Mantra: Damaged EP (Sneaker Social Club, 2023)

April 6, 2023 at 7:53 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment

Mantra: Damaged EP

Mantra’s first EP on Sneaker Social Club starts out with a track that brings hard, knocking garage beats, immediately commanding attention, partially because I wasn’t expecting it from the Rupture co-founder. “Murda” is exactly in the hard, rolling, ruff jungle wheelhouse, exactly what I ordered. “Victory Dance” has the choppage and hypnotic aura, and semi-obscured vocal samples, but it doesn’t go all out. “Ala” is a more low-key late night broken beat shuffler. The tracks are tightly produced and restrained when they need to be, but they bring the heat when played loud.

Leave a Comment »

RSS feed for comments on this post. TrackBack URI

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Enter your comment here...

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

Email (required) (Address never made public)

Name (required)

Website

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out / Change )

You are commenting using your Facebook account. ( Log Out / Change )

Cancel

Connecting to %s

Blog at WordPress.com.
Entries and comments feeds.

The Answer Is In The Beat