this one comes from the mind of chris brann and it's on an lp that is very unlike the wamdue or ananda project material. meaning it's not straight up house material but he's done tracks under both umbrellas which go outside the four on the floor and what people would call "downtempo".
there has been dabbles in drum and bass and quite a few broken beat tracks but he's kept most of the off-kilter works under the p'taah moniker. this track is in term with the rest of the album with really choppy drums but it uses the jazzy feel into more darker notions.
to be honest it feels like a really twisted rendition of jam & spoon's "hispanos in space" with more drums. it is meant as a two parter but i really don't know. the way branns shaped the track in the first part isn't uncommon to the second. the drums are worked in a more frantic way but the switching between the chaos and heavy atmosphere is just as executed as in the first.
"portal" along with the track after it ("uriel beige") are cuts that i want to play in sets but am too afraid of doing. there isn't any room for mistakes as the drum programming doesn't lend you any, which is why i love this track. brann orchestrate his madness well within the 9minutes and all the scattered instruments & musical parts aren't given solo. they are there to be another piece in this functional chaos.
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