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The Ninja on this record
At 133 the pulse is a stride rather than a sprint, and the energy reading of 9 is spent on pressure rather than percussion — pads that swell and recede, a low end that sits under the kick instead of on top of it. F# minor gives the melodic lines a cool cast; nothing here pleads. The trance DNA shows in the way phrases overlap and resolve late, so the track keeps opening rather than landing.
The room it builds is wide and slightly hazy, the sort you'd use to shift a set's centre of gravity rather than to close it. Slot it where the night needs to lift without getting louder — after the harder stretch, before the peak. It carries melody without asking for attention, which is a rarer thing at this tempo than it should be.