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The Ninja on this record
The track runs at a brisk 128 BPM in 8B, and the energy rating of nine is palpable from the first bar—pistons firing, hi-hats slicing the air with the efficiency of a seasoned club tool. Steinberg clearly knows how to sequence drums that keep bodies moving, and the bassline locks in with the kind of disciplined, sweat-drenched momentum that defines credible, no-nonsense house music.
Yet for all its muscular drive, the record never quite delivers the transcendent moment it keeps promising. Without the commanding vocal hook or structural immediacy the floor often demands at this tempo, it sits more comfortably as a bridging device between peaks than as the peak itself. Functional, fierce, and ultimately forgettable.