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Company Flow really want you to know how independent they are. This seems to be their primary mission, and Funcrusher Plus is wacked-out enough to satisfy that agenda. Building off some previously released material, most notably '8 Steps to Perfection,' CF often take a galactic-horror groove here, dropping in some skewed drumbeats and dense lyrics, forcing your head into a lopsided.
One of the most influential hip-hop figures at the turn of the millennium was white producer and rapper El-P, aka El Producto, born Jaime Meline in New York.
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- Funcrusher hasn't been in print since 2006, but the record will start recirculating in remastered form May 5 courtesy of El-P's own Definitive Jux label. (The album was originally Rawkus Records' first LP, though the relationship between Company Flow and their old label has since turned ugly.).
- View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 1997 Vinyl release of 'Funcrusher Plus' on Discogs.
- The OG Funcrusher Plus pops up on eBay every once in a while, but never goes unnoticed, so you gave to pay if you want it. The clear Funcrusher has been popping up quite a bit lately and can be had for less than the full LP. The black version of Funcrusher rarely ever shows up except for a few random copies on discogs.
El-P founded Company Flow with dj Lenny 'Mr Len' Smythe and rapper Justin 'Bigg Jus' Ingleton. They debuted with Juvenile Technique (1993). Their first album, Funcrusher Plus (Rawkus, 1997), an augmented version of a 1996 namesake EP, featured a second rapper and already displayed the off-kilter, abrasive production skills of the founding duo. But it was the instrumental Little Johnny From The Hospital: Breaks and Instrumentals Vol.1 (1999) that definitely broke with the past, introducing the most bombastic, ebullient and explosive style of the time, the apolitical successor to Public Enemy.
El-P also crafted the schizoid soundscape of Cannibal Ox's The Cold Vein (2001), a project risen from the ashes of Company Flow (Vast Aire and Vordul Megilah). El-P probably achieved his artistic zenith in tracks such as Iron Galaxy. OXtrumentals is an instrumental version (i.e., a solo El-P album) of the Cannibal Ox album.
His first solo album, the sci-fi concept Fantastic Damage (2002), is a disjointed, neurotic affair. The double-disc Fandamplus: Instrumentals is the instrumental version of El-P's solo debut. High Water (2004) is an instrumental collaboration with Matthew Shipp's jazz crew (and belongs more to Shipp than to El-P). To El-P's credit, his stew of samples and beats blends seamlessly with the improvisation of the jazzists. Get Modal is the peak of their osmosis, with Shipp introducing a memorable theme, William Parker's drums dancing around it and entwining the saxophone, and El-P's vocals treated to the point of being just another form of beat. Intrigue in the House of India boasts another irresistible melodic pattern mauled by Shipp's piano, decaying into a liquid jam led by guitar, trumpet and electronic noise. El-P leaves a lot of space to Shipp and his comrades, refraining from invading the most romantic portions of the ten-minute Sunrise Over Brlyn (with the trombone acting as the main counterpart of the piano). Shipp's combo concocts a great adaptation of cool jazz to the age of sampling, but it is not clear what contributions El-P made to this album that justified his name on the cover.
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Mr Len has released the solo album Pity the Fool (2001).
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Relocating to Atlanta, Justin 'Bigg Jus' Ingleton released two collaborations with rapper Orko Elohiem under the moniker Nephlim Modulation Sessions, Woe To Thee O Land Whose King Is A Child (Big Dada) (2003) and Imperial Letters of Protection (2005), as well as his solo debut, Black Mamba Serums (Big Dada, 2004), recorded in 2001.