Prefuse 73

Guillermo Scott Herren

He began his career DJing at MJQ, a small night club in Atlanta, and then began working in commercial studios producing hip-hop tracks for Dirty South rappers. However, Herren wanted to create his own music, and started collecting second-hand instruments and drum machines during this part of his career. He eventually moved to New York City to go to college, and began recording his first major release, Sleep Method Suite, under the name of Delarosa and Asora. The album was released in 1997.

In 2000, Herren released a CD/LP on Hefty Records/Warp Records titled Folk Songs For Trains, Trees, And Honey. This album focused more on Herren's ambient and jazz influences, and was the first recording released under the name Savath & Savalas.

Herren first released music under the Prefuse 73 moniker with 2001's commercially and critically successful Vocal Studies + Uprock Narratives. A year later, a 4-track EP The '92 Vs. '02 Collection was released.

In 2003, Herren released the full-length album One Word Extinguisher, one of his best known Prefuse 73 albums to date. A companion album, Extinguished: Outtakes was released after One Word Extinguisher showing off some of the production "outtakes" and remixes that were omitted from the initial full-length. Extinguished wawww.prefuse73.com/s unique in that it was a full-length, stand-alone album in its own right.

2005 saw the release of Surrounded By Silence, Herren's third album as Prefuse 73. The album featured more collaborations with a variety of musicians, including many rappers, both underground and mainstream. Herren's next Prefuse 73 release, Security Screenings, was released in 2006. It was announced on August 8th, 2007, that Herren's latest Prefuse 73 album would be called Preparations, and it was released on October 15, 2007. The album is sold with a bonus disc called Interregnums.

In June 2008, Herren announced the formation of a new collaborative project, Risil, which includes members of Sunn 0))), Hella, School of Seven Bells, Pivot, and others. Initial releases by Risil will be vinyl-only followed by a full-length album. Herren also announced a new Savath & Savalas album, La Llama, due in 2008 and a new Prefuse 73 LP entitled Everything She Touched Turned Ampexian due out April 14th.

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