Frenzied percussive club music from Istanbul-based Jung. Rhythms at 150bpm always feel a little otherworldly to me, like the kind of thing an alien might make if you asked them to make club music. How is it that tracks at 150 often feel faster than 160+ jungle stuff? It’s some sort of psychological trick; I suspect it’s something about how above 160 you more easily sense the underlying halftime. Either way, this track knocks. It comes across almost like double-time grime music, as if Jung were initially making a grime track at 75bpm and then just decided to double the tempo. I don’t know much about Jung. He has two singles on the Turkish label Bounce, which has only been around for a year or so, but also released that excellent Valfi track I featured last month, so they’re definitely onto something good. Grab this on bandcamp, or find it for streaming.

Jung – “CMIYC” (sc)

A quintessentially Los Angeles take on breakbeat from LA’s A-FRAME, this track closes the artist’s recent 3210UT EP. Where most of the EP sits neatly in that niche of heavy LA bass music pioneered by folks like Glitch Mob, this track is looser and more vulnerable–more closely resembling the kind of thing you might hear from other LA heroes further leftfield, like Nosaj Thing. You can grab this on bandcamp, or find it for streaming all over.

A-FRAME – “W/U” (sc)

Speaking of what Los Angeles does well, finally tonight is some proper straightforward bass house in the vein of the kind of thing our old friend AC Slater continues to champion with his Night Bass imprint in LA. This track comes to us courtesy of Vancouver’s NXSTY with vocals from Denver-based ero808. No bandcamp for this, so you’ll have to suffice with streaming (or do people still use beatport, maybe it’s there?).

ero808 x NXSTY – “KODAK” (sc)