Kill Sound Before Sound Kills You [Enhanced]

Kid 606 | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 4, 2003)
• Original Release Date: 2000
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Enhanced
• Label: Ipecac Recordings
• ASIN: B0000DZTL5
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #371,977 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars kid 606 in a nutshell, January 31, 2004

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TarTar (San Antonio, TX) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Kill Sound Before Sound Kills You (Audio CD)

You know when you're listening to a song, and there just seems to be something missing. It's a good song with a catchy premise, but it's too plain. Your hyperactive nature takes over and you start making faster and harder beats with your mouth, causing a shower of spittle to rain upon anything or anyone in front of you. Well, Kid606 provides the fast and hard beats. He even provides the spittle. He'll even provide the propane tank and lighter. He'll even provide the noose and would love nothing more than to kick the chair out from under you. It's hard to find samples of his music online, so I'm here to hopefully provide you with a general idea about this album.

Kid606 has a hyper-core, hard-active, beats-per-second nature. The first track (the illness) is a work of perfection with its authentic drum/bass, the speed of Kid606's beats are through the roof, approved by the road runner himself. This album has a number of reggae vocals, most of them concentrated in track 2 (who wah kill sound?) as disoriented faded dream-like sounds. Rasta angels, if you will. Track 6 (buckle up) has a straight forward reggae vocalist who raps along muffled bass and clicks of fury. Kid606's music is dense with video game beeps, whistles, and various other midi announcements. Track 4 (ecstasy mother***) spans for 8 and 1/2 minutes long portraying a battle of video game hardware, where the consoles are tanks, the controllers are fighter jets, and the cartridges are nukes. Track 5 (total recovery is possible) is the perfect example of a video game tribute song, or an Autechre tribute song, either way it's lots of fun to listen to. Track 7 (if I had a happy place this would be it) is the closest Kid606 gets to happy music, a theme song to robots dancing in a field of flowers. Track 9 (powerbookfiend) has Doormouse trademarked fuzz-pounding in an industrial setting where the factory stops to take a breath during its nonstop slaughter of human ears. Track 11 (woofer wrecker) brings back the first track's ordered themes and offers a Lords of Acid chorus. Track 12 (parenthood) is the last track, ending this relatively short album. It's the final cool down to the overheated beats throughout the album and reminds me of a Deep Forest track for some odd reason (don't worry, there aren't any singing pygmies, just a very calming sound).

Verdict: Awesome beats, crazy layering, and an all around good time. My only complaint is the album is rather short. Tracks 3, 8, & 10 barely fill a minute each, so in reality, there are only 9 full songs. Perhaps Kid606 didn't want to cram too much in one album for fear of receiving complaints of heart attacks. In any case, this album is a powerhouse that will help you build a tree house in 7 seconds for furry creatures after which cause you to burn it down after they've taken residence. Prepare to wet yourself. Enjoy.

-TarTar

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Not for the Faint Hearted, But undeniably a Frantic & Fractured masterpiece....!!!, September 16, 2005

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fetish_2000 (U.K.) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Kill Sound Before Sound Kills You (Audio CD)

For "Miguel Depedro" (Aka 'Kid 606'), his recordings have largely side-stepped the more relaxed and intimate Cerebral side of electronica, and frequently constructs dense albums of fractured breakneck beats and adrenalin-fuelled bass that references the 'Happy Hardcore' & "Jungle" of the early 90's U.K. underground Dance scene. Having been influenced by genres such as: hardcore techno, Experimental, indie-punk, Rock, Electronica and speed metal. These have been musical influences that not only shaped his sound, but those that are paying attention, can actually hear these nods to his musical influences.

