Prince Soul Grenade [CD]

Bump the music of Lockbox from your tape deck and dive into the mind of Jesse Briata. Prince Soul Grenade, his fourth cassette release under the moniker, finds the 19-year-old producer pushing his hyper-kinetic beats into maniacal glee and rhythmic complexity deeper than we've ever heard from him on record. Lockbox liquifies common tropes of pop, hip-hop, and techno into high-fructose breakbeat confections, and crams the jams with effects manipulation and electronic noise as mind-warping as an avant-garde basement freakout. Armed with a skewed sense of melody and a fracturing approach to song structure, Lockbox deconstructs contemporary beat music into a heap of junk parts and builds it back into a towering Voltron mechawarrior modeled after his own image.