Kid606 - The Illness EP

Kid606, after tearing electro, noise, IDM, punk and hip-hop into tatters on his mindfuckingly brilliant 2000 album Down With the Scene, is back with a brand new batch of genre-bending songs that have been swirling inside the Kid’s laptop for some time. And they’ll have to sit and smolder there for awhile longer. Although Kid606’s latest full-length, Kill Sound Before Sound Kills You, is scheduled to be released in the coming months, he adds this five-song teaser to his wrath of EPs and singles to mount anticipation as much as it pleases your audio appetite. The Illness begins with the dance floor detonating glitched-out grooves of “The Illness 12” Mix,” a track that promises Kid606 has only sharpened his sonic scalpel that melds sounds into a beautifully chaotic mess. The opening track is the highlight of the EP, but the nine-minute, epilepsy-triggering “Ecstasy Motherfucker” is a close second as the track twitches violently at 160 beats per minute with enough body-writhing venom to make any DJ drool. The Illness may only be a teaser EP for an upcoming project, but Kid606’s chaotic musical meltdowns shed more sparks and ignite more excitement than nearly every other laptop-totting IDMer. If one thing’s clear, it’s that Kid606 prescribes an illness that I certainly don’t want to find the cure for. [www.tigerbeat6.com]