White Ninja: “El Alfa”
With “El Alfa,” Mexico’s White Ninja has created a pop song that sometimes flows like liquid AM Gold, sometimes lashes out with heavily compressed horns and vocals swells, and always always bounces, a fact that the track’s maybe NSFW spandex-centric [hello there, SEO] vid certainly doesn’t fail to reiterate. It’s funky in the way that sampled funk can get “freaky” by pulling in disparate elements, without ever needing to fully reconcile or explain them. Not to diminish the subtleties of the mix, but the overall buoyant feel and smooth vocals make it an ideal choice for those of us who feel compelled to curate the soundtrack of our daily commutes, lunches, and bi-weekly slinky racing tournaments.
White Ninja’s 30 minute opus, Sounds Like Cocoon Fever, is now available on cassette and for download from Abstrakt Muzak
Written by Luke Carrell
[...] / Zona Tango 3:40 2. Vessel / Zola Jesus 4:42 3. Zola / Wonder Villains 2:44 4. El Alfa / White Ninja 4:27 5. Open The Other Eye / Whispertown 3:28 6. Never Get Out of this Funk Alive / T Bird and the [...]