“One for the dancers, riddim addicts, and hybridizers from soundsystem culture.”
Kush Arora (aka Only Now), one of the Bay’s chief producers of dark and gritty dancehall, has joined forces with Brooklyn producer HMXGOD (aka Hitmakerchinx) on Alley Ghost, a trio of instrumentals just waiting for an underground toasting. Cinematic in its deployment of sound production and wobbling its way onto the dancefloor, each track here pulses and thumps with deep drum and bass, balanced out by twittering vocal samples and clarion synthesizers. Made either for the late late night warehouse party, or maybe just the deep recesses of consciousness.
See Kush Arora perform as Only Now alongside KOKOKO! and DJ Sep on May 4 at Public Works.