Murdock and The Subs' lead singer Papillon have been running into each other for years in backstages and at afterparties. Now techno music has been speeding up, gabber is back with a vengeance, and psytrance drops are omnipresent in drum&bass sets, it was only a matter of time before the two legends of Belgian nightlife would hit the studio together. They ended up doing a wild jam session and built that into the frentic hybrid that’s hitting the raves right now. With a manic 4/4 drop, splashes of jungle breaks, pulsatig acid b-lines, dubbass and tearout foghorn interference, the track combines the best of a whole bunch of worlds. Working on lyrics, Papillon dug up a quote from Hunter S. Thompson, who happens to be Murdock’s favorite writer and the embodiment of hedonism. Too weird to live, too rare to die, and the pair added that they are here to Multiply.
They premiered the song at Rampage Total Takeover, which saw Murdock play an intimate set at Club Vaag, crammed to the brim with mad ravers from all around the world, who were going absolutely apeshit to the Rampage anthems and dubplates he was dropping. Add to that a sudden unannounced appearance of a wild Papillon, who jumped on the mic to deliver the collaborative song, and then later jumped in the crowd for a lengthy crowdsurf, topping off the performance.
2023 is the first proper year back from the lockdowns and the pandemic scare, and Murdock and Papillon are here for it. Delivering the anthem of a generation, shouting from the rooftops, to seize the moment as hard as possible, to celebrate weirdness, because real ravers do not die, they Multiply.