One Day Deal Kaytranada – Bubba

Louis Kevin Celestin is back with a follow-up to his 2016, Polaris prize-winning 99.9%. In the years since, we’ve seen his production – which plunders both his Haitian roots and the hip-hop and R&B obsessions of his youth – influence many a colours – courting pop and R&B artist. And for any producer who finds themselves surrounded by a sound they helped author, the temptation might be to find a new niche. Thankfully, Celestin has resisted, and instead gifted us a record which build on its predecessor’s legacy, albeit directed a little more consciously at the dancefloor.
As with 99.9%, gleeful diversity abounds: no sooner have you greeted the bouncing bongos of Do it, and 2 The Music shimmies on it, a slice of confident disco-funk awash of synth strings and Iman Omari’s vocoder magic. Then we have the dons SiR and Mick Jenkins going back-to-back: SiR on Go DJ, a house party anthem with an extremely silly but terribly infectious hook (“The blunt still burnin’, the clock still turnin’, The waist keep windin’ while her ass keep twerkin’…”), and Jenkins on Gray Area, which, with its ping-pong percussion and chest-cavity kicks, fronts like the soundtrack to the club of your dreams.