Two/Three

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Two/Three
Studio album by Dabrye
Released	June 13, 2006
Genre	IDM, glitch, hip hop
Length	58:08
Label	Ghostly International
Producer	Tadd Mullinix
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link Pitchfork Media (5.2/10) link Tiny Mix Tapes link
Dabrye chronology
Additional Productions Vol.1 (2005) Two/Three (2006)

Two/Three is Michigan musician Tadd Mullinix's second studio album under the Dabrye name.^[1] It was released by the Ghostly International label on June 13, 2006, around five years after its predecessor One/Three.

The style of Two/Three differs from that album mainly in doubling its length and featuring guest vocal contributions from a number of rappers across fourteen of its twenty tracks.^[1] These notably include MF DOOM, Jay Dee and several others associated with the Stones Throw record label, as well as A.G. of the Diggin' in the Crates Crew, Beans of Antipop Consortium and Cannibal Ox's Vast Aire.

Contents 1 Reception 2 Track listing 3 References 4 External links

[edit] Reception

Critical reception to the album was largely positive. AMG critic Andy Kellman describes it as "always moving, almost always stimulating, never stagnating", and in particular singles out "a nine-track patch, from "Jorgy" through "My Life"", which he says "involves an extraordinarily vast array of sounds and lyricists while sacrificing neither flow nor momentum".^[1] Tiny Mix Tapes praised the album's "mean... [but] not for the sake of being mean" beats, and the cohesion between the music and guest rappers.^[2]

Ryan Dombal, writing in Pitchfork Media, disagrees, praising Mullinix's "singular Timbaland-meets-the flipside of Low rumble" as "more focused and intricate than ever", but criticising many of the rappers as "wordy know-it-alls hell-bent on disrupting his groove". He praises Guilty Simpson's appearance as an example of "what Two/Three could be if the rappers were chosen based on entertainment value rather than how hard they're trying to save rap with big words".^[3]

[edit] Track listing

1. "The Stand" (Tadd Mullinix, Jack Brown) – 3:32
   • Featuring Wildchild
2. "Air" (Mullinix, Daniel Dumile) – 3:10
   • Featuring MF DOOM
3. "Machines Pt. I" (Mullinix) – 1:37
4. "Encoded Flow" (Mullinix, B. Mitchell) – 2:52
   • Featuring Kadence
5. "That's What's Up" (Mullinix, Theodore Arrington, Thomas Fehlmann) – 4:03
   • Featuring Vast Aire
6. "Tell Dem" (Mullinix) – 3:04
7. "Nite Eats Day" (Mullinix, Robert Edward Stewart II) – 1:56
   • Featuring Beans
8. "Jorgy" (Mullinix, Robert O'Bryant) – 2:54
   • Featuring Waajeed
9. "Special" (Mullinix, Byron Simpson, F. Beauregard) – 3:29
   • Featuring Guilty Simpson and Paradime
10. "Bloop" (Mullinix) – 1:57
11. "Viewer Discretion" (Mullinix, D. Cooper, I. Weaver) – 3:00
    • Featuring Invincible and Finale
12. "Piano" (Mullinix) – 4:05
13. "Pressure" (Mullinix, O'Bryant, Terrell McMathis) – 3:20
    • Featuring Waajeed and Ta'Raach
14. "Reconsider" (Mullinix, Mitchell) – 3:24
    • Featuring Kadence
15. "Get It Together" (Mullinix, Cooper, Weaver) – 3:32
    • Featuring Invincible and Finale
16. "My Life" (Mullinix, Andre Barnes) – 2:19
    • Featuring A.G.
17. "In Water" (Mullinix) – 1:57
18. "Get Live" – (Mullinix, Anthony Jackson) 3:37
    • Featuring Big Tone
19. "Machines Pt. II" (Mullinix) – 0:39
20. "Game Over" (Mullinix, Ronnie Watts, James Yancey) – 3:41
    • Featuring Jay Dee and Phat Kat

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Release information from Ghostly