Prefuse 73

Prefuse 73 may be the main alias of Scott Herren, a manufacturer and musician whose experimental and book method of hip-hop creation, along with this of Tadd Mullinix (aka Dabrye), shaped something of the bridge between your ’90s output from the Mo’ Polish label (exemplified by DJ Darkness) as well as the later LA beat picture (led by Traveling Lotus). Although Herren sometimes drifted from hip-hop with excellent results, his elegantly split and psychedelic method with beats and seriously treated voices — through examples, aswell as efforts from a large number of far-flung rappers and vocalists — continued to be minimal replicable tool in his arsenal. Herren started his career employed in industrial studios in Atlanta. Vocal Research + Uprock Narratives, his initial record as Prefuse 73 — after lower-key produces as/with Delarosa, Delarosa & Asora, and Savath & Savalas — not merely buried but break up and spliced voices aswell as allowing even more simple vocals from many MCs. The 2003 follow-up, One Phrase Extinguisher, continued in an identical vein. That same season, Warp released Extinguished: Outtakes, a remarkable EP of is better than and examples that went through 23 songs in about 35 moments. Encircled by Silence, the correct successor to 1 Word Extinguisher, premiered in 2005, offering collaborations with rappers Ghostface and Aesop Rock and roll, plus Blonde Redhead and EL-P. 90 days later on, an EP of recordings made out of the music group the Books made an appearance, entitled Reads the Books. Another Prefuse record, 2006’s Protection Screenings, was fairly light on collaborations; it presented just two guests, Four Tet’s Kieran Hebden and Television around the Radio’s Tunde Adebimpe. Arrangements, featuring Fights drummer John Stanier using one monitor, adopted in 2007, and Everything She Handled Turned Ampexian made an appearance in ’09 2009. Herren centered on collaborative tasks this year 2010, flexing his creation muscles via times, remixes, or cameos with everyone from Zach Hill (Gemstone View Wrists) to Oneohtrix Stage Never to Television on the air. His 2011 creation The Just She Chapters continuing the familial sense, with an abundance of features for feminine vocalists. A couple of years later on, newly influenced, Herren returned towards the Prefuse 73 moniker having a flurry of produces on Temporary Home Small — an store endorsed by close friends Nigel Godrich (Ultraísta) and Hebden — you start with the 25th access in to the label’s Moves in Constants EP series. The recording Rivington Não Rio, offering guest performances by Busdriver, Rob Crow, and Helado Negro, was flanked with the EPs Forsyth Backyards and Every Color of Darkness. All works were released in 2015, from March through July. Throughout that summertime and fall, Herren documented several periods with MC Michael Xmas beneath the name Fudge. The duo’s lively debut full-length, Female Parts, came on Lex Information in Sept of 2016.