The thing I keep noticing about music in this kind of ambient electro genre is that it sounds much better on headphones. The Yellow and Blue EP is true to form in that it works a lot better on headphones.
It is also true that this genre lends itself well to collaboration and Whizz Kid turns out to be another such meeting of minds, this time between J. Kane from Belgium and Yo-Yo Nielsen from Dundee. There is plenty of plinky plink stuff and samples as you would expect (even if the rather liberal approach to re-sampling on "Snow Burning" caught me by surprise) and the end result is quite atmospheric. I suppose that is the point. You're not meant to sing along to these songs. Their purpose is to evoke emotions and memories and they do actually succeed at that.
It wouldn't do the iPod generation any harm at all to take a listen to this EP. Maybe it will broaden their musical horizons as well. I certainly don't dislike what I heard but I'm just not sure that I could grow to love these four songs. The sound quality was actually OK too for a change.
Available from Bearsuit Records.