Midas

The kick lands with an insistence that belies the downtempo tag, pushing a 115bpm frame that feels closer to a slow-burn house cut than horizontal lounge fare. Holly Walker’s voice cuts through the mix with a crisp, organic warmth, threading D-minor melancholy into the track’s high-tension fibres without ever letting the mood slip into complacency. Every texture—the snaps, the padded bass, the dubbed-out ripples—feels hand-woven, giving its fierce energy a tactile, living-room intimacy that still scales to the soundsystem.

I would slot this in the leftfield warm-up or as a bridge record when the floor needs groove without acceleration; the 7A key keeps things shadowy and resolved, making it a natural fit for twilight transitions. On Counter, it carries that trusted Ninja Tune affiliate pedigree—tasteful, yes, but never polite—and at this tempo it functions as a secret weapon for DJs who want bodies moving without surrendering to four-four obviousness.