If Prefuse 73 (nee Scott Herren) makes bad music, I haven’t heard any of it so far. This deep into ones career, there should be at least an uneven album. And while Savath & Savalas wasn’t necessarily intended to reach his core audience (heads, stoners and myself), it is unquestionably well crafted if a bit fey. Security Screenings is unadulterated hip-hop with hours of production values readily apparent to any and every listener. Each track has its own personality in spades. Some come off as more ambient than others and a few are easily understood as this man’s skewered vision of hip-hop. Probably an easy guess, but Prefuse 73 likes Krautrock – and not just Kraftwerk, but the rock infused weirdness as well as the droning ons of Harmonia and the like. And an even more simplistic guess; Fourtet likes it as well (although he makes it abundantly clear). So the collaboration between the two yields the unsnarling, but incredible “Creating Cyclical Headaches”. There’s some fuzzy distorted production stuffs and a single riff that permeates the track to makes any groove, loop, break or jam that’s been created in the past few years seem insignificant or at least half inspired. For almost a decade at this point, Prefuse 73 has garnered mammoth amounts of attention throughout electronic music as well as hip-hop communities – most deservedly, of course. With this release, hopefully he reaches an even wider audience and doesn’t have to endure any more unfriendly interviews or hassles at the airport.

