Track Listing 1. Hell's Kitchen 2. U Ni Son - (featuring BlesteNation) 3. Cls - (featuring Mack/Youngblood) 4. Brain Dead Amphibian Twins 5. Rock Higher 6. Electro Space Modulator 7. Family - (featuring Werdplay) 8. D&B Beat Box, The 9. Junkyard Devotion 10. 80 Watt Parker 11. Bonus Round 12. Kings County - (featuring M'stro Manny) 13. Hijack the Disco - (featuring TC Izlam) 14. Numb - (featuring DK Of Ozmone)
| Details | | Contributing Artists: | BlesteNation, DK Of Ozmone, M'stro Manny, Mack, TC Izlam, Werdplay, Youngblood | | Producer: | Ming & FS | | Distributor: | Alternative Dis. Alliance | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes Personnel: Ming, FS (vocals, various instruments, programming); BLESTeNATION, Mack, Youngblood, Werdplay, M'stro Manny, M'stro Manny, TC Izlam, DK Of Omzone. The New York DJ duo of Ming & FS ups the ante on the recombinant future of electronic music. Blending together jungle, old-school hiphop, electro, and rock, HELL'S KITCHEN reveals Ming & FS to be accomplished mature musicians. Most of the 14 tracks are thematic buffets, with as many as five distinct themes squashed into a mere minute and a half. Ming & FS show technical mastery, emotional understanding, and production know-how of jungle and hiphop. They have coined a term for their sound: "Junkyard." Their junkyard sound combines contemporary urban musical dialects-the sampling and looping ethos of hiphop; the hyper-computerization and cold futurism of jungle; the occasionally kitsch but referential inclusion of dated samples, riffs, or moods-into a post-post-modern whole. From the frenetic opener "Hell's Kitchen" to the dark, melancholic closer "Numb," Ming & FS compress volumes of aural information into each track. The hallmark of HELL'S KITCHEN is its originality and ambition. Ming & FS have produced a remarkable debut album.
Editorial Reviews Ranked #22 in CMJ's Top 30 Editorial Picks [for 1999] - ...a unique, individual take on all things urban....They peg their style as 'junkyard.' We refer to it simply as 'brilliant'. CMJ (01/10/2000)
...some of the most comprehensively New York music I've heard....forges the aural equivalent of walking down Canal Street on a humid summer day... The Wire (11/01/1999)
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