Very much shares the composition of a KP track. Follows the same buildups and inter-drop interludes.
There's some distortion on them though, something in the mastering wasn't done as well as KP.
I'd say the 3rd track differs the most from KP because of it's fast beat. I expected dubstep drums so I was surprised on the first listen. It's also doesn't suffer (or at least not as much) from distortion like the first two tracks. 👍
First leak of 'Fuck Em' was from Hull; the only leak, out of all the 'leaks' (UKF, UMF, Hull, Tripple J 15 min mix, et. al.) which had the 'let the games begin' sample was from Goat and Fire and was only included as it was a premixed set and Gaz wasn't there to MC for the crowd.
Anyway, to answer your question, it's a computer generated voice:
http://www.acapela-group.com/text-to-speech-interactive-demo.html
Not the first time they've used a computer generated voice. Try selecting English (UK) - Lucy and enter 'surely we can be friends'.
I'm pretty sure the 'let the games begin' is a heavily EQ'd synthesized voice. Maybe English (UK) - Graham, try entering: "What's your fucking problem man? you agreed to this a long time ago".
I'm disappointed in the album cover but tbh i was disappointed in the previous artwork for haunted house as well if you see the designers other concepts I think you guys may agree. https://www.behance.net/gallery/9833469/Knife-Party-Haunted-House-EP-Album-Cover
It's hard to mix because of it's arrangement, B section (or however you wanna call it, that "when the planets collide...") is half as long as A section, and that's the trick when you're mixing it. I mixed it around 31 min https://www.mixcloud.com/sofakru/dardy-d-sofa-kru-podcast-vol11/ check it if you want P.S. Second (double) drop is my favourite :P
I mean, they played it during the surprise Pendulum set, but the latest time Knife Party themselves played it was for SiriusXM, but I think that was a radio show (Time 45:50). It's just weird cause it's so similar in style to Bonfire, and they drop that all the time now, so why not Give It Up? I get they may not want to play two similar sounding songs in a row or in the set, but isn't that what 90% of their sets are nowadays?
Late to the knife party I know. Don't browse much since I don't expect any excitement on here until future music festival when hopefully well get a live set! :D fingers crossed!
I know for destroy them with lasers they had some random person on the internet do that. It's on either Robs or the KP twitter feed or at least it was a ways back.
http://www.whosampled.com/Knife-Party/
Link for a good list of all samples. They actually sampled a pendulum song somewhere I believe as well
As for how they do it so well... A lot of time and effort and experience IMO. Robs good with production and their pretty creative. Tons of options in their studio and plugins. I'm not some master producer, novice if that lol but if you want to create something similar obviously just mess around. You might find something cool.
I know this isn't what you were likely looking for but I always thought the fact some fan is used for destroy them with lasers was cool and also wanted to point out whosampled.com as that sites pretty awesome.
Actually you can buy Abandon Ship here in lossless as AIFF. And since AIFF and FLAC are both lossless you can convert them without quality loss.
You buy their monthly plan for Spotify Premium and you can download whatever you'd like and stream without ads
Edit: It's higher quality streaming as well, according to them https://www.spotify.com/premium/