Cobra Killer, Cobra killer (DHR) CD
You know how some things can make you laugh for ages? Well, this from
the press release did it for me: "...in the Cobra Killer universe it
was at the top for 23 weeks and stopped Take Twat having their 14th
consecutive number 1." I'm chuckling even now. The song in question is
"Six secs", one of a number of highlights on this charity shop
sample/loop/scream extravaganza stapled together by Gina (EC8OR) and
Annika (Shizuo). On the one hand it's exactly like all the other DHR
releases: speed, distortion and shouting, but on the other it's
completely unlike everything else on the label because the sample
sources are so different. This time it's not rampant hardcore jungle
at the double, instead the songs are based on much tamer pop breaks
and it sounds FRESH! Like the recent Solex LP recorded off a radio
with bad reception onto wax cylinders or the Shizuo record with the
wrong sample disk, it's a mix-match of snippets of the familar cobbled
together with revolutionary zeal. The technique and technology are
rudimentary but the result is extraordinary. Unequivocally the best
record on Digital Hardcore in ages.
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