When I heard him, someone recommended that I get "1983", listened to some snippets and was shook since then, he took instrumental to the next level with that album.
I then downloaded his first two beat tapes and was amazed how those were more hip-hop beat-ish than futuristic instrumental but I can hear how he took elements of Madlib, J-Dilla, Matthew Herbert, etc. but still made his own style.
--------- "We in here talking about later career Prince records & your fool ass is cruising around in a time machine trying to collect props for a couple of sociopathic degenerates" - s.blak