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Dystophilia

by MC Maguire

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Yummy World 23:46 video
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Another Lucid Dream 27:33 video
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Dystophilia: A fascination with the rate of societal decline. An unravelling of order as it careens into a dystopian AI future where melodies pile helter-skelter over phrases, genres melt seamlessly into one another, metal textures crash into chamber-like enclaves, forms teeter on the edge of collapse, violent rhythms transform into ghostly voices, and spiralling polyphonies end in jazz riffs or pop songs.

The music of this album from MC Maguire’s apocalyptic aural imagination, is poured into two giant electronic orchestral works. The first is Yummy World based on Justin Biebers’ Yummy which is sliced and diced through a world music/jazz appropriation machine. The other is Another Lucid Dream which mixes Juice Wrlds’ Lucid Dream with 16th C. passacaglias, headbanger Metal, and orchestral tsunamis. In other words, Dystophilia is often culturally inappropriate, dense, stacked in layers and best turned up to eleven.

Maguire has been dubbed “the most irritating and spellbinding composer since Philip Glass”, and “the most original Canadian composer since R. Murray Schafer.”

Reviews from his previous Neuma release, Transmutation of Things:

“This is remarkably exciting music, but music that can hold great beauty also.….impactful on a very immediate level... Five stars: Maguire’s voice is fresh and vital.”
– Fanfare Magazine

“The end result is truly exciting and atypical, and simply must be heard by all ears for the unconventional”
– Take Effect

“….knock-down, awe-inspiring stunner, disentangling sounds already ripped from their categorical moorings. This is plunderphonics of gargantuan proportions, grand gestures born from a car-crash aftermath. It’s ‘classical’ music for the schizophrenic masses.”
– Downtown Music Gallery

MC Maguire is a Toronto-based composer/producer who has created a quirky post-modern hybrid that combines classical, pop, jazz, electro-acoustic, and world music traditions. He works primarily in his studios’ multi-track environment combining live recording, sampling, synths, exotic plugins, and digital editing possibilities.

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released January 1, 2024

Mastered by Erdem Helvacioglu

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MC Maguire is a Toronto-based composer/producer who has created a quirky post-modern hybrid that combines classical, pop, jazz, electro-acoustic, and world music traditions. He works primarily in his studios’ multi-track environment (up to 400 tracks) combining live recording, sampling, synths, exotic plugins, and digital editing possibilities. ... more

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