Down With the Scene

Kid 606 | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 20, 2000)
• Original Release Date: June 20, 2000
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Ipecac Recordings
• ASIN: B00004TSBI
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #410,716 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Like Vibert Can Kiss My Indie-Punk Whiteboy Ass

2. Buffalo606- The Morning After

3. Kidrush

4. GQ on the EQ

5. Secrets 4 Sale

6. Juvenile Hall Rollcall

7. Ruin It, Ruin Them, Ruin Yrself Than Ruin Me

8. Two Fingers in the Air Anarchy Style

9. For When Yr Just Happy to Be Alive

10. It'll Take Millions in Plastic Surgery to Make Me Black

11. Dame Nature

12. My Kitten

13. In Love With All You Are and Forever Maybe as If My Soul Depended on It

14. Catstep/My Kitten/Catnap [*]

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars CAUTION: old fart review, January 14, 2002

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misternoodley (Arlington, VA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Down With the Scene (Audio CD)

when i was about half the age i am now, i would buy nurse with wound albums on vinyl. they were to the 80's pretty much what kid 606 is to the new century: extremely clever sonic experimentation that stretched the boundaries of what folks at the time might consider music. in truth, nww (and others of that ilk) probably broke new ground upon which everyone from kid 606 to autechre to labradford might flourish, regardless of whether or not the aforementioned are immediately aware of their pedigree.

so i'd listen my new nurse with wound album and think, well golly, that's just some clever stuff. REALLY clever. yep. don't know that i've ever heard anything quite so clever as that. yep. and then i'd never listen to it again. why? well, as clever as it was, i never really identified an emotional core to any of the material that would speak to me in a way far deeper than the novelty of new sounds and arrangements. in hindsight, it was all brains, no heart; all ideas, no vision; all content but no context. down with the scene kind of strikes me as something like that - nurse with wound on coke in the post-d&b age.

it's not that i'm saying kid 606 lacks talent, that this shouldn't have been recorded (or for that matter that you won't even enjoy it for a while, cuz you might - even if it's only to show your posse just how wacky you are). exploration like this can fire the imagination of artists who might use kid 606's wall of beats, samples, and high-tech knob-twiddling as a foundation on which to build something a bit more meaningful (and yeah, probably diluting the aggression in the process for mass consumption - sorry). the kid even might be using this as a starting point for some future work that will make us see ourselves naked for the first time and accelerate human evolution. i dunno. i haven't even heard ps: i love you yet. i'm just trying to encourage the uninitiated to approach with a great deal of caution before they launch their credit card info into space. listen to the samples and then imagine yourself listening to the full tracks, six, maybe seven times. can you? okay. buy it.

but ditachi comes to mind as a safer starting point. still very inventive, nearly as effed up as down with the scene, but with a deep sorrowful streak expressed in a disturbing environment.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars cut and paste THIS!, August 26, 2002

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David M. Madden "nonnon/dj_webern" (salt lake, utah United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Down With the Scene (Audio CD)

so. hm.. not sure how you cut and paste music that virtually never repeats.

Ok. So yes, this is music that one cannot ignore in the background while trying to seduce someone over wine (whine) and cheese, just like elliot carter or george crumb makes horrible make-out music unless your partner is insane (good thing?). It falls into the category of more academic than club sounds. I love it.

Specific tracks and why:

track 7 is a duet of sorts with Mike Patton (duh, faith no more fame). The vocal processing is superb.

oh damnit i will not name any more tracks. they all have a certain charm. i feel that those unfamiliar with THE KID will need a steady diet of easier fodder to get them to this point...like how it took me three years to appreciate the genius of Atari Teenage Riot...dive a little deeper in electronica/noise every couple of months and you will either get it or not. please try.

those who wish to remain in the shadow of Aphex twin will die.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the most original CDs I've bought in years., April 24, 2002

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Thomas S. Ferguson "Scott F" (Sterling, Virginia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Down With the Scene (Audio CD)

This isn't a CD for everyone, yes. It's billiant and noisy, yes. But one of the things that the other reviewers seem to be missing is that this thing is *fun*, maybe the funnest in my entire collection. Not fun in a let's-go-to-a-rave-and-get-wasted-and-dance-all-night way; more in line with a kid playing around with his toys, maybe, except more intellectual. This CD takes the kind of ear-shattering noise formations associated with Merzbow and Bastard Noise (which are, by the way, usually a lot harder than this), touches on various genres of popular electronic stuff (breaks, hip-hop, even a bit of house and trance here and there), and mixes it all together with a huge load of absurdist humor. This is likely to go right over the heads of all your friends who think that Wierd Al is a musical genius ("Ah ha ha! He changed gangstas to the Amish! Brilliant, BRILLIANT, I say!"). Watch their brains implode as you hit 'em with track two ("Luke Vibert Can Kiss My Indie-Punk Whiteboy Ass"), which moves from psychotic, directionless sampling genius into the harshest hip-hop/breakbeat monstrosity ever (complete with somewhat nonstandard lyrics: "AWW, I'm BLACK y'all/And I'm BLACK y'all/And I'm BLACKITY-BLACK and I'm BLACK y'all," and so on), until it smashes to a halt in a burst of static. At this point they'll be wondering if your CD player's broken, and why the hell you're laughing so much.

And it's not just wit and musical genius thrown around all willy-nilly, either. Track 16 is downright beautiful, so it turns out the Kid's got a soul after all. But mainly this CD seems to be 606 saying that he gets what everyone else is doing, that he can do it too, and that he can surpass them with so little effort that he feels comfortable adding his own wittiness to the whole thing. And he accomplishes it all, too, bringing everything off with creepily easy perfection. His hip-hop and trance parodies hit all the marks while still smashing the genre standards. His less classifiable stuff is always brilliant. And he's 22, for God's sake; this guy terrifies me.