The snare on this hits like a slammed metal door, and once you’ve heard it at volume you can’t unhear it anywhere else. Genesis is Mefjus and Annix in full neurofunk mode, which means precision engineering pointed straight at your sternum. The drums are so tightly programmed they almost sound machined, every hit placed with a watchmaker’s patience, and then the bass comes in and undoes all that politeness. Around 1:48 the whole track folds down to a single stuttering note before the second half kicks the door back open, meaner than the first. Mefjus builds bass sounds most producers wouldn’t know where to start with, growls that morph mid note into something almost vocal. Annix bring the rowdiness, the sense that this is meant for a dark room going properly off rather than a headphones autopsy. It rolls at that unforgiving tempo where the breaks never let you settle, and the mix is loud in the way that makes cheap speakers give up. I’ve run it back enough times this evening that the metal-door snare is now my personal alarm clock. This is technical drum and bass that never forgets it’s supposed to hurt.
Mefjus & Annix is no stranger to this blog. Last time: Camo & Krooked & Mefjus - Redemption (feat. Joe Killington)