Three tracks in G-flat minor —'Chaya', 'Options' and 'Amara Can'— hand this compilation something you rarely get for free: harmonic routes already mapped out. For anyone mixing in key, Resurrection LP reads like a booth chart, with nine of its ten cuts packed between 85 and 88 BPM and a single detour worth planning around.
The natural opener is Resslek's 'Chaya': 4:07 of G-flat minor at 86 BPM, restrained in tempo and with a direct exit into Nemy's 'Options', which matches both key and tempo exactly. From there, the cleanest climb on the record chains harmonic neighbours: 'Options' (G-flat minor, 86), Dunk & Tetrad UK's 'Shadows' (B-flat minor, 87) and Yatuza and Cagua's 'Slow Motion' (F minor, 88) — three compatible steps on the wheel of fifths that also gain one BPM per track. Rising energy without a single key clash.
For the upper stretch there is more than one card to play:
- Future Shock's 'Rolling Train' is the longest cut (5:59) and the one leaving most room for extended blends over its rolling D minor.
- I-Dren's 'Tyrant' sits in E minor, the most isolated key on the record: better to work in and out of it with EQ than with harmony.
- Covert Garden's 'Blush' is the only major-key track here (F major): the melodic breather that eases the floor without dropping the tempo.
The detour is Phabiaz's 'Amara Can', tagged at 129 BPM: off the grid of everything else, it works better as a bridge from another tempo — a warm-up closer halfway towards D&B — than wedged into a session running at 87.
Context explains the coherence: Hardpoint Recordings is an English Drum & Bass and Jungle label founded in April 2018 by Martyn Nytram, who doesn't stop at running it — he signs 'Below The Line' alongside E-Lisa, in G minor. When the label head also produces inside his own compilation, the selection tends to be built from the booth outwards; this one proves it.
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