Check out what Michaelangelo Matos at Resident Advisor has to say about Kanji Kinetic’s new “Thrill Seeka” EP on Sleazetone:
Chicagoan Chrissy Murderbot is behind the dizzying My Year of Mixtapes project, 52 DJ sets that roamed all over but whose true heart was in the breaks-and-bass mutations of the first half of the ’90s. Murderbot’s label Sleazetone issues music with the same basic thrust, as this EP demonstrates in spades.
Kanji Kinetic is from Bristol, so he’s no stranger to rave history, and “Thrill Seeka” offers an ingenious twist to the spate of early jungle redux we’ve heard lately… ["Thrill Seeka"] is very Euro-hardcore, with scraping synth riffs reminiscent of Human Resource, but its 3D kick drums bring it into the present day. He turns that trick even further out on “Scatter,” the EP’s finale, which commingles Euro-blaring rhythm riffs and 4 Hero-style pitch-shifted drums to eye-popping effect.
Both “Seeka” remixes are strong. New Yorker Kingdom furthers his hot streak with a shadowboxing subwoofer workout; a gaseous hands-in-the-air keyboard riff surfacing about three minutes in makes it even ravier. Krazy Fiesta’s mix is more carnivalesque, a liquid, tropical bounce with sharp snares and Wayne’s chant tap-dancing all over it.