General Patton vs The X-Ecutioners - Joint Special Operations Task Force EAC-FLAC tRg Release

Album:General Patton vs. X-Ecutioners, The - Joint Special Operations Task Force
Label:Ipecac Recordings
Country:Europe
Released:2005
Genre:Hip Hop, Rock

Tracklisting:

1.X-Men Doctrine And Declaration: Target = 40:40:11N, 73:56:38W (1:30)

2.General P. Counterintelligence: Target = 37:47:36N, 122:33:17W (0:40)

3.Get Up, Punk! 0200 Hrs. (Joint Special Operations Task Force) (3:38)

4.Roc Raida: Riot Control Agent/Combat Stress Control (2:05)

5.Improvised Explosive Device 0300 Hrs. (0:36)

6.Vaqueros Y Indios! (Joint Special Operations Task Force) (1:52)

7.Precision Guided Needle-Dropping And Larynx Munitions (Pgndlm) (1:55)

8.Duelling Banjo Marching Drill (1:54)

9.Battle Hymn Of The Technics Republic (1:11)

10.Fire In The Hole! 0400hrs. (Joint Special Operations Task Force) (2:14)

11.Convulsive Antidote For Nerve Agent Autoinjector (Canaa) (0:43)

12.Modified Combined Obstacle Overlay (Mcoo)...Or..."How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Turntables) (2:41)

13.Surprise Swing Insurgency/Tabla And Tongue Twist Counterattack/"Dragon Seeks Path" (3:41)

14.Kamikaze! 0500hrs. ("Take A Piece Of Me") (2:16)

15."We'll Paint This Town"--Throat And Phonograph Fire Support Coordination Measures (Tpfscm) (1:40)

16.Imitative Electromagnetic Deception (Ied)/Digital Nonsecure Voice Terminal (Dnvt) (0:21)

17.A.W.O.L. Block Party Brawl 0600hrs. (1:50)

18.Eastside Multichannel Tactical Scratch Communications (Emtsc) (1:41)

19.Pimps Up, Aces High! 0700 Hrs. (Westside Swashbuckling Parade) (1:28)

20.Warcry/Infrared R'n'b Hallucination/Jungle Operations Exfiltration System (3:02)

21.L.O.L.--!Loser On Line! (Hate The Player, Hate The Game) (3:34)

22.Low Altitude Vocal Parachute Extraction System (Lavpes) (1:04)

23.Battle Damage Assessment And Repair/White Flag Surrender/"Wake Me Up In Heaven" (4:52)

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