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DJ Scotch Egg, "KFC Core"
Likea sweet and sour sauce that's been haphazardly whipped together, KFC Coremanages to balance its hard, aggro side with its silly, playful side,despite the lack of effort that seems to have gone into some of theconstruction.
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This is aparty record built principally on the joke that its author and hisfriends love KFC and are willing to write songs about it. Sure, it's astupid premise, but DJ Scotch Egg isn't aiming for anything highconcept or deeply moving here. The tracks are all built around abackbone of skipping gabber beats and distorted noise and screamingmixed with video game melodies and 8-bit synth sounds, and while thecombination doesn't immediately sound inviting on paper—it works. What results is a fun, bouncy record that moves quicklybetween songs and interludes and manages tap into just the right amountof absurd energy to be worth listening to again and again. There aresome self-indulgent moments that take the KFC joke a little too far(like the hidden track at the end of the record that is a severalminute long conversation about KFC and Hare Krishnas and so on), butfor the most part even the forced theme and the juvenile humor don'tcome off as too overbearing. I've already picked out several tracksfrom this record to throw into my own DJ sets, which is certainly asign that DJ Scotch Egg has gotten something right here. I imagine thata crate full of records like this one that are fun but bordering ondisposable would get old really quickly, and to the gabber andspeedcore/breakcore aficionados out there, all of this may be old news,but I found KFC Core to be the perfect antidote to hardelectronic music that takes itself too seriously. There's a time forthat, but there's a time for this too, and right now I'm bouncing to aremix of the Tetris theme and I can't help but smile.
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