Twenty-seven beats per minute separate this volume's ceiling from its floor: 'The Oldschool' by Chile, Gama and House Music Bro tops the collection at 130 BPM, while Funkyy's 'Cruise' powers it down at 103 in barely 2:44. Between those poles, the thirteenth instalment draws a remarkably legible tempo architecture, with nearly all the weight packed into the 124-128 band and minor keys claiming 21 of the 25 cuts.
Three altitudes and an exit
The opening climbs unhurried: 124 on 'Nothin' To It', 126 across 'Feeling' and 'Something Special', then a first peak with 'I Feel Alive', which at 128 BPM and 7:17 is also one of the longest cuts here. A broad plateau between 124 and 126 follows, with two pressure valves at 120 —'Bourbon Beach' and the very short 'How Ya Friday'— acting as breathers before the upper zone: 'The Oldschool' at 130 and the 128 double of 'Kara Free' and 'Don't Stop'. The final descent is the most interesting stretch for the booth: 118, three stops at 120, and that closing 103 that almost begs for a genre change.
Right on the downward ramp comes the record's surprise: 'Lights Out', with the voice of Debbie Harry —Blondie's lead vocalist— over the Felix Da Housecat and Dave The Hustler remix, in circulation since 2021 via the X-Bop label and slotted here as a hinge at 118 BPM. Just before it, 'Come Into My World' in the ThomChris and Soneec rework stretches to 7:54, the longest cut of the set, a 124 valley between two 128 peaks.
Nothing But's Beatport catalogue shows several parallel funky house compilation series, and this one stands apart for exactly this reason: it isn't a bag of tracks, it's a pre-sequenced set. DJs can copy the full arc or raid it block by block; the structure arrives already solved.
Sources: Wikipedia · Traxsource · Beatport
