Nothing but...
For purists and collectors at heart comes "Nothing but...". Here are no style mixes; it's a deep immersion into a specific concept. Be it a collection dedicated entirely to a legendary record label, a retrospective of a key artist, or an exhaustive exploration of a particular subgenre, this category guarantees you get exactly what you look for, in its purest, most concentrated form.
The order of Nothing But... Late Night Deep House, Vol. 15 gathers several working tempos under one label, Deep House. Raqpar opens with “Negatív Felszínformák” at 131 BPM in F minor and with a 10:24 duration; Koren Mcintosh and Rhi Rose return to...
Volume ten and its BPM span Nothing But... Trance Infinity, Vol. 10 gathers 2:24:42 of material credited to Nothing But under a single classification, Trance (Main Floor). The listing opens with Woody Van Eyden and Quantor's “Beautiful People”...
Fourteen major keys against eleven minors: the harmonic map of this eighteenth volume tilts toward light before a single note plays. D major works as base camp — it shows up four times, from Thom Loser's 'Antenatikus Club', which...
'My Own Boss' carries the signature of Demarkus Lewis, and that name alone sets the pecking order here. The Dallas mainstay — DJing since 1990, producing since 2000 — has more than 1,500 published tracks on labels like Nervous, King Street...
From 76 to 140 BPM: that is the true range hiding inside the ninth installment of the Trance Infinity series, even if most of the record lives in a far narrower band. The tempo map tells the story better than any press note: Nucrise's 'In...
Twenty-five tracks make up 'Trance Infinity, Vol. 08', but its story can be told in four. The first is the opener itself: 'NIGHTSHADE' by KAEL and BLOOD MAGICK, one of only three raw/hypnotic passages on the record, 5:21 at 138...
Eighty-nine beats per minute separate the extremes of this seventeenth volume: ACTYVA's remix of P4sc4l's 'The 5th Season' crawls along at 69 BPM while Noa Estrella's 'Mirame' rockets to 158. In between, most of...
Three cuts in G minor form a ladder from 122 to 127 BPM: Jaimy's 'Hard To Release', Maxdal's 'I Heard It' and FDF (Italy)'s 'Back To The Feeling'. Chained in that order they raise the energy without ever...
There is a clue to what Nothing But is in this volume's arithmetic: 16 of its 25 cuts sit between 124 and 125 BPM. That razor-thin band is no accident; it is editorial policy. The 'Jackin' Beats' series reaches its seventeenth...
That the shortest cut on the whole set is also the one with the strongest pedigree says a lot about how this compilation breathes. Ant Brooks' 'Throw Your Body' runs 2:44 —a fleeting edit at 130 BPM in A minor— yet carries the most...
The defining fact of 'Nothing But... Radiant Grooves, Vol. 17' sits between tracks 1 and 3: Aka Gabby's 'Call Home' opens at 127 BPM — the fastest tempo on the whole record — and two slots later Malik B.'s 'Sensual...
Seventeen of this volume's twenty-five cuts are written in a minor key. For a compilation promising funky vibes, that stat looks odd on paper; read as a map, it makes sense: the festive side is the surface, and underneath runs a current far...
The journey starts at the top: Nadoti's 'Take' opens at 132 BPM in D minor, the fastest tempo of all twenty-five cuts, and that choice sets the tone: no warm-up here. What follows is a staged descent: Chreep drops to 130 with...
Fifty beats per minute separate this volume's extremes: 'Symbolic' by Boyd and Warren Deep crawls along at 77 BPM while 'Maye' by Giampiero Lospalluto races at 127. Almost everything else lives in the 118-125 band, which is...
Twenty-five tracks and only one dares to drop below 124 BPM. 'Parafernalia' by Michael Hunter is the anomaly holding this seventeenth volume together: nine and a quarter minutes at 97 BPM in E-flat minor, planted right at the album's...