Electronic music by tag and subgenre
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...
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...
On paper, 'Percussion Fun' looks almost flat: fourteen cuts by Ibiza Son for Save Hook locked between 125 and 129 BPM, barely four BPM of headroom. Yet the release lives off its extremes. The poles here aren't measured in tempo but in...
Out of the 24 cuts gathered in this festival-season afro house selection, three are enough to understand where the genre is breathing right now. The first is 'Sacred Dance' by Culoe De Song: seven minutes at 124 BPM in G major, released on...
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...
Thirty-seven cuts, thirty-three different labels. That figure is the truest portrait of this Afro house season-closer on Beatport: a genre that doesn't lean on three dominant catalogues but on a constellation of small structures where hardly...
It opens with Le Youth's 'alone' alongside Robertson and Forester, in A major at 123 bpm; thirty-seven cuts later everything lands on Pig&Dan and Joris Voorn's 'Been There Before', in A minor. The whole selection...
There's an odd, gutsy decision sitting at track four of this volume: after three melodic house cuts running between 122 and 125 BPM, 'The Fall' by Yannek Maunz, carried by Johanson's voice, slams the brakes down to 81 BPM. Heard...
Thirty BPM separate the two poles of this record: 'Ya Habibi', opening at 127 with Salvo Migliorini and CamelVIP stretching out for nearly seven minutes, and Ori B.'s 'Moses Come', which drops the pulse to 97 just three cuts...
One hour and sixteen minutes: that is 'Beach Feelings', the session opening this triple journey — deep house at 120 BPM in E minor, sand and salt before anything happens. 'Pool Party Grooves' follows, climbing to 125 and setting...
'El Mundo Danza' by Santi Vasques opens in A-flat minor at 126 BPM, and that Spanish-language title sets the tone for the collection: Latin-leaning house built for the island's season opener, on RH2, a label well used to long-running...
Two clear doors into the warm-up: 'Yahweh' by THIERRY VON DER WARTH, Joki and Mugisho, which at 90 BPM in Db major works more as an intro than a dance record, and Dennis Cartier's 'Mi Alma', a 107 BPM bridge toward the...
Midway through a record that breathes between 120 and 125 BPM, 'Amwana' slams the brakes: 91 BPM, C minor and seven and a half minutes that make it the longest cut on 'Sonidos de Tulum', tied with 'Let go'. Jack Rhodes,...
Ten of the eighteen cuts on this 'Opening Fiesta' sit in a minor key, and yet the record ends in daylight: it opens with Owell's 'The Night Is Ours' in F minor at 128 BPM and signs off with DJ Samuel Akram's...