Diamond-cut footwork by a Chi staple, balancing lace-untying dexterity, soulful chops and atmospheric pressure in his highest profile and most significant volley to date, for scene leaders Teklife
Working off the back of a dozen years of self-released albums and a 2021 flexidisc for Teklife, Jalen toggles the pressure on/off the good/bad foot in 10 sterling examples of the contemporary Chicago sound. To play favourites, his execution of footwork’s unique floating physics is in beguiling effect on centrepiece ‘Mares’, and dead trippy in the squeaky synths and toe-tip tom instructions of ‘Ripple’, along with the heart-in-mouth appeal of his jabbing dub chords and pointillist drum programming to ‘Light Speed’ or the scudding bomb ‘Glory’, and most definitely on the far eastern string motifs infused to ‘Hour Glass’ that sets him shades away from 33EMYBW (or the other way around?).
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Diamond-cut footwork by a Chi staple, balancing lace-untying dexterity, soulful chops and atmospheric pressure in his highest profile and most significant volley to date, for scene leaders Teklife
Working off the back of a dozen years of self-released albums and a 2021 flexidisc for Teklife, Jalen toggles the pressure on/off the good/bad foot in 10 sterling examples of the contemporary Chicago sound. To play favourites, his execution of footwork’s unique floating physics is in beguiling effect on centrepiece ‘Mares’, and dead trippy in the squeaky synths and toe-tip tom instructions of ‘Ripple’, along with the heart-in-mouth appeal of his jabbing dub chords and pointillist drum programming to ‘Light Speed’ or the scudding bomb ‘Glory’, and most definitely on the far eastern string motifs infused to ‘Hour Glass’ that sets him shades away from 33EMYBW (or the other way around?).
Diamond-cut footwork by a Chi staple, balancing lace-untying dexterity, soulful chops and atmospheric pressure in his highest profile and most significant volley to date, for scene leaders Teklife
Working off the back of a dozen years of self-released albums and a 2021 flexidisc for Teklife, Jalen toggles the pressure on/off the good/bad foot in 10 sterling examples of the contemporary Chicago sound. To play favourites, his execution of footwork’s unique floating physics is in beguiling effect on centrepiece ‘Mares’, and dead trippy in the squeaky synths and toe-tip tom instructions of ‘Ripple’, along with the heart-in-mouth appeal of his jabbing dub chords and pointillist drum programming to ‘Light Speed’ or the scudding bomb ‘Glory’, and most definitely on the far eastern string motifs infused to ‘Hour Glass’ that sets him shades away from 33EMYBW (or the other way around?).
Diamond-cut footwork by a Chi staple, balancing lace-untying dexterity, soulful chops and atmospheric pressure in his highest profile and most significant volley to date, for scene leaders Teklife
Working off the back of a dozen years of self-released albums and a 2021 flexidisc for Teklife, Jalen toggles the pressure on/off the good/bad foot in 10 sterling examples of the contemporary Chicago sound. To play favourites, his execution of footwork’s unique floating physics is in beguiling effect on centrepiece ‘Mares’, and dead trippy in the squeaky synths and toe-tip tom instructions of ‘Ripple’, along with the heart-in-mouth appeal of his jabbing dub chords and pointillist drum programming to ‘Light Speed’ or the scudding bomb ‘Glory’, and most definitely on the far eastern string motifs infused to ‘Hour Glass’ that sets him shades away from 33EMYBW (or the other way around?).