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El-P

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Third in a series of mixtapes from the Brooklyn hip hop producer Jaime Meline

ADM rating[?]: 6.7
Label: Gold Dust
UK Release date: 02/08/2010

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8.0 | The Skinny

Without a doubt, if El-P had recorded vocals for these tracks, the album would be heralded as yet another underground classic to rank alongside Funcrusher Plus
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7.6 | Pitchfork

Even when the man appears to be just dicking around in his parts bin, he can still dredge up great music
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7.5 | Prefix

As usual, El-P manages to make a great deal of memorable noise
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7.0 | BBC

For any bootlegging rappers with cerebral ambitions, this could represent the greatest thinking man’s beat tape of all time. To mere listeners, it’s an enveloping temporary distraction, more than fulfilling its purpose of whetting anticipation for El-P’s mic-wielding return
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7.0 | Drowned In Sound

These might be the scraps from El-P’s studio floor then, but in truth these sharp metallic fragments of sound are more like filings
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7.0 | NME

Let some thirsty young rappers loose on this shit and El-P would really be on to something
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6.0 | PopMatters

It’s not Donuts, and it’s certainly not Fantastic Damage, but it’s a fine piece of work from a producer whose demand far exceeds his supply
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6.0 | The Independent

Infused with El-P's characteristic dystopian sci-fi mood and edgy, paranoiac tone
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6.0 | Q

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