On the three-track EP Rattle, Berkeley’s Kush Arora (aka Only Now) once again offers up his characteristically exhilarating industrial dancehall, this time in collaboration with London producer Darama. Both artists are well-known for their deconstructions of South Asian beats—and finely polished productions that leave the listener breathless. Coming in vicious and potent from the start, “Heart Meter” builds techno riddims around stuttering flute and a pinging heart meter, the alternating noise and silence suggesting the delicate line between life and death. Title track “Rattle” dips into a dubby whirlpool of Punjabi tumbi flute, amapiano, and grime. And “Grid” races to the finish, making no qualms about its debt to first-ever grime track “Pulse X.”
