By Jay Campbell

Scott Herren has raised the bar for experimental hip-hop. Or for hip-hop in general. Amazing in its idea: deconstructing the very sounds of an MC's flow to make an instrumental music piece made up of pieces of words and vocal sounds. Amazing in its application of this: from the dueling samples of smooth female R&B vocals spliced with a gritty male MC, to the subtle distortion of MC Mikah 9's already arpeggio flow, to the merciless glitch treatment of "Hot Winters Day" and "Point to B", Scott has demonstrated that he can in fact "hi-jack" hip-hop and still make a dance song out of it. In fact, that's the most brilliant thing about this album. Not that it's so ambitious or so break-through, that it's such an amazing cross genre piece, or that it's revitalizing a near stale art form. I mean, all these things hold true, but most important of all, I think, is that you can still shake your ass to it.

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