UK Garage / Bassline
The closing track on 'from memory' is called 'maybe (intro)': 47 seconds of ambient that end the record exactly where anyone else would have started it. That structural joke sums up the debut album from Aydn, a Bristol producer:...
'Pick Up The Tempo' is not a promise: it is the only moment 'The Mission' actually steps on the gas. Mark Williams places his fastest cut, 132 BPM in F major, second in the running order, and from there the record never climbs...
"Next Gen 3" isn't a casual title — it's the third instalment of a series Crucast runs specifically to spotlight new talent, and the label knows exactly what it's promising when it says fresh blood. Crucast started in 2016...
Fifteen of the twenty tracks on X Years VA live in a minor key. That's not an accident or an empty statistic; it's the climate 1985 Music, the label run by Alix Perez since he built his name in mid-2000s melodic drum & bass, has...
Twenty cuts and a curve you can read at a glance: Becking's 'Back The Funk' opens at 140 BPM, the fastest tempo in the whole selection, and from there the journey never climbs — it paces itself. 'Hypa' by Specialist Moss and...
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...
Sketch this chart onto a stave and you get an almost entirely nocturnal territory: 52 of its 59 cuts sit in minor keys, with E-flat minor as the capital — nine tracks, from 'Pull Over' to 'Pull Up'. And since the genre column is...
Six beats per minute: that's the entire distance between the floor and the ceiling of 'Cocco Ibiza Selection 2026', and yet the record traces a complete energy curve. Jaques Le Fant's 'Hawaii' opens at 124 BPM and, at a...
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...
Forty cuts into this Crate Diggers garage and bassline edition, three are enough to read the whole selection. None of them is the loudest; they are the ones carrying the most history. First, 'Baked Beans', with the most curious credit line...
DJ Seinfeld: Artist of the Month Chart Armo Kamkar, the Swedish-Iranian producer behind the DJ Seinfeld alias, has spent years carving out a distinctive path between lo-fi nostalgia and contemporary dancefloor culture. His Artist of the Month Chart...
Colombia Takes the Wheel: JAAR (COL) Drops His Best Colombian Chart JAAR (COL) may not be a stranger to the Latin American electronic circuit, but with this Beatport chart he makes something crystal clear: Colombia has its own electronic scene —...
JackEL – Don't Cha Chart: Tech House at Its Finest JackEL delivers his Don't Cha Chart, an eleven-track selection that maps the current state of tech house and its most aggressive offshoots with surgical precision. With BPMs ranging from...
FABRICLIVE Selects VII: UK Garage Reclaims Its Crown Fabric London has long been synonymous with uncompromising curation, and its sublabel FABRICLIVE. reaffirms that legacy with this seventh instalment of the Selects series. Fourteen tracks of UK...
FENDI CHART: ENNE (BR) Maps the Pulse of Contemporary House Brazilian producer ENNE (BR) presents his Fendi Chart, a fifteen-track selection that doubles as both an artistic statement and a sharp snapshot of the house music currently dominating the...