General Patton vs. The X-Ecutioners
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General Patton vs. The X-Ecutioners is a collaboration album released by Mike Patton
Mike Patton
Michael Allan "Mike" Patton is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer, and actor, best known as the lead singer of the metal/experimental rock band Faith No More. He has also sung for Mr...

 and New York City
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 hip-hop trio The X-Ecutioners
The X-Ecutioners
The X-Ecutioners is a group of hip hop DJs / turntablists from New York.-History:Formed as a DJ crew in the early nineties and originally including 11 members, under the name X-Men, which was chosen partly because of their rivalry between Super DJ Clark Kent's crew of DJs, known as the Supermen,...

. The album is themed around a war between the two vastly different musical styles. The album contains various samples from uncredited films.

Track listing

  1. "X-Men Doctrine and Declaration: Target=40:40:11N 73:56:38W" – 1:30
  2. "General P. Counterintelligence: Target=37:47:36N 122:33:17W" – 0:40
  3. "Get Up, Punk! 0200 Hrs. (Joint Special Operations Task Force)" – 3:38
  4. "Roc Raida: Riot Control Agent/Combat Stress Control" – 2:05
  5. "Improvised Explosive Device 0300 Hrs." – 0:36
  6. "Vaqueros Y Indios! (Joint Special Operations Task Force)" – 1:52
  7. "Precision Guided Needle-Dropping and Larynx Munitions (PGNDLM)" – 1:55
  8. "Duelling Banjo Marching Drill" – 1:54
  9. "Battle Hymn of the Technics Republic" – 1:11
  10. "¡Fire in the Hole! 0400 Hrs. (Joint Special Operations Task Force)" – 2:14
  11. "Convulsive Antidote for Nerve Agent Autoinjector (CANAA)" – 0:43
  12. "Modified Combined Obstacle Overlay (MCOO) ...Or... "How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Turntables"" – 2:41
  13. "Surprise Swing Insurgency/Tabla and Tongue Twist Counterattack/"Dragon Seeks Path"" – 3:41
  14. "Kamikaze! 0500 Hrs. ("Take a Piece of Me") – 2:16
  15. ""We'll Paint This Town"--Throat and Phonograph Fire Support Coordination Measures (TPFSCM)" – 1:40
  16. "Imitative Electromagnetic Deception (IED)/Digital Nonsecure Voice Terminal (DNVT)" – 0:21
  17. "A.W.O.L. Block Party Brawl 0600 Hrs." – 1:50
  18. "Eastside Multichannel Tactical Scratch Communications (EMTSC)" – 1:41
  19. "Pimps Up, Aces High! 0700 Hrs. (Westside Swashbuckling Parade)" – 1:28
  20. "Warcry/Infrared R'n'B Hallucination/Jungle Operations Exfiltration System" – 3:02
  21. "L.O.L.—-Loser On Line! (Hate the Player, Hate the Game)" – 3:34
  22. "Low Altitude Vocal Parachute Extraction System (LAVPES)" – 1:04
  23. "Battle Damage Assessment and Repair/White Flag Surrender/"Wake Me Up in Heaven"" – 4:52


All lyrics by Mike Patton, published by Mal di Golda (ASCAP). Produced, arranged and mixed at Vulcan Studios, San Francisco. Mastered at Oasis Mastering, Los Angeles
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.

Personnel

  • Mike Patton
    Mike Patton
    Michael Allan "Mike" Patton is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer, and actor, best known as the lead singer of the metal/experimental rock band Faith No More. He has also sung for Mr...

     - Vocals, keyboard
    Keyboard instrument
    A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...

    , guitar
    Electric guitar
    An electric guitar is a guitar that uses the principle of direct electromagnetic induction to convert vibrations of its metal strings into electric audio signals. The signal generated by an electric guitar is too weak to drive a loudspeaker, so it is amplified before sending it to a loudspeaker...

    , bass
    Bass guitar
    The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....

     and percussion, editing and programming, production, arrangement, mixing, artwork.
  • Rob Swift
    Rob Swift
    Rob Swift is an American hip hop DJ and turntablist. Swift is a former member of the turntablist group The X-Ecutioners as of late 2005 and as of 2006; with Mike Patton’s project Peeping Tom.-Early life:...

     - Turntable
    Phonograph
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    s
  • Roc Raida
    Roc Raida
    Anthony Williams , better known as Roc Raida or Grandmaster Roc Raida, was an American DJ, turntablist and producer. He was also a member of the legendary DJ group, The X-Ecutioners....

     - Turntables
  • Total Eclipse
    Total Eclipse
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    - Turntables
  • Gene Grimaldi - Mastering
  • Martin Kvamme - Artwork
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