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Kid606 - Down with the Scene

Primary Artist
Kid606
Album Title
Down with the Scene
Release Date
June 20, 2000 
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Review by John Bush
Fortunately, Kid606's first album for the (comparatively) high-profile Ipecac Recordings proves just as uncompromising, schizophrenic, and hilarious as his previous recordings, ridden with blasts of skull-cracking static, breakbeat noise, and tortured found-sound vocal samples -- all digitally processed to within an inch of their lives. From the R&B-goes-hardcore "Secrets 4 Sale" (with vocals by label associate Mike Patton) to song titles like the IDM-baiting "Luke Vibert Can Kiss My Indie-Punk Whiteboy Ass," "It'll Take Millions in Plastic Surgery to Make Me Black," "GQ on the EQ," "Two Fingers in the Air Anarchy Style," and "My Kitten," Kid606 injects a much-needed sense of humor into the experimental/hardcore scene. Read More