In an interview with The Face, Bambii described the membership as an “alternate dimension”, and her music is equally transportive. For the final decade, the Toronto DJ’s membership evening Jerk has been a bass-heavy haven for Caribbean dance music within the space, and has attracted a loyal and largely queer following. She was additionally a silent presence on Kelela’s glorious album ‘Raven’ earlier this 12 months. However whereas ‘Raven’ was a sedate membership expedition that documented private progress, Bambii’s new EP ‘Infinity Membership’ places you on the centre of a lusty evening at Jerk.
Bambii’s sound pairs membership types from her native Jamaica with an inky ambiance you would possibly discover in a warehouse rave. Whirring synths generate pressure, basslines have a slinking friskiness and sound results which are Pavlovian to clubbers – MCing, dub sirens, air horns and velocity storage vocal loops – are shrouded in hazy results. She pulls in vocalists from the worlds of pop, R&B and dancehall whereas retaining their idiosyncrasies intact, like Aluna’s chook call-like falsetto on ‘Hooked’.
When Bambii goes for jungle, it greatest exhibits how multi-faceted her manufacturing might be. ‘One Contact’ opens with a fascinating synth chime that factors in the direction of airborne pop earlier than pulling the rug to disclose caustic bass swells and rhythmic patois flows. Earlier than Sydanie hotfoots over the breakbeat on her self-titled interlude, it begins with a ripple within the watery ambiance that nearly resembles Drexciya’s synth sorcery.
There’s a baked-in confidence to each observe right here. On ‘Slip and Slide’, Bambii takes rapping duties and channels Deto Black’s confident flirtiness in the direction of Ragz Originale, who’s contemporary off his glorious debut album, June’s ‘Naked Sugar’. The beat is what actually offers this music its attract, although, with a dancehall groove that oozes out with doomy synths and percussion. Within the different nook of the room, London MC Woman Lykez takes the ground with gruff raps on ‘Depraved Gyal’. “My physique thick, no mi by no means lanky / Him say, ‘What a bam bam’ like mi Sister Nancy,” she quips atop an ascending bassline.
In that aforementioned interview with The Face, Bambii additionally stated that the membership “is a microcosm for the way you navigate your neighborhood.” ‘Membership Infinity’ is most hedonism, however there’s additionally a communal undertone to how each artist featured right here has the identical willingness at hand over their inhibitions to the dancefloor. It’s the form of liberation that comes from making a disarming area that performs with sounds you received’t discover wherever else.
Particulars
- Launch date: August 4
- File label: Modern Leisure
