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Electronica
Release Date: 07/17/2001
Warp's second 2001 release by a stateside producer (after
Richard Devine's
Lip Switch) is one of the most enjoyable works of
experimental techno heard in several years, a combination of tough,
underground hip-hop and the fractured
neo-electro of
Warp favorites
Autechre and
Plaid.
Scott Herren, the lone figure behind releases as
Delarosa & Asora,
Savath & Savalas, and
Prefuse 73, constructs raw breakbeat tracks, cutting and splicing vocals, beats, and pianos over and over until what may previously have been a straight-ahead
hip-hop rhythm track gets reconstructed into a symphony of deeply groovy
musique concrète.
Herren calls on the raw repetition of
DJ Premier and the catchy finesse of
Timbaland to create a collection of tracks that could appeal to fans of
DMX just as well as
AFX. Just slightly more
experimental than the increasingly fractured productions you'd hear on a mainstream
rap station,
Vocal Studies + Uprock Narratives is also much more fun than the notoriously academic cast of
techno producers led by
Autechre and
Richard Devine.
~John Bush, All Music Guide
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