Prefuse 73's second album for Warp should be the one that catapults Scott Herren into the programming firmament occupied by Warp mainstays like Autechre and Aphex Twin. A fascinating collection of glitchy breakbeats and inventive, melodic experimental techno, One Word Extinguisher is a set of electronica that's nearly as challenging as Autechre's relentlessly academic beat manipulation but just as funky and instantly gratifying as a Fatboy Slim flag-waver. (Certainly those famous former b-boys in Plaid could never hope to score a Foot Locker commercial.) But forget electronic music -- Herren is trying to take hip-hop to the next level with a vision of breakbeat music that, like the crunchy digital productions of Timbaland and Neptunes, pushes hip-hop production into the future. Quintessentially '70s and '80s innovations like samplers and analog mixers are giving way to digital software and CD mixers, and Herren welcomes the changeover; "Huevos With Jeff and Roni," one of the record's three vocal tracks, features Def Jux's Mr. Lif "on a minisc mic." Not that Russell Simmons is about to jump on the Prefuse bandwagon, or a Scott Herren line of urban fashionwear is in the cards, but One Word Extinguisher means as much to the future of underground rap as it does to experimental techno. Skater hero and lo-fi mastermind Tommy Guerrero, Ann Arborite Dabrye, and Plug Research's own Daedelus each stop by for intriguing co-productions.
CAN'T. GET. ENOUGH. PREFUSE 73.Don't know what triggered this lately. Co-worker turned me on to this guy a while back, and while I liked the stuff when I first played it, it's simply lit a fire under my ass this week. Definitely for fans of DJ Shadow, or better yet, most of the 'beat laden' liner music that Adult Swim used to use.
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Hello!Yao! One Word Extinguisher is a fun compliation of weird plinking sounds, vocal samples, and a general randomness of noise.I first found out about him after talking to people about RJD2. They said, if you like RJD2, you'll like Prefuse 73. And I do!Well RJD2, I'd say samples much more from hip hop and collaborates with such artists. His sound is altogether different from the Prefuse 7...
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CAN'T. GET. ENOUGH. PREFUSE 73.Don't know what triggered this lately. Co-worker turned me on to this guy a while back, and while I liked the stuff when I first played it, it's simply lit a fire under my ass this week. Definitely for fans of DJ Shadow, or better yet, most of the 'beat laden' liner music that Adult Swim used to use.
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Hello!Yao! One Word Extinguisher is a fun compliation of weird plinking sounds, vocal samples, and a general randomness of noise.I first found out about him after talking to people about RJD2. They said, if you like RJD2, you'll like Prefuse 73. And I do!Well RJD2, I'd say samples much more from hip hop and collaborates with such artists. His sound is altogether different from the Prefuse 7...
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Attempted to envoke a visual experience through music, i guess u could say the pink floyd of mixin?? Mabie not though? Spawned from a devotion to pre-fusion jazz circa 1973. A lot of records that he cherished and got inspiration from were recorded between ‘68 and ’73. During that time there seemed to be an extreme amount of exploration and integration of new sounds drawn from electric and for
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