Sombrah & Thundering Mantis - 9-5

https://thunderingmantis.bandcamp.com/ Bristol-based Sombrah and south-coast producer Thundering Mantis join forces for double single ‘Midnight Frequency / 9-5’. ‘Midnight Frequency’ is a menacing 160 BPM jungle excursion, with dusty, detuned keys and sinister atmospherics locked to a technoid kick pattern. The tension steadily ratchets up before monstrous sub-bass and a generous smattering of breakbeats are unleashed - intricately edited, but deployed with tasteful restraint. ‘9-5’ drops the tempo to 140 BPM, opening on wistful keys and curious fragments of background chatter before resolving into a deftly assembled breakbeat track structured like an eight-bar grime instrumental. Its bassline nods to the latter genre too - think Etch meets Alias