If any decade was Buttress O'Kneel's "classic" period, it would arguably be the Noughties. And if any album signifies the classic period's periodical classicness, it's "Compop 6.66: Shitcore".

Hailed at the time as "a shitcore hypermix", this release solidified O'Kneel's reputation as a chest-beating trail-blazing guerrilla, combining frenetic breakcore, middle-fingered plunderphonia, and irrepressible absurdist humour, in a package that was equal parts noise and rave, with a sprinkling of pop. If any single album defines the O'Kneelian aesthetic, it may very well be this release.

Here's how the label Alias Frequencies (who re-released the 2006 album in 2009, now defunct) described the release:

"O’Kneel’s first deliberate foray into the ubiquitous “distorted-and-cut-up-amen-break” genre known as “breakcore”, this album sees her applying it to as many unlikely and inappropriate sources as possible: Radiohead, the Beatles, even Peter Allen. As well as trying to reinvent breakcore as a pop phenomenon, she simultaneously makes her beats filthier and more jarring, creating what she dubbed “shitcore”. Not only does this album cover the entire gamut of her shitcore techniques (a style she never fully manages to shake off on any of her albums to follow), but it contains the dancefloor-shaking pop sensation “No Bananas”, as well as four bonus live tracks from her megadistorted “MONO” recordings of 2004."

NOTE: absolutely nothing has been fixed or remastered or remixed or properly adjusted for modern high-fidelity listening etc - this album is just as shitcore now as it was when it was first released.

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