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The Ninja on this record
At 128 with energy at nine, this doesn't sprint so much as lock in: a clipped bass figure doing most of the talking, hi-hats kept tight and dry, the whole thing sitting easy in F minor without fuss. The funk lives in the gaps between hits rather than the hits themselves — a shuffle in the percussion that stops it sounding like a grid.
It reads as a daytime record, or a warm-up that thinks it's a peak: clean enough to slot early, weighty enough to hold a floor that's already moving. The arrangement stays lean, and nothing gets added that the groove didn't ask for. I'd use it to bridge a soulful opening into something harder, and it does that without showing off.