This is the most fun I’ve had with a jump-up tune in ages. “Ok Ok” is four names crammed onto one track and somehow it never turns into a mess — everyone’s clearly there to make you gurn, not to show off. Hedex builds these basslines that basically talk, wobbling out syllables where a bassline has no business having consonants, and this one has a hook so bratty it feels illegal. The energy is pure Friday-night, sweat-dripping-off-the-ceiling dnb, the sort that gets a whole room bouncing on the same beat without anyone deciding to. There’s a vocal chop that keeps stuttering the title back at you until it stops being words and starts being percussion. I don’t reach for jump-up as often as I probably should, and every time something this daft and gleeful shows up I remember exactly why the genre exists. Zero pretension, maximum bounce, and gone before it can wear out its welcome. Absolutely feral in the best possible way.
Not the first time Hedex, Travy, XTEN & Overlook has shown up here — Hedex - Beat On My Drum (ft. Inéz)