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Spirit of Apollo

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1. Intro 0:58 $0.99

2. The People Tree (Feat. David Byrne, Chali 2na, Gift Of Gab & Z-Trip) 4:14 $0.99

3. Money (Feat. David Byrne, Chuck D, Ras Congo, Seu Jorge & Z-Trip) 4:15 $0.99

4. N.A.S.A. Music (Feat. Method Man, E-40 & DJ Swamp) 4:22 $0.99

5. Way Down (Feat. RZA, Barbie Hatch & John Frusciante) 3:13 $0.99

6. Hip Hop (Feat. KRS-One, Fatlip & Slim Kid Tre) 4:06 $0.99

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8. Strange Enough (Feat. Karen O, Ol' Dirty Bastard & Fatlip) 4:13 $0.99

9. Spacious Thoughts (Feat. Tom Waits & Kool Keith) 4:30 $0.99

10. Gifted (Feat. Kanye West, Santogold & Lykke Li) 3:39 $0.99

11. A Volta (Feat. Sizzla, Amanda Blank & Lovefoxxx) 3:13 $0.99

12. There's A Party (Feat. George Clinton & Chali 2na) 4:07 $0.99

13. Whachadoin? (Feat. Spank Rock, M.I.A., Santogold & Nick Zinner) 4:09 $0.99

14. O Pato (Feat. Kool Kojak & DJ Babao) 3:18 $0.99

15. Samba Soul (Feat. Del Tha Funkee Homosapien & DJ Qbert) 4:24 $0.99

16. The Mayor (Feat. The Cool Kids, Ghostface Killah, Scarface & DJ AM) 4:34 $0.99

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Product Details

Audio CD (February 17, 2009)
Original Release Date: March 10, 2009
Number of Discs: 1
Label: Anti
ASIN: B001NJY5H6
In-Print Editions: Vinyl | MP3 Download

Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)

Amazon.com Sales Rank: #12,109 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)
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#40 in Music > World Music > Latin Music > Brazil
#71 in Music > World Music > South & Central America
#75 in Music > Rap & Hip-Hop > Experimental Rap

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N.A.S.A is an ongoing creative collaboration between two lifelong music aficionados, Squeak E. Clean ad DJ Zegon, and their friends, friends of friends and musical heroes. While N.A.S.A. stands for North America/South America and contains a number of superstar artists from both coasts of the US, it is about as far from a tension-building geographical showdown as a record can get. Rather, their Anti debut The Spirit of Apollo was born with the righteous goal of bringing people together through music and art, and that is exactly what masterminds Sam Spiegel (Squeak E. Clean) and Ze Gonzales (DJ Zegon) have done. Brazilian funk provides the roots of the songs and binds them together into a cohesive whole, but from there, the imagination behind The Spirit of Apollo ranges far and wide. Unexpected collaborations abound on the eighteen track release. Tom Waits growls over Kool Keith, Karen O taunts while Ol' Dirty Bastard gives shout-outs to Wu Tang and N.A.S.A from the grave, and David Byrne, Chuck D and others expound on the evils of "Money." In spite of the range of performers, the pairings seem organic, inspired and make perfect sense on the first listen, never coming off as ironic or impulsive. Vinyl contains digital download card for entire album.


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4.0 out of 5 stars Getting haters only means you're doing something right..., March 2, 2009

By	Xtian Thomas "MusickLvr" - See all my reviews

Seriously. I read Pitchfork's 1.6 review of this album. pppbbttthhhhh! There's so many guests on here that there's NO WAY that they're all going to stick out. People who score this low only seem to have done so because they were expecting tooo much. I love this album. The beats are AT LEAST solid (if not Timbaland or Dilla-quality), the guests are wide-ranging and did anyone else read about how it took them 4 years to get this album done? or how they got 5 different artists to come up with 5 different covers?

I saw this clip of Louie C.K. on Conan O' Brian (sp?) talking about how everything's amazing and no one's happy! This is a perfect example of the "most spoiled generation" not appreciating what they have. Before everyone was downloading music back in the early 00's, this would have been out of stock regularly at most independent record stores (remember those, kids?).

Let's start with track 1 and move down. Intro, good. 2 tracks with David Byrne and some other people, gets it off to a good "let's stop worrying about who has what and get into the music". The next two tracks have guest spots from Wu-Tang members and some other reliable members of the hip-hop community. Ohhh, wow... there's so many guest on here, but I noticed that some of them guest on tracks that follow the other one they guested on - that's called establishing a sense of con-tin-u-it-y and on proper albums (remember those?), it's a plus.

The good news is that there's hope for you yet - I used to be you. I had this amazing collection of independent hip-hop and sold quite a lot of it. After I moved out of my cynicism and attitude that it had to be unique and groundbreaking to be any good, I realized that it's freaking hard to come up with consistent beats (like this one) and book guests like they did and the fact that they persevered through 4 years means that $7.99 is the least you could part with for this album, you stingy b@st@rds ;)

p.s. I was going to give it 5 stars, but it just came out a couple of weeks ago and there's so much other stuff coming as well.

*takes cane off the wall and walks down to the corner store to get some more hard candy for the grandkids*

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5.0 out of 5 stars An interesting mix of artists, May 9, 2009

By	Oliver "Klosov" (LA) - See all my reviews

The best thing I can say about this album is that its not quite as good as Dan the Automator's Handsome Boy Modeling School. Its very similar in format. DJ makes the beats gets some of the best hip hop artists around combine's it with Some of the most unique rock artists (NASA has David Byrne, Tom Waits and John Frusciante, Dan The Automator has Mike Patton, The Mars Volta, and Jack Johnson) and what you get is a very unique collection of music. Don't buy the album if you are looking for great DJ's but if you look at the list of contributors and see a bunch of artist you like then definitely buy this album. It is primarily a hip hop album with the likes of Method Man, RZA, KRS One, ODB, Kool Keith, Del, and many more. Check out tracks 3. Money and 8. Strange Enough. Peace!

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2.0 out of 5 stars How could this have gone wrong?!, November 26, 2009

By	Captin Planit (Apollo) - See all my reviews

When I first heard the amount of artists involved in this project, I was both wary and intrigued. Then I heard the song with Kanye, Santogold, and Lykkie Li, and I started to get excited. Unfortunately, a lot of the album feels like an attempt at a throwback to the production of indie hip hop in the late '90s/ early '00s, which was more or less a throwback to a lot of the production in the early '90s. So what we've been given is a derivative of a derivative. It feels like N.A.S.A. were so impressed with themselves for putting effort towards this global, no-walls project that they forgot to apply a lot of polish or necessary innovation to make this effective. For me, the most interesting track is the horn-heavy instrumental that closes the album (if you ignore the unnecessary secret song), so maybe if this project featured a fraction of the guests involved, it would've felt focused. A lack of strong performances is not the issue. This muddling, foggy affair gets boring much quicker than everybody promised.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Interesting project
This is the first cd I bought this year after reading an article in a national newspaper. The chemistry between then is undeniable and the collabos r great, all of them fits... Read more

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5.0 out of 5 stars Both original and accessible
I loved it. It does a fair amount of experimentation but is still accessible and a lot of fun.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Could be worse
This is exactly the kind of hipster indie/hip-hop cross-genre monster that it looks like. It has a lot of good names and seems like it could be great. Read more

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4.0 out of 5 stars Great, spirited, danceable, listenable ...
This is my "CD of the year" so far; it's a first rate collection of artists ranging from David Byrne to Tom Waits to Kool Keith to George Clinton to Santogold to M.I. Read more

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