- Audio CD (Nov 24 2009)
- Number of Discs: 1
- Label: Definitive Jux
- ASIN: B00005BIVW
- Other Editions: LP Record
- Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (91 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #30,771 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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Track Listings
| 1. Iron Galaxy |
| 2. Ox Out the Cage |
| 3. Atom (with Alaska & Cryptic Of Atoms) |
| 4. A B-Boys Alpha |
| 5. Raspberry Fields |
| 6. Straight Off The D.I.C. |
| 7. Vein |
| 8. The F-Word |
| 9. Stress Rap |
| 10. Battle For Asgard (with L.I.F.E. Long & C-Rayz Walz Of Stronghold) |
| 11. Real Earth |
| 12. Ridiculoid (with el-P) |
| 13. Painkillers |
| 14. Pigeon |
Product Description
From Amazon.co.uk
Cannibal Ox's Vast Aire Kramer and Vordul Megala Shamar have struck a cold vein in hip-hop and come up with digital gold. Digging for dignity in an iron galaxy, to raise human tragedy beyond the small black print of the crime pages, these rap Vikings write rhymes in the blood of the slain, spit-sacred thought in the service of salvation. With production by Company Flow's El-P (who also appears on the group's ghetto-vaudeville theme tune "Ox out the Cage" and the industry-sniping "Ridiculoid"), the backdrop to their rap reality-myth is a drone-heavy matrix of gritty, atomised funk and reconstructed beats. Alaska and Cryptic of Atoms Family (the larger group to whom Can Ox pledge allegiance) guest on "Atom", colliding with their compadres like charged molecules. While on "A B-Boy's Alpha" Vast and Vordul present a rugged primer to the strife life. Powered by a paralysing banshee-wail, "Raspberry Fields" douses the Beatles with brown acid and dumps them on the baddest corner on the block for a battle to the death with the flesh-eating MCs. Closer "Pigeon" unlocks the rock box, pitching bowed electric guitar with redemptive organ chords, while Vast takes flight with words that lick the air with violence and Vordul spreads melanin wings to shield his fellow warriors from horror. No bad blood here, just cold veins locked in pitched battle to rend the world from the grip of iron, and release its populous like ions. --Chris Campion
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Après s'être entraîné sur nombre de fastueuses compilations, Vordul et Vast Aire Kramer, les deux MC's de Cannibal Ox, apposent leur flow dissonant sur un premier album intitulé Cold Vein. Le duo basé à Brooklyn donne de New York une vision apocalyptique traversée de violons corrompus, de synthétiseurs Blade Runnesques et de guitares torturées. Cold Vein, symphonie gothique orchestrée par El-P, producteur du défunt label Company Flow, et l'aide occasionnelle d'Atoms Family et Stronghold, est estampillée du sceau de la rue. La misère environnante décrite avec un froid réalisme ne s'offusque pas de quelques vers de poésie mélancolique "I guess that's why I was born/To recognize the beauty/Of a rose's thorn". Car Vordul et Vast Aire Kramer se gardent de la tentation de la morale rigoureuse tout autant que de la colère inutile et du machisme conquérant de certains de leurs confrères gansgta. Pendant que le Wu Tang se cantonne au kitsch kung fu, Cannibal Ox fait les poubelles, mais leur cauchemar urbain évite les clichés pathétiques du hip-hop grâce à de pertinentes métaphores et quelques références mystiques et mythologiques. Un futur classique du rap. --Sabrina Silamo
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Dense, gritty, and stunning,
By - K "the lyrical bugs bunny" (SFC / CA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Cold Vein (Audio CD)
This was the best hip-hop album of 2001, period. From the menacing opening beeps of Iron Galaxy to the feel-good coda of Scream Phoenix, Vordul Megala and Vast Aire Kramer rip on more levels than any debut I can think of. Not even Public Enemy or Tribe came out this strong. One thing that makes this album brilliant is the complementary but different styles between Vordul and Vast Aire. The former employs a quick flow predicated on internal rhymes and sick imagery, as in "murderers is like handles that clap sandals Another thing that vaults this project into the Vallhala of hip-hop is EL-P's ridiculous beats. Not to play the race card, but there are not many white guys on this planet who understand the funk like EL-P. Thing is, EL strains his funk through a messy Black Sabbath come Blade Runner thing...which, again, sounds a little strange on paper, but you're ears will understand, and the Cold Vein will change your life. I'd also highly recommend grabbing EL-P's 2002 masterstroke, Fantastic Damage. selah
5.0 out of 5 stars
masterpiece of modern rap,
By B (houston, tx) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Cold Vein (Audio CD)
El-P and the Cannibal Ox duo have succeeded in creating a new rap sound. The beats on this cd are unlike anything on any other rap album ever, even albus that el-p has done. They are lumbering, limber, retro, futuristic, all at the same time. Vastaire and the other rapper Vordul are both great. Vastaire delivers his lines in a manner that makes you pay attention, and when you do listen, you recognize a lot of ideas that continue to reappear and resolve throughout verses. (I rest my head on 115 / but miracles only happen on 34th so i guess life is mean / and death is the median / and purgatory is the mode that we settle in...) It's hard to outshine Vastaire's extreme matter of fact delivery; Vordul never says his name or utters a complete sentence but his delivery is smooth and his abstact lyrics make for good hooks, and he reminds me a little of the guy from Camp Lo.All the songs are good but Iron Galaxy, B-Boy Alpha, Straight off the DIC, and the F Word are some of the better ones. The guests on Asgard are good even though the carnival music can get on some peoples nerves. So listen to the samples and then buy this cd and listen to it over and over...
5.0 out of 5 stars
One of 2001's best,
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This review is from: Cold Vein (Audio CD)
All in all this has been my favorite album for a very long time now for a couple of reasons.1. The beats dont get stale, they always sound fresh and complex. Anyone who cant "feel" these beats probably needs to replace their hearing aid battery.
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