FINAL POST UP I'll DO FOR PRESS FOR THIS ALBUM(promise).. just wanted to shout out +I'll be out. I want to thank EVERYONE for showing support to a record that A ton of work and time went into.. Although it leaked the day after I mastered it for the most part, I'm just as happy and thankful I was able to make a record the way this one was made.. I can't say that putting an album out without any singles, videos, "radio songs", along with vague press would please many people - but I'm shocked and humbled that through the dissonance and concrete on this record how many really showed much much love.. I love u very much too.
"Roberto Carlos Lange" is responsible for checking me and seeing this joint through... - (Helado Negro on Asthmatic Kitty) - please buy this beautiful record when it drops.
The press below was collected for the most part by Martina@Warp Uk (gracias!)
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A world gone mad from sensory overload... it sounds like the future on fast forward.’–
BBCMusic"The end result is a hippy friendly companion to J Dilla's Donuts" -
Dazed & Confused‘A world gone mad from sensory overload... it sounds like the future on fast forward.’–
BBCMusic"Indeed, too much of a good thing is about the only criticism you can
throw this way. And if ever there was a time hip hop needed an ideas
man, it’s now."
Straightnochaser.co.uk8/10 -
Clash‘Variously described as a “visionary”, “pioneer” and even “artist of the decade”, Guillermo Scott-Herren has again and again proved that, if you think you know hip-hop, you know nothing.’ –
Subba-Cultcha'Herren has lovingly assembled his finest most coherent offering to date.So do yourselves a favour, and don't look this gift-horse in the mouth.’
Contact music"Indeed, too much of a good thing is about the only criticism you can throw this way. And if ever there was a time hip hop needed an ideas man, it’s now."
Straightnochaser.co.uk
Prefuse 73 :: Everything She Touched Turned Ampexian - URB MAGAZINE.
Warp
Reviewed on Wednesday, April 15, 2009 by Ben Zoltowski
With a collective sigh of relief, Prefuse 73 has reemerged in top form, perhaps even the best form of his career. WithEverything She Touched Turned Ampexian, not only has the frustratingly prolific Guillermo Scott Herren delivered a blinding banger of a record, he’s upped the game that appeared indomitable on 2003’s One Word Extinguisher.
To say his latest is a stronger outing, however, may be deceptive. Extinguisher was built around hard-edged 808 crunches, dusty Motown snaps and the occasional shards of fierce rhyme-spitting. All said and done, the record was a post-’90s hip-hop essential. Less street-ready and more psychedelic sci-fi, Everything She Touched shows Herren shedding one well-worn genre layer and entering a new one. This is an entirely new “Prefuse persona,” one few could have seen coming.
With most tracks hightailing into the next, at just over 60 seconds a piece, the opportunities to really settle into the set are few and far between. This version of Prefuse is one that lives in an alternate universe, where suppressing fresh ideas is subject to imprisonment. The phased-out kick drum crush of “Parachute Panador” casually melts into the anxious, deep funk of “Punish,” with all paths eventually leading to centerpiece “Regato.” “Regato” is a stunner track, bathed in stereo-panning guitar loops and distant female moans. The cut is both contemplative, mood music and Technicolor splash, and a perfect embodiment of Everything She Touched Turned Ampexian’s surreal, reality-bending theme.
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PREFUSE 73’s new opus is best described by Egon from STONES THROW who put it so well “...It’s this year’s version of a fucked up Dilla’s Donuts...” nice..!
‘Everything She Touched Turned Ampexian’ is inspired by the analogue recording process, one of the world’s best-loved producers wraps beats around psychedelia to create a 49 minute aural odyssey through avant-rock, hiphop and beyond!
PREFUSE 73 (aka GUILLERMO SCOTT HERREN) is one of the most renowned producers of avant-rock and hiphop around today. Over the past 12 months he’s remixed the likes of TV ON THE RADIO, PELICAN, BLK JKS and CORNELIUS as well as having collaborated in the past with BATTLES and SCHOOL OF SEVEN BELLS.
Instructed by the process and purity of analogue recording, this album is a seminal work, a flowing body of work segmented into 29 tracks, powerful instrumentation and gentle psychedelia.
- INERTIA (AUSTRALIA)
“This isn’t glitch or blip anything... Don’t pigeonhole or degrade this album by attempting to slide it into a pre-existing slot. This is great instrumental music that respects tradition and defies categorization.”
-Egon (Stones Throw/Now Again)
"Sounds like a romance between a grasshopper and a jellyfish...Or a far off satellite transmission beaming
the last performance of a ballet of light bulbs, seaweed, muted ice crystals, voices, and rusted automatons...all
broken forgotten things-all detritus for sure, but with emotion and expression that reveal themselves at strange angles.
It gives a feeling that this would all be going on, whether anyone witnessed it or not. It is a strange and
beautiful record, very private, almost secret, and it captures moments in the other-worlds that people need in their lives."
- JOSH (GANG GANG DANCE)
"Ampexian reminds me of The Plastic Ono band's early experiments... Or what Basquiat's band must've sounded like in a boomin' New York basement... Or Lee Perry discovering the MPC... One part beat banger, one part meditative mantra, it is easily the stoniest and most expansive P73 record yet!"
-Elvin Estela (D.J. Nobody/Blank Blue)
"Industrial electro popsych!"
- Cut Chemist
"all the sounds on this record are as distinctive as a vocal...even the drums are lyrical"
-Isaiah Ikey Owens
(Mars Volta, Free Moral Agents, Long Beach, SUCKA!)
"A.D.D concentration for the D.A.D generation.
49 precious minutes of sweet vindicaction."
-Andy Votel (B MUSIC/TWISTED NERVE/FINDER'S KEEPERS)
Love to all friends. Indeed, but all of my love goes to my Alejandro and his green machine first.... Adios support network Int'l!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - Guillermo 73