Station Identification

Channel Live | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 21, 1995)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Capitol
• ASIN: B000002TPN
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #81,280 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars dark production, rough rhymes, August 9, 2001

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"stripe_santoro" (adelaide, Australia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Station Identification (Audio CD)

This was the first disc I ever bought, and mad izm is one of my all-time favourite rough hiphop tracks. It got me involved in the more-underground east coast scene and that's part of the reason I rate it highly. KRS fans should definitely check this out as his influence is all over it. He produces a few songs and stomps all over mad izm - which is a crazy track.

There's some very left-field production from Salaam Remi - experimental and almost gothic - and vicious mic skills from hakim and tuffy. Kind of like the artifacts mic team but very dark in parts. Half the tracks are very good and half are decent but there's about 5 annoying skit tracks which make it hard to listen straight through. Some of the tracks are almost brilliant but are just slightly off due to an annoying quirk. Alpha and Omega has a wicked beat, one of the fattest basses in history, but the chorus "it's the alpha, and omega, we're gonna play these sucker mc's like sega" chanted by a boy, gets plain old annoying after a while.

Buy or borrow it for the beats and some of the rhymes, copy the good tracks onto a compilation disc and listen to that instead. I wonder if there's an instrumental disc?

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The IZM... brings the wisdom..., June 5, 2006

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D. Thomas "Dawhud" (Seattle, WA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Station Identification (Audio CD)

Madizm was the cut to get my mouth wattery. Once this LP dropped, my hunger pains were filled. True, the best track was the 1st single, but almost every track on this album would grow on you and leave you in need of a neck brace. This was their best work, probably due to the blastmaster on their side... dope nonetheless and one of my fav LPs.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A good debut from KRS-One's proteges, July 16, 2005

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SmokaJ (TORONTO) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Station Identification (Audio CD)

This is a hard hitting album, w/ The Teacher's influence all over it. KRS produced the majority of the album and Salaam Remi and some no-name did the rest, the result is a dark, heavy-bassed head-banger. CL crew members Tuffy & Hakim spit rhymes as dark and dirty as the beats, although they aren't stand-out MC's they've got skills and they ride the beats really well. The track listing is:

1) Station Identification
2) Channel 1 (Int.)
3) Lock it Up
4) Channel 2 (Int.)
5) What! (Cause and Effect)
6) Mad Izm F. KRS-One
7) Reprogram
8) Channel 3 (Int.)
9) Sex for the Sport
10) Channel 4 (Int.)
11) Down Goes the Devil
12) Build & Destroy
13) Alpha & Omega
14) Homicide Ride
15) Who U Represent

Almost all of the tracks will have you banging your head, my favorites are "Mad Izm," "Lock it Up," "What!," "Reprogram," "Down Goes the Devil" & "Who U Represent." An odd stand-out is the last track, which pays homage to Hip-Hop, rhyming almost every pre-'95 crew/name over a funky guitar.

Bottom Line: Any fan of hard-bassed NY Hip-Hop and/or KRS-One will like this album. 4 stars, Peace.