- Audio CD (Jun 20 2000)
- Number of Discs: 1
- Format: EP
- Label: Asphodel Records
- ASIN: B00004TM22
- Other Editions: LP Record
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #201,807 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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Track Listings
| 1. D-Day |
| 2. All Hail To My Hands |
| 3. Live Session I |
| 4. Myfunction |
| 5. Gotcha Covered |
| 6. Ready For War |
| 7. Live Session II |
| 8. The Anarchist Movement |
| 9. Freedom Of Speech |
Product Description
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D-Day marks the recorded debut of DJs Craze, A-Trak, Infamous, J-Smoke, Spiktacular, and Develop, collectively known as the celebrated Allies turntablist crew. As with much of Asphodel's catalog, the Allies manage to cut a more abstract record than one would expect. Rather than the trimmed and proper routines of their championship live sets, there's a rough, improvised, and practice-tape quality to the solo cuts and posse jams. Heavy on Mobb Deep samples and Miami bass, the solo cuts are interesting but still too technical to excite turntablist pedestrians. The posse cuts are considerably better and more daring. Unafraid to mess with tempos and experiment with sinister textures, the two "Live Session" cuts feel less like talent shows and more like organic, experimental jams. Though the emphasis here is on the world-class posse's scratchwork, the Allies prove to be rather interesting producers as well. --Hua Hsu
Album Details
Rap/turntablism. The Allies Are a Trak, Craze, Develop, Infamous, J Smoke and Spictakular.
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4.2 out of 5 stars (4 customer reviews)
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
Bombing or Dropping the Bomb?, July 7 2000
By MPWN "MPWN" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: D-Day (Audio CD)
Among the Allies there are 2 world champions, both of them have won multiple times (Craze the two time DMC champion and current battle DJ supreme, and A-Trak the youngest world DMC champion ever, also a holder of an ITF world championship) so good things are to be expected from this crew. Being that there are two world champions my attention was focused on what kind of synergy the Allies would display. The CD focuses on individual sets rather than group tracks. Considering that the group tracks are overshadowed by the individual tracks the focus on the individual cuts seems justified.The Allies had to come with a better than average effort to impress me given their pedigree. I definitely think that this disc is worth the money, but for musicality I would prefer Craze's release Crazee Muzick. This not a slight at all on the other members of the Allies, all of the individual tracks are thoroughly enjoyable and deserve rewind after rewind but the album doesn't flow as a whole, but how should it with 7 different performers.
The hilite of the album for me was listening to the production underneath the cuts. At this point there is a certain level of competency in turntablism that is expected from a DJ, and all of the performers present here display such competency, the album may be a little thin on all out creativity but is by no means a re-hash of everything out there. It does leave a distinct sound in your ear but it is not redefining of the genre. I gave it 4 stars because it is one of the best turntablism discs out but not the best and doesn't innovate as much as I would have liked. All in all the tracks are tight and deserves to be listened to.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
one of the best turntable cds, May 27 2001
By nick - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: D-Day (Audio CD)
I gotta say when i first saw there cd i thought it was going to just be a practice tape style cd. but i was wrong instead of just scratch sessions over simple loops, the allies lay down very textured beats with alot of fx and samples with top notch scratching and even live MCs on a track! Hopefully all those kids that think Funk Master Flex and DJ Scribble are the best DJs will get to see what real DJs sound like!
4.0 out of 5 stars
Turntablism giants, Dec 4 2011
By Charles King - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: D-Day (Audio CD)
Classic EP from The Allies. A-trak tears it up back in 2000, the end of the serious decade for turntablism and scratching.
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