{"id":1104,"date":"2009-01-07T22:11:11","date_gmt":"2009-01-07T21:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1104"},"modified":"2009-01-07T22:11:12","modified_gmt":"2009-01-07T21:11:12","slug":"king-cannibal-aragami-styleflowers-of-flesh-and-blood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1104","title":{"rendered":"king cannibal &#8211; aragami style\/flowers of flesh and blood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#160;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3371\/3177045101_617cdc0acc_b.jpg\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>&#160;<\/p>\n<p>as part of todays <u>ninja tune<\/u>\/<u>big dada<\/u> catch up exercise <a href=\"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1103\">i just mentioned<\/a>, i remembered that i had received a 2 track ep by new signing <strong>king cannibal<\/strong> aka zilla a few months ago.<\/p>\n<p>released last year i cannot believe how i missed out on the brilliance.<\/p>\n<p>known mainly for his cut-n-paste hip hop mixtapes, this debut ep on <u>ninja tune<\/u> is a masterful slab of hard and bass heavy production that has to be heard.<\/p>\n<p>i rarely detract my stereos settings from the flat response, but for some reason today prior to giving this another airing i turned up the bass a few notches, and damn, when the beat-n-bass kicked in i nearly fainted.<\/p>\n<p>intense, dark and disturbing, the lead track, <font color=\"#008080\">aragami style<\/font>, ducks and swerves through ever changing speaker crunching d-n-b beats, via moody vocal samples, bass booms, and a sense of impeding end of world doom.<\/p>\n<p>aural violence that distresses and messes with the listener.<\/p>\n<p>quite simply, it&#8217;s fucking amazing, and i&#8217;m sorry i missed out on spreading the word upon its release.<\/p>\n<p>the other track, <font color=\"#008080\">flowers of flesh and blood<\/font> steps up the atmosphere, while stripping back on the beats, injecting more darkness into the sonics making it remind this listener of the more moody parts of the <strong>hoodlum priest<\/strong> back catalogue (use of horror film sample\/choirs etc), before all acidic squiggle hell breaks loose.<\/p>\n<p>very special.<\/p>\n<p><u>more detail<\/u> : <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ninjatune.net\/ninja\/artist.php?id=140&amp;search=king+cannibal#1\">biography<\/a> &#8211; &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/godsofwar.wordpress.com\/\">blog<\/a> &#8211; &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ninjatune.net\/\">ninja tune<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#160; &#160; as part of todays ninja tune\/big dada catch up exercise i just mentioned, i remembered that i had received a 2 track ep by new signing king cannibal aka zilla a few months ago. released last year i cannot believe how i missed out on the brilliance. known mainly for his cut-n-paste hip [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-singles-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}