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| Drownedinsound |
 Whether it’s Afrika Bambaataa bringing Kraftwerk to the New York ghetto, or Kanye West sampling Daft Punk for the Chicago club scene, there’s a rich history of hip-hop artists mining the archives of electronic music. With Crookers, A-Trak and The Count And Sinden putting rap/electro hybrids right back into fashion, it is apt that this year marks the return of Prefuse 73, a fine example of an artist selflessly plugging away while trends catch up with him. Scott Herren has been loosely using this fusion throughout his prolific career – albeit reconstituting it in a completely different and inimitable way.Largely unknown in Britain but for his distribution on bastion of UK electronica, Warp, Prefuse 73 is like a digital, less sample-based version of the late J Dilla, a master of his material, ripping up any hook that comes close to lingering....full text |
| Rateyourmusic |
| After 2 disappointing releases in 2007 (Preparations & Golden Pollen), I didn't think that Mr. Herren had much potential left in him, but I have to admit that I love it when artists proves me wrong like that. His latest project under the "Prefuse 73" moniker is very reminiscent of recent instrumental projects like Exile's Radio or Oh No's Oxperiment but it's rooted into electronic music rather than hip hop. The album is only 48 minutes long but it contains 29 tracks so as you can expect, things move pretty fast as he's just throwing in one beat after the other. The album is quite varied but never gets incoherent, all the songs blend in into each other quite well and it's a quite fun adventure to listen to. It also stays on the innovative edge as I don't think I've heard many things that sound quite like this, but I do feel that he was inspired by Dilla in some of these beats and the album format is pretty close to Donuts. I'd recommend this to those who are looking for some new interesting music, 2009 is slowly building up a nice catalogue of albums....full text |
| Musicomh |
| That was 12 years ago, and Herren is now releasing the fifth full-length album under his Prefuse 73 monicker. As ever, it's a tricky - if not impossible - task to pin him to a genre, but here's a taster: glitch hop, IDM, psychedelic, and his own term, "machine funk". The implications for Ampexian ring true enough. Here is a 29-track collection of cuts ranging from 13 seconds to four minutes; from dreamy choral samples to dub loops and back again. He's nothing if not prolific, as his rich back catalogue suggests. The more surprising aspect is just how well the LP works as a whole. Rather than jarring from style to style, the procession through moods, genres and methods is handled with care, and while successive tracks can be utterly fresh, they're never reached illogically....full text |
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