D1

The drums hit me at a steady 128 BPM, but it is the 1B key centre that gives the momentum its colour—minor shading wrapped in the warmth and organic texture LoSoul favours. I hear every bar as lived-in, as though the machines were tuned by hand rather than locked to sterile grids; the melodic elements curl around the groove like smoke in a room I am already struggling to breathe in.

I would place this in that precarious peak-time pocket where the crowd wants transcendence but still needs something human to hold onto. For all its deep house lineage, this is an energy-ten cut, and I feel it in the way it commands a floor without ever turning brutal. On Running Back, that balance is exactly why I keep it in rotation.