RUFIGE KRU - MALICE IN WONDERLAND

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DON'T BELIEVE THE HYPE

― strongohulkington, Monday, 26 March 2007 13:31 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.globalprblogweek.com/images/2005/tmurphy_pr_hype_cycle_small.gif

― fandango, Monday, 26 March 2007 13:39 (nineteen years ago)

haven't heard any RK since 'beachdrifta' (great!)...is 'monkey boy' any good?

'Malice In Wonderland' appears to sample Adam F's 'Metropolis'. 'Vanilla' sounds better tho - kinda different (but i've not been keeping up at all).

― blueski, Monday, 26 March 2007 13:56 (nineteen years ago)

I've missed this sound!

― blueski, Monday, 26 March 2007 13:56 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.nndb.com/people/855/000086597/___goldie-sm.jpg

― am0n, Monday, 26 March 2007 14:03 (nineteen years ago)

let us not forget the simply awful Nazareth LP of the same name...

― henry s, Monday, 26 March 2007 14:07 (nineteen years ago)

i liked that krush song that sampled organized konfusion

― artdamages, Monday, 26 March 2007 14:09 (nineteen years ago)

it's actually not bad at all! but it just sounds like every other metalheadz record from the last five years! gorgeously produced "cinematic" intro, HUGE "SCARY" DROP, gorgeously produced "cinematic" breakdown, etc. (matos mentioned the other day that he's kinda entitled to milk the "HUGE 'SCARY' DROP" on every song thing since he all but invented it.) boring post-bad company drums and an almost erotic fetish to making everything else sound as big and lush and good as humanly possible. hive's "krush" kinda slays it eight-ways-from-sunday on this score. (seriously steve download that now if you haven't heard it already.)

i guess i can just see this snowballing from the k-punk/s.r. love into the year's "consensus" (ha ha, a consensus of about 10 people) non-dnb head record, which wouldn't necessarily be a bad thing. just kinda odd.

― strongohulkington, Monday, 26 March 2007 14:12 (nineteen years ago)

i heard they are touring with jesu

― artdamages, Monday, 26 March 2007 14:12 (nineteen years ago)

"they"

― am0n, Monday, 26 March 2007 16:48 (nineteen years ago)

roughage kru

― and what, Monday, 26 March 2007 17:13 (nineteen years ago)

I thought this was a thread about Wyclef and Lauryn Hill.

― Oilyrags, Monday, 26 March 2007 17:58 (nineteen years ago)

(there's only one of him)

article in Knowledge a month or so ago saying that he only really got back into making music seriously after breaking his leg (horribly) on that Channel 4 athletics gameshow thing. his recent MAH(?) interview was interesting too, playing 3 of his influences:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/maryannehobbs/tracklistingarchive.shtml?20070302

Goldie
Dom, Rob & Goldie - 'Distorted Dreams' (Desired State remix) (Moving Shadow)
Junior Marvin - 'Police and Thieves' (Island)
Goldie - 'Jah The Seventh Seal' (FFRR)
Can - 'Fall Of Another' (Spoon)
Goldie & Rob - 'The Shadow' (DanceNet)
Police - 'Walking On The Moon' (A & M)
Rufige Kru - 'Malice In Wonderland' (Metalheadz)

― koogs, Monday, 26 March 2007 18:00 (nineteen years ago)

Junior Marvin the Martian

― am0n, Monday, 26 March 2007 18:07 (nineteen years ago)

boring post-bad company drums

do not want

― Jordan, Monday, 26 March 2007 18:09 (nineteen years ago)

i dunno, it can be okay. cf. that krush track.

― strongohulkington, Monday, 26 March 2007 18:11 (nineteen years ago)

oh i guess i can't make bad jokes about nu hipster metal

― artdamages, Monday, 26 March 2007 19:14 (nineteen years ago)

I've heard the recent 12 inch, it didn't sound like Bad Company drums so much as like a harder, slightly better vcrsion of Digital circa 2001 - interesting, loud-sounding loops but nothing done with them. Is that consistent across the album?

Steve is OTM - "Beachdrifta" was lovely.

― Tim F, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 00:25 (nineteen years ago)

tim i would basically say that if you're at all familiar with metalheadz post-2000 output, minus amit style dub-n-b or maybe the trancier stuff like danny c, you'll not be much surprised.

