Date: 03/09/2013
01 Prefuse 73 - Intro
02 Thundercat - We'll Die - Brainfeeder
03 Lapalux - Dance (feat. Astrid Williamson) - Brainfeeder
04 Robert Koch - So Bad (Synkro Dub Mix - Apollo
05 Nosaj Thing - Tell - Innovative Leisure/Timetable
06 Kelpe - Single Strips (Chesslo Junior Remix)
07 Prefuse 73 & Machinedrum - The Only Scarf
08 JJ Doom - Bookfiend (Clams Casino Mix) - Lex
09 Shigeto - Olivia - Ghostly
10 Moderat - llona - Monkeytown
11 Teebs & Prefuse 73 - The Way That Winter Passed Us - Yellow Year
12 FKA Twigs - Water Me - Young Turks
13 Mount Kimbie - Bave's Chords - Hotflush
14 Lapalux - Flower - Brainfeeder
15 Shigeto - Ritual Howl - Ghostly
16 Triangle Method - Cloud Cover - Artery of Mirrors
17 King Krule - Baby Blue - True Panther
18 Andy Stott - Leaving - Modern Love
19 Boards of Canada - Sundown - Warp
Though he's been regularly releasing music since the mid '90s, the prolific Guillermo Scott Herren (best known as Prefuse 73) continues to work, his output unabated by time or simple indolence. Born in Miami, raised in Atlanta, and having spent a significant period of time in Barcelona, he's somehow distilled these varied locales—along with his current home base of New York City—into his music, resulting in a warped, psychedelic version of instrumental hip-hop that has been chopped and re-ordered with an almost surgical level of precision. Herren has never been shy about working with other artists and his newly founded label, Yellow Year, is set to play host to Speak Soon, a series of collaborative EPs. (The first release will be the much anticipated debut from Sons of the Morning, his joint project with LA beatmaker and Brainfeeder affiliate Teebs.) With this new chapter of Herren's career about to begin, we figured now would be a good time to have him put together an exclusive mix for the XLR8R podcast series. He could have easily used the mix to survey his past, but this 45-minute session finds Herren still moving forward; his love for fractured rhythms, gauzy melodies, and avant pieces of electronic-infused folk remains intact, but he's chosen to exalt these aesthetic elements with a variety of new tunes. He's evolving, but he hasn't lost himself in the process; that's why we continue to pay attention.
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