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| Contactmusic |
 eview of Prefuse 73's album 'Everything She Touched Turned Ampexian' released through Warp Records.Its nice watching relationships bloom between artist and label. Seeing the two grow and become wise together. That's exactly what we have here. "Everything She Touches Turned Ampexian" sees Scott Herren under his best known alias Prefuse 73 ease comfortably into the freedom of expression and playful experimentation that Warp Records allows it's artists. It's been a long time coming though. I mean sure, Herren has always had a great sound, pushing sampling, time signatures and uncompromised production techniques.but he's been flogging the same sound for years now. Don't get me wrong he tried to shake the glitch-hop stigma that has shrouded him for years. I mean we all really wanted to like 'Preparations' right? For those of you wondering, 'Ampexian' refers to the recording method adopted for this effort. Recording to analogue Ampex Tapes Herren created this 29-track adventure a sound removed from the straight up digital approach he's become so fond of. Now recording this way is a much more labour intesive way to do things, but with that comes a depth.a warmth and almost a consistency missing from his previous releases. This collection of tracks sits more like an album. A mythical journey, being carried along on the wings of.blah, blah, blah. You get the idea. Dub Loops, 60's rock ditties, jarred harmonies and prog time changes make for the aural equivalent of a Dadaist collage by Max Richter or whoever....full text |
| 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 |
| Musicomh |
| Guillermo Scott Herren, as Prefuse 73 is known to his mum, is most certainly his own man. Half-Catalan, half-Irish/Cuban, he forsook a burgeoning career as a Dirty South rap producer to branch out on his own under the pseudonym Delarosa and Asora. 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"....full text |
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