Malware Trance by Martyn Bootyspoon

After several releases on our sibling label 2 B REAL and a Mixtape Club contribution for the ages, Local Action welcomes Martyn Bootyspoon to the label for ‘Malware Trance’, a peak-time dose of pure exe.stascy.

You know Bootyspoon, we all know Bootyspoon. One of North America’s finest artists and DJs, the Montreal-based artist draws from a long history of raucous and debauched club music styles, from house and ghettotech to grime and R&B, often narrating his (and other’s) tracks as only he can. As well as 2 B REAL, he’s recently released on Future Classic and LuckyMe, and collaborated - as a producer, vocalist and live visual artist - with the likes of Sinjin Hawke, Avalon Emerson and The Blessed Madonna.

Combining a wild-eyed synth lead with drums that recall the God-given bounce of Paul Johnson and DJ Funk, ‘Malware Trance’ is the definition of doing a lot with a little, working a deceptively simple loop into a state of anxious euphoria - and already proving a highlight in DJ sets by Ben UFO, Teki Latex, Batu and more.

In Bootyspoon's words, "Like most of my hits, the song’s composition kind of snuck up on me in the studio - maliciously. My most mirthful state in the studio is when I’m programming synths & drums to sound like they’re deteriorating while on the razor’s edge of becoming undanceable. I came out on top, I hit the pocket. Melodically I achieved the panic-feeling of being seconds away from bricking your family desktop computer with a sinister .exe file."

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