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Everything She Touched Turned Ampexian is album number five for Prefuse 73, aka Guillermo Scott Herren. With 28 tracks lasting a total of 48 minutes, it sounds like the future on fast forward. Picture a mixtape mash up of psychedelic hip hop with only the briefest of pauses for breath.
After three short switchback tracks, NoNo is a restful patch of crooned breathing. However, it's only 14 seconds long and over before you know it. Straight after Herren serves up an intense slice of stop start beats - appropriately titled Punish - that ends with violin wails and multi-tracked voices.
There's a scene in the 1976 film The Man Who Fell To Earth in which David Bowie's lost alien sits surrounded by a huge bank of televisions, all tuned to different channels. The cacophonous result isn't that dissimilar to first impressions of this album. It feels like it's necessary to focus on individual moments to get a sense of what's happening, but those moments are succeeded by so many other shard-like sounds that it can feel like a challenge to keep up. Surrender is probably the best strategy. The only alternative otherwise is flight.
The other 70s reference is Dan McPharlin's cover - a Roger Dean homage mixed with just a dash of Studio Ghibli. The otherworldliness of the image further underlines the sense of a world gone mad from sensory overload.
It wouldn't be a Prefuse 73 album without some lovely beats under the ever-changing soundscapes: the fleeting Get Em High, the clockwork skronk of No Lights Still Rock and the stoned Regato are high points. Everything She Touched Turned Ampexian may be a challenge, but it's one well worth facing. --Colin Buttimer
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1.0 out of 5 stars
The end of the road,
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Its over, its been about 3 releases in a row that have been progressively worse, all the sounds are the same, nothing new, this time with about 25 tracks out of 28 being about 60 seconds long which hides about 4 or so tracks that have any substance.Not quite sure where Prefuse is going, but certainly not going to buy any more. If you have heard good things about Prefuse 73, then get (in the following order...) Vocal Studies One Word Extinguisher Surrounded by Silence Leave the rest. I am a great believer in "killing your idols", whereby you buy an LP blind because of the artist on the front. This has been a classic case of this with me, so Prefuse is added to the list. One star for the cover.
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3.0 out of 5 stars
Ampexian,
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For the complete listening experience, I will return to this record more often than his last two full-lengths, but I think he still has some room to grow and it is for this reason that currently a Four Tet or Towers of Asia record is a great deal more satisfying.
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2.0 out of 5 stars
A few gems but not up to past glories,
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Apart from 'Sleep Method Suite' I think I have everything he has ever released under his many names/projects and Herren's music has been the backdrop to the last 10 years of my life. Its such a shame but I agree with the previous reviewers in that this is a poor offering which should really have been edited down to a EP length CD. As with many of his releases it gets more interesting further into the CD you go, in this case starting with the beautiful 'Simple Loop Choir' but just as I thought it was turning the corner it ended! Perhaps he is just fulfilling contractual obligations to Warp and has better stuff waiting for release on his own or another label. I live in hope, and if you check out Vocal Studies (Prefuse 73), Rolls and Waves(Savath and Savalas), The Singles Collection 03-05 (Piano Overlord), Agony Pt1 (Delarosa & Asora) you will understand why these reviews are like they are!
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