Joint Special Operations Task Force
General Patton & the X-Ecutioners
℗ 2005
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 Bjork'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 |
- 1. X-Men doctrine and declaration: target=40:11n, 73:56:38w [01:30]
- 2. General P. counterintelligence: target=37:47:36n, 122:33:17w [00:41]
- 3. !Get up, punk! 0200 hrs. (Joint Special Operations Task Force) [03:38]
- 4. Roc Raida: Riot control agent/combat stress control [02:05]
- 5. Improvised explosive device 0300 hrs. [00:36]
- 6. !Vaqueros y indios! (Joint Special Operations Task Force) [01:52]
- 7. Precision guided needle-dropping and larynx munitions (Pgndlm) [01:55]
- 8. Duelling banjo marching drill [01:54]
- 9. Battle hymn of the Technics Republic [01:11]
- 10. !Fire in the hole! 0400 hrs. (Joint Special Operations Task Force) [02:14]
- 11. Convulsive antidote for nerve agent autoinjector (Canaa) [00:43]
- 12. Modified combined obstacle overlay (Mcoo)...or..."How I learned to stop worrying and love the turntables) [02:41]
- 13. Surprise swing onsurgency/Tabla and tongue twist counterattack/"Dragon seeks path" [03:41]
- 14. !Kamikaze! 0500 hrs. ("Take a piece of me") [02:16]
- 15. "We'll paint this town"--Throat and phonograph fire support coordination measures (Tpfscm) [01:40]
- 16. Imitative electromagnetic deception (Ied)/Digital nonsecure voice terminal (Dnvt) [00:21]
- 17. A.W.O.L. block party brawl 0600 hrs. [01:50]
- 18. Eastside multichannel tactical scratch communications (Emtsc) [01:41]
- 19. !Pimps up, aces high! 0700 hrs. (Westside swashbuckling parade) [01:28]
- 20. Warcry/Infrared R'n'b hallucination/Jungle operations exfiltration system [03:03]
- 21. L.O.L.--!Loser on line! (Hate the player, hate the game) [03:34]
- 22. Low altitude vocal parachute extraction system (Lavpes) [01:04]
- 23. Battle damage assessment and repair/White flag surrender/"Wake me up in heaven" [04:52]