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.
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...
Five cuts in A minor and four in B-flat minor: before hearing a single bar, the key readout already suggests how to chain a good chunk of this thirteenth volume. For the first hour, the material sits in the lower band: Phumudzojack and...
Twenty-five cuts and no name repeated except Okee: before you play a single track, the cast already sketches what Nothing But is about. On Beatport the label operates as a factory of volume-numbered series covering half the electronic spectrum —...
There is one name on track 15 that stops the scroll cold: NewJeansNim. South Korean comedian Yoon Seong-ho reinvented himself as the viral 'monk DJ' — shaved head, grey robe, EDM laced with Buddhist messages — and blew up in 2024 to the...
Eight minor keys chained together, with not a single major one letting in air: that is what happens between 'The Passenger' and 'Six Minutes To Dance', the stretch that defines this volume's character. D minor, C minor, F...