I hear the motor running at a steady 128, and Soul of Hex keeps the pressure tactile rather than brittle. In D major, the chords open up the room with a brightness that feels like late afternoon sun cutting through smoke, and that energy level of 9 is earned by stacked rhythm and warm instrumentation rather than forced compression. I can hear the label’s bias toward warmth in every bar.
I’d sit this comfortably in the pocket between deep house melody and floor urgency: the sort of record I let breathe for a few extra phrases before the mix, letting its hooky depth do the structural work. At this tempo and key, it threads nicely into a set that values groove over spectacle, filling the floor without crowding it.