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- Public Enemy
- ReleaseProduct
- It Takes A Nation of Millions To Hold Us Back
- Label
- Universal Music Enterprises
- Catalogue Number
- 5346821
- Release Date
- May 19, 2015
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American hip-hop group Public Enemy’s second album, released in 1988 turns 25 and Universal Music Series’ repress confirms this holy grail of political hip-hop’s place within the history of popular and avant-garde culture. Pushing the robust funk of their first album to its limits, ‘It Takes a Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back’ is a chaotic seething mass of mangled samples and revolutionary lyrics which hit hard.
‘Bring the Noise’ brings crazy squeaking brass, scratched up psychotic strings and boisterous group vocals together in a collaged soup which is nonetheless rhythmically driving. ‘Show Em What You Got’ places hip-hop within the lineage of jazz in its mournful saxophone sample, from which barely-contained rage spits up in multiple vocal bursts, while ‘Cold Lampin With Flavor’ deranges funk with a disorientating tempo and reversed samples which render wind sounds more like sirens than acoustic instruments. Perhaps the most pleasurable cut though is ‘Countdown to Armageddon’, where the group’s wild live presence is captured and crowds scream madly amongst wailing air raid sirens and an apocalyptic call to arms.
- 1 Countdown To Armageddon 0:30
- 2 Bring The Noise 0:30
- 3 Don't Believe The Hype 0:30
- 4 Cold Lampin' With Flavor 0:30
- 5 Terminator X To The Edge Of Panic 0:30
- 6 Mind Terrorist 0:30
- 7 Louder Than A Bomb 0:30
- 8 Caught, Can We Get A Witness? 0:30
- 9 Show 'Em Watcha Got 0:30
- 10 She Watch Channel Zero?! 0:30
Public Enemy
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- What You Gonna Do When the Grid Goes Down
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- Def Jam
- Catalogue Number
- 3515051
- Release Date
- September 25, 2020
- LP
- CD
Universal Music Enterprises
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- Common
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- Universal Music Enterprises
- Catalogue Number
- 5346355
- Release Date
- December 16, 2013
- LP
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- Universal Music Enterprises
- Catalogue Number
- 5346892
- Release Date
- December 16, 2013
- LP
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- Universal Music Enterprises
- Catalogue Number
- 5346995
- Release Date
- December 16, 2013
- LP
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- 10k
- Catalogue Number
- 10024D
- Release Date
- May 2, 2024
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- Young Art Records
- Catalogue Number
- 1947536
- Release Date
- April 26, 2024
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- Noughts & Crosses
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- Yung Fume
- Catalogue Number
- 1978709
- Release Date
- April 19, 2024
- Download
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- Concrete Rose Records Ltd
- Catalogue Number
- 1929308
- Release Date
- April 19, 2024
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- RV
- Catalogue Number
- 1954085
- Release Date
- April 26, 2024
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- DECISIONS
- Catalogue Number
- DECISIONS26S3
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- April 23, 2024
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- ITSLIKE
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- Cruck Records
- Catalogue Number
- 1962834
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1980s
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- Dome
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- Dome 2
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- Editions Mego
- Catalogue Number
- DOME2
- Release Date
- May 31, 2019
- LP
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- Dome
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- Dome 1
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- Editions Mego
- Catalogue Number
- DOME1
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- March 29, 2019
- LP
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- Dome
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- Dome 3
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- Editions Mego
- Catalogue Number
- DOME3
- Release Date
- October 4, 2019
- LP
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- Eddy Grant
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- Killer On The Rampage
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- Ice Records
- Catalogue Number
- ICE07D
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- February 23, 2024
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- Hiroshi Yoshimura
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- Surround
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- Temporal Drift
- Catalogue Number
- DRFT09
- Release Date
- January 12, 2024
- LP (special)
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- Looney Tunes (Remastered)
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- Mute
- Catalogue Number
- ITELEX5
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- April 14, 2023
- LP
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- Wonderful World (Remastered)
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- Mute
- Catalogue Number
- ITELEX4
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- April 14, 2023
- LP
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- Kleeer
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- Love Vinyl
- Catalogue Number
- LV7002
- Release Date
- April 20, 2018
- 7″
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- Thundercat
- ReleaseProduct
- Apocalypse (10th Anniversary Edition)
- Label
- Brainfeeder
- Catalogue Number
- BF040X
- Release Date
- February 24, 2014
- LP (special)
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- cv313
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- Echospace [Detroit]
- Catalogue Number
- echospace008-RE
- Release Date
- April 5, 2024
- EP
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- cv313
- ReleaseProduct
- seconds to forever [remastered]
- Label
- Echospace [Detroit]
- Catalogue Number
- echospace012-RE
- Release Date
- April 12, 2024
- LP (special)
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- ReleaseProduct
- Artificial Intelligence
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- Warp Records
- Catalogue Number
- WARPCDD6
- Release Date
- July 6, 1992
- LP
- Bundle
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- Jurassic 5
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- Quality Control
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- [PIAS] Recordings Catalogue
- Catalogue Number
- PIASC373DA3
- Release Date
- January 1, 2000
- LP
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- The Future Sound Of London
- ReleaseProduct
- By Any Other Name
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- WeMe
- Catalogue Number
- WeMe083
- Release Date
- February 16, 2024
- LP
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- Catalogue Number
- LV7002
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- April 20, 2018
- 7″
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- XL Recordings
- Catalogue Number
- XL174DA
- Release Date
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- LP (special)
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