General Patton, X-Ecutioners - General Patton Vs the X-Ecutioners
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Artist: General Patton, X-EcutionersEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
CD Release Date: 2005-02-08
Music Label: Ipecac Recordings
Soundtracks:
- X-MEN DOCTRINE AND DECLARATION: TARGET=40:40:11N, 73:56:38W
- GENERAL P. COUNTERINTELLIGENCE: TARGET=37:47:36N, 122:33:17W
- !GET UP,PUNK! 0200 hrs. (joint special operations task force)
- ROC RAIDA: RIOT CONTROL AGENT/COMBAT STRESS CONTROL
- IMPROVISED EXPLOSIVE DEVICE 0300 hrs.
- !VAQUEROS Y INDIOS! (joint special operations task force)
- PRECISION GUIDED NEEDLE-DROPPING AND LARYNX MUNITIONS (PGNDLM)
- DUELLING BANJO MARCHING DRILL
- BATTLE HYMN OF THE TECHNICS REPUBLIC
- !FIRE IN THE HOLE! 0400hrs. (joint special operations task force)
- CONVULSIVE ANTIDOTE FOR NERVE AGENT AUTOINJECTOR (CANAA)
- MODIFIED COMBINED OBSTACLE OVERLAY (MCOO)...or..."how I learned to stop worrying and love the turntables"
- SURPRISE SWING INSURGENCY/TABLA AND TONGUE TWIST COUNTERATTACK/"DRAGON SEEKS PATH"
- !KAMIKAZE! 0500 hrs. ("TAKE A PIECE OF ME")
- "WE'LL PAINT THIS TOWN"--THROAT AND PHONOGRAPH
- IMITATIVE ELECTROMAGNETIC DECEPTION (IED)/DIGITAL NONSECURE VOICE TERMINAL (DNVT)
- A.W.O.L. BLOCK PARTY BRAWL 0600 hrs.
- EASTSIDE MULTICHANNEL TACTICAL SCRATCH COMMUNICATIONS (EMTSC)
- !PIMPS UP, ACES HIGH! 0700 hrs. (WESTSIDE SWASHBUCKLING PARADE)
- WARCRY/INFRARED R'n'B HALLUCINATION/JUNGLE OPERATIONS EXFILTRATION SYSTEM
- L.O.L.-- !LOSER ON LINE! (hate the player, hate the game)
- LOW ALTITUDE VOCAL PARACHUTE EXTRACTION SYSTEM (LAVPES)
- BATTLE DAMAGE ASSESSMENT AND REPAIR/WHITE FLAG SURRENDER/"WAKE ME UP IN HEAVEN"
Free Music Notes for General Patton Vs the X-Ecutioners
Free Music Review: Genre bending jump cut hip hop.
Hit: 5 Stars
This one is really intriguing-- vocal acrobat Mike Patton goes to war, sometimes literally, with turntable army The X-ecutioners. I'm a big proponent of turntablism, and I enjoy the fusion of Patton's avant-garde and rock sensibilities with the the X-ecutioners.
Much of this is scratches, screams, yelps, effects, noises, etc. interspersed with bizarre commentary about war, there's precious little in the way of songs. Its more often genre bending/blending, "Precision Guided Needle-Dropping and Larynx Mutations" in less than two minutes manages to bounce between California-esque pop music, organ drones, swing, and scratches before fading into a bizarre banjo piece that ends with a hip hop take on a marching drill. All this is followed up with "Battle Hymn of the Technics Republic", which is roughly what its title sounds like, scratches over a dark march. Some of the jump-cut pieces also bring Patton's singing (rather than vocalizing) to the forefront, including the rather familiar rhythms of "Take a Piece of Me", it never ceases to amaze how he can sing in the most pop-oriented styles over the most dense hip hop and somehow make it work, and we even get a straight lounge style croon (if only for 20 seconds before it cuts styles again) in "We'll Paint This Town". In many ways, its like Zorn's Naked City filtered through Patton and hip hop, some tracks, like "Modified Combined Obsticle Overlay", bounce through half a dozen genres in the first 45 seconds before settling into a funky groove, only to switch gears altogether and start bouncing through genres again. It can be frustrating at times, because just as you start to really enjoy something, it switches gears, but somehow in the end, it all fits together.
The structured songs that are there are of remarkable quality-- "Get Up, Punk!" is a good example of this early on in the record, with a droning synth line, hip-hop beats, and Patton's growled vocals, its superb. Perhaps even better is the mighty "Fire in the Hole", more turntablism and hip hop beats, with a crooned vocal courtesy of Patton. Also a more concrete song form is the near-alternative/industrial "Loser on Line", probably the closest thing to a commercial song on the record (which is to say its only moderately bizarre).
I suspect this is a first listen thing for most people, either you get what they're trying to do and you think it works, or you think its a mess. I personally loved it.
General Patton Vs the X-Ecutioners Poster
East Coast meets West. Kings of beat juggling and turntable trickery The X-Ecutioners (Rob Swift, Mista Sinista, Roc Raida and Total Eclipse) throw down with the master of voice and electronic manipulation Mike Patton. Ready for war? Here we go.You get the feeling Mike Patton did his time with major label bands like Faith No More and Mr. Bungle merely as a way to fund the stuff he's really into. He's got a solo project called Peeping Tom that includes collaborations with Massive Attack and Amon Tobin; the fourth album from his experimental instrumental outfit, Fantomas; and guest spots on Björk's Medulla and Handsome Boy Modeling School's White People. At the front of the pack is this collaboration with Oakland, California turntable crew the X-ecutioners. Using the group's punctuated scratches and samples as raw material, Patton builds a symphony of cut-and-paste chaos over which he applies his trademark shrieks and growls. It's clearly not for everyone, but those who found Jay-Z and Linkin Park's Collision Course a little too sterile will definitely find something to gape over. -- Aidin Vaziri
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