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ZILLA
Electronica / Hip Hop / Experimental

"AKA King Cannibal "

South London,
United Kingdom

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Last Login:  7/6/2008
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   ZILLA: General Info
Member Since11/14/2005
Band Websitegodsofwar.wordpress.com
Band Members MyCodes.org - Myspace Codes
InfluencesModeselektor, Knifehandchop, Lil Jon, Invisible Scratch Piklz, Mr Dibbs, Minor Threat, Kid 606, DJ Technics, Dj Godfather, Cex, Phuture, Dj Trace, World Famous Beat Junkies, David Lynch, Dj Food, old Shaw Brothers Movies, Fugazi, Technical Itch, Aphex Twin, Brian Eno, Autechre, Noize Creator, Dj Hellfish, Mannie Fresh, Master P, Sage Francis, Doc Scott, Rufige Crew, RZA & Wu Tang, Madlib, Donavon, John Cage, Laurie Anderson, Roll Deep, Dj Assualt, Coldcut, Bjork, Meredith Monks, Eastern Developement, Buck 65, Jim Jarmush Movies, Plastikman, Buddy Peace, Jimi Hendrix Experience, Grooverider, Skam Records, Dj Krush, Shadow & Cut Chemist, Busta Rhymes & The Leaders Of The New School, Organised Konfusion, Green Velvet, Tipper, Danny Breaks, Kamen Lueng, Tortoise, Funkstorung, Funkarma, Dj Rupture, Mantronix, Squarepusher, Dj/Producer, Dj Food, The Neptunes, Organised Konfusion, Busta Rhymes, David Cronenberg, Dj Hype, Ryuhei Kitamura, Lil Wayne, My Bloody Valentine, The Boredoms, Slew Dem, Sonic Youth, Anthrax, Three 6 Mafia / Hypnotize Mindz, dDamage, Team Doyobi, Skam records, Hive & Keaton,
Record LabelLoEB>Warp>Combat>Rag&Bone(no fixed abode)
Type of LabelIndie




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   About ZILLA
******************************************************************** ******************************PLEASE_NOTE****************************** *********** DUE TO A FEROCIOUS NEW SOUND DIFFERING FROM VENTURES PAST KING CANNIBAL IS THE NEWEST ALIAS OF 'ZILLA', SOUTH LONDON BASED ELECTRONIC PRODUCER. ALL TECH-DANCEHALL / SHOCKOUT MATERIAL NOW GOES UNDER THIS NEW NAME KING CANNIBAL ************************************************************************ ************************************************************************

Art school dropout ZILLA (government name Dylan Richards) began working on his own brand of super-evolved mixes towards the latter end of the nineties as a reaction to the glut of uninspiring mix compilations that had began to flood the industry. The first salvo against conformity was A Friendly Game of Chess , a self-funded, hand-sprayed, highly under-the-counter mix project with Lex Records DJ and friend Buddy Peace. The highly stylised conceptual expression of work that combined a rich fusion of textures together with strong themes and motifs began to ignite more than their own imaginations, selling out in just 48 hours and earning high praise on a global scale.

A Friendly Game Of Chess was swiftly followed by solo mixtape strike One Foot In The Fire, One Fist In The Air which earned numerous comparisions to Coldcuts 70 Minutes Of Madness'. Comprised of almost 100 tracks from Autechre to Britney Spears, interviews and spoken word interludes, the CD sold-out in a day, attracted attention from all corners and ended up in many a Best of 2004 list. Among those with their ears to the ground were Trash supremo Erol Alkan, notorious London promoters Wheels Instead of Hooves and the heads of both Ninja Tune and Warp Records.

After 2 appearances on the legendary Solid Steel radio show, the honour of being the first unsigned act to play at Strictly Kev & D.Ks Solid Steel clubnight, 4 sets with Buddy Peace at Dedbeat 04 in the course of one weekend and a number of European dates, Warp Records stepped in and invited Buddy Peace & ZILLA to compile a retrospective of the label. Released late September 2004 as part of the 'WARP VISION The Videos' DVD, the mix entitled 'Watch And Repeat Play' was a startlingly original tour de force, over 70 minutes the two DJs re-worked and re-wired the label's back catalogue, twisting the already twisted into sonic maelstrom.

