the X-ECUTIONERS men executioners CD BUILT FROM SCRATCH

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the X-ECUTIONERS - BUILT FROM SCRATCH   

Track listing
1. Intro - (featuring Vinroc/Apollo/Shorkut)
2. XL - (featuring Large Professor)
3. X-Ecutioners Scratch
4. Journey Into Sound, A - (featuring Kenny Muhammed)
5. Hip Hop Awards - (skit)
6. 3 Boroughs
7. Let It Bang - (featuring M.O.P.)
8. X-Excutioners Theme Song - (featuring Dan The Automator)
9. Feel the Bass
10. You Can't Scratch - (skit)
11. It's Goin' Down - (featuring Linkin Park)
12. Premier's X-Ecution
13. X, The (Y'All Know the Name) - (featuring Pharoahe Monch/Xzibit/Inspectah Deck/Skillz)
14. Genius of Love 2002 - (featuring Tom Tom Club/Biz Markie)
15. Choppin' N***** Up
16. B-Boy Punk Rock 2001 - (featuring Everlast)
17. Who Wants to Be a M***** F**Kin' Millionaire - (skit)
18. Play That Beat
19. Dramacyde - (featuring Big Pun/Kool G. Rap)
20. X-Ecution of a Bumrush - (featuring The Beat Junkies)
21. Play That Beat - (Lo Fidelity Allstars remix, bonus track)

Details
Contributing artists:    Apollo, Big Pun, Biz Markie, DJ Premier, Dan The Automator, Everlast, Inspectah Deck, Kenny Muhammed, Kool G. Rap, Large Professor, Linkin Park, M.O.P., Pharoahe Monch, Shorkut, Skillz, The Beat Junkies, The X-Ecutioners, Tom Tom Club, Vinroc, Xzibit
Distributor:    Sony Music Distribution
Recording type:    Studio
Recording mode:    Stereo
SPAR Code:    n/a

Album notes
Personnel includes: The X-Ecutioners, Large Professor, Kenny Muhammed, M.O.P., Dan The Automator, Linkin Park, DJ Premier, Pharoahe Monch, Xzibit, Inspectah Deck, Skillz, The Tom Tom Club, Biz Markie, Everlast, The Triple Threat DJ's, Fatman Scoop, Big Pun, Kool G. Rap.
Producers include: Apollo Novicio, Dr. Butcher, Rob Swift, CJ Moore, The Beat Junkies.
This East Coast underground hip-hop crew rises up to the challenge of entering the mainstream on BUILT FROM SCRATCH. One of their many strengths is the fact that they make good use of turntablism, an art abandoned by far too many of their peers. The urgency they gain from this helps push their streetwise but never thuggish rhymes forward with alacrity. Amid the frenetic scratching and hyper-kinetic playground of beats, Roc Raida, Rob Swift and company deliver the kind of self-mythologizing verbiage that's been at the heart of hip-hop since the days of EPMD and LL Cool J. While the X-Ecutioners are careful to lyrically underline their connections to the likes of Nas, and there's a cross-genre guest list on the album that ranges from the Tom Tom Club to Biz Markie, it's the group's own skill at mating unique tracks with powerful raps that makes BUILT FROM SCRATCH a success.

The X-Ecutioners is a group of hip hop DJs / turntablists from New York.

History

Formed as a DJ crew in the early nineties and originally including 11 members, under the name X-Men, which was chosen partly because of their rivalry between Super DJ Clark Kent's crew of DJs, known as the Supermen, and partly after the Marvel Comics characters, but had to change their name due to trademark infringement.

After the groups name changed, the crew was later reduced to members Rob Swift, Roc Raida, Total Eclipse, and Mista Sinista (named after the Marvel Comics' Mister Sinister) before releasing their debut album X-Pressions. Sinista later left the group shortly after the release of Built from Scratch, and Rob Swift left the group for personal and artistic reasons in 2005.

In the wake of Swift's departure, The X-Ecutioners have been scarcely heard of; however, the latest word is that the group has two new members, DJ Boogie Blind and DJ Precision.

The X-Ecutioners have worked with many famous artists on their albums Built From Scratch and Revolutions and are highly respected in hip hop for their turntable skills, being infamous for the technique known as beat juggling. They have been known to do numerous collaborations, ranging from Kool G Rap to Cypress Hill, Mike Shinoda and co-released an album with Mike Patton called General Patton vs. The X-Ecutioners. The X-Ecutioners contributed to a remix of Run-DMC's "King of Rock" on the Harmonix game Amplitude, and the DJ group's song "Like This" was featured in the video game SSX 3.

As of 2007, Rob Swift, Total Eclipse and Precision have formed a new group called Ill Insanity. Their latest release, "Ground Xero" contains 14 tracks featuring the likes of DJ QBert, DJ Excess, and Grand Master Roc Raida.

Ill Insanity has posted a blog on their Myspace regarding a reunion tour in Australia in October, 2008. The group commented in their blog

"Undeniably one of the greatest turntablist crews of all time, New Yorks legends The X-Ecutioners are reuniting exclusively to tour Australia for the very first time. The supremely talented turntablists, Grand Master Roc Raida, Rob Swift, Boogie Blind, Total Eclipse and Precision have exclusively come together for this tour and across 10 turntables will leave you speechless with their unbelievable turntable skills of cutting, mixing, scratching and beat juggling."

The group has already announced the tour dates on both the X-Ecutioners' and Ill Insanity's Myspace Reunion Tour Blog.

List of Original X-Men members

    * Steve D.
    * Dr. Butcher
    * Sean C.
    * Diamond J.
    * DJ Jonny Cash
    * Boogie Boy
    * C-4
    * Exotic E.
    * Roc Raida
    * Mista Sinista
    * Rob Swift

Also known as     X-Men
Ill Insanity
Origin     New York City, New York, USA
Genre(s)     Hip Hop
Turntablism
Underground rap
Instrumental hip hop
Experimental hip hop
Rapcore
Alternative Rap
Years active     1989–present
Associated acts     DJ Premier
Mike Patton
DJ Quest
Xzibit
Black Thought
Slug
dead prez
Linkin Park
Website     Official Website
Members
Roc Raida
Total Eclipse
DJ Boogie Blind
DJ Precision
Former members
Mista Sinista
Rob Swift

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