{{Infobox album | name = Operation Beatbox | type = compilation | artist = Various artists | cover = Various Artists - Operation Beatbox.jpg | alt = | released = {{Start date|1996|9|17}} | recorded = | venue = | studio = | genre = [[Industrial rock]], [[electro-industrial]] | length = 74:01 | label = [[Re-Constriction Records|Re-Constriction]] | producer = | chronology = [[Re-Constriction Records]] V/A | prev_title = [[Re-Constriction 10* Year Anniversary]] | prev_year = 1996 | next_title = [[Built for Stomping: A Re-Constriction & Cleopatra Sampler|Built for Stomping]] | next_year = 1997 }} {{Album ratings |rev1 = [[Allmusic]] |rev1score = {{rating|2|5}}<ref name="allmusic">{{cite web |url={{Allmusic|class=album|id=mw0000074811|pure_url=yes}}|title=Various Artists: ''Operation Beatbox'' > Overview |publisher=Allmusic |accessdate=October 27, 2016}}</ref> |rev2 = ''[[Alternative Press (music magazine)|Alternative Press]]'' |rev2score = {{rating|5|5}}<ref name="altpress">{{cite journal |last=columnist |title=Various Artists: ''Operation Beatbox'' |journal=[[Alternative Press (music magazine)|Alternative Press]] |date=February 1997 |page=66 }}</ref> }}
'''''Operation Beatbox''''' is a various artists compilation album released on September 17, 1996 by [[Re-Constriction Records]].<ref name="virtualnightangelcompilations">{{cite web|first1=Tina |last1=Baumann |first2=Travis |last2=Baumann |url=https://www.virtualnightangel.com/compilations.html |title=Compilations |publisher=Virtual Night Angel |date=2002 |accessdate=August 24, 2020}}</ref> The album compiles covers of popular [[Hip hop music|hip hop]] tracks performed by [[electro-industrial]] acts, many of whom were part of the Re-Constriction roster. It served as a direct sequel to the similarly themed [[cover album]] compilation ''[[Shut Up Kitty: A Cyber-Based Covers Compilation|Shut Up Kitty]]'', released in 1993.<ref name="linearnotesthugs">{{cite AV media notes |title=Thugs 'n' Kisses |title-link=Thugs 'n' Kisses |others=Various artists |year=1995 |type=booklet |publisher=[[Re-Constriction Records]] |location=San Diego, California}}</ref>
==Reception== ''[[Alternative Press (music magazine)|Alternative Press]]'' gave the album high praises, awarding it five out of five stars and saying "there's no doubt that when it comes to rewriting rap's classic moments, industrial/goth bands say more for the cultural links between the two black sheep of modern musical culture than one might have dreamed."<ref name="altpress"/> ''Aiding & Abetting'' gave it a more mixed review, saying the material ranges "from the sublime (SMP thrashing out "[[It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back|Prophets of Rage]]") to the utterly silly (as any cover of "[[Gangsta's Paradise]]" was bound to be)."<ref name="a&areviews">{{cite journal|first=Jon |last=Worley |url=http://www.aidabet.com/archives/archV.html#OPERATION |title=Operation Beatbox |journal=Aiding & Abetting |date=October 7, 1996 |issue=120 |accessdate=October 27, 2016}}</ref> ''Sonic Boom'' found the compilation's absurdity to be part of its charm, saying "don't be surprised if you find the majority of these tracks more than amusing as there is something fundamentally wrong with a gang of privileged white kids trying to sound like a band of inner city black youths."<ref name="sonicboom">{{cite journal|first=Chris |last=Christian |url=https://www.sonic-boom.com/review/operation.beatbox.html |title=Various Artists: ''Operation Beatbox'' |journal=Sonic Boom |date=August 1996 |volume=4 |issue=7 |accessdate=October 27, 2016}}</ref>
== Track listing == {{tracklist | extra_column = Artist | title1 = [[Natural Born Killaz]] | note1 = [[Dr. Dre]] & [[Ice Cube]] cover | writer1 = [[J-Flexx|James Anderson]], [[Ice Cube|O'Shea Jackson]], [[Dr. Dre|Andre Young]] | extra1 = [[Christ Analogue]] | length1 = 4:09 | title2 = [[I Ain't Goin' Out Like That]] | note2 = [[Cypress Hill]] cover | writer2 = [[B-Real|Louis Freese]], [[DJ Muggs|Lawrence Muggerud]], [[Todd Ray|Richard Todd Ray]] | extra2 = [[16Volt]] | length2 = 4:15 | title3 = [[Jump Around]] | note3 = [[House of Pain]] cover | extra3 = [[The Clay People]] | writer3 = [[Everlast (musician)|Everlast]] | length3 = 3:34 | title4 = [[Colors (Ice-T song)|Colors]] | note4 = [[Ice-T]] cover | writer4 = [[Ice-T]], [[Afrika Islam]] | extra4 = [[Society Burning]] | length4 = 4:56 | title5 = [[Night of the Living Baseheads]] | note5 = [[Public Enemy (group)|Public Enemy]] cover | writer5 = [[Chuck D|Carlton "Chuck D" Ridenhour]], [[The Bomb Squad|Eric "Vietnam" Sadler]], [[The Bomb Squad|Hank Shocklee]] | extra5 = Terminal 46 | length5 = 4:11 | title6 = [[The Devil Made Me Do It]] | note6 = [[Paris (rapper)|Paris]] cover | writer6 = Oscar Jackson, Jr. | extra6 = [[Apparatus (band)|Apparatus]] | length6 = 4:00 | title7 = [[Gangsta's Paradise]] | note7 = [[Coolio]] & [[L.V. (singer)|L.V.]] cover | writer7 = [[Stevie Wonder]], [[Coolio]], Doug Rasheed, [[L.V. (singer)|Larry Sanders]] | extra7 = [[Battery (electro-industrial band)|Battery]] | length7 = 4:52 | title8 = [[Push It (Salt-n-Pepa song)|Push It]] | note8 = [[Salt-n-Pepa]] cover | writer8 = [[Hurby Azor]], [[Ray Davies]] | extra8 = [[Numb (band)|Numb]] | length8 = 4:40 | title9 = [[Fight the Power (Public Enemy song)|Fight the Power]] | note9 = [[Public Enemy (band)|Public Enemy]] cover | writer9 = Hank Boxley, [[Keith Shocklee|Keith Boxley]], [[Chuck D|Carlton Ridenhour]], [[The Bomb Squad|Eric Sadler]] | extra9 = D.C.K. | length9 = 4:20 | title10 = [[Looking Down the Barrel of a Gun]] | note10 = [[Beastie Boys]] cover | writer10 = [[Mike D]]iamond, [[Ad-Rock|Adam Horovitz]], [[John King (producer)|John King]], [[Michael Simpson (producer)|Michael Simpson]], [[Adam Yauch]] | extra10 = [[Tinfed]] & [[Killing Floor (American band)|Killing Floor]] | length10 = 3:55 | title11 = [[It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back|Prophets of Rage]] | note11 = [[Public Enemy (band)|Public Enemy]] cover | writer11 = [[Flavor Flav|William Drayton]], [[Chuck D|Carlton Ridenhour]], [[The Bomb Squad|Eric Sadler]], [[The Bomb Squad|Hank Shocklee]] | extra11 = [[SMP (band)|SMP]] | length11 = 3:21 | title12 = [[Wicked (Ice Cube song)|Wicked]] | note12 = [[Ice Cube]] cover | writer12 = [[Ice Cube|O'Shea Jackson]] | extra12 = Colla Destra | length12 = 4:47 | title13 = [[Tricks of the Shade|Typical American]] | note13 = [[The Goats]] cover | writer13 = James D'Angelo, Swayzack, Maxx Stoyanoff-Williams | extra13 = Slave Unit | length13 = 3:14 | title14 = [[King of Rock (song)|King of Rock]] | note14 = [[Run–D.M.C.]] cover | writer14 = [[Darryl McDaniels]], [[Jam Master Jay|Jay Mizel]], [[Joseph Simmons]], [[Larry Smith (producer)|Larry Smith]], [[Russell Simmons]] | extra14 = Institute of Technology | length14 = 4:56 | title15 = [[Mama Said Knock You Out (song)|Mama Said Knock You Out]] | note15 = [[LL Cool J]] cover | writer15 = [[LL Cool J|James Todd Smith]] | extra15 = [[Apolitiq]] | length15 = 5:17 | title16 = [[Can You Rock It Like This]] | note16 = [[Run–D.M.C.]] cover | writer16 = [[L.L. Cool J|J.T. Smith]], Larry Smith, Rick Rubin | extra16 = Insight 23 | length16 = 4:37 | title17 = [[Licensed to Ill|Two Three Break]] | note17 = [[Beastie Boys]] cover | writer17 = Mike Diamond, Adam Horovitz, [[Rick Rubin]], Adam Yauch | extra17 = [[Abstinence (band)|Abstinence]] | length17 = 4:57 }}
== Accolades == {| class="wikitable sortable" style="margin:0em 1em 1em 0pt" !Year !Publication !Country !Accolade !Rank !class=unsortable| |- |align=center|1995 ||''[[CMJ New Music Monthly]]'' ||United States | "Dance" ||align=center|17 ||<ref name="cmj">{{cite journal |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PC0EAAAAMBAJ |title=Dance Top 25 |journal=[[CMJ New Music Monthly]] |publisher=CMJ Network, Inc. |date=December 1996 |volume=40 |issue=7–12 |pages=52 |accessdate=July 13, 2020}}</ref> |-class="sortbottom" |colspan=6 style=font-size:8pt; align=center|"'''*'''" denotes an unordered list. |}
==Personnel== Adapted from the ''Operation Beatbox'' liner notes.<ref name="linearnotes">{{cite AV media notes |title=Operation Beatbox |others=Various artists |year=1996 |type=booklet |publisher=[[Re-Constriction Records]] |location=San Diego, California}}</ref> * [[Chase (label manager)|Chase]] – [[Compiler|compiling]] * Scan, Boy! – [[cover art]] * [[Steven Seibold]] – [[Audio mastering|mastering]]
==Release history== {|class="wikitable" ! Region ! Date ! Label ! Format ! Catalog |- | United States | 1996 | [[Re-Constriction Records|Re-Constriction]] | [[compact disc|CD]], [[Cassette tape|CS]] | REC-023 |}
== References == {{Reflist}}
== External links == * {{Discogs master |master=58399 |name=Operation Beatbox}}
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