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The Ninja on this record
The tempo tells you most of it: 113, too slow to push a floor and too quick to drift off, so the groove walks rather than drives. In 11B the harmony stays bright at the top and shadowed underneath, chords held long enough to smear into each other. Energy sits at one — almost nothing arrives, nothing drops, and the restraint is the whole architecture.
The moods contradict each other on paper and don't in the listening: happy, sad, aggressive, relaxed, all four present at low volume. The aggression is pressure in the low end, not percussion. Danceability at 0.626 is a sway, not a stomp. I'd open with it, or close with it, or put it in the room between rooms.