Listen: Alphabets Heaven x Deft - "Pride & Joy"

Combining syrupy beats with expansive and glistening ambience, this piece of music shimmers with bright vitality, bristles with thickets of mechanistic percussion, lulls you into a lounge mood and then exclaims its own manic footwork flavours. A stuttering synthesiser accompanies a skittering beat and a hypnagogic plasma bass and sleepy vocal sample, "pride and joy", culminates into something rich, textured, and wonderfully alive.

Check out Alphabets Heaven's EP, out now on ever-cool Canadian label, King Deluxe – or if you'd prefer something more physical, there's 12" vinyl available courtesy of Black Market Records.