Rodent

Burial skulks back to the floor with the deep, bumping swang of Rodent, backed by a footwork flexing Kode9 remix, released on Hyperdub.

Switching tack from the sublime, beat-less Subtemple 12", Rodent follows in the vein of Burial's remix for M nic's Deep Summer with a tender grip on deep garage house styles, cruising out on a 120bpm chassis flecked with looped R&B vox, ambient synth voices and flinty percussion, with a certain crackle of anxiety that's more minutes-before-come-up than anything darkside.

Eyes down in the dance. Kode9 ain't having any of that on his remix, tho. His take on Rodent is razor sharp, alert and hungry, pinning scuttling footwork hi-hats and palpitating subs around that vocal motif at a quickened pace akin to tracks off his excellent Nothing album, drawing a jagged line from his '90s junglist roots right up to the modern nanosec.