S4E1 - ENEA - AFTERGLOW

◈ ENEA. Afterglow. Japanese city-pop house on UXRZONE.

Around 132 BPM and the groove is doing two things at once. That shuffled 2-step swing sits right in the Sunship-era pocket, ghost rimshots and all. Underneath it, a bassline that keeps shifting weight, sub pressure rolling low while the arpeggiator traces something clean and melodic above it. The shakuhachi cuts through late, dry and close-mic'd. It shouldn't work next to the punchy kick and organ stabs. It does.

Shibuya in the mix. Koh Phangan heat on the low end. Goa's psychedelic sprawl in the way the rhythm never fu...