When YouTube was still good, it was possible to spend hours lost in its labyrinthine recommendation algorithm, moving from one grainy image of an album cover to another, to find yourself in Batz Without Flesh’s “Dirt” all the way from The Gap Band’s “Oops Upside Your Head.” I can’t explain it, but that’s the headspace Tony Price’s SMACK TRACKS VOL. 1 puts me in.

The Toronto-based artist, producer, and Maximum Exposure label head calls them “beat tracks you can listen to”—DJ “tools for fools.” Transitions made to linger within, made in the lineage of classic Chicago and New York beat track house records. Price uses the words “vulgar,” “raw,” “slabs,” “chrome,” “scorched,” “mutated,” and “brutalism,” names Frankie Bones and Throbbing Gristle, and refers to fuzz boxes and ring modulators, not that I know what those are, but I like the sound of them.

My favorite of these four tunnelly tracks is “Top Brass” (121 BPM to its accomplices’ 123, 126, and 135), because it’s hard as hell and does this cool wiggly thing, like there’s a neon alien worm having the time of its life on the abandoned, stuck-in-time set of Strange Days.