skrillex releasing just samples, demos of old unreleased songs from his myspace days, unfinished drops, unfinished build ups, overlaying them on top of each other almost randomly, adding a "generic" announcer voice (dj shadoe specifically) on top of any sample or section that could be decent talking about how "skrillex is dead" and how "shitty" this mix is, and then crediting two or three other artists on nearly every track, and then crediting and thanking every "collaborator" BY VOICE on the last track is such a fuck you to Atlantic Records as this album is his last contracturally obligated release under them after fifteen years is so fucking cool.
he 1) just released mostly absolute shit in a mostly packageable "commercial" format 2) made it so NONE of the songs could ever be sold individually (34 "tracks" within 46 minutes, with an announcer talking over basically anything useable) 3) could never be played on the radio 4) crediting so many artists so the record label goes through financial hell to pay them all out properly and 5) he released "voltage" after 13 years of it floating around as a never confirmed unreleased track! still totally unfinished/mastered but solid lol
i haven't been a fan of really any releases of his for ten years (after being a super fan) but if its just been shitty since then because of his contract it makes so much sense now (and why all of his tracks have 1-3 collaborators, after practically never working with any before then makes so much sense). plus the album title is "fuck u skrillex you think ur Andy Warhol but ur not!! <3" after something someone graffitied outside his house in 2020, like thats a straight dig at commercial and corporate sensibilities in the title itself.
this album is a masterpiece for just being so shitty, anti-corporate, and useless
beautiful.
