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(Ipecac/Shock)
Check the shelves at your local record shop and alongside Luke Vibert’s various retro experiments (Kerrier District’s disco electro, Yoseph’s acid house and Amen Andrew’s junglist beats) and reissues of the classic stateside junglists Remarc, you’ll find this new album by Kid 606. Turn them on and you could swear you’d been teleported back to the early 90s. If you were turned on by Kid 606’s excellent Mille Plateaux release ‘PS I Love You’, take care as this is no album of restrained electronics. Instead, ‘Kill Sound…’ is a relentless onslaught of splattercore gabba taken to such ridiculous extremes you may find yourself laughing out loud.
He’s been spectacularly prolific over the past seven years, with the last few seeing an increasing profile, especially with the rise of likeminded artists like Barcelona’s DJ/Rupture or DJ Soundmurderer. His Tigerbeat 6 label was an important catalyst releasing Kevin Martin’s industrial dancehall as The Bug among others. His provocatively titled new album has emerged on Mike Patton’s Ipecac label for only his third official full length release. Not entirely new material, this latest album features selections drawn from the last five years of the Kid’s back-catalogue and sample CDs.
The happy hardcore flavoured ‘Ecstacy Motherfucker’ mashes up Rob Base and EZ Rock’s ‘It Takes Two’ and the X-Ray Spex too! In the meantime chewing up just about every drill’n’bass idea ever used. ‘Buckle Up’ is the sort of ragga jungle that’ll be mashing up the party, Wayne Lonesome’s toasted vocals sending things into strictly mentalist territory, while ‘Who Wah Kill Sound’ is gabba underpinned by spastic jungle.
While at times it’s just a bunch of samples thrown together without the excitement and spark of some of his early mash-up releases, ultimately it’s great fun and I find myself bouncing around the room listening to it… With drill n bass artists releasing increasingly academic records, pieces of music made for mature listeners, it’s refreshing to see the Kid deflating the ultra-serious balloon of electronica. While ragga junglist mashups have never been the most cerebral stuff. This kicks ass and mashes up the party!
