
Street wear aficionados Mishka got Trouble and Bass to put together their most recent Keep Watch mix installation, and listeners will easily adhere to the title; it’s hard not to focus on the mixtape. T&B has a penchant for solid, excitable mixes, and this one - which mostly thrives in the grey area between bassline and dubstep - is decent evidence of that. The Mike Tyson punch drums and wile out, wonky bass will keep you up better than a level orange siren. Plus, there’s rarely a period where they let too many bars go by without switching it up. Even though some of the switch ups might be too subtle for some tastes, there’s usually something in there to find to move to. In the end, there’s never enough time anyway for a dance to devolve into an imperceptible crawl before some new impact drops from the speakers to make everyone jump. And their attention to the beat count creates certain level of predictability in Trouble sets which makes keeping rhythm with the beat easy like you knew every song. You know they figured something out when you can tell someone else is spinning without looking up.
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