WAKAAN is Liquid Stranger’s label and it’s where some of the weirdest, most forward-thinking bass music lives, so when Sully and Chozen show up with a Nat James vocal on top, you pay attention. “Temperature” is exactly the kind of off-kilter, future-leaning bass that the WAKAAN crowd eats alive. The production is glitchy and tactile, full of sounds I genuinely can’t identify, and Nat James glues it together with a vocal that keeps the whole experiment human. There’s a real song buried under all the sound design, which is the part a lot of experimental producers forget to include. The drop is heavy without being a generic festival wub, twisting and morphing in ways that reward close listening on good speakers. This is one of three Sully cuts surfacing right now and clearly the man is in a creative spiral, the productive kind. Adventurous, strange, and weirdly catchy. Put on your nicest headphones and let it mess with your head.
January
Chrome Daydream
Chrome stars, jelly hearts and holographic colour. A nod to the glossy, optimistic graphics of the early web.