Music, musings and miscellanea

Yesterday, one of my new obsessions, Babe Rainbow aka Cameron Reed tweeted about mysterious producer Kids & Explosions, “who makes songs by stealing other people’s songs and making them worse.” He had in turn heard about through Gorillavsbear.

Kids & Explosions are basically Girl Talk’s bratty little brother and Shit Computer is basically a kick to Greg Gillis’s hairy face. Like Girl Talk Kids & Explosions boldly mixes well-know indie and classic rock riffs with hip-hop verses. But where  Gillis kind of just beat-matches and then lets it ride (particularly on 2008′s Feed the Animals), Kids & Explosions grabs the tunes by the collective balls and manipulates them to his own whims, chopping and cutting them up until they resemble something else entirely. So while there’s still the joy of recognition with each new sample that’s introduced, but the whole is far more than the sum of its parts.

Yeah, yeah, without Girl Talk, Kids & Explosions probably wouldn’t even exist, but so is life in the pop-culture hype machine. I stand by what I said until Gillis drops a new record blah, blah blah, whatever. Listen and enjoy.

UPDATE: A quick Google search has revealed that Kids & Explosions is, in fact, Josh Raskin, the Toronto director who made the Oscar nominated short I Met the Walrus.

Shit Computer can be gotten here. It’s pay-what-you-can.

Kids & Explosions – There Is a Burning Ball of Fire in Outter Space