MH-010 Jel - The Meat & Oil EP The companion piece to Jel's critically acclaimed Mush full-length, 10 Seconds is the twenty minute hip-hop instrumental, The Meat & Oil EP. Targeted to hip-hop DJs as well as underground listeners, the Anticon beatmaker's trademark SP-1200 drum chopping skills are in full effect, as he blends funk and rock samples with electronics and found sounds Americana from television commercials, newscasts, and radio. Examining the American dream with a questioning mind, family values, soccer moms, the cattle industry, and oil conglomerates are all left bruised and battered as Jel adds another success to a series of impressive releases.

Tracklist 01. Media Mom Saves The Day 02. Shed Those McValues 03. The Livestock Rock 04. Petroleum Jel

Release Details Release Date: 09/17/2002   Running Time: 20:49   Download/Available/$3.00 1XEP/Available/$5.00 Territory: World Excluding Japan License For Japan: Tri-Eight Records - Release Date: 08/30/2002

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Rhythmically rich - Synthesis

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Gullbuy / Praradio / Synthesis /

Digitally destroyed psych-samples stutter across punchy hip-hop beats. Weathered sounds reinvent themselves, protest chants via war analysis begrudgingly ooze down the outside of your hi-fi, and the simply stated basement beatmaster applies his retroactive touch to his growing instrumental hip-hop canon. Better known as the life-force behind Themselves, bay-area brute Jel continues to tread upon the path of treasure-chest lootin' beatpaster harnessing distrusting political rants with the know-how of "the feel". Sample rates on minimal megabytes manifest audible alliteration that makes your stereo bump reminiscent of jacked mp3's two-stepping through huddles of baggypantzd head bobbers. At first listen, I became zombified by the EP label - "OIL" - spinning around in defiance of the Newsweek magazine that somehow spontaneously combusted and also torched my pro-GDubya book collection. What does it all mean? - Praradio