“woody mcbride aka “dj esp” has been an advocate, enthusiast and organizer of arts & music activities since his hungry early-80’s junior high school years.

these experiences and future dedication led him to be the 2000 recipient of the respected “minnesota music award” for “best electronica artist” standing alongside other winners such as prince, sounds of blackness,...

since 1991, esp has composed hundreds of classic electronic music tracks on his label communique such as “basketball heroes, comedy tragedy, psick and tired, soundburnt and electris” as well as “hidden” (labworks), “rattlesnake” (magnetic north) “the earthworm sings” (ex), “slo mo” (definitive) and many other great records and remixes on bush, tlc, missile, analog, foodchain, transatlanticexpress, blue line, 611, swell, ovum, synewave, urbanground,...

from the event promotion perspective, for years he has organized some of america’s most well-respected events such as “turned on, mental, apocalypse wow!, further, electric disco, depth probe, closer, i like to get down, sugar” & the memorable “stairway to headphones. “turned on 2” held in november 2000 proved to be the largest and most exciting event in midwest america history with over 7000 people in attendence and was the first truly outspoken “drug free rave event” in us history”! the event featured q-bert, sandra collins, henrik b, derrick carter, frankie bones, christopher lawrence and dozens more...

his events have featured amazing arena sized sound systems stacked in his trademark “wall of bass” form sometimes measuring 20 feet high and 150 feet long, pushing as much as 1,000,000 watts of good clean fun. he’s set the american live-sonic standards for a new era of a brand new genre of music.
that standard has also taken him into the upper realms of “today’s” sound as he was recruited to the soundtrack for 2000 presidential candidate ralph nader (a drum & bass rocker), a score for hazelden drug treatment facility prevention video, music for a bmw automobile commercial, several scores for the awarded minnesota filmaker steven smith, and was hired to anchor the a & r at k-tel records - the label that was the “backbone” of the the 70’s and 80’s disco era.

this combined he’s laid a foundation for a new world of midwest american electronic music that now features dozens of local djs and world-famous producers. he has also recorded for dozens of labels including tresor, bush, tlc, labworks, synewave, missile, magnetic
north, ex records, contact and drop bass network records (which he co-founded) and now binary bassline!!. esp is proud to say he has had the
pleasure of working with such respected artists as freddy fresh, tim taylor, frankie bones, jeff mills, dj hell, josh wink, roland casper, chris liberator, dave clarke, damon wild and many many more...

now, after racking up over a million frequent flyer miles and having performed all over europe, asia, south america, australia and north america dj esp is currently submerged in producing tracks in the post-rave era of sophisticated hybrid electronic music for the more intimate and home settings as well as the small dark techno club - where he is at his best...