This is an album about the INFLUENCE of MEN/MIN in my life.

A few months back, DJ SA began a project about the WOMYN who had made a huge impact on their life. Upon realizing that they had only experienced, directly, the authority, love, power and wisdom of women, for the bulk of their life, (operative word: DIRECTLY,) that project became a massive and more complicated affair, and has yet to be released.

Having rejected and rebelled against the masculine influence, authority, and power structures of contemporary American life for most of their existence as a cognitive being, the impact of the masculine had been much less examined on an individual level, and much more on a systemic level. The over-arching and underlying impact of the masculine/male on them was almost constantly a source of economic and performance-based engagement, with elements of repression, loss, confusion, pain, dishonesty, and distance. Male authority (patriarchy) was assumed and expected because of social, political, hierarchical position and role, within a top-down patriarchal socioeconomic and sociopolitical model of everyday life that surrounds each American (and, in 2021, most humans now that the global capitalist hegemonic power structure has spread to every corner of the planet, like a cancer, bringing with it: cancer, smallpox, structural adjustments, development goals, military and election meddling, industry, and "aid." In the form of, as Noam Chomsky said, "The American Heath System has long been an International Scandal.") And all in the name of Freedom and Democracy. Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness...

On this day, Re-dependence day, about 250 years ago a bunch of wealthy and powerful European elitists and politically engaged Colonists decided they wanted the wealth that was being produced through the genocide of Natives and the enslavement of captured and shackled Africans for themselves. While the English were engaged in a war with the French and Spanish, they saw a perfect opportunity. They began to organize the poor and desperate who would die for their cause as they got drunk and pulled pistols on each other, trying to decide how they would distribute the power once they, only in name, wrested the writ of ownership over the wealth produced by the colonies from the King of England and into their own powdered-wig-wearing-ass grimey pockets.

This is a few songs, a bunch of Nirvana songs, an El-P song, some Korn, The Pixies, Slayer, Jamie XX, Dead Prez, Sadness, and some selections from the catalogue of Saturate!, Planet Mu, and Triangle Records, made into a heavy and emotional rollercoaster of angst and toxicity that is also fun and easy to dance to. It represents the male influence, the Manifest Destiny, on DJ Self Absorbed's life and on the life of a Nation.

Love DJ SA