Psychick Rhythms, Vol. 1

“Warning!” says the sleeve: “This object has nothing to do with art or artificial intelligence. This double package (12” version) was designed for mixing, for breaks, for possession, for collectors.” It was a bold and brilliant statement at a time when alternative and psychedelic electronic music all too often got caught up in its own self importance. The Dutch collective PWoG may have had grand ideas of human evolution and connection to the earth, and made some deeply weird and wonky ambience too, but for them the dance was everything – and these heavily Chicago-indebted drum machine house jams as stripped back as anything in the Plastikman catalogue, while deeply psychedelic, are glorious DJ fodder. Ritual dance in its purest form.