Mad EP snips, cuts and meshes hugely varied samples and sound clips into a psychedelic stewpot of cutting-edge hip-hop, electronica and abstract electronic sound collage.

Upon first listening it is somewhat difficult to negotiate where Mad E.P. is coming from, the genres, samples and sound clips are so stacked and intertwined, the beat patterns so frenetic, so stumbling.

But a few tracks make themselves slightly more accessible, and then the magic slowly makes itself known. It grips into you, and the patterns that once seemed so chaotic and hopelessly twisted now latch onto internal rhythms that you didn't know that you had.

Fragmented rapped vocals hover distantly or dissect themselves amongst spastic hip-hop percussion samples. Lo-fi beat loops constantly shift and falter, moving along independent and disparate lines. Environmental sounds and electronic sound collage collide with acoustic improvisation. Dissonant and confused bass lines wander about pulsing electronics and every-changing loop patterns.

You find your head nodding in these strange and convuluted ways, the whole time becoming more and more privy to the nuances and the beautiful details that weave themselves throughout the album.

And along the way Mad EP teaches us something about where hip hop came from, it joins hand in hand with old school acoustic instruments and classic beat patterns, harmonies, and fuses them powerfully with modern sounds and cutting edge techniques. Mad EP draws from these sources fearlessly, making them work in new ways. And with each listening it makes more and more sense.

Eating Movies is a work which challenges, expands perspectives on what electronica has been and will be. A rare, horizon-changing work that demands to be heard.