In this one-off collaboration between Mike Patton and turntablist crew The X-Ecutioners, the two forces collide in a storm of beats, samples, energized vocals, and lengthy track titles. Patton’s singing rolls from low growls up through casual delivery and into hyper howling, while names like “Precision Guided Needle-Dropping And Larynx Munitions (Pgndlm)” and “L.O.L.–!Loser On Line! (Hate The Player, Hate The Game)” mesh militaristic, musical, and computer imagery to match the songs’ flavors.
Pulling vocal samples from war films, Dolemite, kung-fu fights, and other sources, while scrambling together too many musical slices to ID, the X-Ecutioners come off as doing the heavy lifting by a wide margin, and infuse the album with a broad range of flavors in the process. While modernized electro and alternative hip-hop are the most common factors, dance, funk, breakbeat, illbient, and assorted other tastes get dropped in, even if for only a few seconds a go, making the 23-track song-list easy to tolerate, particularly with most of them running less than two minutes. Fun and creative, and just long enough to feel like the team-up touched on everything needed.
Scrambled Brains 