Prefuse 73 – Every Colour Of Darkness

Prefuse 73’s music is like an unscratched itch. Guillermo S. Herren belongs to that small band of producers, including Flying Lotus, who take a hip-hop beat and deconstruct it to the nth degree, broken and battered into a bewildering tornado of glitches.

To call it hip-hop seems inadequate. The sheer density of his music – try to count how many blips and beeps he stuffs into every second and enjoy your descent into madness – is overwhelming. He makes music for headphones, not dancefloors, particularly evidenced in tracks like The High Beam Of Modern Survival, which are so jaggedly off-centre, so stubbornly unstraightforward, that your ears will strain to gain purchase.

But in the shadow of FlyLo's astonishing last record You're Dead!, an embarrassment of riches bursting with ideas and influences, it feels like the experimental hip-hop template has more to offer. Herren is a glitch virtuoso, indisuptably, but there's a nagging sense he's capable of more than just hacking a time signature to pieces. [John Nugent]