it's easy to call a wawawa album 'great' or 'crazy', but this one exceeds those labels and pushes to the furthest superlative that the english language has to offer.



with rhythms and samples already akin to those of venetian snares' seminal works 'chocolate wheelchair album' and 'doll doll doll', wawawa proceeds to extend further into the abyss of overprocessing breaks and bass and spews out - for almost 50 minutes - what can only be explained as all the jungle/drum and bass records of the past 25 years squeezed through a narrow tube and relentlessly rearranged and reprocessed (of course with the classic kittycat touch to it).



if you liked the last wawawa album, you will like this one even more. the german mastermind has finally got his sound on lock, and he's unwilling to change - absolute insanity! and if that wasn't enough, the cd includes the special bonus track 'chocolate enema (minx mix)' - extended from the 'coveted apricity' compilation!



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However ugly the term, drill’n’bass still sounds perfect for Dylan “Jega” Nathan and hisjarringly abstract machine-gun beat collages. Sometimes his ultra-precise work is easier to appreciate as engineering rather than music, but here he’s fired up and on cracking form. Taken from his imminent “Spectrum” album, “Pitbull” is a layered confection of elegant cinematic melody, bruising hip-hop breaks and sense-shredding metallic junglism. The stealthy, spring-loaded clatter of “Carbon 60” seems to be fashioned out of ulta-light alloy, while “Intron V” and “Naem” are Aphex-tinged collisions of randomised rhythm and kindergarten melody. It no doubt all makes perfect sense to Nathan, but it remains disturbingly beautiful to untuned ears.