Benkii
Keep Hush Live x Maushi Day x The Daily All Day 2023
It’s always a laugh watching the front row lads holding their phone torches up during the breakdown, looking like they're trying to signal Batman. They’re entirely lost in the sauce, deeply analyzing the kick drum pattern while their mates try to remember where they parked the Vauxhall Corsa. A sparse, strobe-lit warehouse where the bass bins are vibrating so hard the dust is falling from the rafters. This unknown live set tracklist is a rhythmic rollercoaster, settling around a 139.5 BPM average.
Pinging between 3B, 12A, and 7A keys, the harmonic mix is restless and constantly evolving. The selector clearly favors aggressive, low-end heavy tracks, utilizing sharp EQs and sudden drops to keep the dancefloor on its toes. You have to respect a DJ who unironically drops 'Safri Duo - Played-A-Live (The Bongo Song)' into a serious underground mix—absolute scenes. Balancing that with the dark, wobbly grit of 'ENiGMA Dubz, Hypho & PAV4N - You Are Not a Badman (Enigma Vip)' and the ghetto-house bounce of 'Amadeezy - Money on My Mind' is sorted.
Opening with the haunting vocals of the opening track, 'Collapse - Hold Me In Your Arms (Accappella)', the set immediately demands attention. It swiftly morphs into a breaks and bass onslaught, ultimately fading out with the sprawling, atmospheric 12-minute closing track, 'Demitri Calibar - Last Jungle'.