Kid 606's music isn't generally for the faint hearted, and the majority of his music (with the expection of his "P.S. I Love You / P.S. I Love You / Resilience" albums), have generally Incorporated tooth loosening Drum 'N' Bass, Frenetic high speed Techno, pounding ecstasy driven rhythms & a line in intimidating gabba, and some of the harshest booming bass, this side of Dub music. It's music that takes everthing to extremes....and then turns the volume up to 11. If some of the more fiercer elements of "Aphex Twin" & "Squarepusher's" Drill N Bass, send you diving for cover, that you'll most likely find yourself out of your depth with this album. Tracks like "The Illness" are fairly accurate statements of intent, and featuring pulverising rhythms and volatile bass, with an approach to sampling that can only be described as 'Chaotic', and those that aren't prepared for the almost aggressively paced techno, will naturally assume that someone is fiddling about the the speed/pitch control on their turntable.

"Who Wah Kill Sound?" is the sort of digital hardcore mixed with an element of Ragga, that sounds a bit like, Well.....well nobody really!!!??, its takes the boisterous swagger of dancehall and attach's it, to pounding tribal ragga junglist anthems, with MC Wayne Lonesome, taking up the vocal side of things, and pounds the hell out of your sound system with relentless electronic experimentation, that feels like radically constructed remix album, and mentally...is like a hyperactive child that simply refuses to sit still. And with all these "Thrown ideas, and see what sticks approach", it can be a little much too digest on your first listen, but such is the overall ingenuity of Kid 606, that when you come back to this album, it really starts to all fall into place, and what at first seems a bit like an unintelligible mess, is actually a cunning devised speedcore album, with some depth.

With a title such as: "Ecstasy Motherf***er" you'd be silly to think that this track was going to be a introspection downtempo meditation number, over ambient tones, and thankfully....it does exactly what it says, and delivers pummelling hardcore techno, that'll will send all, but the most musically adventurous crying out for their mummys. (admittedly, I cried out for mother, on the first listen), but perseverance rewards repeated listens, and most will come out of the experience stronger individuals. Its a track that is able to take volatile dancefloor breaks, and fuse it with the high-speed energy of breakbeat, and dynamic noise, with lashings of acid, throw in for good measure. But this album is not all music to repeatedly batter your eardrums into submission with, as tracks such as "Andy Warhol Is Dead but We Still Have Hope" & "Parenthood", explore Kid 606's keen ear for slower sublime electronica. And although it's not anything approaching ambient, it's innovative, playful & textured electronic approach and percussion, that is in parts, mathematically precise, and wonderfully hypnotic form of Intelligent dance music (IDM), that is more like progressive electonica, and probably has more in common with artists like : Leftfield, Orbital, LFO, The Orb, etc....

If this all sounds a bit much, then rather than take the chance with buying a record, which to some people may sound like 3 records all playing at once....all at the wrong speeds!!!, then it's probably best that you seek out some of the more accessible artists out there. And I have to say...that would be a shame...as this is probably Kid 606's best work to date!!! Its wildly idiosyncratic, creative, energetic and thoroughly ambitious album, that is also a marvellous piece of electronic deconstruction, that frequently pushes the envelope...and more importantly its great fun!!! Kid 606's fans, will most definitely need this, because it take virtually everything that he become renowned for, and has made his most cohesive effort yet. And those that haven't made the jump yet, would be well advised to start their investigations, with this sublime effort.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars dance of the crazy pill, June 16, 2005

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displeasedidealist "dispid" (louisville,ky) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Kill Sound Before Sound Kills You (Audio CD)

HINT: this is music for crazy people.

i'm not saying i do not like this cd, because i do. guess i'm crazy. but, it's nowhere near "normal" and it's so abstractly beautiful that it's ugly....it's so abrasive that it's as smooth as silk. this cd makes drum and bass look like easy-listening.

this is not music for the uninitiated. this is not music for anyone who is not crazy (or on drugs).....

this music can be potentially harmful if swallowed....

please, consult a doctor or physician (or a psychologist) before starting a kid606 regime.....

take in small doses, and with extreme caution.....

have sex with your best-friend's girlfriend while he masturbates in the corner before listening to this cd....

kill your parents or a priest while listening to this cd....

do not buy this cd if you are not prepared to be pummelled with the shrapnel of broken noise.

i love you mom, and i miss you.

(//-dispid-//)