DJ KRUSH Schallplatten & CDs

Review: DJ Krush's strange brand of abstracted, industrial hip hop reached a peak in 2020, on the release of his most recent album 'Trickster', which sees a repress by popular demand only two years after release. Production-wise, it's leagues beyond his 90s work, owing just as much to the neurological sound design of Noisia than it does to his early contemporaries like DJ Spooky. Listen out to the wigglingly frantic cut 'Incarnation', or the Burialized wonker 'Hidden Shadow', both of which epitmose Krust's well-honed taste for atmosphere, mood and fuzz.

Review: Krush's eighth - and last - album Jaku is up there with Endtroducing and Donuts in terms of seminal, influential and forward-thinking beat longer players. 10 years since its release and it still sounds as timeless, unique and exciting as it did in 2004. The slick licks of a young Mr Lif on "Nosferatu", the post-apocalyptic tension of "Univearth" the sludgy, swampy cosmic hip-hop of the Aesop Rock-featured "Kill Switch" and the unashamed sax sex of "Slit Of Cloud"..... Do we need to go on? Limited edition, 180g transparent vinyl; even if you already have this in your collection this is a very, very appealing investment.