-Hit Factory, Miami, Florida. | | This is an Enhanced CD, which contains both regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files. | | A hip-hop artist perpetually swerving from a high-pitched rap style entirely his own to a sultry croon just to the left of Al Green, Cee-Lo layers incredibly original poetry over mesmerizing beats of all strains. Formerly a member of Atlanta's grossly under-appreciated Goodie Mob, Cee-Lo revealed the depth of his talent in 2002 with the glorious, complex, and aptly titled CEE-LO GREEN & HIS PERFECT IMPERFECTIONS. | | CEE-LO GREEN...IS THE SOUL MACHINE retains the wonderful unpredictability of its predecessor, but it finds a stronger sense of focus within such an eclectic range. He opens Gil Scott-Heronesque "Sometimes" with the easy observation "ya know, sometimes I wanna rap, sometimes I wanna sing," a Zen-like reflection that sums up Cee-Lo's intriguing contradictions. On other tracks, he can cruise along in a Sly & the Family Stone style on "My Kind of People" or flow on the socially conscious yet Dirty South-like "Scrap Metal" or even rail against the music industry on the country-tinged "Die Trying." Cee-Lo's brain clearly races along from idea to idea at speeds well exceeding normal limits, but he has found a way to rein it in for a fantastic, prismatic album--at one angle an avant-garde experiment, and at another a funky pop record. |
Musical Guests | | Pharrell | | Ludacris | | T.I. | | Jazze Pha | | Big Rube | | G-Rock | | Timbaland | | Jazee Pha | | Menta Malone | | Sir Cognac The Conversation | | Chazzie |
| | Artist Overview | | Former Goodie Mob MC Cee-Lo Green emerged as one of the most colorful and original forces in hip-hop upon the release of his debut solo album, CEE-LO GREEN & HIS PERFECT IMPERFECTIONS. A veteran of Atlanta's Dirty South movement, Green has worked with Outkast, Ludacris, Trick Daddy, and the Organized Noize production crew, and was a member of the Atlanta supergroup Dungeon Family. His utterly unique and slightly demented mix of rap, soul, gospel, funk, and R&B reached its largest audience yet via his 2006 collaboration with Danger Mouse known as Gnarls Barkley. |
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| | Technical Info | | Release Date : 03/02/2004 | | Original Release Date : 2004 | | Catalog ID : 52111 | | Label : Arista Records (USA) | | Number of Discs : 1 | | Studio/Live : Studio | | Mono/Stereo : Stereo | | SPAR Code : n/a | | UPC : 00828765211123 |
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| | Professional Reviews | | Rolling Stone (3/18/04, p.70)
- 3.5 stars out of 5 - "[Cee-Lo's] high-pitched, gritty voice is a thoroughly unique instrument that can switch between lightning-speed rhymes and sweet serenades....[He] works a memorable tune into almost every one of these eighteen overstuffed tracks."Spin (3/04, pp.91-2)
- "[I]t's a testament to both Cee-Lo's vision and the producers' artistic sympathy that the collaborations maintain a coherent, vintage R&B vibe." - Grade: B Entertainment Weekly (3/19/04, p.66)
- "The forays into 'soul' - warm, street-party hip-hip R&B like 'My Kind of People' and 'All Day Love Affair' - sparkle, as do his playful raps." - Grade: B CMJ (4/04, p.31)
- "[T]here's a mix of the dirty and divine on most every track of his second solo disc." Mojo (Publisher)
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- 5 stars out of 5 - "[W]ith provocative yet intellectually rigorous raps. A masterpiece." Rolling Stone 7 of 10
The big improvement is in the songwriting: This time around, Cee-Lo works a memorable tune into almo - Christian Hoardew
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