Al Lover
Stratigou Kallari 4
Thessaloniki 546 22
Greece
Al Lover @ Residents Bar | 21.04.13
Al Lover is a producer from San Francisco. Over the last few years he has gained much notoriety for his melding of garage and psychedelic rock into spacey boom bap style hip hop instrumentals. Combining crunchy drums, shaky percussion, chopped samples from genres unexplored by most producers, and the use of multiple effect pedals, Al Lover has created a sound all his own.
Mixing equal parts 13th Floor Elevators and The Night Beats with equal parts Dilla and Pete Rock is an unconventional formula for sure, but it’s Al Lover’s thing, and to paraphrase Bill Graham’s famed statement about the Grateful Dead, he’s not the best at what he does- he’s the only one who does what he does.- Pot Holes In My Blog
Skuzzy and burned at the seams, each beat is stoned off its ass. He’s stated that the psych music of today is what the producers of tomorrow will sample, but rather than give them the opportunity to do so, he’s taken on the task of being ahead of the curve with each record.- Impose Magazine
I hope claiming that Al Lover conjures the most psychedelically-inclined producer-informed hip-hop since Edan and J. Dilla doesn’t feel hyperbolic, because it’s true. This is a guy who remixed Captain Beefheart’s Safe as Milk in its entirety. How do you even approach that?- The decibel Tolls
This project is just too weird and downright outgoing to leave unposted. To put it simply, this is one remix album to rule them all. Don’t put your ears on this expecting to hear Woodsist in another light. Al has turned this into something all his own. These tracks couldn’t have been made without the originals, but something just as novel has come out of them. Fans of crate-dug instrumental antics take notice.-The Needle Drop
Al Lover as created a thrilling, weird remix of Beefheart’s album “Safe As Milk”. On it, the San Francisco-based sample maven takes beats, guitar sounds, rhythms and random chaotic sounds and compiles them into instrumental excursions.- L.A. Times Music Blog
Al Lover’s latest record is something entirely unique in the gaudy realm of contemporary rock and roll. – Psychkicks Magazine
As one listen to the music will testify. This is seriously twisted, uneasy listening – and absolutely compelling.- Blurt Magazine
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