Session Victim return with a three-tracker on Delusions Of Grandeur which includes a part-UKG/part-dreamy-ambient track, “Light The Way” which also comes with a chunky breakbeat Iron Curtis Illuminati mix that unfolds in a very pleasing way. Both of them are nice but it’s all about the lead track for me. “Screen Off” is one of those tunes with a one-bar loop at its heart so strong that it just effortlessly carries the whole thing. Built from an irresistibly rubbery bass line and a couple of tiny guitar samples, it’s just a pure roller, broken up with neat little drum fills, the kind of tune you drop and it feels like you’ve pitched up the tempo but you haven’t.
Session Victim enlisted Jamaican poet and vocalist Ras Stimulant for spoken word duties and he drops some nice low key lyrics musing on the subject of, apparently, contemporary screen-use, his voice working for me as just another part of the mix, another timbre to push the groove along. Urgent, funky, driving, and I suspect, a floor filler.
⚪️ Screen Off Tracklisting
Session Victim: Screen Off EP (Delusions of Grandeur / 12" Vinyl + Digital)
1. Screen Off feat. Ras Stimulant (05:50)
2. Light The Way (04:38)
3. Light The Way (Iron Curtis Illuminati Mix) (05:23)
⚪️ Disclosure Statement
This record was not submitted as a promo.
⚪️ Previous Coverage
✳️ New Music: Session Victim on the remix for Sweatson Plank’s “The Road to Love” (2024)
❇️ Features: Session Victim: Listen To Your Heart (2017)
✳️ New Music: Session Victim’s “The Intangibles” is a quality 3 tracker on Delusions of Grandeur (2023)
✳️ New Music: 10,000 Hours of Session Victim (2022)
✳️ New Music: Patrice Scott Remixes Session Victim on ‘Isle of Taste’ (2020)
✳️ New Music: Dive into Session Victim’s DAWN from Delusions of Grandeur (2019)
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