Al Lover is a producer from the San Francisco-based hip-hop outfit The Fist Fam. 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. His story began when he remixed the Woodsist catalog, and Al's last two projects--"Distorted Reverberations", an exploration in sampling the current works of such rock acts as Ty Segall and Thee Oh Sees, and "Safe as Milk Replica", a reworking of Captain Beefheart's first record--were highly praised and talked about by many including Rolling Stone and The LA Times' blog. Combining crunchy drums, shaky percussion, chopped samples from genres unexplored by most hip-hop producers, and the use of multiple effect pedals, Al Lover has created the antithesis to the highly compressed and squeaky clean trend.