Distant Sense of Random Menace

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{{Infobox album

| name = Distant Sense of Random Menace

| type = Album

| artist = Urthboy

| cover = Urthboy-dsom.jpg

| alt =

| released = 2004

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| genre = Australian hip hop

| length = 51:42

| label = Elefant Traks

| producer = Elgusto, Seed MC, Paul Johannessen, Realistix, Traksewt

| prev_title =

| prev_year =

| next_title = The Signal

| next_year = 2007

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{{Album ratings

|rev1 = Rapreviews

|rev1score = {{Rating|7|10}}[http://www.rapreviews.com/archive/BTTL_distantsenseof.html Rapreviews review]

}}

Distant Sense of Random Menace is the debut album from Australian hip-hop artist Urthboy. It was released on 9 August 2004.{{cite web|url=http://www.elefanttraks.com/chooser.cfm?view=releases&releaseId=27 |title=Elefant Traks releases - Urthboy: Distant Sense of Random Menace |publisher=Elefant Traks |accessdate=2008-04-18 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080720022553/http://www.elefanttraks.com/chooser.cfm?view=releases&releaseId=27 |archivedate=2008-07-20 |url-status=dead }}

The album was features the production of Elgusto (Hermitude), Count Bounce (TZU) and The Herd.{{cite web |url=http://www.therapcella.com/pages/releases/173.htm |title=Urthboy - DISTANT SENSE OF RANDOM MENACE |publisher=Therapcella |date=2006-10-15 |accessdate=2008-04-18 |url-status=usurped |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080228050952/http://www.therapcella.com/pages/releases/173.htm |archivedate=2008-02-28 }} An extended 12” vinyl was also released featuring an exclusive remix by Hermitude. The album was mastered in Los Angeles by Dave Cooley (Madvillain, Madlib, Dangermouse).

The first song from the album was "No Rider", which was released together with a video made by Broken Yellow (directed by Brendan Doyle and producer by Navid Bahadori).{{cite web|url=http://www.brokenyellow.com/ns11.html |title=Broken Yellow Music Videos |accessdate=2008-04-30 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080621104932/http://www.brokenyellow.com/ns11.html |archivedate=2008-06-21 |url-status=dead }} The video for "No Rider" won the Sunscreen Music Video competition at the Festival of the Sun Music Festival (FOTSUN) and was placed third in the OzHipHop.com music video voting poll.