KING CANNIBAL SAYS…
Check out this months edition of Clash magazine to find an article written by myself on Japanese ‘pink cinema’. I often think if i had more time on my hands i’d like to set up a film blog taking about bad films i’ve seen and the odd obscure gems. Who knows maybe if this all goes to pot i may well do, but until then these are my first cinema thoughts to hit the printing press.
‘So… Embrace The Minimum’
Release date: 17th August
Not for nothing has Radio 1’s Mary-Anne Hobbs has already declared the music of Dylan Richards aka King Cannibal “too dark!” But with ‘So… Embrace The Minimum’ Richards takes a step back from the intensity of ‘Aragami Style’ and ‘Murder Us’ with a tune which uses its considerable energy for upliftment. “It’s really my take on what artists like Martyn are doing with dubstep,” Richards explains, “combined with my love of Detroit techno.”
Following on from the inner-city claustrophobia of ‘Murder Us’, ‘So…’ Richards tells us, is about taking “refuge in small pleasures in order to make the every day grind seem bearable. The ‘minimum’ of the title, he points out, “also ties in with the experience that gave birth to ‘Murder Us’ – the Berlin minimal techno scene.” It’s a superb tune and one which will give early adopters of King Cannibal’s trademark sound a little pause for thought. The darkness and paranoia is still there, but it feels more like dawn than pub chucking out time!
Over on the B, Richards calls in the considerable vocal talents of Daddy Freddy. This is maybe more what people expect from King Cannibal: “I ended up using a lot of static and noise weaved into the track to give it that grubby feel!”. As for Daddy Freddy, he took this deconstructed dancehall skirmish and its voodoo feel for “an exploration of violence” which sounds shockingly real.
When Eddie Temple-Morris heard King Cannibal’s debut single, “Aragami Style,” he loved it so much he added an section to his XFM show and called it “Remix Darkside” in his honour. Championed by The Bug, Bong Ra, Jagz Kooner, Strictly Kev, Kid 606, Knifehand Chop and Ebola, King Cannibal was recently personally requested by Liam Howlett to remix the Prodigy. His debut album, ‘Let The Night Roar’ is due Autumn ‘09 and the ground is already rumbling as it approaches. Get dark.
ZEN12248 (12″ released 17th August)
A
So… Embrace The Minimum
B
Dirt ft Daddy Freddy
Dirt (original mix)
KING CANNIBAL SAYS…
Friday 10th July 2009, Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London, UK.
To celebrate their 10th anniversary, the Association of Independent Music is putting on a week of all-you-can-eat indie goodness of music from a different independent record label each night of the week.
Ninja Tune is hosting the Friday night with the one and only Daedelus headlining, doing a live monome set. Doing a DJ and AV set will be DJ Food & DK, followed by King Cannibal and new Ninja signing Grasscut will play live. The night will also feature the magnificent Cursor Miner, aka the electro Syd Barrett, hopping over from Lo Recordings.
Tickets £11.50 and are selling fast so get yours quick!
KING CANNIBAL SAYS…
Two versions of the All Time Top Ten XFM session i recorded are now available , both the original 10 minute mix i submitted and the broadcast mix and interview which clocks in at about 16 minutes. Massive thanks to Eddy and his team.
download the All Time Top Ten Mix
download the All Time Top Ten Mix as broadcast with interview
tracklisting… Read the rest of this entry »
KING CANNIBAL SAYS…
A brief 10 minute mix i put together for Eddy Temple Morris’ ‘The Remix’ show will be on TONIGHTS show on XFM (thats Friday 12th) which starts at 10pm, actual time of this particular slot is 10.43pm. Asides the mix you can also hear an interview with myself too.
The idea of the mix, well… i guess the title ‘All Time Top Ten’ is explanation enough – plenty more then 10 tunes in the mix though
and i didn’t even touch of sooo many tunes i would have liked to included. Not one dubstep or dnb tune for a start.
Organized Konfusion – Releasing Hypnotical Gases
Goblin – Suspiria
Three 6 Mafia – Tear Da Club Up ‘97
Bikini Kill – Double Dare Ya
Sonic Youth – Eric’s Trip
Buial – Distant Lights
Gravediggaz – Mommy What’s A Gravedigga?
