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El-P - I'll Sleep When You Are DeadReleasedatum: 16 maart 2007
On this highly anticipated release, 'I'll sleep when you're dead', New York indie rap hero and the man behind Definitive Jux, El-P, delivers just what rap fans have come to expect.
A mixture of space-age, boundary-pushing production wizardry and stream-of-consciousness lyricism.
Most impressive here is how El-P manages to fit his futuristic sonic tools into a strictly roots hip-hop format. The end result is a sound more near to Schooly D and Run DMC than, say, DJ Spooky or Dan the Automator, and as such is I'll sleep when you're dead 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.
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