Capítulo Experimental

"Príncipe spoil us with DJ Narciso’s surprise new drop of 10 infectiously deep and swanging club trax, following his killer tweaks of drill-tilted tarraxho and Afro-Portuguese ghetto crud, RIYL Nazar, N-Fox, Nídia, Lycox.

‘Capítulo Experimental’ follows in hot pursuit of the weirder, offbeat ‘Diferenciado’ set with a wickedly expressive slew of club moves that share a certain emotive pathos and cadence with Narciso’s recent sibling set. The album continues a decisive schism from his work as part of RS Produções which began with the ’10 Minutes’ 12” in 2023 and now comes to fruition in these hard working, grimy variants of kuduro and batida, tempered with detours to moody downbeats. 

In step with Narciso’s cohort of Lisbon-orbiting contemporaries there’s a measured maturity to the pacing and spacious arrangements on ‘Capítulo Experimental’ that connote a fresh, trippy sexiness and sort of sunny breeziness that anyone from more northerly latitudes will associate with modern electronic dance music from Portugal’s Atlantic coast and the broader Black Atlantic rhizome, from Jersey to Rio de Janeiro.

Bouncing deep techno in ‘Teleguio’ signals a change of pace that puts the wind behind the sails of dub-wise stepper ’Sunset’ and the nagging tang of ’Não Sabes’, thru to the moodier choral pitch of ’Dificuldades’ or ‘Livra-Me Desta’, and what sounds like Jersey club dialled in by aliens on ‘Dor De Barriga’. Closer to a former, downbeat style, the bloozy sway of ‘Ultra’ and distorted, psychy blare of his lead to ’Não Quero’ and the oddball half step lean of ’Só Vai’ keep it distinctively, satisfyingly weird for the legion club nuts currently obsessed with Príncipe for precisely this sort of stuff."

- Boomkat