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│ Kid606 - The Illness │
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Artist....: Kid606
Album.....: The Illness
Source....: Vinyl
Type......: Album
Genre.....: Electronic
Encoder...: Lame 3.90.3
Quality...: VBRkbps / 44,1kHz / Joint
Company...: Tigerbeat6
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01.The Illness (12" Mix) 06:56
02.Ecstasy Motherfucker 08:54
03.Maybe 04:18
04.Evasion 02:47
05.Circumvent 01:58
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24:53 min
35,2 MB
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Kid606 has long been known as the trickster of
IDM (a genre term for which I share the Kid's
hate, but find myself continually forced to
use it for lack of a more descriptive phrase),
using his samplers to craft often silly,
irreverent pisstakes on techno, infusing
everything with a healthy dose of punk
attitude and energy. On The Illness -- a
teaser for his forthcoming second album for
Mike Patton's Ipecac label -- his cartoonish
music resides somewhere halfway between the
serious and the absurd.
The heart of the EP is in the first two
tracks, two sharp, abrasive slabs of digital
hardcore whose hyperactive beats make a
mockery of the possibility of dancing. The
title track, in a different mix than the one
that will eventually appear on the Ipecac
album, is a crazed full-speed-ahead romp with
breakbeats stepping all over each other, an
appropriate sample of the Roadrunner, and a
warped approximation of a punk guitar
providing a hint of melody and continuity to
the mess. This is the kind of thing Kid606
seemingly never gets tired of, and he's
admittedly good at it; itÆs fun and jumpy and
bursting with enough energy that it's nearly
impossible to resist -- in small doses.
The second track, the nine-minute "Ecstasy
Motherfucker", is even better at distilling
the essence of the Kid's maniacal aesthetic. A
repetitive, jackhammer rhythm treads along
under electronic skitters and vocals yelling
"boom boom boom" and other cartoon-inspired
nonsense. The producer even toys with his
audience, following a sample saying "yo, give
me something to dance to" with a brief clip of
normal club beats that quickly cut off and
disappear into a wash of static and noise.
This track is Kid606 at the peak of his
jittery, abrasive skills, almost danceable and
certainly energetic, but always fucking things
up with random noise, digital tweaking, and
quirky samples. It's only subtly off-kilter,
but those few little notches off from a "true"
club track are enough to make this track
constantly engaging and entertaining. He
closes the song with a sample declaring that
"I am a clich", which couldn't be further from
the case on this cut; maybe he is repeating
himself here, but otherwise this is totally
original.
The rest of the CD version of the EP is
rounded out by three bonus tracks not included
on the vinyl single, which find the Kid
veering away from the in-your-face
confrontation of the first two songs from the
12''. "Maybe" is a slower-paced techno stomp
filled with clicks and cuts borrowed from
Mille Plateaux and the earlier popularizers of
this style; it nearly sounds like an Aphex
Twin outtake circa "Windowlicker". On
"Evasion", the music is even more minimal and
ambient, with circulating slices of cut-up
sound spinning through a subdued mΘlange of
subtle melodies and fuzzy rhythms. The brief
closer "Circumvent" is even more
straightforward ambient, with layered melodic
tones ruminating over a distant bassline,
recalling the chilly explorations of
Biosphere.
With these three closing tracks completely
conflicting with the opening pair, The Illness
finds Kid606 splitting apart the two sides of
his dual personality. This EP pits the spastic
dance-core loon against the sensitive, serious
artist interested in textures and sound for
its own sake -- and on the strength of these
tracks, it's hard to say who wins. The Kid
appears to be equally effective at bludgeoning
you over the head or soothing you into
unconsciousness with the sheer detailed beauty
of his digital poison. He's on the top of his
game in both forms here, and if the contrast
between the two styles makes for a somewhat
jarring listen, it's compensated for by the
high quality of the product.
http://www.discogs.com/release/162683
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