Melodic House
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...
The record opens with three minutes and thirty-seven seconds and almost closes with seven forty-nine. 'Where It Goes' and 'Chromium' are the duration poles of 'Dreams Stretched Beyond', more than double apart, and that...
The record opens with three minutes and thirty-seven seconds and almost closes with seven forty-nine. 'Where It Goes' and 'Chromium' are the duration poles of 'Dreams Stretched Beyond', more than double apart, and that...
'The Tempo' sits last for a reason: it is the only extended mix in the pack, signed by Max Freegrant and Slow Fish, the pairing behind full albums like 'Dreamcatcher' and 'Afterglow' on Freegrant Music, the parent label...
Two of the twenty cuts here carry Alexander Popov's signature, and that is no accident: Interplay is his label, founded in 2017 under the Armada Music umbrella and running as an independent company since 2020. He shows up on two main-floor...
Few cuts explain what Lane 8 is after on this second Cross Pollination volume better than 'Empty Theatre, Pretty Picture': five minutes in B minor where Davey Havok's voice — a name from well outside the label's usual roster —...
Layla Benitez signs two of the thirteen cuts on her own Marquee Dayclub chart, and that double presence says more than any press blurb. 'Memory Leak', shared with Jono Stephenson and Henri Bergmann on Interstellar Recordings, opens the...
Two figures break the grid of this selection: 80 and 68 BPM sitting inside a batch that otherwise lives between 124 and 129. 'Chicago 93' by Facundo Leiarz —also the longest cut at 6:48— and 'I Love You More Than You Love Her' by...
Twenty-five tracks and only one dares to drop below 124 BPM. 'Parafernalia' by Michael Hunter is the anomaly holding this seventeenth volume together: nine and a quarter minutes at 97 BPM in E-flat minor, planted right at the album's...
There's a curious decision built into 'Summer Sessions 2026, Vol. 1': the record runs its own route twice. The first lap, from the opener through track ten, travels almost entirely in club mixes; the second retraces the course in...
One detail reshuffles how you read this WMB compilation: four of its thirty cuts come from the same man. Florence's Giacomo Bisciarri — whose Deezer profile confirms that Bsharry, Mutehead and Jaques Le Noir are one and the same — appears under...
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 is a figure on 'New Reality (Suanda 500 Anthem)' that looks like a typo and works like a statement: 70 BPM, exactly half the 140 stamped on several neighbouring cuts. That metadata wink sums up this compilation better than any press...
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,...
Three cuts are enough to justify this week's batch of exclusives, and the first arrives with a double pedigree: Basement Jaxx's 'Jump N' Shout' in the hands of Gorgon City. The duo return to Toolroom to reimagine the Jaxx...