King Midas Sound "Cool Out" EP Bug/Flying Lotus

godflesh fiend · Post by **godflesh fiend** » Thu May 21, 2009 6:09 pm

Just picked this up today and it's awesome stuff indeed!

I've been a big Kevin Martin fan since his work with Justin Broadrick years ago on God, Ice and Techno Animal so always look to a new release by him.......in the faint hope Justin will enter the Dubstep foray!

This release is awesome and I must say Roger Robinson does indeed have an angelic voice as I was sure it was a woman when I first heard it. It sounds even more feminine than Horace Andy's vocals. Martin & Robinson is a great combo and I really am looking forward to the album.

The EP also features two great remixes by none other than Flying Lotus and Dabyre. After hearing Dabyre's remix I'll definately be on the look out for more of his work.

Below is some info courtesy of Piccadilly Records on this release.......

"King Midas Sound is Kevin 'The Bug' Martin and the angelically-voiced Roger Robinson, who first came together on The Bug's 2003 Rephlex LP "Pressure". With Martin taking a more blissed out, but equally deranged approach from that of his new epic Bug album "London Zoo", the King Midas Sound is 21st Century jilted lovers rock. Graced and defined by Roger's sweet, sweet vocals, "Cool Out" is a hymn to the ever persistent ghosts and mutations of Jamaican sound system culture. The track first surfaced on Kode9's Sonar mix in 2007, and has been heavily in demand ever since. If that wasn't enough, this EP also features two previews for the forthcoming King Midas Sound album, in the form of remixes by two producers known for sending their off-beats into orbit. Dabyre's rendition of "One Ting" laces his funk with unexpected and shrill shards of early Detroit techno, while Flylo (as we like to call him)captures the essence of "Lost" with a suicidal Japanese monologue and dysfunctional bleeps and crunches. Another tale of the unexpected from Hyperdub and taster of the forthcoming KMS album due later in 2008."

cargo records · Post by **cargo records** » Thu May 21, 2009 10:49 pm

King Midas Sound
Dub Heavy - Hearts And Ghosts EP

pre-order here : http://www.cargorecords.co.uk/release/8321

Format: Vinyl 12" EP
Catalogue Number: HDB021
Label: Hyperdub
Release Date: 1 June 2009

As a seductive taster and spectral glimpse of the forthcoming King Midas Sound full length, ‘Dub Heavy - Hearts And Ghosts’ is an EP of three of that album’s tracks dubbed into new alien versions. King Midas Sound is the duo of Kevin Martin, known for his groundbreaking work over the last decade as The Bug, teamed with Roger Robinson, reputed writer and spoken word performer.

The pair first worked together in 2003 on The Bug’s ‘Pressure’ album, but within these King Midas grooves, the visceral drive characteristic of The Bug’s fevered sound is replaced by deeper core energies, and graced with Robinson’s gentle soul lilt, the combination is blissfully, crushingly powerful. On these tunes, song structure and vocal are intoxicated with unsettling fx and consumed with reverb, pressing the music into haunting and unfamiliar territory. ‘I Dub’ marries booming bass and gaseous echo to grime hand-claps and a tense chilling melody. Centrepiece ‘Ting Dub’ fuses ominous distant sirens, shifting vocal streams, decelerated hip hop boom bap and a geologic subsonic rumble into a wraith-like miasma, while on ‘Too Long Dub’, the sinister chiming pendulum motif and decaying vocals dissolve into a delirious haze of toxic audio reflections. Burning like an endless fuse, this special release will be available only for a limited period, pressed on high grade 180g heavy guage vinyl, and is also Hyperdub’s first ever individually artworked 12”, housed in a photo jacket with gold-embossed detail.

computer rock · Post by **computer rock** » Thu May 21, 2009 10:52 pm

if you like dabrye you should check this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJW2m3QnS7w
unbelievable remix

the instrumental is on the 12" as well.

the acid never lies · Post by **the acid never lies** » Thu May 21, 2009 11:19 pm

big tings!

godflesh fiend · Post by **godflesh fiend** » Fri May 22, 2009 4:14 pm

cargo records wrote:King Midas Sound
Dub Heavy - Hearts And Ghosts EP

pre-order here : http://www.cargorecords.co.uk/release/8321

Format: Vinyl 12" EP
Catalogue Number: HDB021
Label: Hyperdub
Release Date: 1 June 2009

Awesome.

Will be picking that up when it drops!

That MF Doom Dabrye track is cool for cats.

rizzo · Post by **rizzo** » Fri May 22, 2009 7:00 pm

is there any audio around?

godflesh fiend · Post by **godflesh fiend** » Fri May 22, 2009 9:33 pm

rizzo wrote:is there any audio around?

www.piccadillyrecords.co.uk

Type in King Midas Sound is the search bar and you'll be able to hear snippets of the songs.

wolf89 · Post by **wolf89** » Sat May 23, 2009 12:45 am

Great EP

Love the Dabrye remix especially.

Anyone who hasn't heard much Dabrye yet he's definately worth checking out.

Dope producer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sB_w40rL4nI&fmt=18

rizzo · Post by **rizzo** » Wed May 27, 2009 6:51 pm

Godflesh Fiend wrote:
rizzo wrote:is there any audio around?
www.piccadillyrecords.co.uk

Type in King Midas Sound is the search bar and you'll be able to hear snippets of the songs.

thanks

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King Midas Sound "Cool Out" EP Bug/Flying Lotus

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