- Chicagoan Chrissy Murderbot is behind the dizzying My Year of Mixtapes project, 52 DJ sets that roamed all over but whose true heart was in the breaks-and-bass mutations of the first half of the '90s. Murderbot's label Sleazetone issues music with the same basic thrust, as this EP demonstrates in spades.
Kanji Kinetic is from Bristol, so he's no stranger to rave history, and "Thrill Seeka" offers an ingenious twist to the spate of early jungle redux we've heard lately: The twittering helium diva here is none other than Lil Wayne. It's a perfect lift: Wayne's mixtape track "I Feel Like Dying" is like '93 darkcore made back into the hip-hop it took off from. Kinetic spins it back faster again, with Wayne now chanting, "I feel like dying, I feel like dying," like he's made up his own words to the ice cream truck parked outside. Kinetic's original is very Euro-hardcore, with scraping synth riffs reminiscent of Human Resource, but its 3D kick drums bring it into the present day. He turns that trick even further out on "Scatter," the EP's finale, which commingles Euro-blaring rhythm riffs and 4 Hero-style pitch-shifted drums to eye-popping effect.
Both "Seeka" remixes are strong. New Yorker Kingdom furthers his hot streak with a shadowboxing subwoofer workout; a gaseous hands-in-the-air keyboard riff surfacing about three minutes in makes it even ravier. Krazy Fiesta's mix is more carnivalesque, a liquid, tropical bounce with sharp snares and Wayne's chant tap-dancing all over it. An also-ran in this company, "Griefer" gives dubstep wobble some heat and energy.
Tracklist A1 Thrill Seeka (Kingdom Remix)
A2 Thrill Seeka (Krazy Fiesta Remix)
B1 Thrill Seeka
B2 Griefer
B3 Scatter