Like
a sweet and sour sauce that's been haphazardly whipped together, KFC Core
manages to balance its hard, aggro side with its silly, playful side,
despite the lack of effort that seems to have gone into some of the
construction.
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This is a
party record built principally on the joke that its author and his
friends love KFC and are willing to write songs about it. Sure, it's a
stupid premise, but DJ Scotch Egg isn't aiming for anything high
concept or deeply moving here. The tracks are all built around a
backbone of skipping gabber beats and distorted noise and screaming
mixed with video game melodies and 8-bit synth sounds, and while the
combination doesn't immediately sound inviting on paper—it works. What results is a fun, bouncy record that moves quickly
between songs and interludes and manages tap into just the right amount
of absurd energy to be worth listening to again and again. There are
some self-indulgent moments that take the KFC joke a little too far
(like the hidden track at the end of the record that is a several
minute long conversation about KFC and Hare Krishnas and so on), but
for the most part even the forced theme and the juvenile humor don't
come off as too overbearing. I've already picked out several tracks
from this record to throw into my own DJ sets, which is certainly a
sign that DJ Scotch Egg has gotten something right here. I imagine that
a crate full of records like this one that are fun but bordering on
disposable would get old really quickly, and to the gabber and
speedcore/breakcore aficionados out there, all of this may be old news,
but I found KFC Core to be the perfect antidote to hard
electronic music that takes itself too seriously. There's a time for
that, but there's a time for this too, and right now I'm bouncing to a
remix of the Tetris theme and I can't help but smile.
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