- Afterhours creepiness with a surprisingly groovy bounce.
- Sam Bangura's sound has become darker in the past couple of years, flirting with the edgier Quest and Nicolas Lutz divide of contemporary tech house. On last year's collaboration with fellow NorthSouth Records founder Harry McCanna, for example, the two dimmed the studio lights and brought out the ouija board as they banged out some Halloween chords as Brainsfurfers. At first pass, "Range Finder," the A1 on Walking Funny, his latest EP for nu-minimal staples Half Baked, seems to carry on down that road. It starts as his creepiest track yet with sparse percussion, an indecipherable vocal incantation, and a minor chord melody that inches along slowly like a tip-toeing intruder. But as the track builds, Bangura lets loose a series of percussive hand drum lines and a meaty bassline that change the vibe from The Shining to Ghostbusters (or, at least, an alternate soundtrack for this fateful party). It's a nice middle ground where the sinister and the silly collide.