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Spirit of Apollo

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listen  1. Intro0:58$0.99 Buy Track
listen  2. The People Tree (Feat. David Byrne, Chali 2na, Gift Of Gab & Z-Trip) 4:14$0.99 Buy Track
listen  3. Money (Feat. David Byrne, Chuck D, Ras Congo, Seu Jorge & Z-Trip) 4:15$0.99 Buy Track
listen  4. N.A.S.A. Music (Feat. Method Man, E-40 & DJ Swamp) 4:22$0.99 Buy Track
listen  5. Way Down (Feat. RZA, Barbie Hatch & John Frusciante) 3:13$0.99 Buy Track
listen  6. Hip Hop (Feat. KRS-One, Fatlip & Slim Kid Tre) 4:06$0.99 Buy Track
listen  7. Four Rooms, Earth View0:25$0.99 Buy Track
listen  8. Strange Enough (Feat. Karen O, Ol' Dirty Bastard & Fatlip) 4:13$0.99 Buy Track
listen  9. Spacious Thoughts (Feat. Tom Waits & Kool Keith) 4:30$0.99 Buy Track
listen10. Gifted (Feat. Kanye West, Santogold & Lykke Li) 3:39$0.99 Buy Track
listen11. A Volta (Feat. Sizzla, Amanda Blank & Lovefoxxx) 3:13$0.99 Buy Track
listen12. There's A Party (Feat. George Clinton & Chali 2na) 4:07$0.99 Buy Track
listen13. Whachadoin? (Feat. Spank Rock, M.I.A., Santogold & Nick Zinner) 4:09$0.99 Buy Track
listen14. O Pato (Feat. Kool Kojak & DJ Babao) 3:18$0.99 Buy Track
listen15. Samba Soul (Feat. Del Tha Funkee Homosapien & DJ Qbert) 4:24$0.99 Buy Track
listen16. The Mayor (Feat. The Cool Kids, Ghostface Killah, Scarface & DJ AM) 4:34$0.99 Buy Track
listen17. N.A.S.A. Anthem15:32Album Only

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N.A.S.A., and their worldwide debut The Spirit of Apollo, is an ongoing creative collaboration between two lifelong music aficionados, Squeak E. Clean and 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 U.S., it is about as far from a tension-building… Read more in Amazon's N.A.S.A. Store

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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: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #10,547 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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    #52 in  Music > World Music > Latin Music > Brazil
    #71 in  Music > Rap & Hip-Hop > Experimental Rap
    #85 in  Music > World Music > South & Central America

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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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9 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Getting haters only means you're doing something right..., March 2, 2009
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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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars An interesting mix of artists, May 9, 2009
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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5.0 out of 5 stars something overdue, February 8, 2010
So new and different. The musician mix is unreal. Only drawback might be that it is too far ahead. The masses don't move that fast. I find it brilliant.
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