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Шаблон:Infobox album Funcrusher Plus is the debut studio album by American hip hop group Company Flow.[1] It was released by Rawkus Records in 1997.[2] In 2009, it was re-released on Definitive Jux.[3] The album has been recognized as "a landmark independent hip-hop release".[4]

Critical reception

Шаблон:Album ratings AllMusic gave the album a perfect 5 star rating, and writer Steve Huey stated: "[Funcrusher Plus] demands intense concentration, but also rewards it, and its advancement of hip-hop as an art form is still being felt. It's difficult, challenging music, to be sure, and it's equally far ahead of its time."[5] Jon Dolan of City Pages noted "[Company Flow's] evincing a confrontational critique of 'those signed, big-budget muthafuckas' like none hip hop has attempted since EPMD's Strictly Business."[6]

Andrew Hultkrans of Spin gave the album 8 stars out of 10, commenting that "[the album] deconstructed hip-hop conventions and rebuilt them into a spare, murky, sputtering soundscape."[7] Jeff Weiss of Los Angeles Times felt that "El-P conjured an apocalyptic minimalism -- the sublimated sound of clanging and cluttered train cars, city grime buried beneath cuticles, and the ghostly smoke of burning blunts."[8]

Nate Patrin of Pitchfork said: "With the exception of the nocturnal crystalline funk of the Bigg Jus-produced 'Lune TNS' and the frequent scratch contributions from secret weapon DJ Mr. Len, Funcrusher PlusШаблон:' beats bear the mark of El-P's dusty-but-digital aesthetic, which even back then had the same sort of beautiful-dystopia Blade Runner feel that informed Cannibal Ox's The Cold Vein and his own Fantastic Damage a few years later."[9]

Brian Coleman of CMJ New Music Monthly called it "the most important release of 1997 thus far."[10] Joseph Schafer of Stereogum said, "Funcrusher Plus made for a hell of an opening salvo, and most emcee/producers would envy having such a record in their discography, but El mostly improved upon his work here later."[11]

On October 4, 2011, "Lune TNS" was chosen by NJ.com as the Song of the Day.[4]

In 2003, Funcrusher Plus ranked at number 84 on PitchforkШаблон:'s Top 100 Albums of the 1990s list.[12] In 2014, Complex listed the album at number 86 on the 90 Best Rap Albums of the 90s.[2] In 2015, it was chosen by Fact as number 4 on the 100 Best Indie Hip-Hop Records of All Time.[13]

Track listing

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Notes

  • "Population Control" features uncredited vocals from R.A. the Rugged Man
  • The vinyl version contains a track originally featured on the Funcrusher EP, titled "Corners '94".

Personnel

  • El-P – producer, lead vocals, mixing
  • Bigg Jus – producer, lead vocals
  • Mr. Len – producer, scratching
  • R.A. the Rugged Man – vocals
  • J-Treds – vocals
  • BMS – vocals
  • Breezly Brewin – vocals
  • Vassos – recording, engineering, mixing
  • Jeff Cordero – recording, engineering, mixing
  • Walker Bernard – recording, engineering
  • Chris Athens – mastering

Singles chart positions

Year Song Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales
1997 "Blind" 44[14]

References

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External links

Шаблон:Company Flow Шаблон:Authority control

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