Although his Ambush label may have all the look and feel of an imprint that specializes only in simplistic, pummeling breakbeat/hardcore, DJ Scud's productions are as innovative and nuanced as any experimental-techno artist. Ambush!, a collection of material that actually spans seven different labels, finds him in good company with cohorts like Panacea or Shizuo. As industrial and chaotic as those, but with more ideas as well as remnants of jungle's pre-history in the Jamaican dancehall, Scud's tracks are studded with split ...
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Although his Ambush label may have all the look and feel of an imprint that specializes only in simplistic, pummeling breakbeat/hardcore, DJ Scud's productions are as innovative and nuanced as any experimental-techno artist. Ambush!, a collection of material that actually spans seven different labels, finds him in good company with cohorts like Panacea or Shizuo. As industrial and chaotic as those, but with more ideas as well as remnants of jungle's pre-history in the Jamaican dancehall, Scud's tracks are studded with split-second changes that barely register before disappearing. Even his reworking of Asian Dub Foundation's "Witness" replaces the hook with dozens of distorted sirens, whistles, breaks, and dancehall chants. Versions of his classics "Kill or Be Killed" and "Deliver Me" are more cleanly produced, but still have all the energy of the originals. Rephlex deserves much credit for exposing the work of post-hardcore innovators like Scud and Sound Murderer to the electronic-listening public. ~ John Bush, Rovi
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