Mobb Deep – Shook Ones Part 2 (acapella)
I.F – Assault On Radical Radio
Pirates Of The Caribbean Vol. 1 – You Won’t Get Away
Lil Wayne – Go D.J (acapella)
Nas – Made You Look
Clipse – Grindin (instrumental)
Rodney O & Joe Cooley – DJ’s And MC’s
A Guy Called Gerald – Voodoo Ray
Kraftwerk – Numbers
Human Resource – Dominator
Apparat – Hot
Meat Beat Manifesto – Radio Babylon
Outlander – Vamp
Rhythm & Sound – Poor People Must Work (Carl Craig Remix)
Tyree – Acid Crash
Mike Dunn – So Let It Be House
Round One – I’m Your Brother (Chicago’s Twisted Mix)
Psyche – Crackdown
Rhythm Is Rhythm – It Is What It Is (Majestic Mix)
Mr Oizo – Bruce Willis Is Dead
L.A Style – James Brown Is Dead
4 Hero – Mr Kick’s Nightmare
Pylon – Cool
Spykidelic Says:
Here’s a bunch of mixes I recorded for various radio programs (mainly on Resonance FM) including Acid Armshouse, a tribute to both early Chicago House and Albert Hoffman.
KING CANNIBAL SAYS…
Busy busy times are Cannibal HQ at the moment what with final fine tuning of Let The Night Roar ,working on a number of remixes (notably including The Prodigy’s ‘Take Me To The Hospital’) and a long string of gigs. I found time to recently sit down and share some text based thoughts with http://bringthefiyah.blogspot.com/.
25 minute mix of new tracks, bootlegs and bits from the LP
KING CANNIBAL SAYS…
Here are a couple of videos i took over the course of last weekend. First up we have a slice of Ebola rocking the dancefloor at another amazing [dissident] event, followed by a bit i took talking on Wrong Music Radio with Ebola, Simply Red fan Judith Priest and Sorry (out of shot).
KING CANNIBALS SAYS..
Anyone for feasting on the flesh of my freshly dead mother?
Yeah? Then this Q&A with New Zealand blog Pollywannacracka is definitely one for you.
http://pollywannacracka.blogspot.com/2009/05/all-hail-kingnow-lets-feast-on-cannibal.html
SPYKIDELIC REMINISCES…
Quirky was a night I co-promoted with James Bignell and was resident DJ at for almost 2 years from 1993 – 1995. It took place at the Vox club a large warehouse space in Brixton. Acts booked to play included Autechre, Pan Sonic, Laika, Global Communication, Aphex Twin and Hafler Trio. The flyers were done by Paul Nicholson who designed the original Aphex logo and the album sleeve for Selected Ambient Works Vol. II. They were good times. (Thanks to Robin Rimbaud (Scanner) for uploading this flyer)
Doubleclick is bang to rights
KING CANNIBAL SAYS…
You can catch me in studio for The Wrong Music Radio Show on Monday the 4th of May alongside hosts Ebola, Sorry & Judith Priest. I think i’ll be doing a little live set along with dropping some new tunes of mine. The show will also have a recording of Warlock’s set from this coming Dissident this Saturday. You can check it out by tuning into soundartradio.org.uk and click on listen live. Or if you live in the Totnes area you can tune into 102.5fm. Show time is 10pm – midnight.
KING CANNIBAL SAYS AT LONG LAST…
TIME TO CLEAR UP THE STUDIO…
I’m really really happy with it, a proper mixture of 145bpm tracks, distorted dancehall, drone / doom, techstep textures, techno and sharp as fuck foley shit. (if i do say so myself) Guest slots from Daddy Freddy, Jahcoozi & Face-A-Face and a couple of others. The album is being mastered Friday week and expected to be released around late August early September on Ninja Tune, with a final single to precede it most likely around July or August.
Thanks to anyone who has helped out in anyway or even just got in touch to tell me they’ve been digging what they hear – shit like that means more then you know.
KING CANNIBAL SAYS…
Head over to dogsonacid where you can find a nice little interview with G.O.W contributer Doubleclick and Amon Tobin AKA Two Fingers.
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