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Jean Grae begins The Bootleg of the Bootleg EP with the aptly titled "Hater's Anthem," proving that all the acclaim accorded to Attack of the Attacking Things did nothing to soften her. If anything, she's more hungry than before. In "My Crew," she delivers some her most devastating lines yet: "Rap's dead, rap sucks/Thanks to y'all for killin' it, grillin' it down, and spillin' its guts and fillin' it back up with trash." Whether you agree with her views or not, the talent is more than enough to keep you paying attention. Although the EP hosts an almost completely different crew of producers (including Babygrande A&R figure Ruddy Rock, Bravo, Block McCloud, and Will Tell), the gritty textures and soul samples are still in effect, suiting Grae's tough, agile, nothing-fancy flow. Ironically, the only weak spot is "Swing Blades," where she's joined by Cannibal Ox. Just as notable as the five tracks that make up the EP proper, a not-so-hidden hidden track features 45 minutes of freestyles and stray material (making the disc lengthier than Attack of the Attacking Things), including a bit where Grae raps over an instrumental of Jay-Z's "Excuse Me Miss." It works much better than it should. ~ Andy Kellman
Recording information: Building Block Studio; The Bar Upstairs; The BK FireHouse.
Personnel includes: Jean Grae, Cannibal Ox, Block McCloud, Pumpkinhead.
Audio Mixers: Block McCloud; Dave Dar.
Entertainment Weekly (11/7/03, p.71) - "...Grae has skills to spare. Her rhymes tumble out in long strings of witty disses and unflinching self-analysis..." - Rating: A- Bootleg Of The Bootleg EP Music Jean Grae Bootleg Of The Bootleg EP Songs Bootleg Of The Bootleg EP Music Review Purchase Bootleg Of The Bootleg EP CD To buy, Click on price to add to cart | Common Resurrection CD (1994)
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Nearly a decade (which is about half a dozen lifespans in the electronic music scene) after their last album, 1995's Engine, Die Warzau return with the unsettled and finally rather disappointing Convenience. Much less confrontational than the duo's earlier music, Convenience sounds in large part like a tentative attempt to introduce Die Warzau's sample-happy dance-industrial aesthetic into a world where industrial is entirely yesterday's news, but it's not old enough to have kitschy nostalgia value quite yet. That's precisely the netherworld that this album inhabits as well, unfortunately. While there are some enjoyable moments -- particularly "King of Rock and Roll" (the track that makes plain the largely unexplored connection between glitch and heavy industrial) and the downtempo opener, "Crusaders," which answers the question "What would happen if Skinny Puppy remixed an Air single?" -- too much of the album is devoted to mush like "Kleen," a misguided attempt at a straight synth pop ballad of a type not seen since Ministry's awful debut, With Sympathy. Jim Marcus and Van Christie haven't lost any of their production chops, as the sound is richly three-dimensional and sparkling in a way that few of the other industrial acts could ever manage, but especially after such a long furlough, it's a shame that they didn't have better material to work with. ~ Stewart Mason
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