From Steve Taylor Sent Wed, Nov 4th 1998, 14:21
From Steve Taylor Sent Wed, Nov 4th 1998, 14:21
review of the new spymania in todays NME
MDK - Open Transport - Spymania Records, (spy08)
> There's a track called 'Do you want to be murdered?' that's like
> having
> hell cabled into your sitting room and another called 'Beige Toaster'
> that
> might once have been jazz. The sleeve thanks Noam Chomsky, Sebadoh,
> Deicide
> and Sizzla, and the disc inside sounds like Mike P and AFX on a mutual
> cannibilisation tip. This is MDK rumoured to stand for Murder Death
> Kill.
> You think you're in love? Oh, you probably are
> On Brighton's Spymania label, the secure unit of the drill'n'bass
> hospital, this is the noise to drive Norman Cook into his seafront
> home
> like a hunted fox. A 31-track swarm of fearless exuberance, 'Open
> Transport' is at least as clever as it thinks it is. Warp-speeding
> through
> the emergency ward slam of 'Sound of Saturday', the horrorcore skulk
> of
> 'Big Chill' and the comfortably dumb 'Ultimate Raver', it also
> self-medicates enough to daytrip in some lovely u-ziq landscapes. The
> death
> metal comes later.
> Yes, prolonged contact may leave you in a state of claymation
> meltdown,
> the faculty of speech a mere abstract concept. As track 18 would have
> it
> 'Urgggh'. Yet this is beautiful madness and MDK is fucking in Bedlam
> (8/10).
>
Steve
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