MP3DB.pro - Sickboy - Time to Play (2008)

Sickboy's exhilarating, enthusiastic and insane-as-ever fifth
full length album features this musician's most infectious,
catchiest and most efficient material. While the noise might be
gone for good, Sickboy's new clothes are of the colourful party
kind. Mixing old school rave, new school electro, breaks and
madness, Sickboy hits the nail on its head and invites everybody
to play, rave and party non-stop. Refreshing!
More madness from the source of it all. Sickboy, one of the most
seminal breakcore / mash-up / whatever artist of the current
European scene takes everybody to the utmost rave of 2008. It's
all pretty colourful, you might meet Alf or some girl from Mars
but don't be mistaken, there might still be blood on the
dancefloor at one point.
Having released his previous four albums on Peace Off, Mirex and
Cargo's Very Friendly, Jurgen Desmet (aka Sickboy) presents on
Ad Noiseam a full length album which might be at the same time
his most accessible and his "sickest". Having dropped the noise
from his sound, the boy is now all about crazy raving, flashy
beats and tongue-in-cheek samples (all right, this last element
has always been there with Sickboy). Armed with a beats bassy
enough to wreck subwoofers, anthemic samples and a tempo
reaching for the sky, Sickboy doesn't let the dancefloor catch
its breath for a second, and offer here 45 minutes of non-stop
sonic ketamine.
Maybe a sign of the time, and somewhat comparable to the recent
evolution in sound of such co-conspirators as Bong-Ra, Jason
Forrest or Shitmat, Sickboy steps away here from the darkest
corners of breakcore and integrates in his sound some old school
rave, new school house, and no school delirium. Where mash-up
was previously often limited to a few samples and hooks in the
middle of a noisy breakcore track, it has now gained the entire
tracks, new coherent ensembles embracing many genres at the same
time, and coming out as something new and exhilarating.
A fiercely enthusiastic, fun and catchy album, "Time To Play" is
the perfect expression of what Sickboy is about. And, be honest,
haven't you always dreamed of raving it up with Alf?