Strasburg. 1518. A woman began dancing for seemingly no reason, non-stop, day and night. Several others joined her and soon, the dancers start to die. Mass Psychogenic Illness is the most common opinion, but modern experts still don’t completely agree on what caused this plague. Five hundred years later, the germ of this silent beast is still amongst us, crawling in the dark, looking for new prey with its new herald.
Ok, enough drama for today. Let’s close the curtain and get back to reality where I am Sid has finally unleashed his highly anticipated crowfounded EP, The Dancing Plague. Based on the homonym mania and its most famous outbreaks during the course of history, this four-track collection reveals once and for all that this Italian producer is ready to play toe-to-toe with the big names.
Cryptic, mighty, stylish, impeccable, it’s not overstated to say that ‘Mass Psychogenic Illness’ and ‘Aachen 1374’ are his best works to date, the peak of Sid’s evergreen creative genius, and the whole EP should be the reckoned no less than a new Mecca for all the legion of fans that worship names like Rezz, 1788-L and Gesaffelstein. It’s a suggestive and hypnotic journey through dark atmospheres, distorted bass and variable BPM, a concept project that is so carefully curated (I highly suggest to check out the artist’s commentary track by track).
Take a nice breath in, allow yourself to relax more and more and stream or buy The Dancing Plague here.
