- Some dance tracks are also songs, and vice versa. "Low Point," the A-side of the second 12-inch in as many months by Adultnapper (NYC-based Francis Harris) and vocalist Big Bully (L.A.-gone-Brooklyn Minera Music head Dawson Baca), is one of them, and which is which depends on where your focus happens to be as the track plays. Pay attention to Big Bully's connecting the dots between a semi-Goth moan and deep house croon (particularly when he goes into falsetto for the chorus: "I can feel, I can feel, I can feel") and this is a song. But he's mush-mouthed enough for the listener to let the words work as pure sound, and the moody downpour he sings about is still an audible feature of the track—implied more than stated outright.
The remix by DJ Sprinkles gives the track an even eerier sensibility, not by amping the vocal emotion but by making the track as sparse as the original with far more detail. There's a lot going on in the seemingly placid mix: oddly timed handclaps all over the sound field, a few low-key notes of plucked guitar echoing a glowing bass riff, a lot of instruments jumping from one speaker to another. Setting it all in motion is an off-kilter piano cluster reminiscent of Thelonious Monk at his furthest out. It says something that for an element that recurs like clockwork, it manages to surprise nearly every time.
TracklistA Low Point On High Ground
B Low Point On High Ground (DJ Sprinkles Rmx)