Eight of the ten cuts on 'Lizplay Compilation A' sit between 86 and 87 BPM — exactly half of the 172-174 you'd hear on a dancefloor — and that uniformity is the first clue to how the record is built: not a rollercoaster, but a plateau with two cracks right in the middle. Aquah's 'Toxic Systems' opens in F minor at a brisk 2:56, more extended intro than statement, and from there the tempo doesn't budge for four tracks.
The anomaly arrives with Amorius, the only artist with three consecutive cuts. After the gentle 'Paradise Garden' (the shortest track at 2:46), 'Acid Sadness' jumps to 108 BPM and '1089' drops to 82, both in E minor. It's the only moment the compilation abandons its cruising tempo, and it works as a hollow at the core: heard in order, that's where the breather sits — or the stumble, depending on your view — before Alex Physalis' 'Unlock The Memories' brings the pulse back to 87, now in E-flat major, the tracklist's first brighter turn.
The final stretch slows by a single BPM, and that's enough: ALBEES chains 'Tear Apart' into 'Backspin L' — the latter, at 5:22, the longest cut and the one that takes the most room to unfold — and Adam Y closes with 'Eternity' in F minor, the same key as the opener. The record ends where it began, a tonal circle that hardly feels accidental.
Lizplay Lab Division hangs off Lizplay Records, a drum & bass label based in Loja, Spain, whose Bandcamp puts it plainly — 'dnb music to all dnb lovers' — and states its mission as giving emerging producers a platform alongside established names, with Artema Recordings and Samay Records as sister labels. That incubator profile matches what's on offer here: lesser-known signatures, the compilation format, and a tempo architecture built to be mixed with barely a touch of the pitch fader. Played as sequenced — 1 through 4, 7 through 10, with the Amorius block as a deliberate interlude — it's already half a set.
Sources: Bandcamp