21/10 PREFUSE 73 at VK*

Prefuse73, unlike Brazil 66, is the work of a lone gun, a super-sharpshooter with an army of aliases who mostly answers to the name Scott Herren. Ensconced in the Atlanta, GA with backyard pit bull breeders for neighbours, outland anonymity is the perfect cover for this Clerk Kent of the mixing desk. But he doesn’t need a telephone kiosk to transform into a Cubase cubist, a carbon-based biped skewering humans with block rockin’ beats or serial seducer wowing one and all with supple instrumental flow. A sonic empath with the ability to sync with any scene, Scott’s nice networking reveals the extent of his dexterity, equally at home ‘neath the balmy palms of tourist trapping Miami with native labels Schematic and Chocolate Industries as working in Chicago, Illanoize with Tortoise sticksman Johnny Herndon and The Sea And Cake’s Sam Prekop, budding and blossoming talents in a fecund field of hothouse flowers.

Now Prefuse 73 is back with a new album set to drop late October. Preparations will give fans a subtle taste of every Prefuse record that has come before, whilst still exploring and pushing these trademark sounds further for 2007. 2002's One Word Extinguisher and Extinguished Outtakes were landmarks, rippling with production that's since been infinitely copied. 2005's Surrounded By Silence was a collaborative milestone teaming Prefuse with Ghostface, GZA, Battles' Tyondai Braxton and The Books, a lofty, exciting musical foray. Now here's another Prefuse 73 speciality, the sure shot.

The first single from Preparations features a collaboration with New York wall-of-psych band School Of Seven Bells and Battles drummer John Stanier. Class of 73 Bells swirls with undeniable pop melodies grounded by Prefuse's stereo-rattling low-end while Smoking Red takes Stanier's punishing drums and uses them to carve out a fierce hip-hop banger.

tickets 12/14 http://www.warprecords.com/ http://www.myspace.com/prefusion1973

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