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 opens at 120 BPM, to Electric Donut's 'Stusskur', six-plus mainstage minutes in the same key. Around that bright center, the record spreads out its rougher terrain.
Both extremes of that terrain are minor, and not by accident. 'I Got You Baby' fires off 162 BPM in F minor, the most vertiginous point on the map; Tuew's 'Fever Dream' sinks to 80 BPM in A minor across just 2:33, a miniature twilight placed near the end. Between them lies the plateau: most of the record breathes between 120 and 132 BPM, major-key dance pop with mainstage climbs acting as peaks — DJ SKYR3SH's 'Night Driver' pushes up to 145 in G major without losing clarity.
A minor returns on 'Memories', and here the tonal map turns literal: the Bingo Players and JUSTNKAYSE track, originally released on Hysteria in 2025, was born from stories of loss and of keeping memories alive through music. Sharing a key with 'Fever Dream' gives the record a coherent melancholic strip. Another recognizable voice surfaces on 'I Start To Wonder': Zoë Badwi, the Australian singer who took 'Freefallin' into the ARIA top ten with a platinum single, now in an introspective B minor alongside Jean Luc and Nick Jay.
The longest cut, Cesar Blue's 'Don't Worry, Fuck' (6:57, E-flat minor at 130), is the darkest excursion and the only one that takes its time. The closer brings back the sun: 'Run To You' drops to 110 BPM in F major, a gentle descent into warm ground. Fitting for the Nothing But catalog, a label built on themed series running from house to trance: here the theme is not a genre but a climate, and the climate is mostly clear.
Sources: Beatport · Wikipedia · Nothing But