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7.4
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Keep Pretending

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The Ninja on this record

At 120 BPM in 7B, this sits in that soft-focus pocket where deep house stops being a genre and becomes a temperature. The kick is unhurried, the bass rolls rather than pushes, and the melodic work carries the load — bright chords with a minor ache folded inside them, which is why the mood tags read happy and sad at once. Energy at 6 keeps it conversational; nothing here raises its voice.

That contradiction is the interesting part. There's a clipped, almost terse edge in the percussion that keeps the warmth from turning saccharine, a hint of aggression under the relaxation. It belongs early — a second or third record, sunlight through a window, floor filling but not full. Danceability around 0.75 tells you it moves without insisting. I'd let it breathe for four minutes and mix out before the melody overstays.

Mixes well with

same key or a step away, near the tempo

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