Pulse

Essential DMac Burns

Whatever It Will Dub (Victor Rice Dub)

It's a Fine Dub (Victor Rice Dub)

I don’t need no money or fame
I just need to hold my love with faith
Knowing it’s a losing game 
To look for reasons why there’s somebody else to blame
See I could only hope that I would see 
The world through eyes as open wide as they could be
But I’m so tired from the fights and screams 
That I think I’ll lay low and watch it be 

Whatever it will be
Whatever it will be, yeah
Whatever it will be
Whatever it will be will be

Money is a thing we need to live 
But when I find myself chasing after it
I lose control and dig a bed of debt
A grave for misaligned intentions
Reaching out in stressful mentions
Hoping for success while clenching
Oh if I could only write a song that would 
Make my plight just vanish with my wrongs 
I would ball out, my ego flexing hard
But if I called out for my love and found that she were gone
I could never let that 

Be
I could never let it be. No no
I could never let that be 
I could never let it be. Whatever it would be

I don’t need no money or fame
I just need to hold my love with faith
Knowing it’s a losing game 
To look for reasons why to carry someone else’s shame

Whatever It Will Be

It’s a fine day to let go of self hatred
It’s been haunting me for so long
Years of doubt compounded over generations
Now I fear I’ll pass it on
‘Cause it lives in the heart that’s been disconnected 
From the land where we belong
Time can heal
But it can harden us 

It’s a fine day to break the chain of self destruction
That’s been guiding us so far
New dimensions exist. We don’t have to live like this
I can feel the pulse beat within everyone

(I can feel the pulse)

Woah oh oh yeah ah
This is generational healing like I never thought I’d know. We are
Connecting the past, the present and the future souls who need
Justice through acknowledgement of the right to grieve and speak 
On all of the atrocities committed in those violent acts of greed, perpetually
Now it’s time to flip the script, but we must weave
Mindfulness between dimensions of excess and lack, not what is seen 
But felt in a collective consciousness to receive, yeah ah

It’s a fine day to break the chain of self destruction
That’s been guiding us so far
New dimensions exist. We don’t have to live like this
I can feel the pulse beat within everyone

Our pulse beats as seasons change
Revealing new life
Our pulse beats as seasons change
Revealing new life
Our pulse beats as seasons change
Revealing new life

This one’s for all the hypocrites who won’t let go
I’ll spit that ether fire, make your soul burn slow
If you think it’s safe, there’s something you should know
Even just a little taste could leave you all exposed

You speak to the masses 
Telling them not to be weak, but your fascist will reaps a disaster 
Kill speech wrapped in plastic, digital pills teased everlasting
Red or blue? Seek a new master. Eat your fill, treats for the last ones
The meek will still keep what you're after. Now the earth cries out
Heartbeats breaking ground to swallow your clout
No more thrills steeped in the caskets of real people who lasted 
Through blood spill leaked on the lonely static filled streets that you crafted

This one’s for all the hypocrites who won’t let go
I’ll spit that ether fire, make your soul burn slow
If you think it’s safe, there’s something you should know
Even just a little taste could leave you all exposed

You are the bringers of the demons
And I know this because I once was you
I said you are the bringers of the demons
And I recognize this because I once was you
I was in the dark praying not to be exposed
Afraid to face the lies I told myself and I and those
Around me who I deemed not right to know my truth 
So I died in that darkness so that I could grow
Eventually the light would show

This one’s for all the hypocrites who won’t let go
I’ll spit that ether fire, make your soul burn slow
If you think it’s safe, there’s something you should know
Even just a little taste could leave you all exposed

Exposed
Exposed

This one’s for all the hypocrites who won’t let go
I’ll spit that ether fire, make your soul burn slow
If you think it’s safe, there’s something you should know
Even just a little taste could leave you all exposed

Hypocrites

Yeah, Yeah whoa oh
Yeah, Yeah ooh whoa oh

I was on this road for far too long
Running from a demon, I tried to sing his song
See I come from the land of concrete ambition
Now I live in a stone house right beside a farm

City boy in a country man style. Let the trees speak for a while
Let stone rock me to sleep. Plant a memory to keep
Let it grow from seedling to a life giving tree, yeah

This land fills me with wonder
The misty morning air
Provides stillness to ponder
Questions like
Am I chasing this dream or is it chasing me?
What am I losing when I give all of my energy
To the city streets?
How much money will it take to put my mind at ease?
There’ll never be enough
When the cost of living large depends on poverty
I think it’s time for 
Justice, justice, do we really trust this
Freedom through lies, propaganda, no substance?
Justice, justice, do we really trust this 
Freedom to pillage and fight?

City boy in a country man style. Let the trees speak for a while
Let stone rock me to sleep. Plant a memory to keep
Let it grow from seedling to a life giving tree, yeah

Yeah, Yeah whoa oh
Yeah, Yeah ooh whoa oh
Yeah, Yeah whoa oh
Yeah, Yeah ooh 

The oak told me about a place that was free
A long time ago before the conqueror's greed
Came to flatten all the land and uproot the trees
Converting everyone to a new identity
So I started reasoning with the wise elder tree
Who was happy to teach me the patience that I’d need
To find some healing in a country style-ee  
When the hawthorne blooms and the sycamore sings yeah

City boy in a country man style. Let the trees speak for a while
Let stone rock me to sleep. Plant a memory to keep
Let it grow from seedling to a life giving tree, yeah

Country Man Style

Ancestors

Dance and Sing

Light Beam

DMac Burns - stage name of singer-songwriter Danny McDonald - combines elements of reggae, dub, r&b, indie rock, and more into heartfelt lyrically rich songs. Raised in New York City, DMac Burns began as a solo project in an apartment in Washington Heights in 2020. After moving to West Cork, Ireland, in 2022 he met keyboardist and dub-specialist Matías Saldivia who hails from Buenos Aires, Argentina. The two bonded over the fact that they were city boys living in rural Ireland with a shared love for roots reggae and dub.

Over the next year and a half they spent most of their time writing, recording, and refining a live set that features many styles played over a backbone of dub reggae. They can be found gigging as a two piece (looping and live dubbing bass, keys, guitar, vocals and melodica over beat samples from world class drummers) or with a full band. In June 2024 they released, Pulse, a 4 song EP featuring mixes and dubs from legendary reggae producer, musician, and Easy Star Records collaborator, Victor Rice.

Spending his early childhood in Queens, and then growing up in the Bronx, Danny was shaped by the wide array of culture that New York City has to offer. He cut his teeth playing in punk bands before refining his style in reggae outfit, Rocky and The Pressers. Prior to moving to Ireland, he released his debut DMac Burns EP in 2020 featuring collaborations from industry veterans Marc Campbell of MisterWives, Grammy-nominated instrumentalist Jesse Blum (Nas, Hit-Boy, Twenty One Pilots),along with drummer/vocalist Seth Nicholson and bassist Rocky Russo. While recording his last EP, The Longest Night, with producer Julian Giaimo in 2022, McDonald learned he would become a father, prompting a relocation to his wife's family home in West Cork.

DMac Burns’ music offers a soundscape that defies the confines of traditional genres. On a Jamaican roots foundation, he builds an experience combining the hustle of the Bronx and the tranquility of the lush Irish countryside. He addresses introspective themes and invites listeners to confront the darkness within themselves and the world around them, encouraging them to delve into the challenges and struggles of our modern existence, aiming to provoke a discussion about the direction of our collective journey.