I'll Sleep When You're Dead El-P Vinyl, Def Jux LP, Run the Jewels, Aesop Rock
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$ 87
Sold For
Oct 2, 2019
Sold Date
Sep 22, 2019
Start Date
$ 85
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USA
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You are bidding on a pre-owned 12" vinyl LP of I'll Sleep When You're Dead by El-P (Definitive Jux Records). Before Run the Jewels, El-P delivered this gem in 2007 and it is OOP. Etched DJX-137. Minor dings/dents to cardboard sleeve, but records are in excellent condition. Please see all pictures for detail. What you see is exactly what you receive. Should you have any questions regarding this item, please do not hesitate to ask.
El-P (El-Producto) is a native of Brooklyn, New York. His father is a jazz pianist and El-P began dabbling in music as an adolescent. In 1992 he co-founded Company Flow with DJ Mr. Len and MC Bigg Juss. Company Flow’s first full length release, Funcrusher Plus (1997), helped give birth to the contemporary underground movement and is a landmark experimental album. After the dissolution of Company Flow, El-P started Definitive Jux Records, home to underground stars Mr. Lif, Aesop Rock, Cage, and Murs, among others. His debut album, Fantastic Damage (2003), received much critical acclaim and garnered El-P some mainstream notoriety. El-P’s music offers little insight into his identity. The closest he has come to introspection was a single line on Fantastic Damage’s “Tuned Mass Damper,” which reads, “My name is El-P, I produce and I rap too.” I’ll Sleep When You’re Dead is no different as El-P uses 13 tracks to paint America as a hopeless, morally bankrupt, hell-bound plain of land. Unlike Brother Ali and Evidence, lyrics take a backseat to musical accompaniment in El-P’s music. Booming drums, frantic keys, intergalactic samples and distortion capture the listener’s attention and overshadow El-P’s at times unintelligible abstract lyrics. I’ll Sleep When You’re Dead has an interesting array of guest artists, including two members of progressive rock staple Mars Volta and industrial rock legend Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails. It also contains an even mix of black and white guest rappers, including Cage (white), Murs (black), Aesop Rock (Jewish), and Slug (bi-racial). Because of this eclectic grouping, El-P establishes a very complex musical identity in place of expressions of a personal nature. It appears that in the minds of the listener, El-P desires to be defined by his music and therefore offers little insight into who he is as a person. Like Evidence, El-P uses hip hop music as an overarching identity, not only for himself, but also for those who appear on his record. Brother Ali’s The Undisputed Truth, Evidence’s The Weatherman LP, and El-P’s Fantastic Damage are three excellent new releases by white underground rap stars. Being released at a time when rappers such as Paul Wall and Eminem and VH1’s The White Rappers Show pull white rappers toward rap’s center, these artist produce music with an underground mentality that eschews the image driven nature of mainstream music and places artistic integrity in the spotlight. While very different in nature, each release asks the listener to disconnect themselves from pre-established notions of racial or ethnic identity and allow the music to be the sole focus of the listening experience.-Langston Collin Wilkins
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