General Patton Vs. The205 (2005)

Product Summary Label: Caroline Distribution UPC: 00689230006022 Release Date: 2/8/2005 Buy.com Sku: 63939571 Item#: MUW2NV Format:  CD Song Listing Disc 1 Song Title Sample 1. X-Men Doctrine And Declaration: Target=40:40:11N 73:56:38w ~ General Patton/The X-Ecutioners 2. General P. Counterintelligence: Target=37:47:36N 122:33:17w ~ General Patton/The X-Ecutioners 3. Get Up, Punk! 0200 Hrs. (Joint Special Operations Task Force) ~ General Patton/The X-Ecutioners 4. Roc Raida: Riot Control Agent/Combat Stress Control ~ General Patton/The X-Ecutioners 5. Improvised Explosive Device 0300 Hrs. ~ General Patton/The X-Ecutioners 6. Vaqueros Y Indios! (Joint Special Operations Task Force) ~ General Patton/The X-Ecutioners 7. Precision Guided Needle-Dropping And Larynx Munitions (Pgndlm) ~ General Patton/The X-Ecutioners 8. Duelling Banjo Marching Drill ~ General Patton/The X-Ecutioners 9. Battle Hymn Of The Technics Republic ~ General Patton/The X-Ecutioners 10. Fire In The Hole! 0400hrs. (Joint Special Operations Task Force) ~ General Patton/The X-Ecutioners 11. Convulsive Antidote For Nerve Agent Autoinjector (Canaa) ~ General Patton/The X-Ecutioners 12. Modified Combined Obstacle Overlay (Mcoo) ...Or... How I Learned To Stop Worrying & Love Turntables ~ General Patton/The X-Ecutioners 13. Surprise Swing Insurgency/Tabla And Tongue Twist Counterattack/Dragon Seeks Path" ~ General Patton/The X-Ecutioners 14. Kamikaze! 0500 Hrs. (Take A Piece Of Me) ~ General Patton/The X-Ecutioners 15. We'll Paint This Town-- Throat And Phonograph Fire Support Coordination Measures (TPFSCM) ~ General Patton/The X-Ecutioners 16. Imitative Electromagnetic Deception (IED)/Digital Nonsecure Voice Terminal (DNVT) ~ General Patton/The X-Ecutioners 17. A.W.O.L. Block Party Brawl 0600 Hrs. ~ General Patton/The X-Ecutioners 18. Eastside Multichannel Tactical Scratch Communications (EMTSC) ~ General Patton/The X-Ecutioners 19. Pimps Up, Aces High! 0700 Hrs. (Westside Swashbuckling Parade) ~ General Patton/The X-Ecutioners 20. Warcry/Infrared R'n'B Hallucination/Jungle Operations Exfiltration System ~ General Patton/The X-Ecutioners 21. L.O.L.--Loser On Line! (Hate The Player, Hate The Game) ~ General Patton/The X-Ecutioners 22. Low Altitude Vocal Parachute Extraction System (LAVPES) ~ General Patton/The X-Ecutioners 23. Battle Damage Assessment And Repair/White Flag Surrender/Wake Me Up In Heaven ~ General Patton/The X-Ecutioners   Album Notes and Credits Notes & Personnel Info Lyricist: Mike Patton. General Patton: Mike Patton (vocals, bass guitar); Roc Raida, Total Eclipse (scratches, turntables); Rob Swift (scratches). Personnel: Mike Patton (guitar, keyboards, percussion, programming); Total Eclipse (scratches); Rob Swift (turntables). Audio Mixer: Mike Patton. Editor: Mike Patton. Arranger: Mike Patton. The methodology went like this: former Faith No More/Mr. Bungle/Tomahawk frontman Mike Patton sends hip-hopping turntable masters the X-Ecutioners a bunch of oddball records, then the X-Ecutioners create "sound blocks" out of the albums and send them back to Patton for final tweaking and song-building. Two years in the making, the collaboration feels more like a Patton project than an equal-footing outing, but that doesn't narrow the sound down much, does it? On one hand, there's Patton's penchant for the aggressively avant-garde. On the other, there's his not-as-wild-as-you'd-think appearance on Handsome Boy Modeling School's White People. Ridiculously long and cryptic song titles might point to a crazed, "out there" experience, but General Patton vs. the X-Ecutioners is surprisingly crisp and funky over half of the time, and it's a good guess the X-Ecutioners were the ones to bring the noise. Crazed turntable workouts that recall the crew's greatest underground DJ battle tapes appear throughout the album. They sound untouched for the most part, leading the listener to believe it was Patton's choice to make the overall experience smoother. It takes eight tracks to get to anything approaching John Zorn territory, but this hip-hop noir that Patton's pushing is surprisingly fun and filling. Dirty Harry quotes, kung fu sound effects, and that "this is a journey into sound" sample are some of the clich?s that appear and make this album more Gorillaz than Boredoms. While the Gorillaz can brush against smugness and cleverness, Patton's passion for this project comes through loud and approachable. Free jazz, glitch, and whooshes of studio trickery are drama-building devices, each leading to the next hook or the next solid beat. There's an antiwar motif that pays off in the end along with a couple drop-dead hilarious moments, one involving some furious scratching and a porno movie. Not the most essential release from either of the parties involved, but these "sending tapes back and forth through the mail"-type projects rarely result in albums that are much more than "interesting." General Patton vs. the X-Ecutioners has enough passion and inspiration behind it to make it an easy recommendation. ~ David Jeffries Producer: Mike Patton   Technical Info Release Date : 09/01/2006 Original Release Date : 2005 Catalog ID : 60 Label : Ipecac Records Number of Discs : 1 Studio/Live : Studio Mono/Stereo : Stereo SPAR Code : n/a UPC : 00689230006022    Related Videos In Search of Solid Ground... Draw The Line: David Gray