Infectious Grooves
Mas Borracho

I have always thought very poorly of Mike Muir; in the sense that music was his outlet for the enormous frustration accumulated growing up and living in Los Angeles in the early eighties. In my opinion, without this activity, he could have easily ended up in a gang, in some criminal organization with easily imaginable results.

For his and our good fortune, he created that formidable war machine named Suicidal Tendencies (let us remember on these pages that the band had the enormous merit of being among the first to approach, unite, and blend together totally opposite genres such as Metal and Hardcore) and also the bizarre and "out of his mind" side project of Infectious Grooves. The darker and sicker side of Mike formed them at the end of the eighties; he created a sort of family (he is the father-master and also despot) gathering around him a series of musician-friends, with remarkable technical skills, ready to support him in the four albums published by this gang of madmen.

Mas Borracho is the last in the series and is, in my opinion, the one that best represents the crazy and tangled sound put together by the Californians.

A total, detrimental, furious Crossover, with continuous and incessant changes of register and timing. You really hear everything in the thirteen tracks that make up the work. Guided by the bass "in a totalitarian regime" of Roberto Agustín Miguel Santiago Samuel Perez de la Santa Concepción Trujillo Veracruz Bautista, much more simply known as Robert Trujillo (yes, him, the one ridiculously underused who now plays in Metallica), they build a Hardcore-Metal-Punk-Funk hybrid with very little competition. Mike's voice, rapped in many episodes, is supported by choirs and choruses of the peaceful Family; the drums are in the safe and dynamic hands of Brooks Wackerman (who shortly after will join the ranks of the melodic Hardcore champions Bad Religion!!). The guitars weave and create riffs without interruption: now Funky, immediately Thrash-Core, then returning to the most traditional Metal. Take the early works of Primus, adding the fantasy and ability to vary a hundred times within the same track (and at this point, let me cite as a plausible reference Mr. Frank Zappa from Baltimore) and you will have in your hands the operating system of Infectious Grooves. I still miss a reference: and then I say that Mike Patton who needs no introduction, Mondo Cane...

To give credit to what has just been written, listen at excessive volume to the track "21st Century Surf Odyssey".

The album includes an additional mini EP humorously named Pneumonia EP: five unreleased songs by bands revolving around the already mentioned Family. It is only right, and I conclude, to at least mention "Su Casa Es My Casa" by Suicidal Tendencies.

Spectacular...WHAT GOES UP...

Diabolos Rising 666.