Electronic music by tag and subgenre
There are 85 BPM between 'Flow' and 'Reflections', and that gap is the clearest way to understand what is being celebrated here. Zero Cult, the project of Israeli producer Emil Ilyayev, returns to 'Art of Harmony', the...
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...
Between Traxxdealer's 'prayer' at 67 BPM and Freebot and Dj Fucci's 'XPLOSION' at 160 lie almost a hundred beats; few festival selections stretch that wide without snapping. The trick is arithmetic: nearly every slow...
Thirteen of the nineteen cuts on this map live in minor keys, and that shapes the climate before anything else: Overmono's 'Lockup' opens in G-flat minor at 97 BPM, hazy terrain aimed more at the skin than the floor. And it is no...
The label field on 'Game Time' by Future and Tyla doesn't read like a record company: it reads FIFA World Cup SalXCO. The same imprint signs 'Echo' by Daddy Yankee and Shenseea, and that detail unlocks the whole compilation:...
Across sixty cuts, the most recognisable name also signs the shortest one: Baauer wraps 'Supersonic' in 2:13, a 122 BPM flash released through LUCKYME., the British label the American has been tied to since 2012 and home to his album...
The opening title tips its hand: 'Glowing Tide (Futura City Intro Rework)' by Alex O'Rion and Maze 28 is literally a reworked intro, a tide rising at 120 BPM in B minor. What follows behaves like a final set that refuses to choose...
Ninety-four BPM separate the slowest and fastest points of this selection: 'Copenhagen Crooner' by Whodamanny and Boogie Rookie purrs along at 66 out of the Music For Dreams catalogue, while 'Midnight' by Fiorious and Alex Virgo...
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...
Nine minutes of hypnotic electronica in D minor open the journey: Germind's 'Erotic Vaccine' sets the pulse at 124 BPM and makes it clear this ride is in no hurry. Plexus Music, an internet label founded in 2011 and based in Greece,...
There is a hidden map in the track titles of 'Ibiza Summer': the first half stays close to the ground —'Kijiko', 'Cera', 'Si Oui', 'Natalia'— while the second lifts off toward the cosmos with...
One number defines the architecture of 'Do You Feel Alive' before anything else: at the heart of the record, 'Twin Particles' plunges to 67 BPM — exactly half the 134 of the title track — and holds that suspension for 8:29. On an...
Ten of this second summer volume's fifteen cuts live in minor keys, and that ratio sets the record's climate: far more dusk than dawn here. The opening spells it out, as the B minor of 'Concentrate' (SMOKE G) flows into the...
The contradiction sits right in the title: Ibiza, island of the endless summer, imagined here for winter. And the tracklist takes it seriously. Between the 69 BPM of Steen Thottrup's 'Liv's Song (Pt. 2)' and the 160 of...
The first stop sets the course: Edd's 'TO THE RESCUE' opens on Metamorfosi Records, the label Joseph Capriati himself founded in 2025 — named after his Ibiza residency and his 2020 album — and launched with 'No Sleep'...