Vocal Studies + Uprock Narratives

Vocal Studies + Uprock Narratives

Track Listings

1. Radio Attack

2. Nuno

3. Life/Death - Mikah 9, Prefuse 73

4. Smile in Your Face

5. Point to B

6. Five Minutes Away

7. Living Life - Prefuse 73, Rec Center

8. Eve of Dextruct

9. Last Light - Prefuse 73, Sam Prekop,

10. Cliché Intro

11. Back in Time

12. Hot Winter's Day

13. Black List - Aesop Rock, MF Doom, Prefuse 73

14. Afternoon Love-In

15. 7th Message

Tracks:

Radio Attack
Nuno
Life/Death (with Mikah 9)
Smile In Your Face
Point To B
Five Minutes Away
Living Life (with Rec Eenter)
Eve Of Dextruct
Last Light (with Sam Prekop)
Cliche Intro
Back In Time
Hot Winter's Day
Blacklist (with MF Doom & Aesop Rock)
Untitled
Afternoon Love-In
7th Message

Amazon.com

Vocal Studies + Uprock Narratives's 16 tracks can be listened to as one 50-minute piece of experimental ambient hip-hop. Even the album's more disruptive elements are somehow seamlessly integrated into the overall sense of groovy calm and funky forward motion. Atlanta-based producer Scott Herren uses a richly varied palette to create Vocal Studies' warm, subtle sound collages. Sliced-and-diced rap and vocal performances play a key role on a number of these sonic constructions. "Blacklist," featuring MF Doom and Aesop Rock, is an exception. Herren doesn't mess with the MCs' raps and the relatively straight-up track nicely contrasts with the CD's hip-hop abstractions. The producer does subtly manipulate the mellow vocals of Sam Prekop (Sea and Cake) on the lovely "Last Light." Listening to this flute-and-strings-laced R&B piece, it's easy to imagine sunbeams gently slicing through cloud formations. Vocal Studies can make you feel like you're dreaming and dancing at the same time. --Fred Cisterna

Customer Reviews:

Caught on Late .......2007-03-23

It's hard to believe I am now listening to this album in 2007 for the first time. This is an album that has completely gone under the radar and I regret not having heard this earlier.

Great subtle beats cut perfectly that while it may seem unaccessable at first will all make sense by the second listen through. Need to listen alone uninterupted for all 50 minutes to get the full effect.

Great album, dare I say brilliant, possibly??? Best album I've heard in the past few months. Hands down.

Art you can dance at.......2006-01-25

this record is just plain art and reaches beyond music, it seems as if it was exploring and commenting in urban culture

whether your thing is hip-hpo, idm, dance, whatever it is, just get this record,

inspiring indeed

david

Stellar.......2005-07-02

This is the best breakbeat disc I have ever heard. To hear Scott Herren's music is to hear DJing as no one else does it. The breaks are fast, skitterish, and dynamic, constantly reinventing themselves before you can quite grasp what you've just heard. Somehow, through it all, the mixing is really smooth. That's not to say you could dance to it. Well, perhaps you could dance to it if you were having a siezure, but otherwise, it won't happen. The disc is beat heavy, with just a few vocal tracks with guests MF Doom and Aesop Rock.
I hate to gush like this, but I sincerely think this disc is one of the best I've heard in the genre, and I'd hate not to do it justice.

Hidden.......2004-07-26

Excellent Album from this Atlanta based Hip-Hop Crew. Almost 5 STARS!! Nice breaks, not overly produced. If you're into Dan the Automater, Kid Koala, and Del Tha Funkee Homosapien you'll get into this real well too. Buy the LP and the CD together. Money well spent!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

knocked out and put in the van.......2004-07-14

it all started while taking my son to the local record exchange to look at used gamecube games and I heard a curious beat with a groove that I couldn't place?

I kept listening as we looked and it sounded like the radio was in between stations (radio, television, and shortwave?)!

I couldn't help but keep listening..... it was hip hop... rap.. samples..... commercials..metal guitar.....D&B... groove .... dub w/ a twist of dance hall?

on the way out I was so worked up I had to ask the counter guy
"WHo is That!!!???

Prefuse 73 vocal studies and uprock.

...... "what???"

he said it again.

Now.... I'm 40 yr old black REPUBLICAN that remembers the begining of hip hop and knew it wasn't a fad in 1977.

Prefuse 73 is Glitch Hop and has to be the one night stand of Kraftwerk ,Art of Noise, yellow magic orchastra, and some of blackest most militant straight out of brooklyn public enemy with a pinch of KRS1 hip hop

Those homeless guys you see argueing and apologizing to themselves?.......... this is want their listening to!

I love it!!!! IT MAKES ME DRIVE FAST

Average customer rating:

Prefuse73 - the hip hop evolution revolution...

Vocal Studies + Uprock Narratives
Prefuse 73
Manufacturer: Warp
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music

General | Techno | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music

Electronica | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music

General | Rap & Hip-Hop | Styles | Music

Experimental Rap | Rap & Hip-Hop | Styles | Music

Experimental Music | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music

Dance & DJ | Imports | Stores | Music
ASIN: B00005CD4G
Release Date: 2001-05-15

Tracks:

Radio Attack
Nuno
Life/Death - Mikah 9, Prefuse 73
Smile in Your Face
Point to B
Five Minutes Away
Living Life - Prefuse 73, Rec Center
Eve of Dextruct
Last Light - Prefuse 73, Sam Prekop,
Clichntro
Back in Time
Hot Winter's Day
Black List - Aesop Rock, MF Doom, Prefuse 73
Afternoon Love-In
7th Message

Album Details

Prefuse 73, Unlike Brazil 66, is the Work of Lone Gun, a Super Sharpshooter with an Army of Aliases who Mostly Answer to the Name of Scott Herren.

Customer Reviews:

Prefuse73 - the hip hop evolution revolution..........2001-06-29

I can't say enough about this album; I stumbled upon Prefuse73 after getting the Warp:Routine compilation album (a great mix of the innovative artists under the Warp label, I give it 5 stars as well). I'm mostly a Boards of Canada/Plaid/Autechre/Squarepusher/AphexTwin fan, but Prefuse73 is now one of the highest amongst my ranks. With the exception of the old skool b-boy breaks of the past, I've always thought Hip Hop today is trash along with the rest of the superfluous pop music waste that the general public is assaulted with everyday; but thank god we have Scott Herren to wade through the refuse and literally break it down - This album is TIGHT! Prefuse37 has brought hip hop full circle, shattering the 'bling bling' mentality of todays hip hop 'artists' (pfff) and reconstructing some of the sickest beats you'll ever bounce your head to with the fragments. This is the next level of hip hop MUSIC as it was meant to be!

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