The first thing In The Night does is strip itself down to a bassline and a pulse, and Culture Shock spends the rest of the track proving that was all he needed. This is dancefloor drum and bass with the house lights off, a dark rolling thing that trusts empty space the way his best RAM Records material always has. He came up making tracks for rooms that wanted weight over cleverness, and this keeps faith with that. The vocal is a single phrase looped until it stops being language and turns into another piece of percussion, a trick I never tire of when someone has the restraint to leave it alone. There is a long mid-section where everything thins out to a kick and a held sub note, and that patience is exactly what makes the return hit as hard as it does. It is a slow-burn weapon for...
January
Chrome Daydream
Chrome stars, jelly hearts and holographic colour. A nod to the glossy, optimistic graphics of the early web.
