The album was produced over a course of two years.[1]The X-Ecutioners built the album's basic tracks around samples from albums and films suggested by Mike Patton, who finalized the album.[1]
Style
The album's musical style draws from free jazz and glitch.[1] It is themed around a war between the two vastly different musical styles. The album contains various samples from uncredited films, including kung fu movies and Dirty Harry.[1] One of the larger samples includes dialogue from actors John Hillerman and Dennis Olivieri, taken from the film The Naked Ape.[3]
Track listing
No.
Title
Length
1.
"X-Men Doctrine and Declaration: Target=40:40:11N 73:56:38W"
1:30
2.
"General P. Counterintelligence: Target=37:47:36N 122:33:17W"
0:40
3.
"¡Get Up, Punk! 0200 Hrs. (Joint Special Operations Task Force)"
3:38
4.
"Roc Raida: Riot Control Agent / Combat Stress Control"
2:05
5.
"Improvised Explosive Device 0300 Hrs."
0:36
6.
"¡Vaqueros y Indios! (Joint Special Operations Task Force)"
1:52
7.
"Precision Guided Needle-Dropping and Larynx Munitions (PGNDLM)"
1:55
8.
"Duelling Banjo Marching Drill"
1:54
9.
"Battle Hymn of the Technics Republic"
1:11
10.
"¡Fire in the Hole! 0400 Hrs. (Joint Special Operations Task Force)"
2:14
11.
"Convulsive Antidote for Nerve Agent Autoinjector (CANAA)"
0:43
12.
"Modified Combined Obstacle Overlay (MCOO) …or... "How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Turntables""
2:41
13.
"Surprise Swing Insurgency / Tabla and Tongue Twist Counterattack / "Dragon Seeks Path""
3:41
14.
"¡Kamikaze! 0500 Hrs. ("Take a Piece of Me")"
2:16
15.
""We'll Paint This Town" -- Throat and Phonograph Fire Support Coordination Measures (TPFSCM)"
1:40
16.
"Imitative Electromagnetic Deception (IED) / Digital Nonsecure Voice Terminal (DNVT)"
"L.O.L. - ¡Loser on Line! (Hate the Player, Hate the Game)"
3:34
22.
"Low Altitude Vocal Parachute Extraction System (LAVPES)"
1:04
23.
"Battle Damage Assessment and Repair / White Flag Surrender / "Wake Me Up in Heaven""
4:52
Total length:
46:41
All lyrics by Mike Patton, published by Mal di Golda (ASCAP). Produced, arranged and mixed at Vulcan Studios, San Francisco, California. Mastered at Oasis Mastering, Los Angeles, California.
