EP Of The Month: El Da Sensei & The Returners - Global Takeover

Back with a dope ass EP that's longer and better than most artist's LP's nowadays, one of Jersey's finest and underground luminary El Da Sensei introduces Polish production duo The Returners to the world with "Global Takeover". The first time I heard El Da Sensei I was instantly a fan, the same applies to when I heard DJ Chwial and Little's beats for the first time. They totally embody everything I love about boom bap production. Gritty drums, precision scratching, ill sample selection/manipulation and a great taste in whom they choose to work with, The Returners collectivly are proving that good hip-hop knows no international lines.

Europe has been coming on strong in the 2K with ill boom bap producers and production teams. France boasts the Get Large duo and Grim Team, Finland brought us The Kollabo Brothers, The Netherlands introduced us to Ciph Barker, Norway contributed the uncomparable Tommy Tee and Germany imported Shuko to us. All the guys named are dope boom bap rap beatmaker's, and yet none of em' really have the momentum that The Returners have. It is a little bit unsettling that if there was an olympic event for Hip-Hop production the U.S. probably wouldn't be favored, but I would still love watching the Euro's battle it out.

"Global Takeover" has everything that any production head could want, some new verses from El Da Sensei and some dope guest features courtesy of Doujah Raze, Reef The Lost Cauze and former Flipmode lyricist Roc Marciano. Definitely one of the stronger releases this month and perhaps the best EP of 2008.

-BIG D O




1 Global Takeover Intro: The Beginning 1:08
2 Introducin’ 2:49
3 Hard To Find 2:52
4 Aight Then ! 3:21
5 Super-Fly Jazzy-J (Interlude) 1:23
6 Got Fire feat. Doujah Raze 3:41
7 Life It Is 4:15
8 Money feat. Reef The Lost Cauze & Roc Marciano 4:05
9 And You Know… (Interlude) 1:48
10 It’s Not That Way 4:42
11 Global Takeover Outro: … It’s Only The Beginning 6:59

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