Listen to Funcrusher Plus (Explicit Version) on Spotify. Company Flow Album 1997 19 songs. Definitive Jux has the extreme pleasure of announcing the reissue of COMPANY FLOW'S seminal 1997 full length debut, 'Funcrusher Plus'. Comprised of EL-P, BIGG JUS & DJ MR LEN - this outfit defined Indie Hip Hop. Out of print since 2006, this certified classic album has been remastered.
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.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.
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Funcrusher Plus, an Album by Company Flow. Released 28 July 1997 on Rawkus (catalog no. RWK 1134-2; CD). Genres: Abstract Hip Hop, East Coast Hip Hop, Experimental Hip Hop. Rated #49 in the best albums of 1997, and #2469 of all-time album. Featured peformers: Bigg Jus (writer), Mr. Len (scratches), Chris Athens (mastering), El-P (mixing), El-P (writer), Jeff Cordero (mixing, engineer), Vassos.
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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.
Mr Len has released the solo album Pity the Fool (2001).
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.