We invite you to experience a magical psychedelic «ACID» journey. A journey out of the normal world and into the deep forest of eternity. Available now on Scantraxx, Devin Wild’s EP «ACID» takes you from start to finish, inside out, from microcosm to macrocosm. Things will never be the same again.
Devin Wild will be your companion on this wacky and mind-blowing journey through consciousness, guiding and guiding you every step of the way. He has prepared a four-step auditory curriculum that will serve you as a crash course in the art of travel.
Devin Wild’s EP «ACID» is the ultimate multisensory journey. During the 22 minutes, you will hear a different sound profile influenced by other genres such as techno and drum & bass. You will be taken on a hallucinatory journey through universal consciousness, guided by the best.
The images are also neat, and each track is represented by the most mind-blowing and outlandish eye candy. It is recommended to consume the entire product at once to experience the full effects of ACID. All songs plus interludes were carefully designed in this particular order to give you the most rewarding and enjoyable journey
We have had the pleasure of interviewing Devin Wild, and this has been the result.
Can you tell us a little about your experience? Where are you from / how did you get into music? Was it all internet based?
I grew up in a city in The Netherlands called Arnhem. Now I live in Utrecht. I got involved with this kind of music when I was around 8 years old. Back then ‘jumpstyle’ was very popular in The Netherlands. From then on I got involved with hardstyle. Later some guy showed me how to make music on a computer. From that moment I got obsessed and now we are here haha!
Who have been your main inspirations (both musical and in «life»)? And how have they affected your sound?
When I started making hardstyle, Noisecontrollers had always been a huge inspiration for me as a producer. The last couple of years I started to get inspiration more from other genres besides hardstyle. Trying not to get affected too much by my own genre made me way more creative, just because combining other genres in hardstyle can be really challenging. This makes it great to do, and trying to find more ways to fit ‘unusual’ things into your own genre keeps your creative mind triggered. At least, that’s how I see it.
How would you define your sound?
I think my music is a nice mix between straightforward but also a little complex dancefloor music, with a lot of themes and atmosphere. There are influences from techno, drum and bass and cinematic music, which I try to blend together with hardstyle.
How has your sound evolved so far?
It’s about years of experimenting. Developing my own vision and philosophy that grew with me as a person through the years. When I started releasing, my music was way more focussed on euphoric kinds of melodies — more like ‘songs’. I’ve tried several things and styles the last couple of years, trying to find the right spot where I could reflect my creativity to the music. That took me a few years to discover. Nowadays, my music is a bit more underground, straightforward, and maybe a bit more ‘artistic’, if I may call it that.
What can you tell us about your last job? What inspired you? What do you want to convey?
I love to bring different influences from the genres I love, for example, drum and bass. That was also the idea behind this project in particular. Trying to experiment as much as I feel like. I didn’t really think about things that ‘could work’ for a bigger audience or something. I just wanted to create what I had in mind.
What can you tell us about each song that makes up your latest work? What is hidden behind?
The tracks on the ‘ACID’ EP are basically my mind explained with sound.
I tried to work out every idea I had in mind that I still wanted to try. For example, in ‘It’s Okay’ I combined some bass sounds with orchestral sounds, like strings, which creates a great hybrid in my opinion. ‘Eternity’ is a more ‘techno-minded’ track — there is no actual melody drop or climax part. The track keeps building up with some more ‘cinematic’ musical parts and drops with some phat dry kicks. This project was all about experimenting and I think that worked out pretty good.
How are you living the current situation because of COVID? Has your work affected you a lot? Do you think there is hope? I feel like the underground scene will continue to persist.
To be honest, I am doing really really well. This whole COVID situation gave me so much time to evaluate the last couple of years and has allowed me to think about things I wanted to change, like my music. Since the start of the COVID lockdowns, I’ve decided to fully focus on music. I am in the studio everyday making music and trying new things. Making music is the thing I most love doing. Being creative and productive in the studio gives me the feeling of freedom which also gives me a lot of positive energy. On the other side, music is also made to be heard and to experience. That’s something we can’t really do at this point which is really sad. I hope this situation will change ASAP, but we will see. For me, as a musician, there is enough hope, but I’m not sure what party life is gonna look like in the short-term… Let’s hope for the best!
What projects are you working on right now?
At the moment I’m working on new solo releases. Some are more melodic, some are more experimental. I would love to do more projects like the ‘ACID’ EP. So you can definitely expect more like those!
