War Games (Rob Swift album)

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War Games
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Studio album by Rob Swift
Released September 6, 2005 (2005-09-06)
Genre Turntablism
Length41:32
Label Coup De Grace
Producer Rob Swift
Rob Swift chronology
OuMuPo 2
(2004)
War Games
(2005)
Back to the Beat
(2006)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [1]
Exclaim! favorable [2]
Pitchfork 5.0/10 [3]
XLR8R favorable [4]

War Games (sometimes stylized as Wargames) is a 2005 studio album by American turntablist Rob Swift. It was released on Coup De Grace.

Rob Swift American DJ

Rob Swift, is an American hip hop DJ and turntablist. He was an original member of the turntablist group The X-Ecutioners until 2004. He has also released numerous solo albums and collaborated with various artists, including Mike Patton, Patton's project Peeping Tom, Dan the Automator and Handsome Boy Modeling School, Lords of Acid, Portugal. The Man, and Herbie Hancock.

Contents

Reception

Marisa Brown of AllMusic gave the album 4 stars out of 5, describing it as "an ominous soundtrack to the DJ's perspective on the state of the contemporary world". [1] She said, "It's complex, intelligent, and provocative, and it's certainly worth listening to." [1]

AllMusic Online music database

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Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."Intro"2:04
2."The Mad Bombers"0:38
3."A Terror Wrist" (featuring DJ Melo D)4:11
4."The President Is Speaking"1:20
5."Terrorism" (featuring DJ Quest and Bob James)3:20
6."America's Past Time"0:22
7."Another Friendly Game of Baseball...Xtra Innings" (featuring Large Professor)3:17
8."41 Bullets"0:38
9."Dream" (featuring Breez Evahflowin)4:51
10."Military Scratch" (featuring Ricci Rucker and Toadstyle)4:12
11."A Ghetto Poem" (featuring Anthony Saffery and Dave McMurray)4:49
12."Piano for Condoleezza"1:11
13."The Holy Trinity" (featuring Akinyele and Printz Haze)4:10
14."A Nation with a Mission"0:39
15."Vietnam?"3:29
16."Outro"2:21

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References

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  4. Herman, Max (November 1, 2005). "Rob Swift - War Games". XLR8R . Retrieved May 5, 2017.