Artist: Prefuse 73
Title: One Word Extinguisher
Producer: Scott Herren
Release Date: May 5, 2003
Record Label: Warp
Catalogue: WARP105
Genre: Electronic
Category: Experimental Techno, Glitch, Trip-Hop
Track Listing:
01. The Wrong Side of Reflection (Intro) - :34
02. The End of Biters-International - 1:17
03. Plastic (featuring Diverse) - 2:44
04. Uprock and Invigorate (A Prefuse/Dabrye Production) - 3:46
05. The Color of Tempo - 3:24
06. Dave¹s Bonus Beats - 2:10
07. Detchibe - 4:08
08. Altoid Addiction (Interlude) - 1:01
09. Busy Signal (Make You Go Bombing Mix) A Prefuse/Daedelus Production -
2:41
10. One Word Extinguisher - 4:04
11. 90% of My Mind is with You - 3:15
12. Huevos with Jeff and Rani (featuring Mr. Lif on a Minidisc Mic) - 1:22
13. Female Demands - 2:29
14. Why I Love You (with Jenny Vasquez) - 2:55
15. Southerners (Interlude) - :23
16. Perverted Undertone - 3:18
17. Invigorate (A Prefuse/Dabrye Interlude) - 1:25
18. Choking You - 4:01
19. Storm Returns (A Prefuse/Tommy Guerrero Production) - 5:15
20. Trains on Top of The Game (Interlude) - 1:54
21. Styles That Fade Away with a Collonade (Reprise) - 4:26
22. Untitled - 1:22
23. Untitled - 2:59
Total Playtime: 1:00:03
Artist Bio:
Prefuse 73 is the alias of Scott Herren, a hip-hop producer who, under
the Prefuse name, has produced material in which many of the raps of MCs are
buried in the production mix to become part of the sonic texture as opposed
to a focal point. Herren began his career working in Atlanta commercial
studios, but has since gone on to work on more experimental work. His first
record under the Prefuse name, Vocal Studies and Uprock Narratives, not only
buried but cut up and spliced raps as well as allowing some more
straightforward vocals from several MCs. Herren has also worked under his
own name and that of Savath & Savalas.
Geoff Orens, All Music Guide
Album Reviews:
Amazon [www.amazon.co.uk]
One Word Extinguisher¹ is an apposite title for the new Prefuse 73 LP.
Anyone who experienced Scott Herren¹s debut, Vocal Studies and Uprock
Narratives, will already know about his unique approach to producing
hip-hop, but if not, this follow-up is an even better place to check it. On
his new joint, Herren excels once again at chewing up traditional beats and
rhymes with his MPC and spitting them back out as quasi-cubist digital
fragments, creating rapid-fire, neck-snapping snares and stuttering,
karate-chop vocals. His technique makes for a highly original and slightly
avant sound, though most of the genuinely breathtaking rhythm-and-verbal
assaults here are tempered by a melodic fluidity that ensures cerebral
stimulation as well as heavy head-nod action. Once again, Herren has
straddled the worlds of glitch-beep electronica and hip-hop without missing
a beat, and has ensured that he occupies a league of his own one that has
to be heard to be believed.
Paul Sullivan, Amazon UK
All Music Guide [www.allmusic.com]
Prefuse 73¹s first 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 that¹s nearly as challenging as Autechre¹s 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 ¹70s
and ¹80s innovations like samplers and analog mixers are giving way to
digital software and CD mixers, and Herren welcomes the changeover; ³Huevos
With Jeff and Roni,² one of the record¹s three vocal tracks, features Def
Jux¹s Mr. Lif ³on a minisc mic.² 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 Research¹s own
Daedelus each stop by for intriguing co-productions.
John Bush, All Music Guide
