This is dumb but the image that has always accompanied this stuff is the default animation of eddy from tekken 3 , he was the Brazilian capoeira character, the “tactile morphing qualities” conjures the way he glides and shifts his weight and awkwardly then effortlessly breakdances with his legs round your enemies neck, it’s the analogue to the syrupy glissando effect of the notes of the baseline just hanging over each other
Clearly whoever did the soundtrack (not dillinja this time ) thought the same thing