Artist: King Cannibal
Title: Virgo/Murder Us
Label: Ninjatune
Genre: Electronic
Bitrate: 172kbit av.
Time: 00:17:42
Size: 23.15 mb
Rip Date: 2009-03-30
Str Date: 2009-04-20
1. Virgo (Ft. Face-A-Face) 5:05
2. Murder Us (Ft. Jahcoozi) 7:30
3. Virgo (Instrumental) 5:07
Release Notes:
Dylan Richards aka King Cannibal returns with his latest smash
to the solar plexus, "Virgo".
To flesh out his twisted, industrial take on dancehall,
dubstep and drum & bass, vox are provided by brand new French
crew Face-A-Face. This is the vocalists' first release and
they sound magnifique over a rhythm built firmly for the
dancefloor and set to do considerable and lasting damage in
any such context. All amplified thumb piano, fidgeting rhythms
and filtered nastiness, Richards chops the vox to pieces and
puts them back together, all to make you lose the plot.
"Murder Us" came about after a meeting with Sasha Perera of
German group Jahcoozi in Berlin late last year. It turned out
that although the pair had never met, they used to live about
a mile away from each other in South London. Musically the
track was also born from the same trip after hearing techno in
its correct environment, "clubs like the Berghain", Richards
says. "Open for days on end, people dancing for 48 hours,
driven by nothing except sounds that bounce around in a dark
room. I heard it, drank it in and wanted to put my spin on
what I heard that long weekend".
As for the lyrics, Sasha uses the idea of battery chickens in
a box as a metaphor for the inner city life both knew from
South of the river. While she says it's "a nihilist message",
the King manages to make it uplifting in his own Lynchian,
brutal way, just by the way the tune gradually unfolds itself.
Not for nothing has Radio 1's Mary-Anne Hobbs has already
declared Richards' music "too dark!" When Eddie Temple-Morris
head his debut single "Aragami Style" he loved it so much he
added an extra hour to his XFm show and called it "Remix
Darkside" In his honour. Championed by early adopters like The
Bug, Bong Ra, Strictly Kev, Kid 606, Knifehand Chop and Ebola,
King Cannibal is all set to be the next big nasty thing. Be
afraid.