BUNS is a Bay Area DJ who will run drum and bass into indie electronica in the same set, and she has opened for TOKiMONSTA and What So Not on the strength of that range. ITCHTOPAY spends none of it.
Dim Mak took it, which tracks, because it is one idea repeated until it wins. Right around 136 BPM, the record hangs on a chopped chant about getting paid, cut smaller every time it returns. At 0:53 the chop collapses into a stutter run, one syllable fired dozens of times inside two seconds. That is where I gave up.
There is no ramp. It opens at full level and builds tension by subtraction. The sub is gone at 0:24, gone again at 1:04, and around 2:00 the low end walks off entirely while the mids hold the floor. Every return hits harder than the gap should have earned.
Best stretch is 2:36 to 2:48, mids thinned out, the bottom running alone and louder there than anywhere else in the track. At 3:04 it stops cold. For a DJ whose appeal is range, BUNS made the least varied thing she could, and that discipline is why it lands.
Three minutes of somebody demanding money over an 808 should wear out. It never does, because she does not let the chant sit still long enough.
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