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Ayi Giri

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The kick is straight and unbothered at 140, but the lift comes from the percussion — hand-drum figures that sit a fraction behind the grid, so the groove never quite settles into a march. Over the top, a chant phrase loops until it stops reading as a voice and starts reading as grain, worn smooth by repetition. Whatever trance inheritance there is lives in the sustained pad and the arpeggio opening underneath, not in any grand gesture.

At energy nine it's a bright record; the F sharp keeps everything leaning upward and there's very little shadow in it. That makes it a bridge rather than a summit — something to run while the floor is still arriving and the lights are up, where its steadiness does the persuading. I'd place it early, or use it to carry a set from one temperature to the next.

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