France's most prolific producer of
electronic dance music, DJ Pad, has released his first full-length
record for 2016, “Psyko'Pad.” Much more than a mere LP album,
“Psyko'Pad” is a titanic, towering, lordly achievement of a
record bearing 18 tracks over 2.8 hours. Also, as a special treat for
his fans this year, Pad has included a remix of each of the record's
songs in one continuous track. This brings the combined total
listening time of “Psyko'Pad” to five hours, 38 minutes, making
it one of the longest releases in music history and one of the best
values on the digital music market ever.
For “Psyko'Pad,” DJ Pad cites
several fellow digital composers as main artistic influences. He
emphasizes Cosma (“This is one album he has made that pushes me to
begin composing”) and Hallucinogen (“one of the founders of
psytrance music”), before listing Cosmosis, Astral Projection,
Psycraft, and Infected Mushroom (“They make music that is really
inspiring for me”).
As one of the busiest DJs in Europe
boasting one of the largest repertoires of original music in history
– he has written and recorded more than 700 songs, to date – DJ
Pad has records in nearly every electronic music genre. In the past
these have notably included electro house, trance and dubstep, with
elements of a great many other subgenres thrown in.
Speaking of his desire to create a
psytrance record, DJ Pad writes, “I wanted to show my
interpretation of this wonderful genre that can (in my opinion)
affect your brain almost directly. It is really challenging to
achieve this, complex to write such music, but also so very 'trippy'
when accomplished.”
Previous full-length albums from DJ Pad
include “The Hymn of Brotherhood,” “Waiting to Be Discovered,”
“A Trip in My House Part 1,” “A Trip in My House Part 2,”
“Y,” and “Dubstep: First Strike,” almost certainly with a
great many more to come.
With so much music coming from the man
from Arpajon, it's easy to imagine him turning out songs one after
another, but the truth is that each track takes him an enormous
amount of time. When he was asked in 2014 by Dope Den Productions to
describe the best advice he'd ever been given, Pad replied, “Just
take your time and do not release a track too soon. Just refine it,
again and again.”
This sentiment shows in the personal
connection he feels with his music, too.
“It doesn’t matter to me if you
like my music or not,” Pad also said. “But I’ll always share it
with you, just in case you like it. Simply put, I hope you’ll enjoy
it as much as I enjoyed producing and mixing it.”
“Psyko'Pad” by DJ Pad is available
from the 4000 Records independent label at over 700 digital music
stores worldwide. And it is monumental.
-S. McCauley
Lead Press Release Writer
www.MondoTunes.com
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