Crate Diggers
For the true music explorers, "Crate Diggers" is the section devoted to the art of digging through record crates in search of lost treasure. Here you'll find those rarities, forgotten B-sides, limited editions and vintage gems that only the most curious ears know how to appreciate. A deep dive into the electronic catalogue, where the obscure, the experimental and the timeless coexist to reward those who understand that the best music isn't always on the surface.
Three dates hide among these 37 cuts: 1996, 1995 and 2004. In a selection built for crate diggers, the tracks that carry the most weight aren't the freshest ones but the ones that have spent decades proving they work. Those three relics deserve...
Nine BPM separate the poles of this selection: at the bottom, the 124 of Enamour's 'That's Just Jazz!'; at the top, the 133 of Caleb Dent's 'Feel The Energy'. In a genre that lives glued to 128, that gap is a...
Forty cuts ask to be heard as a journey, not scanned like an index. 'Intertwined' by Iti and Souche opens at 124 bpm in E major, and for the first four numbers the selection barely leaves the 122-125 lane, a textbook melodic cruise. The...
Thirty of the forty-two titles in this selection live in minor keys. Before you glance at a single BPM, that is the figure that draws the terrain: 'Crate Diggers 2026: Drum & Bass' —the latest instalment of the series Beatport uses to...
Ninety BPM separate this selection's floor from its ceiling: from the 65 of Ben Sterling and Omar+'s 'Out Of My Mind' to the 155 of 'Freak (Tricky Disco)'. Between those extremes the material practically sorts itself...
There is a quick way to gauge the reach of this selection: Deep Dish share space with names as fresh as Kid93, who opens the list at 150 BPM with a cut barely two and a half minutes long. The headline act is 'Love Someone Else': Dubfire...
No label appears twice: twenty-seven tracks, twenty-seven different houses. That is the real thesis of this selection, and it says more than any press blurb: in today's afro house, label identity no longer works as a closed catalogue but as a...
At 66 BPM, Duplex's 'Sunbeam' is the strangest data point in the whole selection and also the most useful one: pure opening material, the kind that fills an empty room without spending any ammunition. It isn't alone down there:...
Forty cuts and one name that shows up four times: Quivver. Behind the alias is John Graham, the British producer who helped define late-nineties progressive house, a former member of the Tilt production team who has recorded and toured with Hybrid,...
From 97 to 156 BPM: few minimal selections allow themselves a spread that wide. At one pole, Ricardo Villalobos drags 'Humusweg' across 12:29 at a near-weightless 97; at the other, &ME fires '+++' up to 156 while Norken...
Opening a 2026 selection with Skatt Bros' 'Walk The Night' is a statement of intent: a 1979 disco twelve-inch by the band Sean Delaney formed after working with Kiss, signed to Casablanca, all sinister guitar and chanted male vocals...
Ten of the thirty-one cuts in this selection orbit around G: five in G major, five in G minor. That center of gravity turns the chart into a readable map — a bright opening stretch, a corridor of shadow and a way back home. And since all thirty-one...
A chart that opens at 116 BPM and closes at 138 seems to promise an acceleration arc, but the real picture is different: of these 39 cuts, 25 sit between 138 and 150 — most of them locked at 140 — while another 11 are written at half tempo, between...
To make sense of this 31-track selection you have to read the credits: it is an exercise in proper names spanning three generations of trance. The opener sets the bar: 'You & I' pairs Aly & Fila with Emma Hewitt's voice in the...
Twenty-six labels for thirty-nine tracks, and none places more than three: that spread is the truest portrait of organic house in 2026. No single powerhouse runs this chart; it is an archipelago of boutique imprints that, each working on its own,...