My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult - Any Way Ya Wanna

Sleazy grooves, warped samples, and a healthy disregard for good taste. My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult have always occupied the more hedonistic corners of industrial music, and “Any Way Ya Wanna” is a reminder of just how infectious their collision of electronic rhythms, psychedelic excess, and B-movie camp can be.

Emerging from Chicago's legendary Wax Trax! Records scene in the late 1980s, My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult developed a sound that stood apart from the harsher industrial music of their contemporaries. Founding members Groovie Mann and Buzz McCoy combined drum machines, hypnotic bass lines, distorted vocals, and samples lifted from exploitation cinema into something that was as much about dancing as it was about provocation.

While groups like Ministry and Skinny Puppy pushed industrial music toward increasingly abrasive territory, Thrill Kill Kult embraced its more playful and decadent possibilities. Funk, disco, acid house, psychedelic rock, and electronic body music all found their way into the band's unmistakable sound, frequently accompanied by tongue-in-cheek lyrics and a fascination with the seedier side of popular culture.

“Any Way Ya Wanna” belongs to that tradition, pairing the band's irreverent personality with the repetitive, body-moving rhythms that have remained central to their music. Rather than relying on conventional rock arrangements, the track emphasizes atmosphere, groove, and the hypnotic interaction of electronic textures.

That approach has always made Thrill Kill Kult difficult to categorize. Their music shares industrial's love of distortion, sampling, and mechanical percussion, but its sense of humor and unapologetic dance-floor sensibility set it apart from the genre's more confrontational tendencies.

For listeners drawn to the intersection of industrial dance, electro, EBM, and underground club culture, the appeal is immediate. The music is dark without taking itself too seriously, provocative without sacrificing its rhythmic instincts, and unmistakably connected to the anything-goes spirit of the original Wax Trax! era.

“Any Way Ya Wanna” is another dose of Thrill Kill Kult's trademark electronic sleaze, a celebration of the strange, seductive, and gloriously excessive side of industrial dance music.