Monday, January 18, 2016

#2003 Keys N Krates - Midnite Mass EP

These dudes pull off my favorite trick in music: plucking all the bangin, heartbustin hearts from the chest of bullshit styles and making em sing.

Big dumb trap skitter'n'BWAAAP skinned and made thrilling, listenable, dancable, soulful. Dudes get pacing, get repetition, get progression, get how to strip a song down to its skeleton until it cuts to the bone. Shades of Feed Me, Girl Talk, The Range - high praise.

Every song has its one tiny, laserfocused sample at its core and wraps it in swoop and swoon. I listened to this over and over again today and it hooked right up into my shit.

You know why it works? You can't get this kind of soul with hit-play. Dig live drums, dig a dude legit on the pads and turntables, see this quick one, or this one. Method matters. 4.5/5

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