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Track List
01) Talkbox
02) Lassitude
03) Kryptonite
04) Gold Dust
05) Acid Rain
06) Hypercaine
07) Starfall
08) Chacruna
09) Fight!
10) Heavyweight
01) Talkbox
02) Lassitude
03) Kryptonite
04) Gold Dust
05) Acid Rain
06) Hypercaine
07) Starfall
08) Chacruna
09) Fight!
10) Heavyweight
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First Released
2010
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Kryptonite is the second album from British based producer DJ Fresh. The album primarily features drum & bass tracks, featuring drum and bass group Sigma and vocalists Stamina MC, Koko, Valkyrie and Ce'Cile. The album has been pushed back various times, each time with a new track or an old track removed. Tracks removed from Kryptonite are "Spaceface", a drum and bass tune removed due to Fresh losing parts of the song itself, Fresh has confirmed that he doesn't know "what's going on" with "Lazer Squad", "Off World" was put onto a 12" with "Direct Order" by The Funktion, "Cylon" became the flip to Lassitude, and "X-Project" (VIP mix) has been removed for an unknown reason. There was a mispress of the Talkbox promo vinyl which had "Acid Rain" on the flipside rather than the intended song, "Fight". Due to the public reception to the preference over Acid Rain than to Fight, it (Acid Rain) was made the official flipside rather than Fight.
A minimix was released on the 9th of June, which can be found on Fresh's MySpace.
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When jungle producers began to shift away from the gunshot samples and ragga vocals, some 15 years back, it got called drum'n'bass. At the time, this was considered affected and ridiculous by many; but it's proved a hardy perennial, and continues to draw vast and youthful crowds across the UK without being considered especially cool. Dan 'DJ Fresh' Stein has been one of its most successful exponents – initially as part of quartet Bad Company, latterly as a solo artist. Kryptonite, his second album, largely finds him sticking with a tried and true sound.
Other drum'n'bass producers have attempted, successfully or otherwise, to wriggle out of the genre's straitjacket – d'n'b beat-crafters growing tired of the area is an affliction almost as old as the genre itself. This is not something of which DJ Fresh can be accused, on the strength of Kryptonite. Although he switches up his style with the help of belting female vocals (Lassitude, Gold Dust) and acknowledges the existence of dubstep, for the most part this is bumptiously unchallenging jump-up d'n'b bounciness. Not as dark or harsh as his work in Bad Company, or as tactile as dBridge (aka Darren White, also a former member of that group), Fresh is all about the dancefloor, now as ever.
Fans of Stein – even ones who've only climbed aboard recently, perhaps off the back of Hypercaine getting Radio 1 daytime play last year – might feel shortchanged by how much of Kryptonite has already been released. Drum'n'bass heads can debate themselves silly about whether Hypercaine's frothy pop take on the genre is another nail in its coffin, but it's pretty much inarguably true that it doesn't need to be on this album. As a rule, the brand-new tracks carry more invention and interest in any case. Acid Rain is probably the best thing herein – powered by a breakbeat plucked straight from d'n'b's 90s halcyon days, all growling bass and old time rave stabs – while Chacruna marries screwy pitch-shifted vocals to spacey synth and half-paced dubstep. Overall, though, it's hard to shake the feeling that Fresh is selling himself short here.
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Kryptonite is the second album from British based producer DJ Fresh. The album primarily features drum & bass tracks, featuring drum and bass group Sigma and vocalists Stamina MC, Koko, Valkyrie and Ce'Cile. The album has been pushed back various times, each time with a new track or an old track removed. Tracks removed from Kryptonite are "Spaceface", a drum and bass tune removed due to Fresh losing parts of the song itself, Fresh has confirmed that he doesn't know "what's going on" with "Lazer Squad", "Off World" was put onto a 12" with "Direct Order" by The Funktion, "Cylon" became the flip to Lassitude, and "X-Project" (VIP mix) has been removed for an unknown reason. There was a mispress of the Talkbox promo vinyl which had "Acid Rain" on the flipside rather than the intended song, "Fight". Due to the public reception to the preference over Acid Rain than to Fight, it (Acid Rain) was made the official flipside rather than Fight.
A minimix was released on the 9th of June, which can be found on Fresh's MySpace.
User Album Review
When jungle producers began to shift away from the gunshot samples and ragga vocals, some 15 years back, it got called drum'n'bass. At the time, this was considered affected and ridiculous by many; but it's proved a hardy perennial, and continues to draw vast and youthful crowds across the UK without being considered especially cool. Dan 'DJ Fresh' Stein has been one of its most successful exponents – initially as part of quartet Bad Company, latterly as a solo artist. Kryptonite, his second album, largely finds him sticking with a tried and true sound.
Other drum'n'bass producers have attempted, successfully or otherwise, to wriggle out of the genre's straitjacket – d'n'b beat-crafters growing tired of the area is an affliction almost as old as the genre itself. This is not something of which DJ Fresh can be accused, on the strength of Kryptonite. Although he switches up his style with the help of belting female vocals (Lassitude, Gold Dust) and acknowledges the existence of dubstep, for the most part this is bumptiously unchallenging jump-up d'n'b bounciness. Not as dark or harsh as his work in Bad Company, or as tactile as dBridge (aka Darren White, also a former member of that group), Fresh is all about the dancefloor, now as ever.
Fans of Stein – even ones who've only climbed aboard recently, perhaps off the back of Hypercaine getting Radio 1 daytime play last year – might feel shortchanged by how much of Kryptonite has already been released. Drum'n'bass heads can debate themselves silly about whether Hypercaine's frothy pop take on the genre is another nail in its coffin, but it's pretty much inarguably true that it doesn't need to be on this album. As a rule, the brand-new tracks carry more invention and interest in any case. Acid Rain is probably the best thing herein – powered by a breakbeat plucked straight from d'n'b's 90s halcyon days, all growling bass and old time rave stabs – while Chacruna marries screwy pitch-shifted vocals to spacey synth and half-paced dubstep. Overall, though, it's hard to shake the feeling that Fresh is selling himself short here.
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