The Warp Vision Audio Visual / Resfest Tour followed, with appearances alongside artists such as Plaid, Chris Cunningham, Seiji, Mike Paradinas and Funkstorung and invitations to play at the Glade Festival, Trash, The Warp Summer Ball and The Poke Xmas Rave. It was these shows and the experience of playing live that inspired ZILLAs latest mix Grinted Teeth & Brawlsville , a year in the making, it was a more uptempo and aggressive yet challenging body of work that manages to find the link between party starting crunk of Lil' Jon and the dancefloor destroying sonics of The Aphex Twin.

Once again the great and the good were suitably impressed with praise coming from the likes of Kid 606, Knifehandchop and, again, Erol Alkan. The success of Grinted Teeth and 'ZILLA's growing reputation led to Domino Records inviting him to remix the final single from Test-Icicles, 'Biggest Mistake', a remix which has been rapturously received by everyone from Laurent Garnier to Lo Recordings Jon Tye.

Punishing remixes of Black Grass (Catskills), and New Flesh (Big Dada) have followed as ‘ZILLA’ perfected his twisted industrial take on dancehall, dubstep & drum n bass and in late 2006 he was asked to produce an EP for kid606's Shockout label. Recieving massive support from Amon Tobin (Ninja Tune,) Combat Recordings and Rag And Bone Records, the results were so good that the one EP quickly became two, under ZILLA's brand new new alias KING CANNIBAL. Recent highlights from the past few months have included the 'ZILLA'/Autechre remixes of Unique 3 's The Theme (Fat! Records), Premier At Last featuring on The Chap's The Chop EP. and King Cannibal's - Beneath The Surface on Uncharted Audio's new Signals imprint

2008 looks set to be a year of true Cannibal Carnage due to massive radio support in the form of the recent Scorn Vs King Cannibal Soundclash Special and Aragami Style receiving HEAVY rotation both on Mary Anne Hobb's Radio 1 show , planned collaberations with Bong-Ra, remixes for Ghislain Poirier and Ebola a number of releases for Combat Recordings (including Scorn and Komonazmuk remixes) the debut EP on Bong Ra's Kriss Records entitled 'Devil In The Dancehall' and an appearance at Scotland's Triptych festival.

Its not often that someone comes along and defines your opinion of the potential of djing. Over the course of two under-the-counter mix-cds, the man known as ZILLA has done just that. - Fact Magazine

"Too dark, love this tune"- Marry Anne Hobbs (BBC Radio 1) on Aragami Style

"..a great tune...put together like a dj's wet dream."- Amon Tobin writing about Aragami Style (forthcoming on Shockout) for Urb

someone please give this guy a residency! - D.K (Solid Steel/Ninja Tune).

It completely blew me away' - Erol Alkan on 'One Foot in the Fire, One Fist in the Air'

A phenomenal mix by UK up-and-comers Buddy Peace & ZILLA... Besting even some of the most accomplished feats of creative cutting-and-pasting, the Watch And Repeat Play mix is a rarity that you have to get your paws on - Scissorkick.com on 'Watch And Repeat Play'

""Some seriously heavy tunes"- The Bug

"Heavy as fuck!"- Parasite (Deathsucker Records)

"Heavy as fuck tech step dancehall!!"- Bong Ra

"Slamming ragga rinse out"- Kid 606

"Zilla remix is absolutely brilliant - I will playlist on the radio and play the hell out of it on the dancefloor!"- Laurent Garnier on Test-Icicles - 'Biggest Mistake (Zilla remix)'

“Fucking great….I love it!”- Knifehandchop on Grinted Teeth & Brawlsville

Other reactions for Grinted Teeth... Album of the Week- Boomkat, Warpmart and Banquet Records “..the mix album of the year”- Fact Magazine “stunning …”- Sounds Of The Universe

For both 'ZILLA' and King Cannibal DJ/Live bookings please contact John Power

Coming Soon.... Badman Near Dark 12" on Combat Recordings with Komonazmuk & Stormfield remixes

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 carbon logic crew 





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KIDS IN TRACKSUITS





Jul 2 2008 8:42 AM

Yo......we're taking a little break from making music as Kids in Tracksuits but we urge you to go check out Lone's solo project!!

