Couldn’t get enough Squarepusher and m-ziq back in the 1996-1998 heyday of drill and bass? Matt Yee-King is a buddy of Mr. Jenkinson and Jamie Lidell (of Super_Collider and solo artist on Warp) and has taken the psuedo-scientific mumbo jumbo of drill-n-bass and added his actual scientific education to it. Yee King has an extensive background in genetics and programming, and seems determined to literally carry out the Artificial Intelligence mission laid out by Warp years ago.
This plays out into twelve tracks of complex rhythms overlaid with mostly happy, frequently quick-moving melodies. Pundits will declare that this all sounds old and played out, but I’m more than happy to lend Yee-King my ears for some well-done, deliberately composed tracks even if the style isn’t today’s hottest trend. Particularly agreeable are the acid-y “Segmentation Fault” (a dead ringer for Big Loada era Squarepusher) and the opening duo, “Goodnight Toby” and “Leaf Track.” A few of the later tracks spin off in the chaos that marked Lidell’s Muddlin Gear, but for the most part, SuperUser is a pleasing (and well-titled) aftershock from the drill ‘n bass boom.
