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Track Listing
1. Angry - (featuring Tippa Irie)
2. Murder We - (featuring Ricky Ranking)
3. Skeng - (featuring Killa P/Flow Dan)
4. Too Much Pain - (featuring Aya/Ricky Ranking)
5. Insane - (featuring Warrior Queen)
6. Jah War - (featuring Flow Dan)
7. Fuckaz - (featuring The Spaceape)
8. You And Me - (featuring Roger Robinson)
9. Freak Freak
10. Warning - (featuring Flow Dan)
11. Poison Dart - (featuring Warrior Queen)
12. Judgement - (featuring Ricky Ranking)
Album Notes
On LONDON ZOO, his 2008 release as the Bug, U.K. producer Kevin Martin fuses Jamaican dancehall with a British electronica aesthetic, resulting in a hard-hitting album full of beats, bass, and Jah. Highlights of the collection include the pulsing "Murder We" (with Ricky Ranking) and the eerily drifting "You & Me" (with Roger Robinson).
Industry Reviews
LONDON ZOO increases in sonority and impact as it goes on. 'Freak Freak', the album's only instrumental track, advances by stealth, gradually folding more and more textures into its low rise, undulating flow.
Ranked #10 in Clash's The 40 Best Albums of 2008 -- The Bug is one of the hottest bass mongers around.
Ranked #9 in Mojo's The 50 Best Albums Of 2008 -- A cinematic fusion of dubstep and dancehall...
4 stars out of 5 -- 'Skeng' revisits the intensity of Martin's earlier work with a vicious new minimalism, dubbed clatter and sweat-beaded electronic throbs playing metronome on a track that's as tense as a pinched nerve.
4 stars out of 5 -- [This album] broadens his musical palette, with digi-dub, moody techno and deranged dubstep adding weight to Martin's winning sonic menagerie.
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