KMFDM vs Pig and Kettel

Hi everybody. Compiler here. Bottle's working on a different album review, but i just learned it's KMFDM vs. PIG's 24th birthday today. I have that album, let's listen to it. 


I'm not good at the word things, i'm more of a smash things together and let it speak for itself kind of guy. This EP is like that, it's Raymond, Sascha, and Svet Am making a few songs together. 

Now, Raymond Watts may or may not show up for any KMFDM thing, but it's pretty great when he does. The bad word counter goes crazy, and the sleaze becomes palpable. 

My favorite sample is "witchcraft has invaded the government...." Bottle's favorite sample is "America, you can change the laws to suit you...." 

Most people won't rank this very high in either discography. Bottle might say that's because most people are brain-dead backwater hillbillies, but he'd be joking. You wouldn't think he's joking, but he is. 

I'm rambling too much. How does he do this every night and still manage to sound coherent? 

20 minutes of head bobbing industrial dance music with samples that will offend your delicate sensibilities. What's not to like? Trust me, I've heard the album he's reviewing next and this is like Vivaldi compared to that mind melting nightmare of elecronic flotsam and jetsom. Thanks for your time, i'll C myself out....


... Fee, fie, foe, futer, someone's been sitting at Bottle's computer. 

Seriously, the chair's all messed up, and the screen's crooked. Ew, gross! Is that Cheeto dust in a puddle of Mountain Dew?! I'm looking at you, Corkscrew, you filthy animal. I demand Justice! 

On second thought, we'll save Justice for tomorrow night. Let's pour the Hi-C out of the frying pan and into the Kettel. This'll make everybody Whisper Me Wishes. Or, shiver me timbers. 

Kettel is Dutch, if you couldn't tell by the nonsense of a track list for this gem of an album from 2007. 

You're still gonna get samples and synths and tasty beats, we're just gonna turn the knob labeled "discombobulator" up 7 or 8 notches, sprinkle on some jazz, a dash of glitch, make a field recording of people eating at a fancy restaurant, tweak the filter knobs like things that want to be tweaked, invite some actual instrumentalists to play stuff, change tempos and meters for no reason, pretty much every possible way to create music as far as i know.

Regular people get all uppity if you call him a contemporary classical composer, but that's what he is. He creates music for ensembles of various instruments, some of which are traditional orchestral instruments and some of which require computer sequencing and synthesis. It's like a Classical/EDM fusion. It's much less frightening than yesterday's Mr. 76ix, but equally technologically chaotic in places. I find it quite soothing and happy, actually. It's sub 50 minutes, so it's got that going for it. Plus, you can imagine people dancing to most of it. Go on, give it a spin, you know you'll secretly enjoy it:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nhQQyfeogeV9wonvIaBSkjg_fJhxOPijM

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