Shout at the Döner

Considering he\'s been the crown prince of PDM (prankster dance music) for more than a decade, it\'s no surprise that Kid606\'s latest full-length is a *little* more sinister than his last (2005\'s ambient-leaning *Resilience*). Serrated synths and top-heavy basslines face off in the foreground of Miguel Depedro\'s pressure-cooked mix, and beyond all that bedlam lie lots of liquified loops, from the diva-driven house nods of \"You All Break My Heart\" to the Nick Cave chorus that cuts across \"Dancehall of the Dead\" — a delirious 4 a.m. anthem that also includes a swift sample of the Breeders\' \"Last Splash.\" And then there\'s the single that\'ll make you *really* worry about Depedro\'s sanity, \"Mr. Wobble\'s Nightmare.\" A brilliant piece of black humor, it twists a morality tale about a  drug overdose (4hero\'s dancefloor-detonating classic \"Mr. Kirk\'s Nightmare\") into a B-movie about an underground club kid being eaten alive. Jamie Stewart of Xiu Xiu guests, making a melodramatic bid for future voiceover work. As Depedro says in *Döner*\'s liner notes: \"If you listen to this album in its entirety it will make you cooler than those who don\'t.\"

Latest from Kid606 is a hell of a lot of fun-- a rough, dirty party album, a trawl through two decades of abusive bass and dancefloor bad taste.

Aging though he is, Miguel De Pedro is trapped in the perpetual adolescence of his puerile namesake.