King Midas Sound "Cool Out" EP Bug/Flying Lotus
Posted: 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."
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."