Funk / Soul
The most violent jump lands at track five: 'Feel This Way' drops the pulse to 75 BPM and, right after, 'An Outcast Of The Islands' fires it up to 160. Everything in 'On The Jazz Corner' moves between those two extremes,...
If you mix harmonically, the most useful stat on this Pyramide compilation is the key column: five of the twenty cuts live in A minor, and two of them —'Can You Feel' by Baby Doll House and 'These Things Happen' in Juan...
Thirteen cuts and a remarkably narrow band: ten of them live between 120 and 125 BPM. A quick glance says plateau, but the real architecture of this festival-minded nu disco selection lies in the two cracks that open inside it: the drop to 115 on...
Thirty-seven beats per minute separate the poles of this closing selection: at the bottom, Crackazat's 'Watchu Say' drags the groove down to 96 BPM in Eb minor for Freerange; at the top, Random Access's 'Melody' pushes...
Twenty-one years after 'Confessions on a Dance Floor', Madonna walks back onto the dancefloor through the same door she left by: Stuart Price at the controls and an album built to be played front to back, like a set. 'I Feel So...