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Elektrik Inferno Live

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Shameless, enhanced, fully saturated, amazing track list, under the "guise" of a "live" recording, TKK end up releasing a slamming "Best Of" !

Considering how pre-programmed most of their instrumentation is, this could've been called "In A Crowd/In A Vacuum". The smashing element of this CD is that it consists of The Thrill Kill Kult's most dead-on, updated, ferocious, versions/mixes of all the songs included. "Ride The Mindway", in this incarnation, could give you an orgasmic annuerism, all by itself. Light years better than the "Confessions..." version.

My only wish is that they included, "Hour Of Zero", and "The Golden Strip", so all the albums would be represented. "Daisy Chain 4 Satan", too, knowing how much more vicious it it "Live".

This is easily one of My Life With The Thrill Kill Kults best-ever recordings. Death to trend-hoppers. Long Live TKK !

BaRoN DaKoTA

Like the racing flags on the cover suggest, this TKK release is a full-speed-ahead rush. The "live" versions of the tracks have always been very exciting, and this recording is a great way to bring it home. Check out the live mix of "Kooler Than Jesus", which immediately became my favorite version of the song, ever. It's more like a remix album at times, and on those terms, it's a lot better than the "My Life Remixed" album that came a little later.

My, my, my, it's an extremely busy time for the TKK. They've been known as `Amerika's most dangerous Kult' but never `Amerika's most prolific'. By no means am I complaining. Quite the contrary I'm tickled a bright shade of pink to have all of this new Thrill Kill material cumming my way. They made us wait 4 long years in between Dirty Little Secrets and The Reincarnation of Luna but eventually got things rolling, and right on the heelz of Luna was a full-lengths worth of remixes entitled Golden Pillz. Now only 6 months after that release I hold in my mucky little mitts Elektrik Inferno Live and to say the least I am a damned happy boy!

What can I say about a live TKK album that you wouldn't already guess? I don't know of anything, but I will say that for those out there who still think that electronic music is merely `button punching' then please know that some different `buttons' were pushed for these performances. The percussion has been pumped up along with the vocals, and the sequenced arrangements have been jacked with just enough to keep things interesting. The recording quality is first-rate and shows that the Kult's tunes can really take on new forms in a live environment. Of course plenty of devilishly sexy movie samples and sounds are abound. In the immortal words of George Clinton, "You will dance. Sucka!"

Although, I prefer some of the album versions over a few of the live tracks, especially Swine + Roses.

I have seen TKK in concert half a dozen time and have bean a big fan of theirs for 12 years since I first saw them in concert. I was really dissapointed in the last tour to the point where I actually had to walk out, the sound was bad the energy was bad it just wasn't the same band I have seen so many times and looked forward to seeing. when this live album came out I got it because I have everything they have recorded, I was skeptical because of my expierence at the concert but thought that maybe it was just a bad night. The album prooves it wasn't a bad night but a bad tour. I highly reccomend any TKK album, but avoid this one at all costs.. hopefully Groovy Mann and Levi can get the wheels back on the band and get back to awsome music.