The minimalism and intensity of Jersey Club music remains a huge influence on the whole Night Slugs camp, and while Jersey’s impact can be felt across the CC series, Jam City channels those devastating ghostly kick drums like none other.

Continuing on from where he left off with club favourites “The Courts” the “How We Relate To The Body”, Jam drops 5 lean and intense drum workouts build from scrap metal and primed for warehouse use. They move between thudding midrange persistence and just-sub-and-air minimalism, framed by jammed drum machine rhythms and splashes of re-sampled colour.

Jam decorates these sturdy and well-deployed undercarriages with silvery detail, percussion fragments, broken talkboxes, whispered vox and simple, beautiful chords.

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Now “Bring In The Katz” isn’t an old track, so why are we re-releasing it so soon? Because it’s been the biggest dancefloor bomb in our sets for months and we feel it deserves attention far beyond its native Baltimore Club scene.

A few words about the track itself – a “Think” break and big 808 kicks are a staple of the genre and they’re deployed here with precision. MC PORK CHOP commentates on the track’s structure, calling on KW GRIFF to “Bring In The Katz”, referring to a quintessential scat sample from the proto-Ballroom classic “Din Da Da” by Kevin Aviance.  Once those “katz” drop get ready for the walls to cave in.

On the flip is L-VIS 1990′s dub . Stripping out the break and most of the vocals and focussing in on the hyper-rhythmic scat stab of the original, L-Vis pushed the skeletal leftovers of the track into overdrive. A simple but a dramatic transformation that results in the most streamlined and effective pieces of club music we’ve heard in forever.

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