The new King Cannibal single So...Embrace The Minimum is out today. Just downloaded my copy from Amazon. It's DJ Magazine's Dubstep single of the month.
The title track has, IMHO, a bit of a house vibe to it- in parts it brings to mind Slam from their Headstates days. For Cannibal this is a pretty light, smooth tune with a very rich sound to it. It also makes me want to hop in the car and go cruise along the motorway at 2:00 am. No one does dark and scary quite like King Cannibal but So... coming on the heels of Virgo proves that there are more strings to his bow than just that.
Check out King Cannibal's MySpace page to have a listen to his tunes.
Monday, August 17, 2009
Thursday, August 13, 2009
Secondary Emergency
Two student nurses were threatened with rape by male intruders. They called police but it took four hours for them to respond, by which point the men had long since fled. The men told them,
'We are going to remember your faces and names, and next time, we are going to rape you'.
The police claimed that because the young women were behind a locked door, their case was prioritised as a "secondary emergency".
Their excuse? They were dealing with "a high volume of calls" at the time.
It turns out that the police force were struggling to cope with a mammoth 40 incidents at the time.
What's not said is how many of those "incidents" were violent crimes in progress - how many officers were working that evening- how many of those incidents were police responding to were actually the aftermath of a crime- what incidents were prioritised ahead of thugs threatening to rape young women in their own flat- that is, what exactly is a primary emergency- and how many of those 40 incidents were actually classified as primary emergencies?
Funny the questions professional journalists fail to ask.
'We are going to remember your faces and names, and next time, we are going to rape you'.
Their excuse? They were dealing with "a high volume of calls" at the time.
It turns out that the police force were struggling to cope with a mammoth 40 incidents at the time.
What's not said is how many of those "incidents" were violent crimes in progress - how many officers were working that evening- how many of those incidents were police responding to were actually the aftermath of a crime- what incidents were prioritised ahead of thugs threatening to rape young women in their own flat- that is, what exactly is a primary emergency- and how many of those 40 incidents were actually classified as primary emergencies?
Funny the questions professional journalists fail to ask.
King Cannibal Strikes Again
First music I've bought in absolutely ages- King Cannibal's Virgo and Call Me Mr Cold Blooded.
On the Virgo single the title track is, by Cannibal's standards pretty light and, dare I say it, bouncy. Murder Us, the B-side, is darker and more menacing by contrast. I actually like the lighter tone of Virgo, not what I was expecting but it works well.
Call Me Mr Cold Blooded (and brilliant B-side A Hundred Eyes Closed) is in a similar vein to the classic Arigami Style- like a horror movie for your ears. I don't know what specific genre of drum and bass you'd file this stuff under but the best way I can think of describing it is as the electronic equivalent of really dark heavy metal, Ministry or Nine Inch Nails gone jungle.
Looking forward to the coming release- S0...Embrace The Minimum out on August 16th.
Check out King Cannibal's MySpace page to have a listen to his tunes.
One last thing- someone should really hire this guy to score the soundtrack to a really scary horror movie, and make it twice as frightening.
On the Virgo single the title track is, by Cannibal's standards pretty light and, dare I say it, bouncy. Murder Us, the B-side, is darker and more menacing by contrast. I actually like the lighter tone of Virgo, not what I was expecting but it works well.
Call Me Mr Cold Blooded (and brilliant B-side A Hundred Eyes Closed) is in a similar vein to the classic Arigami Style- like a horror movie for your ears. I don't know what specific genre of drum and bass you'd file this stuff under but the best way I can think of describing it is as the electronic equivalent of really dark heavy metal, Ministry or Nine Inch Nails gone jungle.
Looking forward to the coming release- S0...Embrace The Minimum out on August 16th.
Check out King Cannibal's MySpace page to have a listen to his tunes.
One last thing- someone should really hire this guy to score the soundtrack to a really scary horror movie, and make it twice as frightening.
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