Sabotage Gigante

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Sabotage Gigante
SabotageGigante.jpg
Studio album by Rob Sonic
Released September 25, 2007 (2007-09-25)
Genre Hip hop
Length42:21
Label Definitive Jux
Producer Rob Sonic
Rob Sonic chronology
Telicatessen
(2004)		Sabotage Gigante
(2007)		 Alice in Thunderdome
(2014)
Singles from Sabotage Gigante
  1. "Rock the Convoy"
    Released: September 4, 2007
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [1]
Exclaim! mixed [2]
Pitchfork Media 6.9/10 [3]
PopMatters Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [4]
XLR8R 8/10 [5]

Sabotage Gigante is the second studio album by American hip hop artist Rob Sonic. [4] It was released on Definitive Jux in 2007. [3] The album featured guest appearances from Rob Sonic's Definitive Jux labelmate Aesop Rock and from Busdriver. It is also fully produced by Rob Sonic. [3]

Rob Sonic American rapper

Robert Smith, better known by his stage name Rob Sonic, is a hip hop artist from The Bronx. He is a former member of hip-hop groups Sonic Sum and Hail Mary Mallon.

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Aesop Rock American rapper

Ian Matthias Bavitz, better known by his stage name Aesop Rock, is an American hip hop recording artist and producer residing in Portland, Oregon. He was at the forefront of the new wave of underground and alternative hip hop acts that emerged during the late 1990s and early 2000s. He was signed to El-P's Definitive Jux label until it went on hiatus in 2010. betterPropaganda ranked him at number 19 at the Top 100 Artists of the Decade.

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Reception

Nate Patrin of Pitchfork Media gave the album a 6.9 out of 10, saying, "Sabotage Gigante has been said to be [Rob] Sonic's political album, at least in a more wide-ranging and universal way than Telicatessen 's the-personal-is-political themes, but there are so many generalities, abstractions, reappropriated slogans, moments of quadruplespeak, and pseudo-non-sequitur asides that much of the listener's time between headphones is spent trying to untangle it all." [3]

<i>Telicatessen</i> album by Rob Sonic

Telicatessen is the debut solo album by American hip hop artist and former Sonic Sum member Rob Sonic, released by the Definitive Jux label on September 7, 2004. An instrumental version of the album was released the following year, also by Definitive Jux. The album's title is a portmanteau word combining the terms "television" and "delicatessen".

On October 23, 2007, "Brand New Vandals" was chosen by KEXP-FM as their Song of the Day. [6]

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In 2010, the song Brand New Vandals was featured in the video game Skate 3. [7]

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Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."Teeth Eat Her"3:57
2."Brand New Vandals"3:49
3."The Over Under"3:38
4."Mother of All Bombs"3:58
5."Ready Aim Shoot"3:22
6."Rock the Convoy"3:58
7."Smoke If You Got'um" (featuring Aesop Rock)4:22
8."Dead As Disco"3:48
9."Fat Man & Little Boy"4:47
10."Spy Hunter" (featuring Busdriver)2:49
11."A Cold Cold War"3:51

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References

  1. ↑ Brown, Marisa. "Sabotage Gigante - Rob Sonic". AllMusic . Retrieved July 21, 2016.
  2. ↑ Acharya, Neil (November 2007). "Rob Sonic - Sabotage Gigante". Exclaim! . Retrieved July 21, 2016.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Patrin, Nate (January 24, 2008). "Rob Sonic: Sabotage Gigante". Pitchfork Media . Retrieved July 21, 2016.
  4. 1 2 Boeckel, Gentry (November 29, 2007). "Rob Sonic: Sabotage Gigante". Popmatters . Retrieved July 21, 2016.
  5. ↑ Thill, Scott (November 21, 2007). "Rob Sonic - Sabotage Gigante". XLR8R . Retrieved July 21, 2016.
  6. ↑ "Song of the Day: Rob Sonic - Brand New Vandals". KEXP-FM . October 23, 2007. Retrieved July 21, 2016.
  7. ↑ "Skate 3 Soundtrack Revealed - CINEMABLEND". CINEMABLEND. 2010-03-21. Retrieved 2017-02-17.
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