CHA PRETO by DJ NIGGA FOX

On one of the year's most staggering weirdo club records, Príncipe MVP Rogério Brandão sets expressive new levels for batida/kuduro and progressive African dance music with an extraordinary set of slow/fast and humid head-wreckers that sound like some indescribable melt of Matias Aguayo/Closer Musik, Villalobos and futuristic funk.

‘Chá Preto’ invites the dance to the furthest reaches of DJ N-Fox’s imagination. Since debuting in 2013, the Lisbon-based artist has been a radical force in contemporary club music, physically making everyone move to his different beat and vibe. Perhaps best compared to Nídia in his field for an ability to juice unique motion and emotion from his music, in ‘Chá Preto’ he follows his nose for outright weird and singular style and pattern on all counts, seducing the mind/body with liquified syncopations and synth sensations that just feel alien and highly satisfying to even the hardest-to-please quibblers.