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El-P - Collecting the Kid

This is a collection of rare tracks and instrumentals from Definitive Jux's "executive producer" (well that's what he calls himself on pretty much every Def Jux release) El-P. It contains instrumental tracks he produced for Murs, Mr Lif and Camutao along with contributions from his jazz album 'High Water (Mark)' and from his score for a film called 'Bomb the System'. There is also a remix of a track he did with someone called Stephanie Vezina which I think is brilliant. It's all very El-P: lot's of scattershot drum programming, big distorted organs and sci-fi synths, but I'm a fan of that sort of stuff so I like it. For a collection of knock-offs it also holds together suprisingly well, but I would like to see a proper El-P album, on this one his vocals are missed. Recommended if you can find it!