Music CD - Prefuse 73: Surrounded by Silence

	Music CD: Surrounded by Silence Artist: Prefuse 73 List Price: $17.98 Our Price: $11.96 Your Save: $ 6.02 ( 33% ) Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Manufacturer: Warp Records
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Tracks: 1. I've Said All I Need to Say About Them (intro) 2. Hideyaface featuring Ghostface and EL-P 3. Bad Memory (interlude one) 4. Ty Versus Detchibe featuring Tyondai Braxton 5. Expressing Views is Obviously Illegal 6. Pastel Assassins featuring Claudia + Alejandra Deheza 7. Pagina Dos featuring The Books 8. Silencio Interlude 9. Now You're Leaving featuring Camu 10. Gratis (Pedro versus Prefuse) 11. We Go Our Own Way featuring Kazu (Blonde Redhead) 12. Mantra Two featuring Tyondai Braxton 13. Sabbatical With Options featuring Aesop Rock 14. It's Crowded featuring Claudia Deheza 15. Just the Thought featuring Masta Killa + GZA 16. La Correccion Exchange featuring D.J. Nobody 17. Hideyaface Reprise (Reminder Version) 18. Morale Crusher featuring Beans 19. Minutes Away Without You 20. Rain (Edit Interlude) 21. And I'm Gone featuring Prefuse (versus Piano Overlord versus Broadcast versus Cafe Tacuba)
Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0801061012922 Label: Warp Records Manufacturer: Warp Records Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Warp Records Release Date: 2005-03-22 Studio: Warp Records
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Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: Absolutely brilliant Comment: I've owned this album for a long time and listen to it very, very often. I love it. The various songs on this album have changed the way I listen to music. A must-have. Customer Rating: Summary: Not remotely on par with his last 2 albums. Comment: It sounds like he's poorly imitating himself on this one. If you want to hear some excellent slice and dice hip-hop glitch instrumentals go with Vocal Studies & Uprock Narratives or One Word Extinguisher. Customer Rating: Summary: miraculous anus butter but beware the barber Comment: I can barely comment because my ears are bleeding with the glory of this newly picked up CD of the dopest beats I've heard in the past eon. I've been out of new music for quite some time now, sticking to my ol' rack of electro, experimental, underground hip-hop, and barfing noises that i completely, wholly forgot what amazing new music sounds like. It sounds like this. Mostly instrumentals with bad ass bass, clicks, and pops. Your head bops. Then so does the one sitting atop your neck. Feel your gas. It's so good my mouth waters for you. This is emotional, digital turntablism at its finest. Conducted was an experiment involving three biphoton interferometry tests in which I was pre-fused with the intentional states of my future self in a galaxy called quartenonia-xr4.3, the last galaxy bordering the external edge of the interdimensional hyperspace manifold. My mouth watered for her gas. Her farts were exceptional, my bleeding eyes extended perpendicular to her vortex. We touched, though there was no part of her continguous with me, and she wasn't even. She wasn't. I haven't yet returned. Customer Rating: Summary: BE FOREWARNED Comment: A lot of the people reviewing this album, both on Amazon and elsewhere, don't realize the deceit behind this release. Warp Records and Prefuse 73 try to pass it off as a "new album", but quite a few of the tracks have been previously released. Many of them are remixes Prefuse has done for other artists, simply re-appearing here as "collaborations" with new titles, but are actually completely re-hashed. (He did this at least once on his previous album too). Other tracks here marked as "featuring" someone (such as The Books) are actually just Prefuse raiding the artists' back catalog and sampling it, clearly without any input from the original artist. To top it off, this album as a whole just isn't that great, and certainly not up to the standard's of Prefuse's previous albums. He tries to cram too many ideas into one song, and it sounds watered down, as if he's on "auto pilot" mode. If you want original, sincere, or challenging music, look elsewhere. Customer Rating: Summary: Igloo Magazine's REVIEW Comment: Review by: Paul LLoyd at igloomag.com (04.24.05) With Scott Herren (a.k.a. Prefuse 73) providing the musical backdrop and a whole host of collaborators providing vocal accompaniment, Surrounded By Silence covers a wide range of musical styles from hip-hop, contemporary, R&B, country, funky jazz and orchestral. Amongst the vocalists providing assistance include Ghostface & EL-P, The Books, Kazu from Blonde Redhead, Aesop Rock, Masta Killa, GZA, Claudia & Alejandra Dehaza and more. What provides the common thread to tie these diverse styles together is Herren's experimental treatment of each musical style represented, cutting it up, reinventing it, adding bassy breaks and samples to completely rewrite musical boundaries. Throwing in hip-hop samples throughout, Surrounded By Silence presents an initially bewildering array of musical styles patched together in a frantic collage of sound. "We Go Our Own Way" featuring Kamu (Blonde Redhead) is particularly memorable for her silky seductive and quite unique vocal delivery along with tense, vaguely ethnic, jazzy breaks. Although representing a completely different genre, "Sabbatical With Options" featuring hip-hop talent Aesop Rock is equally good with Rock's rant about needing to get out of the city set to slick hip-hop beats and an acoustic guitar backing. With "Just the Thought," jabbing breaks and computer game blips sit alongside hip-hop verses from Masta Killa and GZA. On the other end of the scale is "Pastel Assassins" featuring the ethereal vocal talents of Claudia & Alejandra Dehaza providing a dreamy contemporary approach over Herren's low-key jittery backing. Then there is "Pagina Dos" that manages to successfully pull off a fusion of hip-hop, breaks and country banjo. Although very eclectic in influence Surrounded By Silence has a consistent hip-hop theme throughout that provides some cohesion and brings the album together nicely. A diverse sonic collage based on an experimental hip-hop theme that remains an interesting experiment in the fusion of vastly different musical genres. By no means a novelty album or exploitation of bootleg mix culture but an original exploration in sound manipulation that withstands multiple listens. Surrounded By Silence is out now on Warp. More Reviews
Editorial Reviews: Surrounded By Silence should have been re-titled Bedroom Producer Gone Wild. What's not to adore about laptop sound alchemist Prefuse 73 (Scott Herren), who, like RJD2 and Diplo, crafts rare soundscapes that Bjork fans, backpack rap dukes and Pluto natives adore. But what happens when such sonic experiments go slightly awry? Unlike Vocal Studies, where there appeared to be some cohesive links between tracks, Prefuse goes a bit collabo crazy here, with over a dozen multi-genre guest vocalists and emcee's, with mixed results. When the unlikely duo of Ghostface and El P jump on "Hideyaface", they sound unfocused over Herrens audio clutter, as does the Masta Killa and GZA fuelled "Just The Thought". Was Surrounded Herren's license to indulge his inner RZA or Def Jux (Aesop Rock and Beans also guest)? Perhaps. But when Herren sticks to what he does best, that is, building brilliant found sound collages, and digitizing any thing he can get his hands on, the results are gorgeous; "Expressing Views Is Obviously Illegal" carries that distinctly Prefuse-esque boom bip, as does "Pagina Dos" with it's seductive banjo playing parts. When he teams his beats up with New York electro indie rock scenesters Claudia and Alejandra Deheza from On!Air!Library! on "Pastel Assasins" or Blonde Redhead's Kazu in "We Go Our Own Way", the tracks breathe much better. An uneven yet stimulating listen.-- Dalton Higgins