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Artist description
Jason Prine aka PRiNE, Jason aka the prine of prine.nebula mixes up styles within specific constraints to keep the party people rocking...It's all about the Breaks, Down Tempo and Instrumental Hip Hop AKA Thrift Shop. His latest LiVE ventures include a pure Breaks/Techno/Synthetic 140bpm blend of synths, beat box, and breaks....but then there's also the manic live Drum'n'Bass/Jungle set of the 175bpm mentality. |
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Music Style
Techousebrks, Down Tempo, and Thrift Shop |
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Musical Influences
Anything that keeps me movin'. |
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Similar Artists
DJ Shadow, The Herbaliser, David Holmes, Cold Cut, DJ Food, Crystal Method, Fatboy Slim, The Chemical Brothers |
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Artist History
It's been about 10 years since PRiNE started producing and it's been about 2 years since he's been playing live. It has been a true adventure - including releasing an EP and playing a ton of live shows in varying places that have allowed PRiNE to expand his producing aspect to more of a live based show - keep it fresh baby! |
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Group Members
Jason Prine |
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Instruments
Yamaha CS1x, Yamaha RM1x, 2 Roland SP-808s, Korg Electribe EA, and Behringer effects box and mixer. |
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Press Reviews
Vice Magazine Review of "Desh Pardesh" by Artemio Martin - "Prine doesn't waste any time getting to the point. Within the first 30 seconds yo know where he's going with the album, and that he travels in style. Sparse downtempo with a DJ Shadow-type flavor that is more "minimal" than 'crazy layers'. Opting for a subtler approach with only a couple of well-chosen samples on the soundscape at any one time, he's good at creating a mood then exploring it with good drum programming. Cinematic, sentimental, phat and phunky.""Desh Pardesh" Let's Eat Productions/Tar Media *** (3 Stars)"Toronto producer Jason Prine's choice of samples suggests an affinity for languid jazz and rare groove, making Desh Pardesh perfect for salving your eardrums after a night of uninhibited raving. Prine shares a sonic ethos with people like DJ Shadow or Hive, creating grooves that are warm and contemplative. Unfortunately, Desh Pardesh occasionally stalls because Prine falls prey to numbing-loop syndrome: "Spaceless" and "Keep Busy, Keep Calm" are meant to be spare and repetitive, but sometimes less ain't more. Beguiling moments include "Salvage Mission" and the breakbeats trying to burst through the trip-hop confines of "And Furthermore." At just over 35 minutes, it's hard to discern whether Desh Pardesh is a generous EP or a stingy longplayer, but either way it seems only an intimation of what Prine is really capable of." October 21, 1999 Eye Magazine Review by Andre Mayer."Prine's (song) 'I, Only I' transmits minced breaks and a girlsih vocal sample into a varied range of directions..." - from URB's review of Abstrakt Reality Records compilation CD "Abstraktions Volume 1"."This CD, "Desh Pardesh", is an indication of things to come! The seven tracks found on this release are an amazing combination of Hip-Hop rhythms, that alternate from groovy to Trip-Hop, and even flirt with drum n' bass and breakbeat, and deep bass lines, intertwined with very rich samples that go from a flow of melodic sounds, to spoken and sung human voices, to various instrumentation like piano and strings. I was very impressed by the work of MR. Prine, and you can be assured that I will include his music on my radio show..." - Jean-Francois Fecteau, from the radio show Le Vestibule in Trois-Rivieres-Ouest Quebec, Canada"PRiNE (aka Jason Prine) is a Canadian Dr. Frankenstein who splices and re-animates innocent sounds from old thrift-store records on a 30-year old turntable into dark, lurking instrumental hip hop monsters. Little do his neighbors suspect that, beneath the quiet residence next door lies a lair of unspeakable sonic terror. "It all comes together in the basement," declares the young doctor from the controls of his evil machines." - from Epitonic.com"jason prine is a canadian cheeseball and we love him. this guy is a rare standout in the wastebasket of digital mediocrity. taking vinyl bits and pieces, sampling his own music, cutting, editing, mixing them up, plastering them back together in his own form, jason succeeds in creating an innovative lounge lizard breakbeat trip hop techno funk blend. you can even hear the vinyl hiss now and then, the man is a futuristic retro sampling hero.that spliced up sample fest set to strange and creative on the dial is actually the thinker's disco revolution. filled with abrupt breaks and cuts, this minimalistic breakbeat number adds in a dash of two note strings and a mishmash of sounds and samples. it's quite cut and dry in structure... move, change, break, cut, break, variation, strings... etc. but with jason prine, it's not so much the song structure as the weird blend of samples he uses and then molds together into a ball of uniqueness. that was a peculiar but fine one.can't stop death is twisted, mellow fun (this song is why we called jason a canadian cheeseball... and we mean that in the good way). what makes this track so appealing are the truly twisted lyrics set to a cheesy three note organ sound. while it may sound like a horrible and simple combo, it's anything but.a boy tried to get killed..he ran up and down the road until a taxi ran over him..because his mother fussed at him...after a little while in the polyester lounge with the orator of death, jason lets loose with a barrage of evil strings and orchestral blasts before returning to cool cheeseball mode. loveable.cool bass heavy, labour of love is a retro take on trip hop. everything about this number makes me feel as if i want to slide back into my chair and get into some very serious lounging. cool cat 50's beatniks in black outfits with berets and cigarettes hanging out in the coffee houses... that's where i am. much variety, all in retro groove ultra cool freeform trippiness. nice." Raw 42 |
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Location
Toronto, Ontario - Canada |
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