In the author’s words · Making of
Psycho Breaks, ten years on
I spent eight years making my first album. Ten years after its release, I can hear both what I had learned and what I was still trying to find.
Psycho Breaks came out in 2016, but I had started the material in 2008. I spent those years listening again, deleting things and rebuilding them. Some tracks changed several times. Some of the early material appeared under other names, before I really knew what All Out would become.
The music around me was an influence, but copying it was never the point. I was looking for my own balance of broken rhythms, heavy low end, aggression, melody and cinematic space. At the same time I was learning how to mix and master with the equipment I had.
You can hear the limits now. I can too. But the roughness is part of the album: it carries the pressure of that period and the need to prove to myself that I could finish something that mattered. Some choices sound naive ten years later, but they are honest. I do not want to edit that out of the story.
If you are new to the album, start with The Ravers, I Choose Noise and Into The Storm. The full tracklist and listening link are on the Psycho Breaks album page.