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. Welcome to the first episode of Backpack Classics where I cover hip hop albums that blew up in the indie and underground scene. Albums that may not get touch. 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.

The mole us torrent download. Funcrusher Plus is the debut studio album by American hip hop group Company Flow.^[1] It was released on 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[edit]

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] 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]

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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 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]

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 Plus' 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]

Brian Coleman of CMJ New Music Monthly called it 'the most important release of 1997 thus far.'^[15] 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.'^[16]

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 Pitchfork's Top 100 Albums of the 1990s list.^[17] 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.^[18]

Track listing[edit]

Personnel[edit]

• 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[edit]

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References[edit]

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1. ^Johnson, Fatima (January 7, 2013). 'Respect. Your Elders: Company Flow'. Respect. Retrieved April 10, 2015.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
2. ^ ^abBengston, Russ (April 24, 2014). 'The 90 Best Rap Albums of the '90s - 86. Company Flow, Funcrusher Plus (1997)'. Complex. Retrieved April 10, 2015.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
3. ^ ^abNewmark, Mike (September 13, 2009). 'Company Flow: Funcrusher Plus'. PopMatters. Retrieved April 10, 2015.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
4. ^ ^abMcCall, Tris (October 4, 2011). 'Song of the Day: 'Lune TNS,' Company Flow'. NJ.com. Retrieved April 10, 2015.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
5. ^ ^abHuey, Steve. 'Funcrusher Plus – Company Flow'. AllMusic. Retrieved April 10, 2015.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
6. ^Larkin, Colin (2011). 'Company Flow'. The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (5th concise ed.). Omnibus Press. ISBN978-0-85712-595-8.
7. ^ ^abWeiss, Jeff (May 7, 2009). 'Album Review: Company Flow's 'Funcrusher Plus' reissue'. Los Angeles Times. Retrieved April 10, 2015.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
8. ^Ashon, Will (August 1997). 'Company Flow: Funcrusher Plus (Official/Rawkus)'. Muzik (27): 125.
9. ^Moody, Paul (September 27, 1997). 'Company Flow – Funcrusher Plus'. NME. Archived from the original on August 17, 2000. Retrieved March 8, 2018.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
10. ^ ^abPatrin, Nate (May 15, 2009). 'Company Flow: Funcrusher Plus'. Pitchfork. Retrieved April 10, 2015.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
11. ^Seward, Scott (2004). 'Company Flow'. In Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian (eds.). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide (4th ed.). Simon & Schuster. pp. 187–88. ISBN0-7432-0169-8. Retrieved April 10, 2015.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
12. ^Hanover, Nick (May 19, 2009). 'Company Flow: Funcrusher Plus'. Spectrum Culture. Retrieved March 8, 2018.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
13. ^ ^abTompkins, Dave (August 1997). 'Lateef and Lyrics Born: Latyrx / Company Flow: Funcrusher Plus'. Spin. 13 (5): 116–18. Retrieved March 8, 2018.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
14. ^Dolan, Jon (November 26, 1997). 'Company Flow: Funcrusher Plus'. City Pages. Archived from the original on April 16, 2015. Retrieved April 10, 2015.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
15. ^Coleman, Brian (September 1997). 'Hip-Hop'. CMJ New Music Monthly: 51.
16. ^Schafer, Joseph (January 29, 2014). 'El-P Albums From Worst To Best - Company Flow - Funcrusher Plus (1997)'. Stereogum. Retrieved April 10, 2015.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
17. ^Linhardt, Alex (November 17, 2003). 'Top 100 Albums of the 1990s (2/8)'. Pitchfork Media. Retrieved April 10, 2015.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
18. ^'The 100 best indie hip-hop records of all time (98/101)'. Fact. February 25, 2015. Retrieved April 10, 2015.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
19. ^'Company Flow - Awards'. AllMusic. Retrieved April 10, 2015.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)

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External links[edit]

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• Funcrusher Plus at Discogs (list of releases)