El-P Treats Solo Album Catalogue to Deluxe Vinyl Reissues

Celebrate the respective 20th, 15th and 10th anniversaries of 'Fantastic Damage,' 'I'll Sleep When You're Dead' and 'Cancer 4 Cure'

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BY Calum SlingerlandPublished Mar 2, 2022

After announcing plans to bring his catalogue back to vinyl at the tail end of 2019, El-P has detailed new deluxe vinyl reissues of his solo releases. 

Next month, the Run the Jewels MC and producer will celebrate the respective 20th, 15th and 10th anniversaries of his 2002 solo debut Fantastic Damage, 2007's I'll Sleep When You're Dead and 2012's Cancer 4 Cure.

All three albums will come back to wax as limited edition, 2xLP coloured vinyl editions via Fat Possum Records. The label previously handled digital reissues of Fantastic Damage and I'll Sleep When You're Dead in 2020, marking the DSP debut of both those efforts.

El-P's deluxe anniversary vinyl reissues can be pre-ordered here. You can find a trailer and packshot for the releases below.

Recorded and released following the dissolution of Company Flow, El-P's previous group, 2002's Fantastic Damage features collaborations with Aesop Rock, Vast Aire of Cannibal Ox, Camu Tao, Cage and more.

I'll Sleep When You're Dead includes work with the Mars Volta's Omar Rodríguez-López and Cedric Bixler-ZavalaTrent ReznorCat Power, Isaiah "Ikey" Owens and Glassjaw's Daryl Palumbo, among others. 

Cancer 4 Cure finds El-P lining up alongside future RTJ group mate Killer Mike, Danny Brown, Despot, Mr. Muthafuckin' eXquire, Heems of Das RacistTV on the Radio's Jaleel Bunton and Nick Thorburn of Islands.

El-P shared in a statement, "this is a thank you letter to everyone who has helped and allowed me to live my life doing the music and art i love. to everyone who has been moved in some way by what i do, to everyone who has been listening from the beginning, to those that stuck with me as i changed and grew and to everybody who's just discovered the music. i've always focused on the next piece. i've always only run to my future. but despite my habit of not looking back much, this year marks the ... anniversaries of the major records in my solo career and it feels good to get them back on vinyl and into whomever's hands might want them.  but most of all it feels good to just be here. still allowed to do what i love, still thrilled about it in every way."

As Run the Jewels, El-P and Killer Mike last delivered RTJ4 in 2020.


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