June 03, 2020

Preservation "Eastern Medicine, Western Illness" (Album Stream)


Everything about Preservation’s 20+ year career as a producer and DJ feels like it’s been leading to his new album, Eastern Medicine, Western Illness. The New York native has been incorporating samples of Chinese music into his beats since the late ‘90s—a result of the combined influence of the Shaw Brothers, Wu-Tang Clan, and Bruce Lee—but Eastern Medicine is the first record to be sourced entirely from LPs the producer found while crate-digging in Hong Kong. “There was a purity to the approach for this project,” he explains. “I wanted every track to be sourced only from Chinese records, which was an exciting challenge.” Rounded out by appearances from some of the biggest names in underground hip-hop—Quelle Chris, Billy Woods, Roc Marciano, Navy Blue, and Mach-Hommy to name a few—the album feels like a defining moment for Pres, the culmination of two decades of discipline and a singular vision that makes a career-defining LP. - Bandcamp. Dig in...