ALBUM REVIEW: KRAFTY KUTS

Artist: Various Artists
Title: Krafty Kuts - Against The Grain
Label: Against The Grain
Format: 2x mix CD
Released: Dec/Jan 2010

There’s nothing krafty about Krafty Kuts - they wear their dumbness on their sleeves throughout this double mix CD. They’re usually filed under breakbeat, but with such an obvious love of hip-hop beats and poppy hooks, not to mention lyrical content which rarely progresses intellectually beyond the shaking of booties and the putting of hands in the air, this has its disgraced elder brother big beat written all over it.

While having been a huge fan of Fatboy Slim, Mekon, Les Rythmes Digitales and even some Propellorheads at the time, the world moves on and much of CD1 seems to be stuck in that era of beer spilling, block rocking party tunes circa 1996/7.

Thanks mainly to the considerable input of Deekline on CD2 things look up as we build to a cruching climax of ’Painkiller’ by Pendulum, Freestylers and Sir Real,


but overall there is a real dated, recycled feel to proceedings. Back to the drawing board.
3/10