- Gut-punching club music madness on Tzusing's label.
- Plenty of young producers play around with nu-metal aesthetics and edits, but rarely have I heard a club track that sounds so perfectly like reverse engineered nu-metal—sans guitars—as NKC & MM's "Beams," taken from the second release on Tzusing's hotly-tipped Sea Cucumber label. There's a distinct swagger to the beat that reminds me of that late-'90s combination of rock and breakbeat. More charitably, you could call it a 2021 update on Meat Beat Manifesto. But the important thing is that it slams, with gut-punching, overwhelming kick drums used sparingly so that it never feels chaotic. There is what intially sounds like processed screamed vocals (maybe just white noise?) and thrusting "snares" that sound like car doors slamming, all arranged into the kind of stomping rhythm you'd hear break out from a rowdy crowd at a hockey game. This is tough stuff with a vital sense of groove.