Egyptrixx (David Psutka) is celestial club music; jeep music for a Saturn desert...there is an exhilarating right-but-wrong tension in all the tracks – a shifting balance between melodic and dissonant, rapturous and antisocial.
In 2015 Psutka launches his “Halocline Trance” label with Transfer of Energy [Feelings of Power], the third LP under experimental club project Egyptrixx. Marking 5 years of output, the album features graphic and video design from longtime collaborator, Berlin-based artist ANF, and elaborates the structural ideas from their collaborative album A/B til Infinity (Night Slugs, 2013).
The music is primitive, minimalist – fixated mainly on texture and weight. Smudged facsimiles of club music; crude and abstract grooves. The record starts with cleansing drones then lapses into a fractured digital melody. Toggling between metallic shards of DX7, drum machine blast beats and grandiose, hyper-color drones – its strange cohesion of disparate objects suggesting a novel synchronicity. Like all Egyptrixx releases, Transfer of Energy [Feelings of Power] pivots on a central dichotomy: tranquility and concussion. Picture Genocide Organ rededicated to pure positivity or spectral love notes to aging infrastructure. These are concrete and euphoric slabs of sound.
