Hard Dance / Hardcore / Neo Rave
A curve from 145 to 164 BPM doof for life 2 forms a 33:26 sequence on doof under one classification: Hard Dance / Hardcore / Neo Rave. It begins with Lewis Laite's “Bass So Loud” at 160 BPM, in F major and running 3:53, then moves to...
The title says Tomorrowland, but the credits tell a different story: all twenty cuts on this sampler come from a single label, Made2Dance, an independent based in Oegstgeest, the Netherlands — and the man who runs it shows up three times on the...
"Moonlight Heat" kicks off at 136 BPM, the highest mark on the record, with Anachronda filing it under hard dance before everything else settles into house and trance. It works as a ceiling — nothing across the other nine tracks touches...
Thirty-one different labels across forty cuts: if this hard dance selection for festival season says anything, it's that no single catalogue runs the show. Still, there is a hierarchy: three houses land three tracks each — KRACH, Dirty Workz...
Seventy-four BPM separate this installment's extremes: Thanac's 'ESCAPE' sprints at 160 across a mere 2:33, while the Kevin Energy and K-Komplex rework of 'Pilgrim' sits tagged at 86, stretched over 7:04. That gulf is...
From 77 to 160 BPM across twenty-five cuts: the interesting read on this volume isn't the average but how the speeds stack into clearly legible blocks — almost a sequencing manual. The centre of gravity is a 150 BPM plateau holding eight...
The first call to make with these 59 tracks isn't what to open with — it's how much to trust the BPM field: the same selection lists 'The Hustle Don't Stop' by Endymion and Mad-E-Fact at 164 next to dozens of cuts tagged...
Between track 1 and track 51 sits an 87 BPM chasm. 'Serendipity', Armin van Buuren's collaboration with Andrew Bayer, is listed at 68; 'Bounce Ritual', 'Batida Viva' and 'Vem Comigo' hit the ceiling at...
Twice in D Major, and it doesn't read like coincidence. 'Time To Burn', Storm's collaboration with Juliet Fox herself on Black Hole Recordings, plants the map's first flag: D Major at 155 BPM, light from the very first bar....
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,...
Ninety BPM separate the floor from the ceiling of this selection: from the 70 of Mind Enterprises' 'Another World' to the 160 of Beauz's 'Bel Mercy' and KAAI & Jovynn's 'Distort The Bass'. Between...
Five of the thirty-six cuts carry Angerfist's signature, a share no other name here comes close to. Danny Masseling — producer of the 2005 Masters of Hardcore anthem and seven times the highest-ranked hard act in DJ Mag's Top 100 — shows...
STRISC. Spring Heat Chart: A Journey Into the Hard Core of Contemporary Techno STRISC. delivers the Spring Heat Chart, a twenty-track selection that functions as a precise coordinate map of the most incisive techno of the moment. Far from a casual...
Joanna Coelho leads a high-octane schranz manifesto Brazilian producer Joanna Coelho does not merely compile a chart — she builds a sonic statement in favour of the rawest, most uncompromising schranz. With three of her own cuts opening and closing...
Juliet Fox - Underground Queen Chart: a journey through the darkest techno and next-gen trance Juliet Fox once again proves why her name is synonymous with underground credibility with this personal selection that bears her unmistakable curatorial...