MPC grooves meet modular textures downtown on Mr Beatnick's "Joy in Variation", his third album, following on from "The Synthetes Trilogy" (2013) and "Honeycomb" (2020). Second single Shuffle The Bud is a smooth swingin' dream house number backed with undulating modular synth textures that recalls the feel of his evergreen floor-fillers Synthetes and Symbiosis.