Release Date: Spring 2005
Murderbot - Fi You / Twilight Zone
This Side:
1) Fi
You
That Side:
1) Twilight
Zone
By night this mild mannered 22 year old grad student from
Kansas City named Chrissy becomes the mysterious party-mashing
junglist known as Murderbot. "I got into electronic music pretty
early" says Murderbot, who has been playing out at parties since
the tender age of 12. "I
am an OBSESSIVE record collector--it's a sickness. My favorite jungle
label is Tearin' Vinyl. I had a poem about the
amen break published
in XLR8R once...it was cute." While Music & Program
Director at KJHK, the college station at the University of Kansas, Chrissy
hosted a radio show of obscure "pre-techno experimental disco" called
Superdisco Galactica. "I have never broken a bone, unless
you count my skull, which I've cracked open twice. I ate a peanut
butter & marshmallow
cream sandwich (aka a "fluffernutter") for lunch
EVERY SINGLE SCHOOL DAY from the start of kindergarten until my high
school graduation. It was partially because I liked them, and partially
to prove a point." Murderbot is currently proving the point that
classic, mashup, ragga-jungle is the shit. While the music
had its heyday in mid-'90s U.K., it never caught on in the USA,
and this record is documentation that it's alive and well in Middle America
ten years on. Like the very best classic jungle tunes, Murderbot's
complex—yet
precisely composed—drum
programming, and keen sense of harmonic structure, make for tracks that
murder the dance-floor and mashup the brain.
"Murderbot demonstrates just how strong his next-generation ragga-core
kung-fu skills are on "Fi You," while also demonstrating a
strong sense of musical dynamics with his ballsy use of Jethro Tull's "Cross
Eye Mary"
to build up the tension before the killer breakbeats on "Twilight
Zone."
- Howard Shih, Grooves Magazine
"Kansas City's Murderbot is one of the U.S.'s leading ragga jungle
producers and "Fi You" blends Waterhouse vocal samples with
rattling amens. Headz who'll play anything from Luke Vibert's Plug to
Congo Natty plates should check [this] inventive disc..."
- DJ Chopper, XLR8R Magazine
"Fucking hellfire - Mashit 6&7!! Goddamn - the next 2 Mashit
12s are fucking SMOKING man! I'm battling the urge to play all tracks
from both back-to-back on the radio show, I swear. They're all off the
hinges mate, seriously. Oh yes - these are gonna get fucking RINSED in
coming weeks! Peace - and much props!"
- Mr. Trick, Rhythm Incursions, Resonance FM, London
More info at: www.murderbot.net |