Prefuse 73
Extinguished
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Prefuse 73, aka Scott Herrin, is a gifted DJ, musician and producer. Lots of people are those things, but not lots of people burst into international underground notoriety with a debut album, as Herrin did as Prefuse with 2001’s Vocal Studies and Uprock Narratives. But more impressive than the sudden record store ubiquity and media hype of that release was the quality of its wholly original sound. With Vocal Narratives…, Herrin broke ground, setting a new style of instrumental hip-hop that sounded like nothing that had ever come before it, whether there was an MC rhyming over it or not, and garnered him the credit for inventing what’s now referred to as blip-hop.This mellow, engaging and neoteric style has continued through release of the sophomore Prefuse album, 2003’s One Word Extinguisher, and is so popular that fans are sure to snap up this disc of “alternate takes and beats” that didn’t make the cut — hence the name, Extinguished. But don’t let Extinguished’s second-string stigma steer you away. This is as good as anything else Prefuse has done — foundations of slow and mid-tempo beats, usually funky or soulful, are chopped, stuttered and mixed down with beeps, blips and whirrs for a signature aesthetic that is at once mechanical and futuristic as well as light, open and easy to absorb, not at all abrasive. This disc contains a hefty 23 tracks that range from six seconds to six minutes, though most aren’t longer than two minutes, making for an ever-changing listening experience comprised of acoustic, electronic and otherwise eclectic constituent elements.
– Max Sidman
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 Record Label Warp Released August 2003 |
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