The Music Scene (album)

The Music Scene is the fourth solo studio album by American hip hop producer Blockhead. It was released on Ninja Tune on November 3, 2009. It received generally favorable reviews from critics.

Critical reception
At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 75, based on 9 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".

Rick Anderson of AllMusic commented that "Everyone makes sample-based music these days, but very few people use found sounds and prefab musical snippets as creatively and thoughtfully as Blockhead does."

Sarah Ferguson of Exclaim! said, "The music found on The Music Scene broadcasts a place for explorative musical journeying much greater than one found on pop radio."

Ben Hogwood of MusicOMH wrote, "For Blockhead, this album would seem to open up a whole new realm of possibilities, showing as it does an ability to break out of the confines of hip hop, which he had already mastered."

Personnel
Credits adapted from the CD liner notes.


 * Blockhead – production
 * DJ Signify – co-production (11), turntables (1, 12)
 * Damien Paris – guitar (7, 9), bass guitar (3, 7, 8, 10)
 * Wilder Zoby – vocoder (9)
 * Baby Dayliner – mixing
 * Kevin Metcalfe – mastering
 * Owen Brozman – artwork
 * Matt Rota – color, design