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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...

From 76 to 140 BPM: that is the true range hiding inside the ninth installment of the Trance Infinity series, even if most of the record lives in a far narrower band. The tempo map tells the story better than any press note: Nucrise's 'In...

Twenty-five tracks make up 'Trance Infinity, Vol. 08', but its story can be told in four. The first is the opener itself: 'NIGHTSHADE' by KAEL and BLOOD MAGICK, one of only three raw/hypnotic passages on the record, 5:21 at 138...

The speed ceiling of this volume arrives on track two: P4sc4l's 'Breath Of Life' runs at 141 BPM and none of the twenty-three cuts that follow ever reach it again. It's an unorthodox sequencing call —the tempo peak burns off...

The mission begins before the peak The detail that organises Mission Underground appears at the start: Paul Oakenfold’s “Continuous DJ Mix” runs for 56:04 at 130 BPM in A minor. It is more than a prologue; it establishes a continuous frame before...

Opening a psytrance album at 82 BPM is a statement of intent. 'They Coming', the doorway into 'Sirocco', spends its 8:13 in G major building atmosphere without hurry, far below the tempo of everything that follows. And it is no...