Sunday, September 27, 2009

The X-Ecutioners
"Raida's Theme EP"
(Asphodel)


This single came out before their debut album "X-Pressions." Roc Raida passed away two weeks ago and I'm going to put up his titular theme song for the rest of the world to enjoy. This EP has some great alternate remixes and "The Countdown" from "X-Pressions."


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DJ Shadow
"One to Grow On"
(MCA)

MCA released this promotional EP, "One to Grow On," in anticipation of DJ Shadow's album "Private Press." Some of these songs appear on the Deluxe Version of "Endtroducing..." or haven't been commercially released at all. Most of all, however, it has Cut Chemist's remix of "The Number Song" which is pretty sick.

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Saturday, January 31, 2009



X-Ecutioners, "X-Pressions"


Easily one of the best hip-hop records of all time, the X-Ecutioners -- Roc Raida, Rob Swift, Total Eclipse and (at the time of this recording) Mista Sinista -- were one of the big three DJ groups, alongside the Invisibl Skratch Piklz and the Beat Junkies. Yet of those crews, the X-Men (as they were also known) were the only ones to have an enormous impact in terms of pop culture and relevance [1]. They had a few records that came out on Sony which featured the likes of Linkin Park and Rob Zombie (keep in mind that this was during the apex of nu-metal), but their most enjoyable work came in the form of these independent released recordings, such as their debut, "X-Pressions," which is a mishmash of turntable compositions, live instrumentations and traditional MCing.


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[1] Not including Skratch Pikl Mixmaster Mike's role as the fourth Beastie Boy, mind you.

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