Mark your calendars. Clean your ears. And for the love of bass, don’t sleep on this one.
Hunt4k – Ara Mix / Loo Lust & Bowl Job – 14.06 (Digital / Limited Cassette) Hunt4k - Ara Mix - Loo Lust and Bowl Job -14.06...
If you’ve been following the margins of the post-club, deconstructed hardcore scene, you’ll know Hunt4k doesn’t do straightforward. This release is no exception. Ara Mix opens with what sounds like a misdialled conference call being fed through a broken Korg Volca. Then the kick drops—off-grid, fungal, and swinging like a fire door in a gale. Hunt4k layers parakeet chatter (field-recorded in North London) over a bassline that seems to breathe and retract. Mark your calendars
The “Ara” in the title likely references the scarlet macaw ( Ara macao ), but here, the sample is twisted into a percussive stutter—half bird, half broken 909. By the 2-minute mark, the track sheds its skin into a euphoric but deeply unstable jungle breakdown, complete with rave stabs that feel just slightly out of tune. It’s chaotic, gorgeous, and over before you’ve figured out the time signature. Hunt4k – Ara Mix / Loo Lust & Bowl Job – 14