From 77 to 160 BPM across twenty-five cuts: the interesting read on this volume isn't the average but how the speeds stack into clearly legible blocks — almost a sequencing manual.
The centre of gravity is a 150 BPM plateau holding eight originals. Narc's 'Electropunks' opens right there, joined by Isaac Sanchez's 'Hard History', the 7:16 of Spyndl's 'Ninja Hoovers' — the most elastic cut in the block — and Dj Ter's 'In Love'. With 'On It 2Nite' (147) and 'Wanna Dance' (148) as stepping stones, that band is the record's natural peak time.
Below it breathes a second layer, 137-142, built for warm-up duty: Club Calimari's 'House Ya', the donk of 'Coco Bongo' and a row of 140-142 cuts topped by Partygreser's 'Real Mass', 8:01 of patient build. That same band holds the most elegant anomaly of the lot: 'Zanarkand', the only cut tagged as main floor trance and, at 8:28, the longest of the set. It is no new material: it was the anthem of Spanish club Söniquê and has circulated on vinyl since 2002; here it lands as a Main Mix credited alongside Alberto Tapia.
Valves and peaks
The tracklist's two brake taps — 'Yum Yum' marked at 77 BPM and 'Just You And Me' at 87, half-time readings — work as pressure valves before the next climb. And 'Yum Yum' carries pedigree: Paul Glazby, who now hosts the Hard House History podcast, remixes a classic by hard house pioneer Baby Doc in a revision published this very year. Up top, two 160 BPM spikes: LAXTER's 'Drop It Down' and the lightning 2:43 of SCHIAVONI's 'Don't Hurt Me'.
Sequenced as is — lower layer, 150 plateau, 160 spikes with the valves slotted in between — the record sketches a full night. That Fran Castro appears twice, both times at 140 BPM and in groove mode ('I Don't Understand' and 'Funky Cold Medina', which also closes the record), cements that middle band as the connective tissue of the whole set.
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