2K7: The Tracks
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Track listing
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- 1 Dan the Automator - Intro 0:58
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producer, mixing
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- 2 Slim Thug - I Love This Game 4:02
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producer, mixing
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- 3 Rhymefest - Bang the Ball 3:09
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producer, mixing
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- 4 Hieroglyphics - Don't Hate the Player 3:57
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producer, mixing
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rap
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rap
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rap
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- 5 Fabolous - Ball Til You Fall 4:39
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producer, mixing
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- 6 Aceyalone & Rakaa-Iriscience - Champions 3:56
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producer, mixing
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producer, mixing
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- 8 Ghostface Killah & A.G. - 2K007 3:48
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producer, mixing
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- 9 Lupe Fiasco & Evidence - Catch Me 4:18
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producer, mixing
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- 10 Mos Def & Anwar Superstar - Here Comes the Champ 4:22
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producer, mixing
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- 11 Chali 2na - Anchor Man 4:19
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producer, mixing
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- 12 A Tribe Called Quest - Lyrics to Go (Remix) 4:44
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remixer
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- 13 Zion I - Fade Away 3:37
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producer, mixing
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- Total length: 49:18
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"Workmanlike" is not normally an adjective I think of when I think of the Automator. He's not always my favorite producer but love him or hate him you can't deny that he does normally have a distinctive sound and a desire to move hip hop into new directions. That's what's so surprising here, everything is good but nothing is all that conceptually interesting. Usually when Automator makes a misstep it's in the exact opposite direction as this album.
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Also releasing a collection of productions is the Automator, Dan Nakamura. Coming up in the mid-90s, this visionary recalled the work of the legendary Prince Paul with a series of collaborations displaying a conceptual bent, compositions built on surprising, unlikely layers of samples, and a strong, imaginative, morbid sense of humor (mentor and student joined forces with a crazy quilt of contributors for two albums as Handsome Boy Modeling School). Along with productions stretching his thoroughly hip-hop aesthetic (with Mike Patton and Jennifer Charles in Lovage, with Damon Albarn on the first Gorillaz album) into rockier territories, the Automator’s best work has been in a pair of epic sci-fi collaborations with eccentric rappers and virtuoso scratch DJs (Dr. Octagon with Kool Keith and DJ Q Bert and Deltron 3030 with Del tha Funkee Homosapien and Kid Koala).
After such odd, ambitious concept albums, it is initially underwhelming that the connecting thread to “Dan the Automator Presents 2K7” is basketball. At least for me, it’s a Pavlovian response for an album with the Automator’s name on it to get some bizarre, sick humor, over the top sci-fi, or Chris Elliot references, but that’s not here. What you do get, however, is a high quality, cohesive (sound and concept) collection of very good hip-hop songs. The Automator wants you to remember here that he loves beats and rhymes (and apparently basketball) as much as he loves psychotic gynecologists from space/the future, cartoon rock bands, and “Get a Life.” The tracks on this album, while not immediately calling attention to themselves with LOL samples or symphonic grandeur, are all solid head nodders, many of which improve on repeat listening and spark building fascination/affection. Most importantly, Dan has assembled a veritable all star team of rappers, including the Michael Jordanesque Ghostface, Hieroglyphics, Fabolous, Aceyalone, E-40, Lupe Fiasco, Chali 2Na, and the Magic Johnsonesque Mos Def. Automator proves to have the clutch fundamentals of a Larry Bird by concluding his collection with two great cuts, a remix of A Tribe Called Quest’s “Lyrics to Go” which justifies messing with a thirteen year old classic, and a closing track aptly entitled “Fade Away” by the massively underrated Zion I, who also shone on a late album track on DJ Ese’s “Side Two.”
There is great hip-hop at Relative Theory, you just have to look for it (I think this is a purposeful decision to make everybody feel like a king of digging). It has currently been made easy. Two stellar artists, two great albums. Nod your head. Purchase some credibility.
After such odd, ambitious concept albums, it is initially underwhelming that the connecting thread to “Dan the Automator Presents 2K7” is basketball. At least for me, it’s a Pavlovian response for an album with the Automator’s name on it to get some bizarre, sick humor, over the top sci-fi, or Chris Elliot references, but that’s not here. What you do get, however, is a high quality, cohesive (sound and concept) collection of very good hip-hop songs. The Automator wants you to remember here that he loves beats and rhymes (and apparently basketball) as much as he loves psychotic gynecologists from space/the future, cartoon rock bands, and “Get a Life.” The tracks on this album, while not immediately calling attention to themselves with LOL samples or symphonic grandeur, are all solid head nodders, many of which improve on repeat listening and spark building fascination/affection. Most importantly, Dan has assembled a veritable all star team of rappers, including the Michael Jordanesque Ghostface, Hieroglyphics, Fabolous, Aceyalone, E-40, Lupe Fiasco, Chali 2Na, and the Magic Johnsonesque Mos Def. Automator proves to have the clutch fundamentals of a Larry Bird by concluding his collection with two great cuts, a remix of A Tribe Called Quest’s “Lyrics to Go” which justifies messing with a thirteen year old classic, and a closing track aptly entitled “Fade Away” by the massively underrated Zion I, who also shone on a late album track on DJ Ese’s “Side Two.”
There is great hip-hop at Relative Theory, you just have to look for it (I think this is a purposeful decision to make everybody feel like a king of digging). It has currently been made easy. Two stellar artists, two great albums. Nod your head. Purchase some credibility.
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1 Dan the Automator - Intro
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2 Slim Thug - I Love This Game
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3 Rhymefest - Bang the Ball
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4 Hieroglyphics - Don't Hate the Player
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5 Fabolous - Ball Til You Fall
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6 Aceyalone & Rakaa-Iriscience - Champions
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8 Ghostface Killah & A.G. - 2K007
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9 Lupe Fiasco & Evidence - Catch Me
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10 Mos Def & Anwar Superstar - Here Comes the Champ
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11 Chali 2na - Anchor Man
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13 Zion I - Fade Away
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