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Cruise! MOVES x Cruise featuring DJ Slimfit, Professional Beat

Cruise! MOVES x Cruise featuring DJ Slimfit, Professional Beat

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Moves Recordings present the first ever compilation of Cruise music - Nigeria's wildest new style! Emerging from the outer areas of Lagos, Cruise (sometimes called Freebeat) is a hyper new rave sound that has started to blow up across West Africa. Taken from a fusion of amapiano, gqom, house, techno, EDM, afrobeats and meme culture, the tracks hammer along at 130 bpm+, with little respect paid to traditional 4/4 structure. Spread online by tiktok dancers, shared via whats app or super low res music blogs, the sound has now found a regular home in the early hours at Lagos's New Shrine, where the earth shattering crashes, hyped up log drums and relentlessly triggered samples send the crowds into a dance frenzy. Producers such as those on this first EP - names such as DJ Cora, Professional Beat, Slimfit, DJ Stainless and DJ Kalipha are firing out new tunes weekly, the music powered on a similar chaotic energy rush which imbued the early days of house in Chicago and Hardcore in London. Samples are flung in at will, entire passages are lifted from other producers works, and a song lives or dies on how well it does on tiktok. Moves are now giving fans the first ever chance to access the music in high bitrate, with a series of four Cruise EPs dropping through 2022, culminating in a double LP of Cruise bangers, some all new exclusives, some proven floor fillers. LP details coming soon!