Bangarang (Album)

„One long adrenaline rush of stabbing keyboard chords, sawed-off vocal samples and Skrillex’s trademark: squirming, squalling synth lines“

„Ein langer Adrenalinrausch von erstechenden Keyboard-Akkorden, abgesägten Vocal Samples und Skrillex Markenzeichen: Windende, schreiende Synth-Melodien“

“the laser-blasting inanity of the title track, which ends with someone bragging, ‘I’m eating Fun Dip right now/Not givin' a fuck.’ Not a bad credo for music that makes a disco sugar high feel downright pornographic.”

„proggy guitar hooks, psychedelic organ chords, and Jim Morrison samples with a snarling, Prodigy-esque vocal and a filthy slab of dub bass“

“A percussive, hard house collaboration with 12th Planet and Kill the Noise which eventually builds into a feverish slice of happy hardcore”

“[Kyoto is a] rap-metal fusion”

“Skrillex is a magician. His trick is turning the elusively thwumping U.K. dance music called dubstep into high-fiving dance-floor heavy metal.”

“Bangarang is far smarter than Skrillex’s reputation for doling out cheap, bludgeoning bass-bin thrills would let on, anyway. Its seven tracks display a remarkable gift for bending innumerable breeds of club music to his will, grinding cantankerous hip-hop braggadocio, thwacking hard-house grooves, trance tingles and Blake Baxter-esque Detroit-techno stomp into a short-attention-spanned blur of bone-rattling meanness that’s undeniably thrilling, even if Moore has yet to elevate the results to a cohesive sum greater than its many parts.”

“Like cans of Monster Energy Drink, this collection is spracked out and ridiculous and fun and sometimes disposable, just one more shard of debris left in this kid’s wake, and his generation’s.”

“The go-for-the-throat tracks on Bangarang don’t tell us much about Skrillex’s long-term prospects. But they certainly demonstrate that for the moment, he’s going to have to be dealt with—by friends and foes alike.”