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Vocal Studies And Uprock Narra [Import]

Prefuse 73 (Artist) | Format: Audio CD
4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
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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

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4.0 out of 5 stars knocked out and put in the van July 13 2004
By Shanq
Format:Audio CD
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, publicand 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

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5.0 out of 5 stars the best prefuse73 album to date. Feb 4 2004
By JST
Format:Audio CD
this is the most coherent and overall solid album by prefuse73. every track is good to outstanding. if you are prefer the hip-hop-based production side of prefuse73, as opposed to the more recent experimental side, this is the album to get.
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5.0 out of 5 stars If you want to samples the joys of Prefuse 73, start here... Oct 30 2003
By fetish_2000
Format:Audio CD
Anyone listening to Prefuse's First album for the first time, will invariably after 1 minute...walk over to the Cd player to make sure to the Cd isn't skipping whilst playing, such is the Scratch/Glitch construction of his track. User's unfamiliar with his work will almost certainly wondered if the Cd itself isn't faulty as Prefuse's use of cutting & Splicing samples along with liberal use of Glitch editing, will seem Avant-garde to people not familiar with artists such as "Aphex Twin / Autechre", but where as their music is based generally around techno/Breakbeat.....Prefuse tackles the Hip-Hop Genre with the same work ethic (but arguably more inventive ideas), that could never be accused of being 'Tried & Unoriginal', which does mean that this probably requires more attention than most (especially in the Hip-Hop genre), but subsequent listens allow the true depths of his ideas/music to really come into their own.....admittedly maybe a bit too leftfield for mass market consumption, but at the same time pushing the boundaries of music, in many, many exciting areas, and equalling offering up hundreds of possibilities with which to pursue.
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Most recent customer reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars WOW
This is possibly the best cd, I ever bought with out listening to any of the song first. This disc is definately going in my top 10 cd's of all time. Read more
Published on April 2 2003 by {HB}SharkMan
4.0 out of 5 stars Great HIP HOP album
This is a hip hop record. The beats are hip hop beats. If you arrange your record collection according to genre, this should be filed with Cannibal Ox, Ol Dirty Bastard, and your... Read more
Published on Feb 18 2003 by daniel
4.0 out of 5 stars I Hear music
Just because it's all cut up, deconstructed, and collaged, doesn't mean there's no songs here. This album flows smoothly into my ears. And I hear music, not deconstructed hip-hop. Read more
Published on Jan 30 2003 by michael moodgroove
5.0 out of 5 stars More And More Fun
Nice. More than nice, very very nice. I love the way ground-breaking music takes on all kinds of descriptions because it's... indescribable! OK I'll add mine: "chop-hop". Read more
Published on Dec 7 2002
5.0 out of 5 stars Don't think with your mind. Think with your wallet.
By this album. By one for the car, one for the bedroom, one for your in-law's house, one for the bathroom, one for the in-law's bathroom. Read more
Published on Sep 24 2002 by D. PATRICK
5.0 out of 5 stars Gentlemen, start your laugh tracks
Scott Herren,a DJ from Atlanta, put together something of a mission statement for glitch-hop with Vocal Studies + Uprock Narratives. Read more
Published on May 21 2002 by Ryan Hennessy
4.0 out of 5 stars hip-hop+IDM+ADHD=Prefuse 73
As my title indicates, this album is what you get when a musical genius with attention deficit disorder and a liking for both electronica and hip-hop decides it's time for an album... Read more
Published on April 20 2002
5.0 out of 5 stars Best Hip-Hop Release Yet
"Vocal Studies and Uprock Narrati" is by far the best Hip-Hop release in my collection. Now, I don't have tons of hip-hop so don't get me wrong. Read more
Published on Oct 27 2001 by M. Starr
4.0 out of 5 stars Don't be afraid to buy Notorious BIG while you're at it.
A weird thing about this album is how hard it is to catch the nuances. There's a lot of extra stuff. Read more
Published on Oct 23 2001 by "donkeye"
5.0 out of 5 stars vocal rock studies up natives
essentially, this album takes the framework of hip hop and fills it in with selected sounds. In doing so it seems like the greatest respect for hip hop as a great musical... Read more
Published on Oct 4 2001 by Alissa
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