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Cold Vein

Cannibal Ox Format: Audio CD

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Cannibal Ox ~ Cold Vein

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Cannibal Ox is the latest brainchild of Company Flow's El-P, whose lumbering, aggro-electro production on this album is as unique as a signature. Down-tempo and discordant, the beats sound like trip-hop gone to heaven and hell--some songs, like "A B-Boy's Alpha," have an almost angelic feel to them even as El-P soils his tracks with grit and grime. Others, like "Raspberry Fields," are chaos forced into unstable order--snaking synthesizer whines struggle to break free, rhythm sections run amok. This is a taste of the apocalypse turned aural. The music of The Cold Vein is so distinctive that, for a moment, you might forget that Vast and Vordul are actually rhyming on it, which is paying El-P a compliment rather than dismissing the two MCs. Vast's commanding baritone stands out in sharp distinction to his partner's, as his deliberate flow punctuates every line. It's hard to categorize what they speak on, as their songs mix the surreal and abstract with street-level commentary. But they're definitely taking reality rap on one helluva acid trip. --Oliver Wang

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Iron Galaxy

2. Ox Out the Cage

3. Atom (with Alaska & Cryptic Of Atoms)

4. A B-Boys Alpha

5. Raspberry Fields

6. Straight Off The D.I.C.

7. Vein

8. The F-Word

9. Stress Rap

10. Battle For Asgard (with L.I.F.E. Long & C-Rayz Walz Of Stronghold)

11. Real Earth

12. Ridiculoid (with el-P)

13. Painkillers

14. Pigeon

Product details

Audio CD (May 15, 2001)
Number of Discs: 1
Label: Definitive Jux
ASIN: B00005BIVW
Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (121 customer reviews)
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #215,750 in CDs & Vinyl (See Top 100 in CDs & Vinyl)
- #475 in CDs & Vinyl > Indie Music > Rap & Hip-Hop > General
- #1193 in CDs & Vinyl > Rap & Hip-Hop > East Coast
- #8039 in CDs & Vinyl > Rap & Hip-Hop > Pop Rap

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Ahead of it's time

ByBrandon Von November 13, 2015

Format: Audio CDVerified Purchase

Underrated CLASSIC that was very ahead of it's time. To be honest I didn't even know about this album until I was reading an article where they were ranking the 100 best indie hip-hop records and this showed up on the number 1 spot. I was quite surprised. I had never heard of this album and yet they were ranking it ahead of the immortal Madvilliany and some other true classics. Was the guy making this list crazy? What made this album so special? I read further into the article and once I saw who produced it and the label it came from, I instantly knew where this guy was coming from. My first impression of the album was good, but it didn't blow me away. EL-P's beats were some of the best I have ever heard, but the two emcee's in the group just weren't doing it for me. I don't know what it was, but something just seemed off. I kinda felt the album lost steam after A B-Boy's Alpha and was disappointed. How could this be? An EL-P project on the heyday of Def Jux. It didn't make any sense. After some time away from the album, I came back to it again when I was searching for something to listen to on the long ride home from school. Giving it a second listen, something just kind of clicked. and I found myself liking the album a lot more. I really paid attention to what Vast and Vordul were saying it found myself really picking up and liking what they had to say. Vast's opening line for A B-Boy's Alpha is one of the craziest lines I have quite possibly ever heard but it was just so fitting. After giving it more spins, I couldn't get away from it. It just grows on you like a bad habit (in a good way though). This is the only CD I have in the deck of my car and for good reason. This album was very ahead of it time and the fact this masterpiece came form an independent label is nothing short of amazing. This is to me, the evolution of Company Flow. This album has hints of Funcrusher Plus scattered through out it's fifteen tracks. Worth every penny and I am glad to personally own a copy. Glad to see EL-P finally get some recognition now for his insane talents

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Experimental music rarely is this captivating after many listens

ByJerome Davison December 29, 2011

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This is an album you really need to hear multiple times to unveil - what initially struck me as somewhat arduous and uninviting soon revealed itself to be anything but.

The lyrical prowess displayed by Can Ox's two emcees Vast Aire and Vordul Mega is outstanding, painting a dark picture of modern NYC life with imagery that's highly creative and very confrontational. The production is what sets the atmosphere for this album though. It accompanies their lyrics and makes what could have just been a localized indie hip hop record paying homage to the big apple into a a sonically brilliant experimental album. Their flow is equally incredible, a spoken-word style that borders on beat-poetry and plays out like a slow-down of Ghostface Killah's confident vocal blasts, with Vast's uniquely "wobbly" delivery being particularly compelling. Even when they detour into your more obvious, "deride other emcees" territory as they do on "Raspberry Fields", it's never less than great, and hearing Vast spit lines like "You got beef but there's worms in your Wellington / I'll put a hole in your skull and extract your skeleton" only to repeat it later in the verse but replacing skeleton with gelatin is something of which I just never tire. It should come off as cheesy at times but the production is just so well fitting that it never does.

Back on the topic of El-P's production. On The Cold Vein, El-P presents yet another revelation, with his slow, staggered beats and futuristic sampling very nearly stealing the show. Mirroring the album's subject matter, his contributions mostly have a dark and grimy mood to them, but there's brilliant surprises at every turn, be it the blazing electric guitar overlay of "Ox Out the Cage", the synth-orchestra-in-outer-space of "Real Earth" or the loungey, Amon Tobin-esque vibes of "Painkillers".

It's a seventy-five minute album that never drags, and to top it all off, opening track "Iron Galaxy" ranks easily amongst the best songs of the decade. Buy this, highly recommended for fans of avant-garde music.

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Dis here is good rap CD for your car stereo or house stereo ...

Bydaniel clarkon January 30, 2016

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Dis here is good rap CD for your car stereo or house stereo or headphones or if you have a ghetto blaster or just to listen to

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Darkest, Dankest, Def-est hip hop cut

ByAmazon Customeron September 30, 2010

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Been listening to this album for 4 or 5 years now - still nothing beats it - so dark, deep, complex...Light years ahead of its time, and probably never to be beat. El-P needs Vast Aire, and Vast Aire needs El-P - nothing either of them have done solo or with others can touch this lucky coincidence of artists coming together at just the right moment, and conceiving something that has no equal or replacement.

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Three Stars

ByWhopVillianon September 21, 2016

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If you like El-P, you will like this.

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It shouldn't have taken me this long...

ByDeon January 3, 2010

Format: MP3 MusicVerified Purchase

to discover this innovative gem. I recently leaned of Cannibal Ox after reading [...] top ten albums of the decade. I've been searching for a sonically different hip hop album for sometime, and this far exceeds my expectation. Their lyrics are clever and conscious, which only enhances its repeat value. If you are ready to stretch your boundaries this album is for you. Peace.