"While it might sound a bit premature and boastful, we’re confident that
Egyptrixx’ debut CD
Bible Eyes will end up amongst the top electronic music releases of 2011. Those in the underground are already familiar with
Egyptrixx through the praise garnered from heavyweight DJ's, including
Sinden, Mary Ann Hobbs and
Drop the Lime and influential publications such as
The Fader, Xlr8r and
The Wire magazine. Recorded over three months during the summer of 2010,
Bible Eyes is a complete work that manages to bring different sounds and styles together in a seamless manner. It could very well be the Music Has The Right To Children or Untrue of 2011.
The work of classically trained pianist and Toronto native,
David Psutka,
Bible Eyes is celestial club music; jeep music for a Saturn desert. There is an exhilarating right-but-wrong tension that all of
Egyptrixx' tracks share - a shifting balance between melodic and dissonant, rapturous and antisocial. His releases challenge the status quo and impress with a unique style informed by elements of techno, house, dubstep and pop music.
Opening track “
Start From The Beginning” drones in waves over white washed atmospheres and gentle piano stabs; a perfect lead into the bloopy house cycles of the title track. Lead single “
Chrysalis Records (feat Trust)” bleeds into experimental pop and is matched perfectly with the vocals of Maya from the Canadian band
Trust. Another series of shifts takes this journey into the minimal techno realm on “
Liberation Front” and then psychedelic (and gorgeous) downtempo broken beat on the irresistible “
Naples” and the trippy “
Rooks Theme.” Melodic techno’s back in the picture on “
Recital (A Version)” before Trust’s other singer (Rob) lends his vocals to the spacey gothic pop of “
Fuji Cub (feat Trust).” The electronic bass breaks of “
Barely” and the jagged and pulsating “
Recital (B version)” provide the final chapters in
Egyptrixx’
Bible Eyes.
