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Kill Sound Before Sound Kills You

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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

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.

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-//)

r!

Well, maybe it defies categorization, but I really liked it, anyway. Similar in feel to "action packed mentallist...," (which IS a mashup album- if you look on the back of the cd case it says "all tracks not written by kid 606. [see also: the violent turd record label for more mashup goodness]), but more obviously his original work. This release makes extensive use of ragga vocals and gabber breaks. There's still a slew of noise, bleeps, and crashing walls of fuzz, but all of it is certainly hurtling in a much faster, more focused kind of way. I find myself playing it excessively, as I did "...mentallist...", but I don't think 'god, that still sounds like an irritating pop song' about three times a minute.
It seems a little more accessible still than "down with the scene," as the beats are less jungly/ more gabberish. Technically, you could play this at a rave...(what destruction that would be! Oh well, it's fast + catchy enough- the kids should love it)Regardless, the album definitely keeps true to the general attitude of gleeful trickster deviance and relentless disregard that charactarizes most (and maybe the best?) of his work.
I'd imagine the closest musical equivalent would be "who still kill sound" which just came out, so I don't really know what I'm talking about. For total mellow ambiance from the same musical genius try "the soccergirl" ep. For glitchy abstract mellowness (not necessarily a 'go to sleep' album) try "ps i love you" and it's housier not-so-glitchy twin "ps you love me" ('housier' being a relevant term- beats are slick + super chill). For pounding appleIIe gabber try "don't sweat the technics" which may become hard to find, as it is on Vinyl Communications and consequently out of print. "Down with the scene" is the glitchiest and most punk-rock in yr face.
I recommend you avidly consume and buy everything he puts out, unless, of course, you can't stand all that racket.

PS- the illness, com.A rmx on the japanese release is pretty decent, but sounds much like the original. I enjoy it more than the idea of wondering what it might sound like, but I'm just a total sucker for those nasty 'one extra track' imports. Record companies somewhere are smiling malevlently.

I'm not very good at titles, I didn't want to say Great cd because its obvious that since i gave this cd 5 stars that i do think its good.

I bought the "illness" cd that came out just before this one, and i loved that. I got this cd the day it came, out and i was surprised to see it in my store and i was so happy i didn't have to order it. this cd is very good, it doesn't sound as groundbreaking as his other stuff but still great none the less. One of the coolest thing about this cd in particular is the cool music video included on it. It really brought out a story on the illness, and whenever i listen to that song i think of the music video. I found another kid606 video on the interweb moments after i saw this one. What i'd really like to do is get a t-shirt or something but the tigerbeat6 site seems to be down or something.

I'm just rambling now, listen the cd you might just like it.

The next time your boss asks you to "dazzle him", please do the following: start with an existing idea, something so obvious and already established as doctrine, tweak it ever so slightly and try to pass it off as your own. The key to convincing him is simple: be bold. In fact, with enough arrogance, you could probably give the presentation in your briefs, wearing a chicken on your head.

Though life is probably a little easier when your boss is label-owner/lunatic Mike Patton (a guy known for drinking urine out of his own boot while on stage), Miguel Depedro, aka kid606 (yes, that's how he spells his name these days), has truly resold the Taco Bell Chihuahua, as it were. That is, for being such an "experimental" artist, Kid doesn't really offer the listener anything new -- Kill Sound Before Sound Kills You was six years in the making, but you could say that about all of his music. However, as with almost every kid606 release, Kill Sound Before Sound Kills You is completely unique; he combines every style of "electronic" music devised over the last twenty-five years.

"The Illness (Album Mix)" bounds out of the gate with a revivalist minister sample, a mantra that will become evident for the next 52 minutes: "They say the meek will inherit the earth, but that's a damn lie; the freaks gonna inherit the earth. Can I get an amen?!" The track is spastic to say the least, offering layers of canonical squelching acid lines, one old school break after another, often mixed together, and the "whoo / yeah" James Brown sample rendered ubiquitous by Rob Base's "It Take's Two". How does Kid pull it off? He reverses it so the "yeah" precedes the "whoo", and guess what? It turns out that the sample was actually the Roadrunner, sticking his tongue out. Genius. After the slightly more hyperactive "Who Wah Kill Sound", Depedro shows that he hasn't lost his soft side, dropping in the sliced-up guitar/string driven "Andy Warhol is Dead But We Still Have Hope". The calm, however, is short-lived. "Ecstasy Motherf**ker" is every anti-raver's dream -- you could easily dance yourself to death trying to keep up with this nearly nine-minute blazer. High-pitched chants of "beat goes boom, boom, boom / beat goes bip, bip, bip", "Yo, give me something to dance to" and "You're some jumping motherf**kers" accompany the blinding BPM count (I can't hear anything above 240 BPM) and 303 basslines...and then it really takes off. Kid slices up B-grrl vocals ad nauseum, until a goddess of reason literally speaks the verdict: "I am a cliché / I am a cliché". To keep the "formula" fresh, "Buckle Up" features legendary marble-mouthed dance-hall toaster/DJ Wayne Lonesome, who spouts unintelligible-to-the-white-naked-ear lyrics that will have you desperately screaming your own (presumably misheard) lyrics -- mine are "Vaya Big Bird, we're gonna make you burn". Just when you thought drill and bass was passé, "Powerbookfiend" takes you to tempos unknown with gabber bass drums and, of course, a sampled DJ telling a crowd, "I told you to be ready for the sounds of the future". "I Think I'm Alone Now" serves as an interlude to the soon-to-be club classic "Woofer Wrecker", the best song The Prodigy never wrote; indeed, Kill Sound Before Sound Kills You's art nods to their Music for the Jilted Generation album art, with Kid606's alter-ego, Tiger Boy, cutting the bridge from a miserable polluted city to a Nirvana of music and dancing...bears?

At the first listen, Kill Sound Before Sound Kills You's dizzying speed and familiar sounds might catch you off guard, but get over it. Kid606 could talk you into thinking Pippi Longstocking is cool, plaid works with stripes and that the Tooth Fairy exists. Again, the moral is simple: if you can ignore what everyone tells you and insist you are right, you'll always win.

Love it from beginning to end!
varied in beats and rhythms just GREAT!

Well, I've read good reviews of this album and would like to hear it... but I'm sick of getting ripped off with the $15 gambles. There are no sample clips online here, nor on the record label's web site. Actually, Amazon seems to be the ONLY place to even buy this cd - I've looked in 3 stores, no one had it. Here's some advice to Kid606 - sample clips sell cd's, get some online. Otherwise what's to stop people from downloading the mp3's for free?