King Midas Sound is a collaboration of Kevin “Bug” Martin (God/Techno Animal/Ice) and the very cool soul vocalist Roger Robinson. They’ve got an LP on the way on legendary Dubstep label Hyperdub.
I just picked up the new “Cool Out” EP which features two ace remixes by Flying Lotus and Dabyre as well as the song “Cool Out” from the upcoming LP. It’s great stuff indeed and I’m really looking forward to…It’s kind of like Techno Animal doing soul music!
http://www.myspace.com/kingmidassound
yeah i snagged that a while back. both that and ‘Cult of the 13 Hour’ are K-mart w/ a vocalist and both are sorta Bug-ish but lean towards something else.
Check this one dropping soon too…
King Midas Sound
Dub Heavy - Hearts And Ghosts EP
pre-order here : http://www.cargorecords.co.uk/release/8321
Format: Vinyl 12" EP
Catalogue Number: HDB021
Label: Hyperdub
Release Date: 1 June 2009
As a seductive taster and spectral glimpse of the forthcoming King Midas Sound full length, ‘Dub Heavy - Hearts And Ghosts’ is an EP of three of that album’s tracks dubbed into new alien versions. King Midas Sound is the duo of Kevin Martin, known for his groundbreaking work over the last decade as The Bug, teamed with Roger Robinson, reputed writer and spoken word performer.
The pair first worked together in 2003 on The Bug’s ‘Pressure’ album, but within these King Midas grooves, the visceral drive characteristic of The Bug’s fevered sound is replaced by deeper core energies, and graced with Robinson’s gentle soul lilt, the combination is blissfully, crushingly powerful. On these tunes, song structure and vocal are intoxicated with unsettling fx and consumed with reverb, pressing the music into haunting and unfamiliar territory. ‘I Dub’ marries booming bass and gaseous echo to grime hand-claps and a tense chilling melody. Centrepiece ‘Ting Dub’ fuses ominous distant sirens, shifting vocal streams, decelerated hip hop boom bap and a geologic subsonic rumble into a wraith-like miasma, while on ‘Too Long Dub’, the sinister chiming pendulum motif and decaying vocals dissolve into a delirious haze of toxic audio reflections. Burning like an endless fuse, this special release will be available only for a limited period, pressed on high grade 180g heavy guage vinyl, and is also Hyperdub’s first ever individually artworked 12”, housed in a photo jacket with gold-embossed detail.
wow- you’re right, sounds like later-era Techno Animal doing soul! fuck yeah. can’t wait for the album. big fan of Martin’s stuff.
Yeah this stuff is awesome.
Kevin Martin is really creating some brilliant music at the moment and doing some great collaborations.
It’d be amazing if Kevin & Justin Broadrick got together again to create some new Dub music…I know I say this all the time!![cool]
I’m hoping for the Dalek in Dub record to pop out at some point, was listed on the Bug’s myspace for a long time…