DJ Narciso has always moved at a different pace from his batida contemporaries. While others lean into speed or playful edits, his music gravitates toward shadow, pressure, and slow-motion intensity. Dentro De Mim, his debut for SVBKVLT, captures that instinct while also revealing an artist still testing how best to frame it.
The record is most convincing when Narciso strips things back and lets weight and space do the work. His tarraxo-informed tracks crawl rather than sprint, allowing his gothic sound design to loom. “Segredo” hinges on a destabilizing final kick in each bar, a low-end thud that feels less rhythmic than architectural, as if the room itself might give way. On “Terrugem,” sizzling percussive swells cut through the mix like steel, lending the track an eerie, almost nautical menace. These moments feel perfectly aligned with SVBKVLT’s taste for cavernous, otherworldly club music.
Not every experiment lands as cleanly. “Pressão” pushes the tempo upward, anchoring its ideas to a stiff 130 BPM pulse that never quite unlocks the tension it promises. The track circles its own screeching synths without deepening the atmosphere, making its potential feel underexplored. By contrast, the faster “Agancha” succeeds by leaning into the uncanny—its techno-adjacent drive threaded with textures that snarl, scrape, and threaten from the margins.
Across Dentro De Mim, Narciso sounds like a producer choosing introspection over immediacy. The EP doesn’t always settle on the most effective balance between tarraxo’s sensual drag and harder, more mechanical rhythms, but it consistently points toward a singular vision. Rather than a definitive statement, Dentro De Mim plays like a probing self-portrait: a cautious but compelling step that hints at something darker and more fully realized still to come.
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