| Product Summary | | UPC: 00720616250322 | | Release Date: 4/19/2005 | | Buy.com Sku: 63974506 | | Item#: M29NTD | Format:  CD |
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Disc 1
| | Song Title | Sample | | 1. Intro ~ Z-Trip |  | | 2. Listen To The DJ - (with Soup) ~ Z-Trip | | | 3. All About The Music - (with Prince Whipper Whip) ~ Z-Trip | | | 4. Get Down, The - (with Lyrics Born) ~ Z-Trip | | | 5. About Face ~ Z-Trip | | | 6. Furious ~ Z-Trip | | | 7. Take Two Copies - (with Busdriver) ~ Z-Trip | | | 8. For My People - (with Supernatural) ~ Z-Trip | | | 9. Bury Me Standing - (with Luke Sick) ~ Z-Trip | | | 10. Breakfast Club - (with Murs/Supernatural) ~ Z-Trip | | | 11. 3rd Gear ~ Z-Trip | | | 12. Everything Changes - (with AceyAlone/Mystic) ~ Z-Trip | | | 13. Walking Dead - (with Chester Bennington) ~ Z-Trip | | | 14. Shock And Awe - (with Chuck D) ~ Z-Trip | | | 15. Revolution (STR Parts 1 2) ~ Z-Trip | |
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| | Album Notes and Credits |
Notes & Personnel Info |  | This is an Enhanced CD, which contains both regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files. | | Personnel: Z-Trip (turntables); Chester Bennington, Aceyalone, Luke Sick, Lyrics Born, Murs, The Mystic, Soup, Supernatural, Chuck D, Busdriver (rap vocals). | | Searching for a DJ that brings underground hip-hop's cutting-edge scratching and sampling to the mainstream? Look no further than Queens, NY native Z-Trip (Zach Sciacca), whose major-label debut, SHIFTING GEARS, does just that. | | The first half of GEARS is a nod to hip-hop's early, feel-good jams, reflected in DJ/MC give-and-take with Jurassic 5's Soup on the party rap "Listen to the DJ." By the time the latter half of the album rolls in, the names are bigger and the topics get heavier. Chuck D delivers a trademark apocalyptic sermon on the ominous "Shock and Awe," which sports heavy-metal samples. Equally as foreboding is Linkin Park's Chester Bennington, who rants about death and digging up old loves in "Walking Dead" amid thudding beats and ominous strings reminiscent of Nine Inch Nails by way of Gravediggaz. Z-Trip's brilliant use of unauthorized and unlikely samples of songs such as "Rhinestone Cowboy" on an earlier self-released record brought him Danger Mouse-sized notoriety, but with SHIFTING GEARS truly pegs him as a hip-hop DJ to watch. |
Producer: Z-Trip |
Musical Guests | | Lyrics Born | | Bus Driver | | Supernatural | | Aceyalone | | Murs | | Chuck D |
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| | Technical Info | | Release Date : 04/19/2005 | | Original Release Date : 2005 | | Catalog ID : 162 503 | | Label : Hollywood Records | | Number of Discs : 1 | | Studio/Live : Studio | | Mono/Stereo : Stereo | | SPAR Code : n/a | | UPC : 00720616250322 |
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| | Professional Reviews | | Spin (p.110)
- "Turntable mandarin Z-Trip ably builds bridges to hip-hop's past and present, real and imagined." - Grade: B |
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