"the bug" -- what else?

it's dark and heavy but i don't think as forbidding or hard work as it's been made out to be. loving the flowdan and warrior queen tracks as expected but i think it's hard to beat tippa irie's performance on 'angry'

talking of warrior queen, check her cut on the heatwave's piano riddim, 'things change' <3

"prima fassy"

One of the all-time great usernames that.

'Skeng' comes up on my WMP list as 'Skene' which is sort of off-putting.

perhaps my problem is that Angry is just so good, the rest of the album falls off afterwards.
admitedly i do need to dedicate more time to this album

The new record is good, but it's not aggressive enough for me; I prefer the Killing Sound singles comp, billed to Razor X Productions (Kevin Martin w/the Rootsman).

One of the all-time great usernames that.

^^^this

I need to hear this but for me, over time, The Bug seems to have turned into something that's best experienced live - I've always had a total blast whenever him and Warrior Queen have played out

so weird, the first time i saw them live was at a house party for NYE 04/05, i think i drunkenly told warrior queen how amazing she was for about half an hour

what else should someone who likes king midas sound seek out of kevin martins? any of his 90s stuff? or any other ambient dub/reggae from other artists? KMS is really lovely.

There's some similar-ish stuff on Pressure (the Roger Robinson, Paul St Hilaire tunes obv.) Obviously Rhythm & Sound. The Pulshar is really good IMO.

KMS on some influences:
http://kingmidassound.blogspot.com/2009/11/texture-tone-and-grain.html

ta. would have thought massive attacks work with horace myself too but i guess thats obvious.

We published an interview with King Midas Sound (Kevin Martin, Roger Robinson and Hitomi) today and he plays down the Massive Attack comparison saying they were probably listening to the same albums as the Wild Bunch used to listen to when they were recording. Full interview here.

I know this probably constitutes spam but we've got a micromix of the album done by Kode 9 as well, which I thought may be of interest to hyperdub fans.

hes prob right, but it doesnt stop them sounding a bit similar (in a v good way).

"the difference between us and Tricky is that for one, Roger sings"

i think its more that hitomi has a presence like martina that create the tricky comparisons

http://www.factmagazine.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4031&Itemid=98

Nice.

Anyone happen to have the King Midas Sound FACT mix archived...?

anyone like the new ep, infected? i dig the reworkings of the two songs from london zoo.

interesting interview of him (by dj/rupture) in some journal called bomb magazine.

i'm more interested in the adrian sherwood collaborations that are due out sometime.

Acid Ragga is pretty great yes?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdWZqka5tqY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdWZqka5tqY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAaFUoiOM-Y

Is anyone at all repping for In Blue by The Bug ft. Dis Fig? It's been on my radar since the announcement (released last month), but I didn't listen/wasn't in the mood until I came across it again on Friday, while combing my Bandcamp wishlist for monochromatic album covers. Only listened to it once so far, but first impression was positive, if not exactly earthshattering. Gonna throw it on in a minute while I make lunch on a cold rainy Sunday, and try to form some more coherent impressions.

I also really vibed with his Dylan Carlson collab from 2017, Concrete Jungle, which seems to have gone unnoticed on ILM.

Yeah, I reviewed it a couple of weeks ago. I also wrote about the Dylan Carlson one.

I did a podcast interview with Martin this year. He's a great guy to talk to.

Good write-ups; I'll check out the podcast too.

I'm glad I'm not the only one hearing Basic Channel on In Blue!

no chat on the new one? It's big.

this release has proved to me i am no longer on the NT promo list.
though to be fair, i am not surprised.
just a strange feeling given that they were one of first labels to ever send me promos.

back on topic re album : yeah, what i have heard is indeed massive.
a definite step up from the middling 'angels and devils' album.

also, alongside the bug stuff, kevin has released a LOT in the last year.
the hardest working man in bass music ?

my eldest went to a thing a couple of years back cos Kevin was on the listings.
he managed to get a photo taken with him, and sent it to me just to piss me off.

i'm more interested in the adrian sherwood collaborations that are due out sometime.

― mark e

still nothing on this.
even within the on-u scene, there is nothing.
such a shame

The new album's great. Hearing him on various Bug projects has made me into a big fan of Flowdan. I've heard two of his own albums now and they're really good, especially 2019's Full Metal Jacket.

I enjoyed GOd and the Virgin label compilations that kevin martin curated a few years later but haven't really kept up with what he's done more recently.
So may need to catch up with his work.
Techno Animal were quite good too I think.

'People were no longer arrested for not being vaccinated, now they were just being terminated.'

I could do without this line.

*being terminated

this album is intense.
i f£cking love it.

It's heavy. "Fire" is right.

that dystopian voiceover bit on the intro sounded somewhat anti-vax or just plain bloody stupid and put me off listening further

so great. projecting some anti-vax bs onto this and thus not listening further is bloody stupid. jeezo!

Putting some corny intro with nonsense about executing people that refuse to be vaxxed is bs to me.

i choose to take it as an endorsement of executing anti-vaxxers, a highly sympathetic position, so i can enjoy the rest of the record

yeah that wouldn't be a too bad dystopia tbf!

I've probably wasted too much thought about this, but I don't see how anti-lockdown gels with anti-vaccine unless his idea is that the vaccination is an additional means to control the population, with like a microchip or something.

Honestly, it doesn't bug (ho ho) me that much as it's clearly an anti-authoritarian stance based on a near future scenario. If lockdowns are still going on three years from now, I'll be with Robinson. The world has caught up to the Martin/Broadrick's vision. 90s Techno Animal sounds as fresh as ever.

i didn't get that he was saying that at all but hey, i probably need my ears syringed. any anti-syringers can eff off.