Razor X Productions – Killing Sound

If anyone has this and can ship from the US, please hit me up.

More rough dancehall from The Bug, this time under the name of his collective Razor X Productions. "Killer," the best track off his album PRESSURE, reappears here in several forms, particularly its rough, menacing original (Warrior Queen provides a cleaner version with "Killer Queen," approaching the same material with vastly different results). Mostly, though, the distortion comes hard and vicious, the harshness drilling in loud and clear. On "Slew Dem," it becomes difficult to determine what's a vocal growl and what's been proceeded to its last legs. "Child Molester" slows things down to a relative crawl, though the lyrics keep things unsettling, to say the least. The MCs hardly go lower than a shout, and sometimes, like on "Boom Boom Claat," they go for a full-throated yell. The vocals almost disappear under the noise of "I Don't Know" or the rhythmic frenzy of "War Start." For those who prefer no vocals, this album also provides a second disc of instrumentals. "Killer" loses some of its menace, but "Child" becomes like a death march and "Boom" is all echoing sirens. "Problem" is like a merry-go-round, while "Yard" suddenly becomes a call to jungle chaos. Excellent stuff, but I still prefer PRESSURE.