Push Button Objects

Edgar Farinas is the Miami-bred producer behind Push Button Objects, whose artful fusions of hip-hop, electro, and jungle have appeared through the American Schematic and Chocolate Industries labels, and through the U.K.-based imprint Skam. While hip-hop remains the core element of the PBO sound, Farinas combines the raw beats with treated electronics, bizarre samples, and rhythmic deviations mostly foreign to hip-hop's mid- to downtempo lope. His debut EP appeared through the Schematic label, now owned and operated by Josh Kay and Rom Castillo of <a href="spotify:artist:4fwCp2IDhodTxsySBFY6sj">Phoenecia</a> and <a href="spotify:artist:3Ud4JwWfTDCLNDcKJfxrAa">Soul Oddity</a>, and remains his best work. Much ballyhooing attended his first Skam EP, due to the label's connection with electronica auteurs <a href="spotify:artist:6WH1V41LwGDGmlPUhSZLHO">Autechre</a>, but that EP is easily his least interesting work to date. Dirty Dozen, his first full length, appeared in 2000 on Chocolate Industries, followed by a few singles. Fly (You Ain't), an EP, was released in 2002 to prepare fans for his sophomore full length, Ghetto Blaster. ~ Sean Cooper, Rovi