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Prefuse 73
Released 2005

Hide Ya Face
03:13
2,374 plays

Sabbatical With Options
02:44
2,321 plays

Pagina Dos
02:28
2,109 plays

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- 1
- I've Said All I Need To Say About Them (Intro)
- 03:32
- 1,913 plays

- 2
- Hide Ya Face
- 03:13
- 2,374 plays

- 3
- Bad Memory (Interlude One)
- 00:41
- 1,682 plays

- 4
- Ty Versus Detchibe
- 03:21
- 1,837 plays

- 5
- Expressing Views Is Obviously Illegal
- 03:41
- 1,673 plays

- 6
- Pastel Assassins
- 04:26
- 1,831 plays

- 7
- Pagina Dos
- 02:28
- 2,109 plays

- 8
- Silence (Interlude)
- 00:56
- 1,198 plays

- 9
- Now You're Leaving
- 02:38
- 1,473 plays

- 10
- Gratis
- 04:51
- 2,027 plays

- 11
- We Got Our Own Way
- 03:19
- 1,541 plays

- 12
- Mantra
- 01:05
- 1,341 plays

- 13
- Sabbatical With Options
- 02:44
- 2,321 plays

- 14
- It's Crowded
- 04:53
- 1,710 plays

- 15
- Just The Thought
- 03:37
- 1,444 plays

- 16
- La Correcion Exchange
- 04:15
- 1,559 plays

- 17
- Hide Ya Face (Reminder Version)
- 01:34
- 1,079 plays

- 18
- Morale Crusher
- 01:13
- 1,086 plays

- 19
- Minutes Away Without You
- 03:48
- 1,453 plays

- 20
- Rain Edit Interlude
- 01:36
- 1,582 plays

- 21
- And I'm Gone
- 02:55
- 1,396 plays

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album review

Scott Herren's first two full-lengths as Prefuse 73 were masterly collisions of wave-your-hand party breaks and stop-time glitch techno. Everything held sacred in the hip-hop playbook -- including the rapper -- was merely fodder for Herren's processor, and given enough time, he could rearrange an earthy old-school track into a computer-bred monster that would make a master of the jutting sample like Marley Marl sound close to a syrupy G-funk producer in comparison. While Herren's third album down the line could never be the same revolution in sound as his first two, it's a surprise nevertheless to find it downright desultory. With a series of all-star rap features -- including three underperforming members from Wu-Tang Clan and three OK contractors from Definitive Jux -- Herren's productions serve his guests instead of his own tracks, and the result is very close to just another underground rap record, with the usual collection of untraceable sound detritus to anchor its productions. Several of the instrumentals recapture something of the Prefuse 73 magic, but Herren isn't entirely successful even when in cut-and-splice mode -- one track finds him sampling and repeating a series of downright annoying nasalisms from Tyondai Braxton (although the title, "Mantra," furnishes a partial explanation). ~ John Bush, All Music Guide