Kid 606
The Action Packed Mentallist Brings You The Fucking Jams
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Kid 606
The Action Packed Mentallist Brings You The Fucking Jams
Violent Turd, 2002
RiYL: Autechre, DJ Z-Trip, Matmos, Cex |
On his 2000 full-length Down With The Scene, Kid 606's edgy and convoluted collage art of noise, sampled voices, and frantic breaks lived in a wormhole at the border between two universes. On The Action Packed, samples are instead abused but often returned to their original context.
Kid 606 (real name: Miguel Trost-Depedro) may indulge in white-noise techno ("Sometimes I Thank God I Can't Sing," "Rebel Girl"), but he can also soar with post-modernist deconstructions of pop muzak such as "Smack My Glitch Up" (Kylie Minogue) and "This Is Not My Statement" (Radiohead). None of these is particularly engaging or innovative.
However, the 11-minute drum'n'bass massacre of "MP3 Killed The CD Star" (refocusing the Buggles' classic) and the 14-minute merry-go-round "Never Underestimate The Value Of A Holler" (which butchers Missy Elliott), justify the existence of the album. These tracks' baroque elegance nicely bridges the gap between old-fashioned dance music and glitch-tronica, and stand as a sublime form of cut-up art.
PIERO SCARUFFI | Piero Scaruffi runs the exhaustive music database Scaruffi.com. A native of Italy, he has also been praised for his work on the General Theory of Relativity, formal theories of the mind, and artificial intelligence. And no, we aren't making that up.