Description

“DJ Danifox of Tia Maria Produes delivers the deadliest Prncipe since that incred last Ndia album with a highly developed take on humid, slow club and soul music thats practically dripping with sweat. Essential late night gear of the highest order, tipped if yr into Theo Parrish x Ndia!

Ansiedade is another one of those perfect deployments from Prncipe, full of Afro-diasporic, rhythmic psychedelic energies spliced with electronic echoes of Portuguese fados melancholic blooz. Active since 2014 in Tia Maria Produuess rotating assembly, Danifox really came into his own with 2020s Dia No Mata Dia, and here builds on that EPs dare-to-differ club purview with a compellingly deep, eyes-down appeal.

The 10 tracks drift in a seductively groggy but up-for-it style between takes on breezy batida and sultry tarraxho, each subtly embellished with organic instrumental flair and atmospheres that naturally evoke the alternating pressure systems of his Atlantic coast home, and quite brilliantly also featuring Danifoxs vocal on a few choice cuts. Whether implied by the sound design and minor key chords of Ilha dos Bruxos or the nagging downstroke of Tarraxho 001, or more literally in the title of Robert Johnson, a timeless conception of the blooz beautifully guides proceedings toward the night throughout Ansiedade.

Its all brilliantly out-of-step with prevailing club currents, preferring a more classic but screwed embrace of dancefloor romanticism and expressionism that still has huge appeal to modern dancers of all stripes; variously coming off like Lisbons answer to Theo Parrish on the effortlessly brilliant sway of Para and with the elegiac blues-soul vocals in Chopper, while the likes of his drill-adjacent trills on Ngapa and down slow turns on the wickedly word Aleijada and earthy trample of Mar Vista are completely out there on their own.
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