KRITIKAL - WATCIS!

The first thing you hear is a bassline that sounds like it’s being physically wrung out, and from there WATCIS! basically never lets your ears settle. This is Monstercat in full aggressive-dnb mode, all snapping breaks and a low end designed to test whatever you’re playing it on. KRITIKAL’s sound design here is genuinely nasty in the good way, every hit placed with the precision of someone who spent too long in the studio and enjoyed every minute. The drop at 0:52 does a stuttering, glitched-out thing that shouldn’t be danceable and absolutely is. What keeps it from being pure noise is the swing underneath, that little bit of groove that heavy dnb usually forgets to bring. I’ve had the second drop stuck in my head all afternoon, which is not something I can usually say about tracks this abrasive. Aggressive electronic music lives or dies on whether it grooves, and this one grooves. Turn it up until something rattles.

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