― strongohulkington, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 00:27 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah I expected as much. I still feel compelled to buy it though, it's that whole Rufige Kru association innit - this is surely 90% of what's motivating Reynolds/K-Punk to embrace it if they are. Although Reynolds was 100% OTM w/r/t Ring of Saturn. I wish he'd made a full album right at that moment.

You're right that the sound of these tracks is awesome, super-lush and maximal and just bursting out of the speakers. So I should listen to the Hive for more of that?

― Tim F, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 00:38 (nineteen years ago)

yeah hive's "krush" is probably the ne plus ultra of that whole sound for me. there are some pretty great moments on the "welcome to violence" comp off violence (hive's label).

― strongohulkington, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 00:42 (nineteen years ago)

a lot of this stuff is just like a less cheesy version of "dead man walking" or "submarines" though, really

― strongohulkington, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 00:43 (nineteen years ago)

also you can hear "krush" on his myspace page

http://www.myspace.com/djhive

― strongohulkington, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 00:45 (nineteen years ago)

christ i could listen to that intro all day

― strongohulkington, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 00:51 (nineteen years ago)

christ i could listen to that intro all day

strongohulkington on Monday, March 26, 2007 8:51 PM (Yesterday)

in that case, you may want to check out every tune by Kryptic Minds and Leon Switch...

― Jah Q Areas, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 20:46 (nineteen years ago)

i am familiar, yes.

― strongohulkington, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 20:56 (nineteen years ago)

the flip off beachdrifta was cool too if memory serves. stormtroopa or something haha

― The Macallan 18 Year, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 22:03 (nineteen years ago)

What in god's name happened to the 0=0 Planet Mu album? I was so anticipating that what two years ago now and then pffft nothing. What a flakey guy.

― Alex in SF, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 23:41 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.myspace.com/4960507

Haha uh oh the blog post asking other people to finish his tracks for him doesn't seem to be a good sign.

― Alex in SF, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 23:44 (nineteen years ago)

speaking of metalheadz ... what did you all think of the back-to-basics "drum and bass headhunterz" comp?

― moonship journey to baja, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 06:08 (nineteen years ago)

oh i see, you are all fake junglists

― moonship journey to baja, Friday, 30 March 2007 03:06 (nineteen years ago)

had all the good tracks on it already

― blueski, Friday, 30 March 2007 09:35 (nineteen years ago)

Hive = shite borderline heavy metal nonsense - see also Concord Dawn, Pendulum

Monkey Boy is vastly, vastly superior to Malice in Wonderland. Vanilla is not bad but a wee bit dull.

Decibel Ridge by D-Bridge on the Drum'n'bass Headhunterz compliation is astounding. "Scar" and "Infamous" are the next releases and they''re both quite good.

DnB on the whole is the strongest it's been this millenium (admittedly not saying much) and there's loads of good stuff by Bungle, Breakage, Calibre (as always), Seba/ Alaska/ Paradox, Commix and State of Mind that straddles the fine line between the boring liquid (which, in contrast to its name, is a strangely dry sound) and the headbanging funkless toytown whoosh-core . DJ wise, check Flight and Bailey as a lot of the established names ( Grooverider, Fabio et al) have fallen off big time. J Majik and Blame remain ghastly and therefore remain two of the biggest falls from grace by any artist in any genre ever. Bukem is, well, Bukem and Dillinja is still over-rated to fuck.

For amusement, check Doc Scott's myspace and his heart rending confesion that he strayed off the path in 2001 -3 but has now rediscovered his first love again. It's actually quite nice. If only almost every other established name in DnB would have a similar epiphany, however.

― Iain Macdonald, Friday, 30 March 2007 20:30 (nineteen years ago)

"Big shout to the people who have shown some love on my myspace,
just wanna say that I KNOW i lost my way from late 2003 to early 2005,
playing tunes that i should n't have been playing."

Haha well you've got the dates a bit wrong, but yeah.

― Alex in SF, Friday, 30 March 2007 20:40 (nineteen years ago)

I got that Breakage full-length, I like it a lot (at least the d&b side) but wasn't blown away or anything.

Man, I wish Equinox would slap a whole bunch of tracks on cd and call it an album, shit.

― Jordan, Friday, 30 March 2007 21:05 (nineteen years ago)

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