Israeli Salad (album)

Israeli Salad is the 12th instrumental release (and the 45th release overall) by producer and musician The Alchemist. The album is a concept album, based entirely on Israeli samples. The album was produced entirely by Alchemist, and was released through his own ALC Records on May 26, 2015.

Israeli Salad
Studio album by
The Alchemist
ReleasedMay 26, 2015
GenreHip hop, Instrumental
Length37:48
LabelALC Records
ProducerThe Alchemist
The Alchemist chronology
Welcome to Los Santos (With Oh No)
(2015)		 Israeli Salad
(2015)		 Retarded Alligator Beats
(2015)

Background

The Alchemist's father is a businessman of Israeli descent. After record shopping in Israel while visiting there, in a 2012 Billboard interview,[1] Alchemist stated that he plans on creating an instrumental album with all Israeli samples. The project really developed much later, and he announced it in late March 2015.

Like other albums by The Alchemist, Israeli Salad is an instrumental hip hop album consisting of beats and audio collages. The album has many samples and recordings in Hebrew; additionally some of the song names contain Hebrew phrases (eg. "Shalom Alechem", "Chetzi") and Israeli culture references. Some of the beats in the album were used before on rap produced by The Alchemist. For example, "The Type" was the beat of a song of the same title, featuring Prodigy, on Curren$y and Alchemist's album "Covert Coup", "Bold" was on Boldy James and Alchemist's album "My 1st Chemistry Set", and more.

Track listing

All songs were produced, arranged and mixed by The Alchemist.

No.TitleLength
1."Arrival"1:35
2."Bone Thugs N' Haifa"1:50
3."Collage Pt. 1: Sunrise"1:10
4."Collage Pt. 2: Popeye The Pimp"1:12
5."Collage Pt. 3: Rush Hour"1:19
6."Collage Pt. 4: Sunset"2:22
7."Chetzi"2:58
8."The Type"3:02
9."Turn This Sh*t Up Pt. 1"2:24
10."Turn This Sh*t Up Pt. 2"2:03
11."Za'atar Smoke"2:46
12."Shalom Alechem"2:19
13."Matzik"0:49
14."Yala Yala"1:52
15."Meduza"1:13
16."Listen To Yitzhak"1:05
17."Bold"2:27
18."Tunnel Rat"1:52
19."Yehudi El Yehudi"1:31
20."Departure"1:59
Total length:37:48

References
  1. http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/the-juice/473971/alchemist-hopes-to-launch-label-in-2013-preps-israeli-music
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