| Product Summary | | Label: Caroline Distribution | | UPC: 00600308813724 | | Release Date: 3/20/2007 | | Buy.com Sku: 204216631 | | Item#: M3JHVY | Format:  CD |
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Disc 1
| | Song Title | Sample | | 1. Tasmanian Pain Coaster ~ El-P |  | | 2. Smithereens ~ El-P | | | 3. Up All Night ~ El-P | | | 4. Emg ~ El-P | | | 5. Drive ~ El-P | | | 6. Dear Sirs ~ El-P | | | 7. Run The Numbers ~ El-P | | | 8. Habeas Corpses (Draconian Love) ~ El-P | | | 9. Overly Dramatic Truth, The ~ El-P | | | 10. Flyentology ~ El-P | | | 11. No Kings ~ El-P | | | 12. League Of Extraordinary Nobodies, The ~ El-P | | | 13. Poisenville Kids No Wins / Reprise (This Must Be Our Time) ~ El-P | |
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| | Album Notes and Credits |
Notes & Personnel Info |  | Personnel: Victoria Allen, Joey "JR" Raia, Hangar 18, Mr. Len, Mr. Lif, Murs, Rob Sonic, Slug, Tame One, Trent Reznor, Camu Tao (vocals); Kareem Bunton, Matt Sweeney (guitar); Darryl Palumbo, Ikey Owens (keyboards); Wilder Zoby (Moog synthesizer); Atticus Ross (programming); Daniel Kaufman, Mr Dibbs, Big Wix (unknown instrument); Omar Rodriguez-Lopez, Aesop Rock, Chan Marshall, Cage , Cedric Bixler-Zavala. | | On his highly anticipated release, I'LL SLEEP WHEN YOU'RE DEAD, New York indie rap hero and the man behind Definitive Jux delivers just what rap fans have come to expect--namely, a hodge-podge of space-age, boundary-pushing production wizardry and stream-of-consciousness lyricism laced with paranoid Philip K. Dick-inspired imagery. Most impressive here is how El-P manages to seamlessly fit his futuristic sonic tools into a strictly roots hip-hop format. The end result is a sound more akin to Schooly D and Run DMC than, say, DJ Spooky or Dan the Automator, and as such I'LL SLEEP WHEN YOU'RE DEAD is almost a stylistic throwback--in the same way that STAR WARS was to BUCK ROGERS. El-P proves that he's still the best there is at what he does, though what he does is as hard to pin down as ever. Aesop Rock, Cat Power, the Mars Volta, Cage, and Trent Reznor make up the eclectic guest list. |
Producer: Trent Reznor; El-P |
| | Artist Overview | | El-P (a.k.a. El-Producto) was one half of the groundbreaking 1990s underground hip-hop act Company Flow. Following the break-up of CoFlo, El-P turned his efforts toward his solo career and running the esteemed label Def Jux. In addition to releasing critically lauded records by himself and other underground heroes such as Aesop Rock, Cannibal Ox, and Mr. Lif, Producto also brought his unique production sense--marked by hectic, dense soundscapes--to bear on many of those artists. El-P has devoted himself to maintaining the true spirit of hip-hop in the face of a total mainstream takeover. |
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| | Technical Info | | Release Date : 03/20/2007 | | Original Release Date : 2007 | | Catalog ID : 137 | | Label : Definitive Jux Records | | Number of Discs : 1 | | Runtime : 54m : 43s | | Studio/Live : Studio | | Mono/Stereo : Stereo | | SPAR Code : n/a | | UPC : 00600308813724 |
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| | Professional Reviews | | Rolling Stone (p.74)
- 3 stars out of 5 -- "I'LL SLEEP WHEN YOU'RE DEAD sounds like a hip-hop version of a Philip K. Dick novel, all mysterious, dystopian beat poetry. El-P's rhymes are fierce and sometimes cryptic."Spin (p.94)
- 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "[I]t's imbued with El's ever-changing moods and styles. Equal parts faithful-but-twisted boom bap and avant-indie rock." Entertainment Weekly (p.59)
- "[H]e flirts with melody here and relaxes his delivery, allowing us to take a breath before heading back into chaos." -- Grade: B Q (p.118)
- 3 stars out of 5 -- "[With] a dense production built on pounding beats and malevolent bass....Meline has assembled a quality guestlist..." Alternative Press (p.160)
- 4 stars out of 5 -- "[M]ost notable for its sheer artistry; intricate, lovingly assembled and rightfully buzzing on its own creative juice; it's full of the old-fashioned care and craft hip-hop has largely forgotten." The Wire (p.47)
- "[U]ltimately exhilarating....New York comes up both lyrically and sonically, an appropriate battleground for the album's titular unrest..." Kerrang (Magazine)
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- "[A] sound that's as fresh and exciting as it is raw and hard-hitting..." Kerrang (Magazine)
(p.49)
- "Stripped of its vocals, this release gives the intricacies of El-P's production a chance to reveal themselves." |
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