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David Louis and Stranjah 'Lethal' (Repertoire)
Hertfordshire’s Repertoire label is all set for a huge 2017, coming off the back of Tim Reaper’s stunning ‘Lanterns’ in December and its Dead Man’s Chest remix wizardry. The title track from this new EP from Stranjah and his Canada-based protégé David Louis is soaked in cavernous bass nodes and agile break patterns; there’s a delightfully misty, sugary quality to the way the breaks brushstroke over the deep-end kicks in the early part of the track, its harder edges softened deliciously as sonorous low-end bursts boom metronomically away beneath. This is a finely tooled jungle sculpture that’s just impossible to resist.
7/10
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