Build Your Own Bazooka Tooth

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Build Your Own Bazooka Tooth
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Compilation album by
ReleasedNovember 16, 2004
Genre Hip hop
Label Definitive Jux
Producer Aesop Rock
Blockhead
El-P
Aesop Rock chronology
Bazooka Tooth
(2003)
Build Your Own Bazooka Tooth
(2004)
Fast Cars, Danger, Fire and Knives
(2005)

Build Your Own Bazooka Tooth is a compilation album by American hip hop musician, Aesop Rock. The album was released in conjunction with a contest to create a remix of an Aesop Rock song using the a cappellas and instrumentals in this 2-disc set. [1]

Contents

Aesop Rock released this album so that Internet mash-up artists could use the instrumentals and a cappellas in the album to create mash-ups, possibly with non-Aesop Rock songs, or so fans could listen to the instrumentals or a cappellas to better appreciate each.

Track listing

Disc one

  1. "Bazooka Tooth [Instrumental]" (I. Bavitz)
  2. "N.Y. Electric [Instrumental]" (I. Bavitz)
    • Produced by Aesop Rock
  3. "Easy [Instrumental]" (I. Bavitz)
    • Produced by Aesop Rock
  4. "No Jumper Cables [Instrumental]" (I. Bavitz)
    • Produced by Aesop Rock
  5. "Limelighters [Instrumental]" (I. Bavitz)
    • Produced by Aesop Rock
  6. "Super Fluke [Instrumental]" (I. Bavitz)
    • Produced by Aesop Rock
  7. "Cook It Up [Instrumental]" (J. Gibson/P.F.A.C./T. Simon)
  8. "Freeze [Instrumental]" (I. Bavitz)
    • Produced by Aesop Rock
  9. "We're Famous [Instrumental]" (J. Meline)
  10. "Babies With Guns [Instrumental]" (I. Bavitz)
    • Produced by Blockhead
  11. "The Greatest Pac-Man Victory In History [Instrumental]" (I. Bavitz)
    • Produced by Aesop Rock
  12. "Frijoles [Instrumental]" (I. Bavitz)
    • Produced by Aesop Rock
  13. " – 11:35 [Instrumental]" (I. Bavitz)
    • Produced by Blockhead
  14. "Kill The Messenger [Instrumental]" (I. Bavitz)
    • Produced by Aesop Rock
  15. "Mars Attacks [Instrumental]" (I. Bavitz)
    • Produced by Aesop Rock

Disc two

  1. "Bazooka Tooth [A cappella]" (I. Bavitz)
  2. "N.Y. Electric [A cappella]" (I. Bavitz)
  3. "Easy [A Cappella]" (I. Bavitz)
  4. "No Jumper Cables [A cappella]" (I. Bavitz)
  5. "Limelighters [A cappella]" (I. Bavitz/S. Wallace/S. Wilds)
  6. "Super Fluke [A cappella]" (I. Bavitz)
  7. "Cook It Up [A cappella]" (I. Bavitz)
  8. "Freeze [A cappella]" (I. Bavitz)
  9. "We're Famous [A cappella]" (I. Bavitz/J. Meline)
  10. "Babies With Guns [A cappella]" (I. Bavitz)
  11. "The Greatest Pac-Man Victory In History [A cappella]" (I. Bavitz)
  12. "Frijoles [A cappella]" (I. Bavitz)
  13. " – 11:35 [A cappella]" (I. Bavitz/J. Haynes)
  14. "Kill The Messenger [A cappella]" (I. Bavitz)
  15. "Mars Attacks [A cappella]" (I. Bavitz)

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References

  1. "Definitive Jux - Build Your Own Bazooka Tooth Remix Contest". Archived from the original on 2006-08-25. Retrieved 2006-08-30.