Name: Ill Communication
Brand: Beastie Boys

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Limited edition

Release date

2007-08-07

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Universal

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

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Beastie Boys

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Hip Hop

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The Beastie Boys are an American hip hop band that formed in New York in 1981. Originally a hardcore punk combo, they gained success with their first hip hop track, "Cooky Puss" in 1983. The group transitioned into a rap group that occasionally incorporated punk rock tracks into their albums. From 1992 to 2001, they operated the Grand Royal label. Following the death of Adam Yauch in 2012, the band officially disbanded in June 2014.

The original members of the Beastie Boys included Ad Rock (Adam Horovitz) on vocals and guitar from 1982 until 2014, MCA (Adam Yauch) on vocals and bass from 1981 until his passing in 2012, and Mike D (Michael Diamond) on vocals and drums from 1981 until 2014. The band also had additional members during various periods including Kate Schellenbach on drums from 1981 to 1984.

Throughout their career, the Beastie Boys collaborated with several touring members such as Rick Rubin as DJ Double R from 1984 to 1985, DJ Hurricane from 1986 to1997, Mix Master Mike from1998 to2014 among others. Their unique blend of genres and energetic performances made them one of the most influential groups in hip hop history.

by 1994 the beasties had settled into their cultural role as the grand arbiters of cool, and ill communication is pretty much a catalog of coolness: live funk, a bit of hardcore, ingenious samples of obscure records, keyboards by analogue master money mark, guest shots by q-tip and biz markie, mca's cop-show metal number 'sabotage', and the inevitable cascade of witty old-school rhymes. but it's also a surprisingly mature record from a band that had, after all, been at it for 12 years already. the original jazz-funk instrumentals hold their own with the group's favorite sample sources. their voices are modestly buried in the mix, and they've tempered their old snottiness with lyrical compassion: check out 'bodhisattva vow', a salute to buddhist spirituality.

Ill Communication

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