the spark inside (kiddykore kontinuum)

 

Chuck Eddy's fave single of 2024 -  "The Spark"  by Kabin Crew & Lisdoonvarna Crew, from Knocknaheeny, Cork.

The entire post-98 quarter-century-long enshittification of drum + bass redeemed at a stroke. It was all worth it.

Kids + Breaks reminded me of this inevitably

The rapping though - as an example of Very White Rapping + high energy dance beat (the breaks are not very breaksy, more bouncy - ultra-linear NRG surge)  makes "The Spark" seem more like an outcrop of  this kind of thing and this kind of thing.

Blimey there's a whole bunch of this stuff featuring children - as performers, and prominently in the videos

Something a bit unsettling about all these pre-pubes acting gangsta

"I don't wanna work, I'm a full-time G...  I like Nike and Max on my sneakers / truth is, I don't like my teachers" 

Like the comic strip styling of the video - puts it squarely in the Cartoon Continuum as well as the Toytown Techno lineage