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An open window to musical diversity beyond pure electronica's borders. In this category, we've gathered an eclectic collection ranging from rock's energy and pop's brightness to jazz's elegance and the infectious rhythm of funk and soul. It is the ideal place for those looking to explore new sonic horizons or simply enjoy the classics that have influenced contemporary music. Endless genres await you to complement your listening experience with an inexhaustible and surprising variety.
The fastest tempo on 'Twenty One' sits in its very first cut: 'Next To Me' opens at 126 BPM and nothing that follows ever tops it. The real anomaly arrives in third position, when 'Quiere Party' —with Tokischa and...
To read this selection right, you need to know where it comes from: these are the track IDs Beatport pulled from CONTRA, the takeover Skrillex co-curated with Berlin Atonal at Berlin's Kraftwerk, with Tresor, Globus and OHM interconnected for...
One producer signs two cuts on this volume without repeating his name: Darren Tate turns up as Jurgen Vries on 'The Opera Song (Brave New World)' — where CMC was Charlotte Church, credited by initials because her label feared the press...
Thirteen of the sixteen cuts on 'Natural Born Disco Lovers, Vol.01' sit in minor keys. For a nu disco compilation — a genre that presumes celebration — that is a statement of intent: here the euphoria is built out of melancholy, that...
The warm-up writes itself: an Afro block at 120-122 BPM — 'Jamaican (Bam Bam)', 'Ma Tnsani (Yalla Habibi)', 'Mwaki' and Keinemusik's 'Move' with Camila Cabello — heats the floor without burning...
Twelve of the forty-one cuts in this selection come from a single label: Rimas Entertainment. Three Bad Bunny songs —'NUEVAYoL', 'Neverita' and 'Me Fui de Vacaciones'— each deployed in original, clean and intro...
It opens in A minor at 130 BPM and closes, forty-five cuts later, in exactly the same place: 'BOLHA CALIFORNICATION' and 'VOLTMIX ácido envolvente' bookend a tonal landscape that twists every way it can in between. Minor keys...
Opening the ride with 'The Word Becomes Flesh' is a statement in itself: it's the Boards Of Canada cut from 'Inferno' (Warp Records), the album that brought Scottish brothers Mike Sandison and Marcus Eoin back this year...
Thirty-six cuts and barely four BPM between them: everything here sits between 112 and 116. With the tempo pinned down, the contrasts in this festival selection play out on other fronts — and they are everywhere. The first is length. 'REKERE YA...
On paper, 'Smoke' opens at 145 BPM and 'Paradise' closes at 97: a drop of nearly fifty beats that sums up how this selection breathes. But the number is deceptive, because two ways of writing the same tempo coexist here. NGHTMRE...
Twenty cuts and a curve you can read at a glance: Becking's 'Back The Funk' opens at 140 BPM, the fastest tempo in the whole selection, and from there the journey never climbs — it paces itself. 'Hypa' by Specialist Moss and...
Closing a 26-track selection with its shortest cut is quite a statement: Baauer's 'Supersonic' runs 2:13, drops to 122 BPM in G-flat minor and is still the heaviest name on the list. Made with Hudson Mohawke and PARISI as a preview of...
Thirty-one different labels across forty cuts: if this hard dance selection for festival season says anything, it's that no single catalogue runs the show. Still, there is a hierarchy: three houses land three tracks each — KRACH, Dirty Workz...
Thirteen cuts and a remarkably narrow band: ten of them live between 120 and 125 BPM. A quick glance says plateau, but the real architecture of this festival-minded nu disco selection lies in the two cracks that open inside it: the drop to 115 on...
Moon Boots turning up on a festival-minded funky house chart says a lot about where this selection is aiming. The Brooklyn producer —Pete Dougherty, a multi-instrumentalist whose blend of house, soul and disco helped push Anjunadeep toward a more...