It's skill!! And it's for fans of Boards of Canada, Flying Lotus, Lukid, Hudson Mo, Samiyam, Bibio and Rustie!!

Please click away to check his myspace - http://www. myspace. com/lonemusic

Or just click here to grab a FREE exclusive non album track - http://www. dealmakerrecords. com/detail. asp?id=92

Lone's great new album "Lemurian" is out on the 21st July 2008!!

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Jun 15 2008 12:03 PM

!!ONLY FREE LONDON SHOW!!

Tuesday 1st July, The Old Blue Last

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SKITANJA Highly melodic psychedelic no-holds barred punk and noise on fuzz guitar, trumpet, manic keyboard and insane pre-recorded tracks from Bournemouth.

PFAFF The ultimate one man band. Pfaff plays guitar, drums, bass and sings. He does everything and now he'll be doing it for you.

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Glade Festival





Jun 12 2008 4:21 PM

click for more info and tickets
secret man





Jun 6 2008 8:46 AM

secret comment:

H_ / Z_ll_ ,

N_c_ / st_l_ ...

Th_nks / f_r / th_ / s_pp_rt !!!

s_cr_t / fr_ _nd
Malstrom





May 24 2008 2:06 PM

HI!! New dubstep/grime tune on my page called "getthoven"

CHEERS
lead pipe - Rave or Die!


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May 16 2008 4:53 AM

Thanks for the add :)





RAVE OR DIE! #3 FACEBOOK EVENT
Malstrom





May 6 2008 4:39 PM

HI!! New heavy dubstep tune on my page called "interval 316"


PEACE
PLATFORM 1





May 6 2008 12:51 AM

2600 Recordings





May 3 2008 3:11 AM

Solen - Lord/Block 10 inch out now





Apr 21 2008 8:51 AM

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good spam
MamaNardi





Feb 16 2008 10:21 PM

Hey Zilla!!
Thanks for the add!!
Sandro(MamaNardi)xxx
Sinners Inc.





Feb 7 2008 6:46 PM

thanks for the add!!!
2 new tunes now avaialable for download on our page.

LEMON





Feb 7 2008 4:29 AM


Hello friend.

We loved this superb fan video for our cover of the classic 60s Batman TV theme. Hope you will too.
It's on the recent Freshly Squeezed compilation ECLECTRIK and of course our very own WITH A TWIST album... enjoy.
Lemon - With a Twist
2600 Recordings





Feb 5 2008 7:09 AM

MANTIS





Jan 28 2008 4:18 AM

Easy now D.

Got your release on Uncharted Audio/Signals the other week.

SICKNESS. Closed last week's MANTIS with it.
hs system





Jan 27 2008 12:23 PM

hello
3 news track: silver flowers,planetarium et anti product..
peace
blanktapesmusic





Jan 24 2008 11:06 AM

luv the new mix
ITAMAR





Dec 25 2007 6:27 PM

Hi Zilla! How's it going?
Thanx for accepting my request!
Come check out the songs from my brand new EP on my page!
I'd really appreciate your opinion of them:)
Cheers
Itamar
hs system





Dec 24 2007 10:35 AM

hello
thanks for add
nice stuff
peace
Princess Pirate Luna





Dec 23 2007 8:27 AM

Happy holidays and a great new year!
beeny


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Dec 20 2007 5:24 AM

Merry Christmas from Beeny and the Warriors.
We will visit Santa and make sure you get what you deserve. It not we will break his legs! Can you dig it!
THE WARRIORS
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Dec 19 2007 6:51 PM

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Dec 18 2007 11:20 AM

J Bostron





Dec 6 2007 6:41 PM

ez zilla

new mix online! check it out !!

