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- Summary: Underground producer Scott Herren (aka Prefuse 73) offers his second LP for Warp, which mixes experimental glitchtronica with more accessible hip-hop elements (including vocals on a few tracks provided by guests such as Mr. Lif).
- Record Label: Warp
- Genre(s): Electronic, Hip Hop
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Positive: 21 out of 21
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Mixed: 0 out of 21
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There's nothing Herren can't and won't do on this record.
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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.
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This record is a wonderful accomplishment – instead of relying on tricks and methods explored on earlier records, Herren expands via reflection, tracing sounds back to their roots in hopes of finding a new path.
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One Word Extinguisher opens and closes with a batch of great songs, but gets a bit soggy in the middle, treading similar ground several times over again and tossing out tracks that feel too similar to what we've already heard from him.
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Unlikely to be defined by any passing scene, Herren seems likely to go his merry way in the way production auteurs do, body-swerving ham-fisted attempts at pigeon-holing or categorisation.
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Q MagazineSounds like a malfunctioning iPod loaded with The Neptunes, Aphex Twin circa Windowlicker and The Last Poets--only with all the fragments miraculously falling in just the right places. [Jun 2003, p.104]
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Alternative PressOriginal, brilliant and so avant-garde that less than one percent of the population will be able to sit through it. [Jun 2003, p.110]
Score distribution:
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Positive: 7 out of 7
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Mixed: 0 out of 7
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Negative: 0 out of 7
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LeeFeb 10, 2006illest cd of his ive heard. He is the master of error and distortion on any moog.
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BryanBJul 9, 2004This album has some of the most amazing beats I have ever heard.
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MattMAug 9, 2003
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redrMay 31, 2003best album so far this year. see also: Vocal Studies + Uprock Narratives
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marioMar 2, 2005
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mattaJul 11, 2005Totally solid all the way throughout. Just wish there was some guest appearances because the tracks with vocals are all good.
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LawrencePMay 17, 2004It's funny that a eletro-hip-hop LP can have as much soul as a Otis Redding record.
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