Dub / ninja

Released Apr 2023

Records released this month that the Ninja keeps in rotation, each with his take on it.

29 records in rotation · 252 plays on air

Artists

Tracks

Narcotic Balearic drift at 120 BPM; the kind of after-hours armour that rewards patient ears.

I'd file this 100-BPM slow burn under ambient techno rather than pure drift, its 3B key blazing with a nine-out-of-ten, scorched intensity.

Garrett David drapes melodic gauze over a skeletal 130 BPM frame, letting warmth seep through the gaps.

A relentless 125bpm pulse wrapped in dream-state gauze; Iqbal turns the basement into a cathedral of leftfield pressure.

A dub-tinged, 120-BPM after-hours cruiser that swaps neon for noir, letting its high-energy tension seethe rather than explode.

I hear peak underground voltage at 120 BPM: warm leftfield deep house built for the discerning floor.

Loose-limbed percussion and humid synthesis coalesce into a leftfield disco vortex that demands a system, not a playlist.

Slow-motion voltage at 103 BPM: a narcotic, after-hours sway that burns far hotter than its downtempo frame suggests.

A mesmeric, off-kilter pulse that warps the room into a 3 AM fever dream of rubbery bass and disembodied melody.

A locked, humid drum mantra that burns slow and steady, tailor-made for the floor’s most unhinged hours.

Warm strings and a 122 BPM engine give this Rekids cut serious basement authority.

A 130bpm peak-time juggernaut where the bassline steers, the melody lingers in the smoke, and the energy never dips below ten.

I'd drop this sleek, high-voltage deep techno cut straight onto discerning floors; its indie-dance swagger rides a relentless one-twenty-two.

A warm, hypnotic 122bpm groove that locks the floor without breaking a sweat, primed for those late-night deep house moments.

Relentless, lean tech house from an underground staple that treats the club like a pressure cooker.

Four Tet sculpts a 113bpm leftfield sprawl that channels high-voltage tension into something eerily danceable.

A bruising low-end rumble at 105bpm that drags downtempo into the bassbin with breakbeat teeth.

I keep coming back to this 115bpm breaks cut; its UK bass architecture is lean, mean, and impossible to ignore in a warm-up room.

A polished, sentimental cruiser that trades edge for immediate melodic gratification, built for festival sunsets.

DJ Python slows Carmen Villain to a sub-heavy 107 BPM crawl where the tension is merciless and the bass feels like bad news.

Sleek deep techno channelling maxed-out energy into quirky melodic minimalism and pure hypnosis.

A 128 BPM nocturnal missile built for strobe-lit floors, merging indie-dance swagger with techno's relentless forward thrust.

I’d call this 125bpm peak-time detonation pure R&S pedigree: unrelenting, metallic, forward pressure.

A relentless 146-BPM Soma tool that trades melody for merciless forward motion and floor-locking tension.