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J Bostron & Stints - In the mix Vol 1 link

audio habitat - the time
heist - pinchers
audio habitat – the eagle has landed
ki n johnnyboy - act crazy
violent breakz - culture
nightwalker & mt - analbeard
violentbreakz - lost
violentbreakz - torture
lorcscryic - undead drow queen (cytech mix)
tekinfektion - fight music
audio habitat - assault
unknown artist - m-flo ( Danny Byrd Remix )
ki & johnny boy - calibration dub
j bostron - time running out
social habitat – untitled welfare dub
motion theory - deal with the steel
muffler - wots the deal (dub version)
audio habitat - high sonic
violentbreakz - jah pre
audio habitat - cold water
violentbreakz - dub0803
ki and johnnyboy - junction 1
j bostron - nah bodder me


some real killer tunes in this! serious! :)

DJ J Bostron Myspace
Stints / Audio Habitat Myspace
carbon logic crew





Dec 3 2007 12:26 PM

As you may or may not be aware, noisestar_music will be judging the fifth Carbon Logic competition, which will be announced in December.

Therefore it’s with great excitement (however difficult it might be) that they get to pick a ‘winning’ artist from the ever growing sonic abyss that we’re all part of here.
…we’re also throwing down the gauntlet.

We want to hear the Mr Hyde of all you Dr Jekyls out there….
Given the blatant disregard for the mainstream from which our site was born kicking and screaming into this world, we are challenging you to challenge us. We want every piece of;

Smashed Re-built Tender Trashed lo-fi/hi-fi bloody kissed cut-up crisp beautiful electro fuzzed-out ear-splitting melodic mashed broken cinematic bass-heavy bruised love terror

that you’ve got.

Let’s get Carbon Logic finishing it’s first year on the experimental mind fuck that it set out to explore.

wwww.carbonlogic.co.uk
your own kind of music
beeny


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Nov 21 2007 11:45 PM

Well done Z. Peak plays for the posse from the park when it gets dark in the park pure skill rays of art dismiss the dark!
carbon logic crew





Nov 19 2007 4:28 PM


hey KING of the ZILLA.

our friends noisestar music are judging and they challenge all below. they after proper noise innit.

www.carbonlogic.co.uk



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Nov 14 2007 4:33 PM

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Electronic Explorations is a weekly 2 hour podcast that promises totally exclusive mixes from the cream of the electronic world; deviously crafted patchworks of carefully sewn rhythms, sonic contortions and delicate melodies - dubstep, minimal electronica, techno and anything else that’s pushing the boundaries of electronic music. The future is in safe hands; if you want to hear the latest, most ground-breaking electronic music the world has to offer, Electronic Explorations is the show for you.

WEEK 001 - Milanese [Warp Records / Planet Mu] Available to download 16th November
WEEK 002 - Marlow [Boka / Hotflush / Scuba]
WEEK 003 - Vaccine [Hotflush / Intex]
WEEK 004 - Tes La Rok [Hotflush] Date TBC
WEEK 005 - Herd [TMB.org / Unsigned] Exclusive 1st Radio Mix
WEEK 006 - Datach'i [Sunlight Records / Planet Mu]
WEEK 007 - Ranking Records [Ranking Records, Leeds] Date TBC
WEEK 008 - Bitesize Beats [Solid Steel]
WEEK 009 - iTAL tEK [Planet Mu] - Date TBC
WEEK 010 - Somatic Responses [Hymen / Sublight Records]
WEEK 011 - Surgeon [Downwards / Counterbalance / Tresor]
WEEK 012 - Vex'd - Exclusive Freestyle mix (1st ever !!) - [Planet Mu]
WEEK 013 - Neil Landstrumm - [Scandinavia Records / Planet Mu]
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Nov 8 2007 4:42 PM

WILLIAM





Nov 5 2007 1:21 AM

holy smokes you aint even going to believe this...i completed this deal to receive a REAL designer bag on Coach totally FREE & it really came in the mail!! since i KNOW its for real now, i'm going to act real fast and get more to send out as a gift..you really ought to go swipe some too LMAO! isnt this one that came sweet?