Prefuse 73 - Preparations Review

Prefuse 73 is just one of the recording pseudonyms of former Atlanta B-boy now Barcelona resident Scott Herren. Herren also releases material as Delarosa and Asora, Piano Overlord and Savath & Savalas. He is busy. The music released under the Prefuse 73 moniker has gained him respect of both IDM fans and Hip-Hop heads, his glitch riddled instrumentals bridging the gap between Oval style electronic trickery and straight ahead phat beats. He has built an impressive back catalogue of instrumental fractured hip-hop....full text Guillermo Scott Herren will revive his Prefuse 73 alias this fall for the new album Preparations, out via Warp on October 23. As Herren mentioned when we chatted with him in March, it's a double album... but only if you buy a physical copy. That's right: as an added incentive to support your local record shop, the digital version of Preparations will not come with the second disc. And you'll be missing out, because that second disc is called Ensembles and is, as promised, a collection of modern classical compositions composed and played by Herren using mostly cello, flute, piano, bass, and clarinet....full text Guillermo Scott Herron has four different personalities (last time I checked, anyway; there may be more) and I wonder how, with each one, he can sound so unique. Prefuse 73, Savath Y Savalas, Piano Overlord and Delarosa and Asora. How does he keep these musical personas separate? Is he actually able to do so, or do they blur for him? On his new Prefuse 73 release, certain similarities in tone are noticeable to his recent Golden Pollen offering, under the Savath y Savalas guise. It seems like these organics are blurring into the more computerized stylings of the Preparations LP, and I really like it....full text