How many times can a drop be built around the phrase go nuts before the law of diminishing returns kicks the door in? Typhon is out here testing it. Go Nuts is festival trap at its most functional, a vocal chant chopped into the build, a tension riser you have heard on a thousand uploads, and a drop that delivers exactly the dopamine the title promises and not a milligram more. It is effective. It is also almost aggressively anonymous, the sort of track that does its damage in a festival set and evaporates the second the next one starts. The 808s hit hard and the arrangement is tight, but I could not hum a single bar of it an hour later if you paid me to. There is a half-time section near the end that is genuinely nasty and hints at a better, weirder track Typhon could have made instead of this one. Built to detonate once and get replaced, and it at least nails the detonation. Fine for the function. Thin as a song.
January
Chrome Daydream
Chrome stars, jelly hearts and holographic colour. A nod to the glossy, optimistic graphics of the early web.