General Patton vs. The X-Ecutioners
| General Patton vs. The X-Ecutioners | ||||
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| Studio album by Mike Patton & The X-Ecutioners | ||||
| Released | February 5, 2005 | |||
| Genre | Experimental hip hop | |||
| Length | 46:41 | |||
| Label | Ipecac Recordings (IPC60) | |||
| Producer | Mike Patton | |||
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| Stylus Magazine | [2] |
General Patton vs. The X-Ecutioners is a collaboration album released by Mike Patton and New York City's hip-hop DJ trio The X-Ecutioners. It was released on February 5, 2005 through Ipecac Recordings, and was entirely produced by Mike Patton.
Production
The album was produced over a course of two years.[1] The X-Ecutioners built the album's basic tracks around samples from albums and films suggested by Mike Patton, who finalized the album.[1]
Style
The album's musical style draws from free jazz and glitch.[1] It is themed around a war between the two vastly different musical styles. The album contains various samples from uncredited films, including kung fu movies and Dirty Harry.[1] One of the larger samples includes dialog from actors John Hillerman and Dennis Olivieri, taken from the soundtrack of the film "The Naked Ape."[3]
Track listing
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 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! 0400 Hrs. (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! 0500 Hrs. ("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 0600 Hrs." | 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 |
Total length: |
46:41 | |
All lyrics by Mike Patton, published by Mal di Golda (ASCAP).
Produced, arranged and mixed at Vulcan Studios, San Francisco, California.
Mastered at Oasis Mastering, Los Angeles, California.
Personnel
- Mike Patton - vocals, keyboard, guitar, bass and percussion, editing and programming, production, arrangement, mixing, artwork
- Rob Swift - turntables
- Roc Raida - turntables
- Total Eclipse - turntables
- Gene Grimaldi - mastering
- Martin Kvamme - artwork