Electronic music by tag and subgenre
Ten tracks with the logic of a set: this spring selection from Ingrained Instincts — the Greek duo of Tilemachos Vlachos and Dafy Deliangelos, active under that name since 2014 and fond of building their own modular system — plays like a night...
'At The Mountains Of Madness' opens 'Weird Fiction' with eight and a half minutes at 142 BPM in C major, and the title is no accident: it's the novel Lovecraft wrote in 1931, the one about the Antarctic expedition that finds...
With Inner Zen's 'The Temple Within' the opening is sorted: 142 BPM in G-flat minor, contained tension and seven minutes that warm the floor without wasting ammunition. From there the selection lays down a 142-146 BPM highway where...
Thirty-seven labels share the 51 cuts in this closing selection, and only one manages to land four: Nano Records. Founded in 2000, with South African roots and international reach, the imprint signs the most coherent block of the lot: full-on locked...
Frédéric Holyszewski shows up twice on this tracklist, never under the same name. He opens the record as one half of Transwave —the duo he formed in 1994 with Christof Drouillet, the pair behind the goa anthem 'Land of Freedom'— with...
A psytrance compilation closing with a track called 'Anything Goes' at 90 BPM is a statement of intent. Psygressive reaches its nineteenth volume working as a census of the Iono Music catalogue: eighteen cuts stretching from the 66 BPM of...
Only two minor keys in twenty tracks: 'Tiera' by Dial and Avan7 in B-flat minor, and the 'Midnight Sun' by Astrix and Alien Project that closes the list in E minor via Ajja's remix. Everything else in this Starlab (IN)...
Track 17 is the one that puts everything else in order. 'Om Magic View' by Hypnocoustics —7:21 at 150 BPM in E major— is the most seasoned signature on this eighth instalment: behind the alias is UK producer Joe Studt, active since 2009,...
Volume 17 of this series opens with a feint: Cynq's 'Fractured Reality' stretches across seven minutes at 94 BPM in B minor, as if the trip were in no hurry at all. Then 'South X' by Yons and Del Torto vaults to 152 and lays...
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....
The BPM column of this volume reads like an EKG: it opens at 110, drops to 95, jumps to 143 and ends at 74. Look at it with a DJ's eyes, though, and the apparent chaos sorts itself out: the three cuts tagged at 72-74 —'Perception',...
Three of the fifteen cuts carry AMINTO's name, which makes this volume his home turf: he signs 'No Excuses' on his own and hands two more tracks over to outside remixers. Those two remixes are the best clue to which names hold this...
Half the titles on this volume look toward the temple — 'Shanti', 'Shiva Shambhu', 'Dwarka', 'Sonic Medicine' — while the other half point at the laboratory: 'Man or Machine', 'Robot...
Three cuts on this compilation share 140 BPM and E major: 'Present Experience' by Sinegoma and Mementomor, 'Circus Sideshow' by Emok and Silent Sphere, and 'Flowstate' by Zen Mechanics with Protonica. That is nearly...
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...