Английская Википедия:Fantastic Damage
Шаблон:Infobox album Fantastic Damage is the first solo studio album by American hip hop artist El-P. It was released through Definitive Jux on May 14, 2002.[1] It peaked at number 198 on the Billboard 200 chart.[2] Music videos were created for "Stepfather Factory"[3] and "Deep Space 9mm".[4]
Fandam Plus: Instrumentals, Remixes, Lyrics & Video was released through Definitive Jux on October 1, 2002.[5]
Production
The majority of Fantastic Damage was made after the breakup of El-P's previous group Company Flow.[6] El-P recorded the album in his bedroom in Brooklyn using turntables, an Ensoniq EPS-16 Plus sampler, a Kaoss Pad and an Oberheim OB12 synthesizer. According to El-P, he primarily used a DA-88 and "barely touched ProTools."[7] It took over a year and a half to record the album.[6]
Public Enemy was a big influence on El-P's production style on the album.[6] The album contains references to Philip K. Dick and George Orwell, who El-P credits as influences on his worldview and lyrics.[6]
Critical reception
Шаблон:Album ratings Steve Huey of AllMusic wrote, "Fantastic Damage constitutes some of the most challenging, lyrically dense hip-hop around, assembled by one of the genre's true independent mavericks."[8] Kathryn McGuire of Rolling Stone called it "a heavy, turbulent affair."[9]
Pitchfork placed Fantastic Damage at number 11 on its list of the top albums of 2002,[10] while Spin placed it at number 27 on its list of the year's best albums.[11] In 2015, Fact placed it at number 21 on its "100 Best Indie Hip-Hop Records of All Time" list.[12]
Although interpreted as a "post-9/11 record" which channeled the feelings of New Yorkers and Americans after the September 11 attacks, the album was written and largely recorded before September 11, 2001.[13]
Track listing
Personnel
Credits adapted from liner notes.
- El-P – vocals, production, recording, mixing, art direction
- Aesop Rock – vocals (6)
- Ill Bill – vocals (6)
- Rob Sonic – vocals (7)
- Vast Aire – vocals (8, 12)
- Cage – vocals (9)
- Camu Tao – vocals (9)
- Nasa – vocals (15), recording, mixing
- C-Rayz Walz – vocals (16)
- Mr. Lif – vocals (16)
- DJ Abilities – turntables
- Dan Ezra Lang – art direction, design, painting
- Alexander Calder – painting
- Phase Two – painting
Charts
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References
External links
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