''Sabotage Gigante'' is the second studio album by American hip hop artist
Rob Sonic
Robert Smith, better known by his stage name Rob Sonic, is an American rapper and record producer from the Bronx, New York. He has been a member of the groups Sonic Sum and Hail Mary Mallon. He is a founder of the record label Skypimps Music.
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[ It was released on ]Definitive Jux
Definitive Jux was a record label based in New York City. It was co-founded in 1999 by El-P and Amaechi Uzoigwe.
History
Definitive Jux was initially known as Def Jux. However, popular hip hop label Def Jam Recordings sued Def Jux over the nam ...
in 2007.[ The album featured guest appearances from Rob Sonic's Definitive Jux labelmate ]Aesop Rock
Ian Matthias Bavitz (born June 5, 1976), better known by his stage name Aesop Rock, is an American rapper and producer from Long Island, New York. He was at the forefront of the new wave of underground and alternative hip hop acts that emerge ...
and from Busdriver
Regan Farquhar (born February 12, 1978), better known by his stage name Busdriver, is an American rapper and producer from Los Angeles, California. He has collaborated with rappers such as Myka 9, Milo, Nocando, Open Mike Eagle, 2Mex, and Radioi ...
. It is also fully produced by Rob Sonic.[
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Reception
Nate Patrin of ''Pitchfork Media
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Schreiber started Pitchfork while working ...
'' gave the album a 6.9 out of 10, saying, "''Sabotage Gigante'' has been said to be obSonic's political album, at least in a more wide-ranging and universal way than ''Telicatessen
''Telicatessen'' is the debut solo album by American hip hop artist and former Sonic Sum member Rob Sonic, released by the Definitive Jux label on September 7, 2004. An instrumental version of the album was released the following year, also by D ...
''s the-personal-is-political themes, but there are so many generalities, abstractions, reappropriated slogans, moments of quadruplespeak, and pseudo-non-sequitur asides that much of the listener's time between headphones is spent trying to untangle it all."[
On October 23, 2007, "Brand New Vandals" was chosen by ]KEXP-FM
KEXP-FM (90.3 MHz) is a non-commercial radio station licensed to Seattle, Washington, United States, specializing in alternative and indie rock programmed by its disc jockeys for the Seattle metropolitan area. The station is owned by the non-pr ...
as their Song of the Day.
Popular culture
In 2010, the song ''Brand New Vandals'' was featured in the video game Skate 3
''Skate 3'' is a skateboarding video game, the third installment in the ''Skate'' series and the sequel to 2009's ''Skate 2'', developed by EA Black Box and published by Electronic Arts. It was released worldwide in May 2010 for PlayStation 3 and ...
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Track listing
References
External links
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2007 albums
Definitive Jux albums
Rob Sonic albums