Monday, 25th of November, 2002

Recommended by the incomparable Mr Donna Summer (see a couple of entries below - he (Jason) also recommended Randomnumber too), comes a Japanese breakcore monster by Ove Naxx. If you know the brothers Com.A & Joseph Nothing, you will have some idea of the Squarepusher-inspired madness that can emanate from Japan. Still, they don’t compare, in my view, with Ove Naxx. His new album, ovnx shoot accel core has dub-tinged jungle, weird samples and dicky synthesisers, crazy breakbeat programming and always a sense of musicality holding it together. Highlights are “miburounin” (with cut-up heavy metal guitar & drum samples, a rap-metal vocal that sounds like a Japanese Mike Patton (or maybe Yamatsuka Eye come to think of it)), “wabisabi violence” (with its ragga vocal sample, hardcore meets jungle beats, and ethnic loop), “jungle riot” (real reggae samples and casio-keyboard reggae melody with distorted jungle breakbeats - oh so yummy) and “ragga dub tackle” (similarly sped-up reggae-meets-jungle to “jungle riot”). It’s an absolute ball.

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