From Steve Taylor Sent Wed, Nov 4th 1998, 14:21
review of the new spymania in todays NME MDK - Open Transport - Spymania Records, (spy08) > There's a track called 'Do you want to be murdered?' that's like > having > hell cabled into your sitting room and another called 'Beige Toaster' > that > might once have been jazz. The sleeve thanks Noam Chomsky, Sebadoh, > Deicide > and Sizzla, and the disc inside sounds like Mike P and AFX on a mutual > cannibilisation tip. This is MDK rumoured to stand for Murder Death > Kill. > You think you're in love? Oh, you probably are > On Brighton's Spymania label, the secure unit of the drill'n'bass > hospital, this is the noise to drive Norman Cook into his seafront > home > like a hunted fox. A 31-track swarm of fearless exuberance, 'Open > Transport' is at least as clever as it thinks it is. Warp-speeding > through > the emergency ward slam of 'Sound of Saturday', the horrorcore skulk > of > 'Big Chill' and the comfortably dumb 'Ultimate Raver', it also > self-medicates enough to daytrip in some lovely u-ziq landscapes. The > death > metal comes later. > Yes, prolonged contact may leave you in a state of claymation > meltdown, > the faculty of speech a mere abstract concept. As track 18 would have > it > 'Urgggh'. Yet this is beautiful madness and MDK is fucking in Bedlam > (8/10). > Steve Horse Opera - '3 Cornered Room' LP/CD out Now. Planet mu records, Distributed by SRD Horse Opera Webpage - mp3s online http://freespace.virgin.net/kung.funk/