The bassline on Pongo struts in around the thirty-second mark and immediately owns the room, and from there miirabelle and Stadiumx barely have to do anything but let it ride. This is tech house built on attitude, a vocal that swaggers more than it sings sitting over a low end with real menace to it. The drop doesn’t explode so much as sidle up and start moving, which is a harder and frankly cooler thing to pull off than a big obvious payoff. There’s a percussion fill around the 2:10 mark that snaps the whole groove into a higher gear, the kind of detail that separates producers who feel tech house from producers who just program it. miirabelle’s vocal presence is the secret weapon, giving the track a face instead of leaving it another faceless DJ tool. It’s sexy and a little smug and completely aware of how good it is. Toolroom keeps a steady supply of these coming and the hit rate stays absurdly high. A proper late-night strut of a record.
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miirabelle, Stadiumx - Pongo
1-minute read. Already more thought than the average 'Yellow' replay.
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