No More Wig for Ohio

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No More Wig for Ohio
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Studio album by Odd Nosdam
Released May 19, 2003 (2003-05-19) [1]
Recorded Spring 2000 – Spring 2002
Genre Instrumental hip hop
Length55:34
Label Anticon
Producer Odd Nosdam
Odd Nosdam chronology
Plan 9... Meat Your Hypnotis.
(2002)		No More Wig for Ohio
(2003)		 Burner
(2005)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 62/100 [2]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [3]
Dusted Magazinemixed [4]
Pitchfork 6.7/10 [5]
XLR8R favorable [6]

No More Wig for Ohio is a studio album by American hip hop producer Odd Nosdam. It was released on Anticon in 2003. It peaked at number 175 on the CMJ Radio 200 chart. [7]

David P. Madson, better known by his stage name Odd Nosdam, is an American underground hip hop producer, DJ and visual artist. He is co-founder of the record label Anticon. He has remixed tracks by a variety of bands and artists including Boards of Canada, The Notwist, and Sole.

Anticon record label

Anticon is an independent record label based in Los Angeles, California. It was founded in 1998 by seven musicians and manager Baillie Parker. It is now collectively owned among six musicians, co-founder Parker, and manager Shaun Koplow. The original musicians signed to Anticon were once referred to as the Anticon collective.

CMJ Holdings, Corp. was a music events and online media company which ran a website, hosted an annual festival in New York City, and published CMJ New Music Monthly.

Contents

Critical reception

At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 62% based on 6 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews". [2]

Metacritic is a website that aggregates reviews of media products: films, TV shows, music albums, video games, and formerly, books. For each product, the scores from each review are averaged. Metacritic was created by Jason Dietz, Marc Doyle, and Julie Doyle Roberts in 1999. The site provides an excerpt from each review and hyperlinks to its source. A color of green, yellow or red summarizes the critics' recommendations. It has been described as the video game industry's "premier" review aggregator.

Stanton Swihart of AllMusic gave the album 2.5 stars out of 5, saying: "The album is potentially valuable as a source for samples, but it fails as a listening experience." [3] Chris Dahlen of Pitchfork gave the album a 6.7 out of 10, saying, "all this disc really tells us is that Odd Nosdam's a solid DJ who likes doofy vinyl." [5] Dave Segal of XLR8R described the album as "hip-hop's answer to The Faust Tapes ". [6]

AllMusic Online music database

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Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."Untitled"2:05
2."Untitled"2:51
3."Untitled"1:56
4."Untitled"1:26
5."Untitled"2:56
6."Untitled"3:23
7."Untitled"2:26
8."Untitled"0:45
9."Untitled"1:53
10."Untitled"1:10
11."Untitled"0:51
12."Untitled"2:06
13."Untitled"2:52
14."Untitled"1:34
15."Untitled"1:26
16."Untitled"2:10
17."Untitled"1:13
18."Untitled"2:15
19."Untitled"2:19
20."Untitled"2:09
21."Untitled"3:33
22."Untitled"3:10
23."Untitled"4:00
24."Untitled"5:10

Personnel

Credits adapted from liner notes.

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References

  1. ↑ "No More Wig for Ohio". Anticon . Archived from the original on October 23, 2017. Retrieved June 24, 2018.
  2. 1 2 "No More Wig For Ohio by Odd Nosdam". Metacritic . CBS Interactive . Retrieved October 21, 2014.
  3. 1 2 Swihart, Stanton. "No More Wig for Ohio". AllMusic . Retrieved October 21, 2014.
  4. ↑ Ho, Brian (May 15, 2003). "Odd Nosdam - No More Wig For Ohio". Dusted Magazine. Archived from the original on April 10, 2007. Retrieved June 24, 2018.
  5. 1 2 Dahlen, Chris (June 22, 2003). "Odd Nosdam: No More Wig For Ohio". Pitchfork . Retrieved June 24, 2018.
  6. 1 2 Segal, Dave (May 30, 2003). "Odd Nosdam: No More Wig for Ohio". XLR8R . Retrieved June 24, 2018.
  7. ↑ "CMJ Radio 200 (Period Ending 6/17/2003)". CMJ New Music Report : 17. June 30, 2003.
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