quoted 4 lines I consider Prefuse 73 to be more of a hip hop act than and IDM one, and>I consider Prefuse 73 to be more of a hip hop act than and IDM one, and
>also a prime offender of what I was talking about when I mentioned white
>producers taking the soul/blackness and in his case the message out of hip
>hop and giving it back to a 99% white suburban audience.
Sounds like a textbook definition of some flavors of IDM. :) I mean, if
you have something that is considered to be hip hop and then suck out the
history and replace it with nonverbal snippets of an anonymous MC, what
does that leave you with? Half of Chiastic Slide, if you ask me. By the
by, this "Artie Shaw/Benny Goodman/Bill Haley" cultural astringency
argument is what I was wondering when I asked a few months ago if anybody
knew any details on the P73 samples. The dearth of responses spoke as much
about his fans as it did the music. That said, I still listen to it and
like it but I don't consider it hip hop. There's a track on one of the
first couple Schematics that mixes well with Foxy Brown's "Hot Spot".
-eric
onnow: Dub Tractor, "Delay" (FX)
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