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There is a hidden spine running through this volume: A minor. 'Champagne' by Monolegato and U-Jeen (126 BPM), 'Keep Raving' (126), 'Divided Souls' with Diddy (125), 'Sun Goes Down'...

Nineteen labels share this instalment, yet two of them claim more than a third of the ground: RADHAM Records fields nine Tim Hanmann cuts, and Permanent Vacation five from Teen Daze with Pacific Coliseum. When a VA tilts like...

One thread ties together the heavyweights of this batch: each of them releases on his own label. Sandro Galli, a Roman active since 1995 — nicknamed 'uomo bassline' back in the nineties — cuts a raw, hypnotic techno...

Sorted by tempo, this batch draws a ramp from 119 to 158 BPM with one huge landing at 130. That ramp is the whole story: what matters here is not the catalogue but how you climb it. The foundation is the Afro house block from...

One key keeps turning up where it has no business being. G-flat minor shades the electronica of Overmono's 'Lockup' on XL Recordings, the raw techno of Obscure Shape's 'Desire' and 'Things We...

Heard front to back, this installment traces an energy curve no DJ would have plotted on purpose: alphabetical chance — every artist files under M — turns it into a journey with memorable detours. Makss opens with 'Got...

Ninety-five BPM separate the slowest point of this volume from its fastest: the 65 of 'Put Love Into Your Heart', captured live by the Kito Jempere Band (a curious tie with 'Electronicque' by Los Suruba and...

You have to reach the fifth cut of the Ital Tek block to understand what anchors this instalment: 'Kill Switch', 160 BPM in G-flat minor, is the central discharge of 'Mind Abandon', the album Alan Myson — as...

There's a G-major ladder hidden in this volume, and anyone mixing in key will find it on their own: G 'N' P Tauro's 'Tour' sets it down at 121 BPM, Glowal's 'Robats' picks it up at...

Labels are the real index of this volume: forty-one cuts where every catalogue arrives in blocks and shows its hand. The most telling case closes the set: three of the four tracks from Function and Nastia Reigel's...

When Carl Cox puts his name on another DJ's label, it says plenty about the host: 'Burn Tonight', the 130 BPM tech house cut he shares with Alan Fitzpatrick and Alex Culross, lands on We Are The Brave,...

There is a hidden staircase in this volume, and it runs from 95 to 155 BPM. Down in the basement, two cuts at 101 attack the same idea from opposite ends: Beico's 'Nonstop', which slows floor-ready techno to a...

For the first hour, the most usable block sits at the bottom of the index: the eight cuts of '8 Days', the album Fred Everything and Atjazz wrote at a pace of one track per day over an eight-day stay at the...