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Pscenario by Woody Mcbride

DJ ESP - aka – Mr. Woody McBride has woven a golden thread of transcendental elements through his music over the years - these four tracks being the darning threads thus far. US based but European circulated, the artist shares four new tracks of unprecedented dexterity.

The leading track The Machine is a genuine little psychedelic stomper that lurks and cleanses. All beats and machine code sounds the opener is true electronica – but electronica that’s clearly been designed to be danced to. With rock star vocals from K. Justin J. - from indie band Iffy - the track is a mantra for free speech. As Woody says, "as we all know ‘Big Brother’ has moved in for good and so it is time to think about unplugging and creating your own privacy - no one is going to do it for you, you cannot buy it on e-bay, it is not playing on TV. Free your mind and jump off the grid."

Minneapolis Jungle

Blistering on the b side is another duet with Minneapolis Jungle MC Brace. Titled Dark and Low, the synth line is a funky American blues riff crunched to the maximum. This too is a dance floor mover. "Junglists tell it a bit different than us techno guys, and it is refreshing to share ideas - in many ways they take it to the red line just as well if not better than us tribal revival shamen drummers...I want that energy in my music - it is archetypal just as the boom boom boom boom…” The track brings to mind (if you stand at a certain angle) a sort of pacier, post-sample heavy era Colourbox – complete with vocal treatments that make them sound like nothing more than the vocals being performed on cheap intercoms. Driving, stuttering beats. Great stuff.

Accenting and balancing are the two inside tracks - Do You Think? - which gets into a groove and stays there, and is possibly the least inventive piece on the disc – and Pslow. They both tend to play towards the minimal, while remaining hypnotic and creeping, groovy and building. Pslow is a subtle instrumental, stuffed full with backwards-sounding beats and rhythms and telephone exchange-like sounds. This is mesmeric stuff, which – in a world where such things were allowed – would have been the lead track. Give them a chance and this is music that will creep up on you.

That full Pscenario track listing looks like this:

1. The Machine
2. Pslow
3. Dark & Low
4. Do You Think?

Woody Mcbride says: "What is trippy? What is psychedelic - it really is not about drugs, they are only the vehicle to get to a new dimension or wavelength that cannot be sustained with our normal faculties - they also have horrible side effects. Certain music is that same transporting device. Like that first knowing strum of a sitar, the pang of some electronica takes you to research a realm of oneness - free of the confines of our still primitive human consciousness."

Pscenario is out now, as a 12” only, from novamute.

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