Idolator

he's opening for battles at bowery next week and the show is still not sold out. come on, people.

does anyone know who is playing live with prefuse these days? hopefully it's still john herndon on drums.

Great record...I can't believe it came out 4 years ago.

Track 9, Busy Signal (Make You Go Bombing Mix), is the shit.

Unfortunately, last time I saw Prefuse, he (and John Herndon) played drums for the entire show. This was a couple of years ago in Austin. It was like drum karaoke to Prefuse 73 songs. I'd much rather see Scott behind the decks/sampler/laptop.

"One Word" hasn't aged a bit in four years. Damn, has it already been that long ago? I saw Prefuse live in SF back in '02 where it was just him, a sampler and a mixer, and he still stole the show from headliner and visual overloader Amon Tobin.

i thought this album was as a whole unlistenable save a few brief moments of brilliance that i think were because of Dabrye (hmmm... just like that Thomas Fehlmann album from a few years ago.)

is dude's name seriously gil scott herren and if so, does he know that name's already taken (albeit with a diff sp) by a far superior artist? who also happens to be a harlem crack addict.

@iantenna:

you make a career out of trying to empower black people and of course you're going to end up a crack head, or was it heroin, or both? either way, i'm sure it was no accident.

@thumps:

you'd rather see some guy fiddle with a laptop instead of playing drums...

is that sad to anyone else here?

@brainchild:

well not really, bc herndon plays live drums too. don't get me wrong, I think the only thing better than one drummer is two drummers, but if you're just playing over pre-recorded tracks then it sounds more like a clinic than a concert (cautiously stares at terry bozzio).

I'm pretty sure that's his birthname too.

What happened to this guy? This record (and the outtakes one too) was excellent. Then came a bunch of very ordinary sounding R&B. Stopped caring after a while. Is his latest stuff any good?

guillermo, mota-mota! guillermo, mota-mota! oh wait.

besides the fact that i'm a huge fan of everything he's done under any moniker (prefuse, delarosa & asora, savath & savalas, piano overlord, la corrección, a cloud mireya, as well as running eastern developments records and remixing all sorts of peoples), he's got to be one of the most prolific and consitantly creative artists of the last decade. everyone seemed all about his music up to a year or two ago, when the backlash came crashing down. but just looking at the fact that he's consistantly produced music of such high quality for a good number of years in a myriad of different stylistic settings, and you've got to give him at least a little respect.

and i'm pretty sure scott herren is his birth name and he adopted the guillermo while rediscovering his spanish roots.

and i caught him at macrock a few years back and he was behind his large collection of samplers, turntables and processors with DJ Nobody while this incredible female japanese drummer would listen to the beats he was dropping and then pick it up instantaneously. it was an incredible set.