Funcrusher Plus

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Template:DMCA Script error: No such module "Unsubst-infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for conflicting parameters". 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

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusicStarStarStarStarStar[5]
The Encyclopedia of Popular MusicStarStarStarStar[6]
Los Angeles TimesStarStarStarStar[7]
Muzik10/10[8]
NME7/10[9]
Pitchfork9.0/10[10]
PopMatters9/10[3]
The Rolling Stone Album GuideStarStarStarHalf star[11]
Spectrum CultureStarStarStarStarHalf star[12]
Spin8/10[13]

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."[14] 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."[13] Jeff Weiss of the 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."[7] Brian Coleman of CMJ New Music Monthly called it "the most important release of 1997 thus far."[15] The New York Times wrote that Company Flow "rap fast, rude, free-associative boasts and dystopian visions over tracks that mesh raunchy old funk snippets with electronic noise, making hip-hop that's simultaneously propulsive and disorienting."[16]

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 PlusTemplate:' 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."[10] 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]

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."[17]

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 PitchforkTemplate:'s Top 100 Albums of the 1990s list.[18] 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.[19]

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[20]
1997 "Blind" 44

References

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  1. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Johnson, Fatima (January 7, 2013). "Respect. Your Elders: Company Flow". Respect. Retrieved April 10, 2015.
  2. ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Bengston, Russ (April 24, 2014). "The 90 Best Rap Albums of the '90s - 86. Company Flow, Funcrusher Plus (1997)". Complex. Archived from the original on April 13, 2015. Retrieved April 10, 2015.
  3. ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Newmark, Mike (September 13, 2009). "Company Flow: Funcrusher Plus". PopMatters. Retrieved April 10, 2015.
  4. ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.McCall, Tris (October 4, 2011). "Song of the Day: 'Lune TNS,' Company Flow". NJ.com. Retrieved April 10, 2015.
  5. ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Huey, Steve. "Funcrusher Plus – Company Flow". AllMusic. Retrieved April 10, 2015.
  6. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Larkin, Colin (2011). "Company Flow". The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (5th concise ed.). Omnibus Press. ISBN 978-0-85712-595-8.
  7. ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Weiss, Jeff (May 7, 2009). "Album Review: Company Flow's 'Funcrusher Plus' reissue". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved April 10, 2015.
  8. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Ashon, Will (August 1997). "Company Flow: Funcrusher Plus (Official/Rawkus)". Muzik (27): 125.
  9. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Moody, Paul (September 27, 1997). "Company Flow – Funcrusher Plus". NME. Archived from the original on August 17, 2000. Retrieved March 8, 2018.
  10. ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Patrin, Nate (May 15, 2009). "Company Flow: Funcrusher Plus". Pitchfork. Retrieved April 10, 2015.
  11. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Seward, Scott (2004). "Company Flow". In Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian (eds.). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide (4th ed.). Simon & Schuster. pp. 187–88. ISBN 0-7432-0169-8. Retrieved April 10, 2015.
  12. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Hanover, Nick (May 19, 2009). "Company Flow: Funcrusher Plus". Spectrum Culture. Retrieved March 8, 2018.
  13. ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Tompkins, Dave (August 1997). "Lateef and Lyrics Born: Latyrx / Company Flow: Funcrusher Plus". Spin. Vol. 13, no. 5. pp. 116–18. Retrieved March 8, 2018.
  14. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Dolan, Jon (November 26, 1997). "Company Flow: Funcrusher Plus". City Pages. Archived from the original on April 16, 2015. Retrieved April 10, 2015.
  15. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Coleman, Brian (September 1997). "Hip-Hop". CMJ New Music Monthly: 51.
  16. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Pareles, Jon (January 14, 1998). "Uncovering Good Music That Few Got to Hear". The New York Times. p. E1.
  17. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Schafer, Joseph (January 29, 2014). "El-P Albums From Worst To Best - Company Flow - Funcrusher Plus (1997)". Stereogum. Retrieved April 10, 2015.
  18. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Linhardt, Alex (November 17, 2003). "Top 100 Albums of the 1990s (2/8)". Pitchfork Media. Retrieved April 10, 2015.
  19. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."The 100 best indie hip-hop records of all time (98/101)". Fact. February 25, 2015. Retrieved April 10, 2015.
  20. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Hot Dance Music". Billboard. Vol. 109, no. 31. August 2, 1997. p. 34.

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