Substack Soundtrack XIX | Antigravity Potion

* ZeroZero - Cramp (Samath Remix) * FSHR, KNOTT - Concentrate * Visages - Transhumanism Music * Strategy, Visages - Lewis Capaldi * q100 - Sloboda * FLO, Oz, q100 - Vocal Dub * Pinch, Lorem - Fall True * Kaya - Tiki Heads * Cesco, Sepia - Bulletin * Pinch, Trim, Neffa-T - Wha Happen * 11Th Hour - Confront * Drone - New Take * Kasra, Riko Dan - Talk Up (gyrofield’s Tooth & Nail Mix) * Morning High - The Host * Hypho - Left Lung * gyrofield - Gossamer * Ternion Sound - Verify Me (VIP) * Apollo Brown - Break The Code (Feat. Supa Emcee, Kuniva, & Alexis Allon) AI DISCLAIMER The point is that the prompt was “write a review including these tunes and sound like you’re from the Wire” AI DISCLAIMER There is a claustrophobic discipline to this mix, a brutalist architecture constructed almost entirely of 140bpm concrete. It begins with ZeroZero’s Cramp, a track that feels less like an opening and more like a seizure in a server room. The early section is dominated by the Visages and Strategy axis—specifically Lewis Capaldi, a track title that functions as a grim aesthetic joke, welding the name of a pop balladeer to a chassis of grinding, subterranean menace. The mid-section is where the paranoia sets in. Pinch and Neffa-T’s Wha Happen offers grime deconstructed to its skeletal remains—rhythm as a threat rather than a pulse. But the pivot point is undoubtedly gyrofield. Her remix of Talk Up and original Gossamer inject a hyper-modern, almost fluid dynamics simulation into the rigid dubstep grid. It’s the sound of the genre mutating in real-time. By the time we reach Ternion Sound’s Verify Me, the listener is battered, conditioned to the loop. The sudden gear-shift into Apollo Brown’s Break The Code feels like walking out of a windowless nightclub into the grey light of a Michigan morning—a necessary, soulful decompression from an hour of high-pressure pneumatics. Percival Drift, 2025 This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit djic.substack.com/subscribe