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2002 |
Perilous 606 What better way to kick off Perilous 606 than with Kid 606’s latest effort. Titled The Action Packed Mentallist Brings You The Fucking Jams, the Kid is back with a selection of splatterpunk reworkings of various trashy pop songs. Like his last plunderphonic experiment, Freakbitchlickfly, Action Packed is released through the New Zealand-based front Violent Turd Records. Interestingly, getting these copyright-challenging plunderphonics pressed up onto vinyl and CD is a difficult business and the Kid has used a noted Australian-based pressing agent to get this and Freakbitchlickfly made up. Story has it that the first pressing of Freakbitchlickfly was all made and ready to be shipped by the USA pressing plant until the owner of the plant listened to the release and realised that it was unauthorised cut ups of Missy Elliott’s Get Yr Freak On, a record released by a major label that gave this particular pressing plant a lot of business. So, rather than ship the initial batch, they were destroyed. Welcome to the world of pre-emptive business strikes and copyright paranoia. Anyway, I have, yet again, digressed. Action Packed is not as good as Freakbitchlickfly but its hard to tell whether or not that is the result of the source material (Kylie etc) or the Kid’s increasingly aggressive laptop mash-ups. In a return to the style and sound of his earlier records, Action Packed is full of noisy amens, slabs of gabber, and the latest laptop DSP plugin effects – one track is even called Kiddy Needs A New Pair Of Laptops. At the other end of things, from wintery Auckland comes the next Sideways compilation on Stinky Jim’s label Round Trip Mars. Even Sideways Too, contributes its own bit of pop mashup with Pains People’s vibraphonic dub take on Destiny’s Child’s Jumpin Jumpin. Elsewhere the finest NZ downtempo crews are well represented with SJD, Jim’s own outfit Phase 5, Dooblong Tongdra, International Observer, Phelps & Munro and even Sydney’s own Tooth. Like its predecessor, Sideways Too has been assembled with cheeky interludes from Stinky, and flows nicely with a quirky Python-esque humour running through many of the tracks. Monty Python-dub? Check out www.flavour.co.nz for more details and expect local release shortly via Creative Vibes. On a local tip, Adelaide’s Tim Koch aka Thug has a new release out on the Sydney-based Aural Industries label. Not content with his recent release on UK-based Defocus, and running his own Surgery label, Tim has been very busy. The new release is a set of remixes done by some of the best names in the local electronic community, Quark Kent, Pimmon, Superscience, Telefonica, Patrick HAF’s Southern Outpost, as part of an internet remix thing. Actually these remixes are just the tip of the iceberg with a follow up collection due for release in a couple of months as well. Its another strong release for Aural Industries who only a few months back put out the acclaimed Goodbye Mr Henderson EP from Melbourne IDM producer Sense. And both Tim Koch and Sense will be playing live at Frigid on the long weekend Sunday of June 9, joined by new Surgery Records signing Epoq. Other than that, with winter descending faster than my remaining word limit, tune in to the 2SER annual Mosaic Mix broadcast on the long weekend Monday for a range of sets by some of Sydney’s more interesting DJs. Set the tape deck or CD burner up and get up to 24 mixes for use in your car or portable stereo for the next year. We, Sub Bass Snarl, will be playing around 9pm and will be putting together a special collection of sounds . . . . Yellow Peril (www.snarl.org)  Goto
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